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What 7 Creepy Patents Reveal About Facebook
"As long as Facebook keeps collecting personal information, we should be wary that it could be used for purposes more insidious than targeted advertising,…
Privacy
Amazon Needs to Stop Providing Facial Recognition Tech for the Government
Imagine a technology that is potently, uniquely dangerous — something so inherently toxic that it deserves to be completely rejected, banned, and stigmatized. S…
How Facebook Programmed Our Relatives
Cross-posted from Scientific American. Three years ago, on his birthday, a law professor watched his e-mail inbox fill with Facebook notifications indicating t…
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The Dangers of Tech's Privacy Promises
"“The space for existing without being searchable and findable at all times is shrinking,” Woodrow Hartzog, author of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Co…
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5 biggest risks of sharing your DNA with consumer genetic-testing companies
""The key thing about your genetic data ... it is uniquely yours. It identifies you, so if you are going to entrust it to a company, you should try to…
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FBI v. Apple -- Round 2 . . .
How important is your iPhone privacy? Does it defeat law enforcement's interest in obtaining evidence of child pornography productions from your iPhone? Acc…
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Un-Sexy Headline: USB Restricted Mode Will Improve iPhone User Security
In the upcoming version of the Apple iPhone iOS operating system, iOS 12, the phone’s Lightning cable port (used for charging and data transmission) will be dis…
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The Cybersecurity 202: We surveyed 100 experts. A majority rejected the FBI's push for encryption back doors.
""Third-party tools such as Cellebrite and GrayKey, combined with other sources of data such as cloud backups, metadata, the Internet of Things, and s…
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Alexa and other smart speakers may endanger privacy rights
"“If you install a private corporation’s microphone-enabled device in your house, you should count on the fact that third parties may well access the infor…
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Are any encrypted messaging apps fail-safe? Subjects of Mueller’s investigation are about to find out.
"Encryption is the best tool people have for defending against hackers, cybercriminals and government surveillance, said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography…
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White House says its federal agencies can’t keep track of their own data
"University of Maryland, Baltimore County's cybersecurity graduate program director Richard Forno echoed Williams' analysis and said even a simple…
User Agreements Are Betraying You
The user agreement has become a potent symbol of our asymmetric relationship with technology firms. For most of us, it’s our first interaction with a given comp…