Google Screenwise: An Unwise Trade of All Your Privacy for Cash
Imagine this: an enormous tech company is tracking what you do on your phone, even when you’re not using any […]
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Apple cracks down on Facebook after it paid teens for access to their data
Facebook paid users as young as 13 to install an app that gave the company access to everything their phone […]
UK spying on asylum seekers by tracking debit card use
The Home Office has been accused of “spying” on asylum seekers after it was reported the department secretly monitors their […]
Is Big Tech Merging With Big Brother?
The all-seeing Amazon, Google, and Facebook have every incentive to help the national security state undermine privacy, free speech, and […]
Why Facebook’s ’10-Year Challenge’ Is A Disaster For Big Data Surveillance
Whether the response to this latest viral meme is a change of direction or a bump in the road, it’s […]
The complicated truth about China’s social credit system
China’s social credit system isn’t a world first but when it’s complete it will be unique. The system isn’t just […]
DuckDuckGo denies using fingerprinting to track its users
Responding to a forum post that accused it of “fingerprinting users”, privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo says that fears are unfounded […]
Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens
In 2014, Facebook filed a patent application for a technique that employs smartphone data to figure out if two people […]
How Facebook Tracks Non-Users via Android Apps
If you quit Facebook or never joined because of its data collecting practices the odds are good the social network […]
Bulk surveillance is always bad, say human rights groups
A band of human rights organisations have appealed against a top European court’s ruling on bulk surveillance, arguing that any […]
Airport Surveillance Takes Off in a New, Dangerous Direction
In 2018, we learned that expanded biometric surveillance is coming to an airport near you. This includes face recognition, iris […]
Here’s what Facebook knows about you
Facebook’s data collection, and the sharing of it with other firms, continues to be a source of controversy. A new […]