Notices tagged with privacy

"Consumer advocates say the act already exempts loyalty programs and that the retailer-sponsored bill would give businesses more power to force consumers to pay for their #privacy rights."
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/29/heres-how-tech-companies-want-to-change-californias-landmark-consumer-privacy-act/

CCPA: "Among the proposed changes was AB 1416, which would let companies continue freely sharing consumers’ information with government agencies, and which consumer groups considered a major #privacy threat." https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/29/heres-how-tech-companies-want-to-change-californias-landmark-consumer-privacy-act/

Yesterday, here's how I connected to the Internet from home:

I used a router someone else (AT&T) owned. This router was hard-coded to record every website I visit (because it redirected all DNS queries to AT&Ts servers).

Today, here's how I connect to the Internet:

I use a router I own, running #openWRT and using #pihole for nearly all of my DNS queries, falling back to #openNIC for the rest.

I <3 #FOSS!

#privacy #security

it's almost #FollowFriday! Give our new project @privacysafe some love and help us fundamentally alter the data landscape 🤓 #privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism

Our @diggity in AP: "Facebook has surveillance at the core of its business model, which is the monetization of data profiles about humans and about human social interaction.” #privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://www.apnews.com/611607cf8bb249918716fca52dbcfaf7

data breach: "more than two thousand enterprises and half the Fortune 100 use Attunity" #privacy https://www.upguard.com/breaches/attunity-data-leak

#privacy switches in @PINE64 PineBook: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/07/05/google-chromebook-challenger-pinebook-pro-gets-privacy-switches-and-july-pre-order-date/

Biometric #privacy risks: "Wethington calls these face recognition databases 'poorly protected assets' - ones that are easily discoverable using things like BinaryEdge, Shodan, and similar tools..." https://www.fastcompany.com/90372734/due-to-weak-oversight-we-dont-really-know-how-tech-companies-are-using-facial-recognition-data

WIRED rundown of #privacy snafus, ransomware, data breaches: "...the medical testing firm LabCorp said that 7.7 million of its customers had data exposed because of AMCA, and Quest Diagnostics said it had had records from 12 million patients exposed." https://www.wired.com/story/biggest-cybersecurity-crises-2019-so-far/

updates to pilfershush jammer #privacy https://f-droid.org/en/packages/cityfreqs.com.pilfershushjammer/

Mark Hachman: "At least a subset of users seems to think that a device that isn’t always listening to them is in some way defective." #privacy https://www.pcworld.com/article/3393254/computer-privacy-why-your-laptops-microphone-should-be-easier-to-block.html

Will Oremus: "Amazon is doubling down on surveillance devices, disclaiming responsibility for how its technology is used, and dismissing concerns raised by academics, the media, politicians, and its own employees." #privacy https://archive.is/bz8jK

TechCrunch: "users of the LaLiga app were outraged to discover the smartphone software does rather more than show minute-by-minute commentary of football matches — but can use the microphone and GPS of fans’ phones to record their surroundings" #privacy https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/12/laliga-fined-280k-for-soccer-apps-privacy-violating-spy-mode/

Darren Shou of Symantec
in WIRED: "children make mistakes, they make choices, and they are given space by society to collectively learn from them and evolve. Algorithms may not offer this leniency..." #privacy https://www.wired.com/story/the-next-big-privacy-hurdle-teaching-ai-to-forget/

Graz University of Technology "researchers Michael Schwarz, Florian Lackner, and Daniel Gruss describe a technique for collecting information about browsers that calls into question the effectiveness of anonymized browsing and browser privacy extensions." #privacy https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/11/javascript_fingerprinting/