Privacy

2022-03-03T09:15:23+01:00

From a short article by Jan-Jaap Oerlemans on the privacy risks of automated open source intelligence: [T]raditional OSINT has evolved into a professional and intrusive practice. …

2021-10-04T10:55:17+02:00

The Markup has investigated the shadowy industry of collecting and selling location data. The article details some worrisome examples of very invasive practices.

2021-02-26T18:34:13+01:00

In an article by Yuval Noah Harari at the Financial Times, he talks about how Israel has “vaccines for data” deal with the company Pfizer: Meanwhile, Israel has the seventh highest …

2020-04-13T14:42:38+02:00

The current technocratic hype are “track and trace” apps to help contain the coronavirus. The example of South Korea is frequently given as success story. This success is debatable …

2020-01-31T18:26:23+01:00

Facebook made available a new tool this week which allows users to see which businesses have shared information from these users with Facebook. Although lucklily only one, I was …

2019-03-07T14:18:04+01:00

Today Mark Zuckerberg accounced his new vision for Facebook as a more privacy-focused company. The principal change he thinks should be to have interoperable end-to-end encryption …

2019-01-14T13:41:26+01:00

An opnion piece on The New York Times discusses why deleting your Facebook account may not be an effective way to drive the company to change and may cause harm by “recasting a …

2018-12-24T15:57:44+00:00

The New York Times on what some of the filed Facebook patents tell about their privacy policy: “Facebook’s patents show a commitment to collecting personal information, despite …

2018-12-24T14:49:59+00:00

Winter cleanup: trying to delete google activity…so much different kinds… 😱 But at least the tools to manage the data are great 🙃

2018-12-09T08:47:40+00:00

From @ProtonMail on a new Autralian anti-encryption law: “There is nothing new about a government seeking to break encryption. From the British Investigatory Powers law to the …