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Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China
“I feel like with these tools, there’s some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them,” said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close off Chinese access to sensitive information, like Americans’ birthdays and phone numbers.
These Women Say One Man Terrorized Them Online for Years. Then, They Decided to Band Together.
Harassed across the internet for more than a decade, a group of women found each other—and their alleged tormentor.
Can You See Me: because sometimes it's just easier to ask a robot!
Can You See Me is a simple tool that offers guidance on webcam placement to people with limited amounts of useful vision.
Apple and Google are coming for your car
Big Tech’s big car ambitions have antitrust advocates worried.
Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient
‘Is LaMDA sentient?’
Is "acceptably non-dystopian" self-sovereign identity even possible?
In the recent paper about "soulbound" tokens, Vitalik Buterin et al. write that they aim to build technology that is "acceptably non-dystopian". Do any of today's self-sovereign identity projects fit that bill?
She experimented on primates for decades. Now she wants to shut down the labs
Lisa Jones-Engel quit her work as a lab researcher when she began to see how ‘like us’ monkeys are
I refuse to display meta data for other platforms
Nope. Not doing it. Always own your platform.
How Safe Are Systems Like Tesla’s Autopilot? No One Knows.
Automakers and technology companies say they are making driving safer, but verifying these claims is difficult.
Police VR Training: Empathy Machine or Expensive Distraction?
The maker of the Taser believes its new virtual reality firing range and community policing simulator can make cops less violent. Critics are less than sure.
Why Great Things Never Came From Comfort Zones
Why great things never came from comfort zones? Because the world is always changing. We need to face uncertainty to move forward.
Research shows gender disparity in women escooter rentals
Voi releases industry-first research into women and escooter riding. But how do we go from understanding the challenges to making real gains?
"Quite Misleading": DuckDuckGo CEO Responds To Microsoft Tracker Controversy
My goal is to get meaningful privacy protection in the hands of as many people as possible...
Google collects almost 40 data points per user - most out of top tech giants - Atlas VPN
Data analyzed by Atlas VPN reveals that Google collects the most information about its users out of five selected tech giants - Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Apple.
What the Superhuman Controversy Reveals About the Shifting Ethics of Software
The e-mail startup isn’t the only company learning that a product can be powerful and elegant without being good.
Stefan Plattner on Twitter
🇩🇪 2022(“Dear bathers, if your ticket does not come out of the machine, use the rubber mallet and hit the marked cross.”) https://t.co/uVhkiIsNHl pic.twitter.com/LjiUxz3epv— Stefan Plattner (@splattne) May 29, 2022
Abuse on the blockchain (Lecture transcript)
Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
A Florida teenager taking a biology class at a community college got an upsetting note this year. A startup called…
DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement
The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement in their syndicated search content contract between the two companies.
Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data
The encrypted-email company, popular with the security-conscious, has a plan to go mainstream.
Twitter will pay a $150 million fine over accusations it improperly sold user data
Federal regulators accuse the company of violating a 2011 agreement over the treatment of users' personal data, including phone numbers and email addresses.
Governments Harm Children’s Rights in Online Learning | Human Rights Watch
Governments of 49 of the world’s most populous countries harmed children’s rights by endorsing online learning products during Covid-19 school closures without adequately protecting children’s privacy.
Lutin Discret (@lutindiscret@mastodon.libre-entreprise.com)
A feature of email is that my inbox is an immutable copy of everything I received no-one can change. With email, I can prove I've been harassed, sent malware, wrong links, illegal orders by my employers, the date of an event I've missed because it was wrong and I'm innocent, etc. With Google AMP, the sender will be able to "update" those emails and deny his mistake, hide proofs, fake the history. This technology put people at risk. #SaveEmailFromGoogleAMP
Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire” ❧ Current Affairs
pUC-Berkeley’s Nicholas Weaver has been studying cryptocurrency for years. He thinks it’s a terrible idea that will end in disaster. /p
The EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of your private communication – or total surveillance in the name of child protection.
This would be the worst surveillance apparatus outside of China, and completely disproportionate.
Scale of police spying on UK leftist party was ‘Orwellian’, inquiry hears
Dozens of officers infiltrated Socialist Workers party for decades, recording personal details of members
Analysis | Google Is Sharing Our Data at a Startling Scale
It transmits our locations and browsing habits 70 billion times a day to advertisers amid trillions a year by other firms, a new report shows.
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Researchers Expose Fundamental Flaws In Apple’s CSAM Image Scanning Technology
A serious new warning has been issued for all iPhone and iPad owners ahead of Apple's controversial plan to scan users' photos...