Pandemic reveals Palantir’s troubling reach in Europe
Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying.
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Apple Is Rejecting Apps That Use Third-Party Code For Alleged Privacy Infractions
Apple started rejecting app updates on Thursday that conflict with its App Tracking Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework.
Privacy Oversight Board Releases Report on EO 12333
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board released its report on Executive Order 12333, which provides broad legal authority for data collection.
Study Shows Consumers Don’t Understand How Their Data Is Used
The ad industry continues to roll out new protocols around online data and consumer privacy. LoopMe surveyed consumers to find out if they’re really aware of the changes, and what they thought.
Apple, Google Both Track Mobile Telemetry Data, Despite Users Opting Out
Google’s Pixel and Apple’s iPhone both in privacy hot seat for siphoning mobile device data without consent.
Smartphones share our data every four and a half minutes
Research claims there is little difference between Apple and Google when it comes to collecting certain data.
China found using surveillance firms to help write ethnic-tracking specs
China enlisted surveillance firms to help draw up standards for mass facial recognition systems, researchers said, warning that an unusually heavy emphasis on tracking characteristics such as ethnicity created wide scope for abuse.
How Grassroots Coalition Beat Facial Recognition in New Orleans
A grassroots coalition of Black youth, sex workers, and community advocates stood against the surveillance state—and won.
Amazon Subjects Its Drivers to Biometric Surveillance
Earlier this week, Motherboard revealed the company’s cruel “take it or leave” demand to its 75,000 delivery drivers: submit to biometric surveillance or lose your job.
Ikea France on trial over claims it spied on staff, clients
Ikea’s French subsidiary and several of its former executives went on trial Monday over accusations that they illegally spied on employees and customers.
Google Nest 2 home device tracks body activity in bed
The new features have been criticised for collecting data when users are “most vulnerable”.
Facial Recognition: What Happens When We’re Tracked Everywhere We Go?
When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.