In Venice, High-Tech Tracking of Tourists Stirs Alarm
Can cellphone data and surveillance cameras help restore the city’s old-world charm, or just destroy what magic remains?
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Intimate data: can a person who tracks their steps, sleep and food ever truly be free?
Big tech now encourages us to monitor everything via smartphones and watches. How much privacy have we lost to the promise of self improvement – and is it time to stop?
The Privacy and Equity Implications of Using Self-Harm Monitoring Technologies
Self-harm monitoring systems are an unproven technique for effectively identifying and assisting students who may be considering self-harm simply based on their online activities.
Consumer privacy study finds online privacy is of growing concern to increasingly more people
The study comes with the announcement of its New Trust Standard, a benchmark for seeing how trustworthy businesses are as they embrace digital transformation.
IAB Europe suspends consent management firms
Regulators have doubts that promises of consent-based data collection by digital publishers and advertisers is based on genuine user consent.
EU lawmaker says U.S. tech giants should be regulated where they are based
U.S. tech giants such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon should be regulated by the EU country where they are based under proposed EU rules
It’s Time to Stop Paying for a VPN
Many virtual private network services that were meant to protect your web browsing can no longer be trusted. Here are other ways.
MEPs oppose mass surveillance using artificial intelligence by the police
To combat discrimination and ensure the right to privacy, MEPs demand strong safeguards when artificial intelligence tools are used in law enforcement.
Privacy-First Marketing Isn’t Always Easy – But It’s 100% Worth The Fight
If your marketing team’s attention is focused on finding a direct replacement for third-party cookies and digital IDs, you are fighting the wrong battle.
Smart cars vs. privacy: a driverless car could generate 100 GB of data per second
Fully autonomous vehicles might never come to much, but most privacy issues they raise are as salient today as they would be in any high-tech driverless future.
How to Find ‘Stalkerware’ on Your Devices
These spyware apps record your conversations, location and everything you type, all while camouflaged as a calculator or calendar.
Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos
In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance.