Biden Gives “Five Eyes” Access To Everyone’s Social Media
For years, Americans have largely ignored corporate social media surveillance. But all of that is about to change, thanks to President Biden.
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QR Codes Are Here to Stay. So Is the Tracking They Allow.
Fueled by a desire for touchless transactions, QR codes popped up everywhere in the pandemic. Businesses don’t want to give them up.
The Italian DPA sanctions a food delivery company for monitoring drivers
Italian supervisory authority published an injunction against a company operating a food delivery app over the processing of riders’ personal data with respect to the use of algorithms for the management of the orders.
DuckDuckGo launches new Email Protection service to remove trackers
DuckDuckGo is launching a new email privacy service meant to stop ad companies from spying on your inbox.
Ottawa tested facial recognition on millions of travellers at Toronto’s Pearson airport in 2016
Six-month initiative to identify potential deportees used technology that has come under intense scrutiny in recent years.
How smartphone data can be used to learn secrets
How an unregulated market for personal data is legal, and what it means for your own data.
Inside the Industry That Unmasks People at Scale
Unique IDs linked to phones are supposed to be anonymous. But there’s an entire industry that links them to real people and their address.
This tool tells you if NSO’s Pegasus spyware targeted your phone
The toolkit scans iPhone and Android backup files for evidence of a compromise.
The Assault on Our Privacy Is Being Conducted in Private
Central databases are exploited by criminals, governments and companies that want to part consumers from their money.
Inside Big Tech’s war for your privacy
The inside story of how the World Wide Web Consortium, one of the internet’s geekiest corners, became a key battleground in the global fight for web privacy.
In Viktor Orban’s Hungary, spyware was used to monitor journalists
The deployment of the tool, confirmed with forensics, shows a willingness to use tactics previously deemed out-of-bounds.
Spyware leak suggests lawyers and activists at risk across globe
Leaked records show dissidents and those who help them prominent among those under threat from NSO spyware.