How Taylor Swift showed us the scary future of facial recognition
Surveillance at concerts is just the beginning, as fears grow around an unregulated, billion-dollar industry. Taylor Swift raised eyebrows late […]
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Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking
When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company’s […]
Many popular iPhone apps secretly record your screen without asking
Many major companies, like Air Canada, Hollister and Expedia, are recording every tap and swipe you make on their iPhone apps. […]
Your VPN could be a privacy trap
When people turn to a VPN service, they expect full-on anonymity. Particularly when the VPN service says, “we do NOT […]
How should we regulate facial-recognition technology?
The privacy concerns with facial-recognition technology are obvious: Nothing is more “personal” than one’s face. So how is the processing […]
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 […]
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 […]