Popular Alibaba-owned app UC Browser caught monitoring user browsing data | AppleInsider
UC Browser, a popular web browser developed by Alibaba subsidiary UCWeb, was found to be tracking user habits on both iOS and Android, and sending the data back to company servers.
WhatsApp won't limit accounts that don't accept new privacy policy
WhatsApp is no longer going to limit the accounts of users who do not accept the updated privacy policy, with the Facebook-owned iOS app now saying it wont be harming anyone's usage of the service for the moment.
Automated Proctors Watch Students. Now Senators Are Watching These Companies. | EdSurge News
Companies offering proctoring tools that monitor students as they take online exams are now being watched themselves—by Democratic senators. Led by ...
Big Ed-Tech Is Watching You: Privacy, Prejudice, and Pedagogy in Online Proctoring - Brown Political Review
In the pandemic-era scramble of digital education delivery, the line between public and private has been unduly blurred. Remote learning has brought one particular learning tool — remote invigilance, or more colloquially “online proctoring” — to the fore.
The legal identity of on-demand platform workers has become a central site of conflict between labor and industry. Amidst growing economic inequality, labor rep
Last week, "Marina" - a piano teacher who publishes free lessons her Piano Keys Youtube channel - celebrated her fifth anniversary by announcing that she was quitting Youtube because her meager wages were being stolen by fraudsters.https://t.co/6tZpJpcyt51/ pic.twitter.com/uDKWcpbVtK— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) May 8, 2021
Protecting Our Mental Autonomy From New Technologies
Technology has blurred all sorts of boundaries we used to take for granted. One we still treat as sacrosanct is the one around our own minds, which allows us to think for ourselves and keep those thoughts private. But technology may now be challenging this mental independence, too, with potential implications for our autonomy.
The Data Delusion: Protecting Individual Data Isn't Enough When The Harm is Collective DOWNLOAD (PDF) Author: Martin Tisné, Managing Director, Luminate Editor: Marietje Schaake, International Policy Director, Cyber Policy Center The threat of digital discrimination On March 17, 2018, questions about data privacy exploded with the scandal of the previously unknown consulting
The European Parliament has adopted legislation to allow EU consumers to defend their rights collectively. The measure, which is to become law within two years, aims to give individuals more power against corporations.
We know what you did during lockdown. An FT Film written by James Graham | Financial Times
We gave up our privacy to fight Covid-19, can we get it back? An FT film starring Lydia West and Arthur Darvill in collaboration with Sonia Friedman Productions and supported by Luminate. An interrogation scene explores how Covid-19 has exposed the tension between the need for data to track and trace, and the right to privacy and justice
Twitter's Photo Crop Algorithm Favors White Faces and Women
A study of 10,000 images found bias in what the system chooses to highlight. Twitter has stopped using it on mobile, and will consider ditching it on the web.