Notices tagged with privacy

great piece by @yaelwrites including Jack Balkin's concept of information fiduciaries: "Although relationships with third parties might be lucrative for telecoms, any entity collecting sensitive information like location data has a moral obligation to keep it safe."
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https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/locationsmart-security-it-is-totally-legal-for-cellphone-companies-to-sell-location-data-to-third-parties.html

Doctorow: "if that data leaks, it would allow anyone to break into your kid's cloud and plunder all their private data... Naturally, Teensafe stored thousands of parents and kids' usernames and passwords, without encryption, on an insecure server." #privacy #security

https://boingboing.net/2018/05/20/utter-coathangers.html

"Google quickly disavowed the video, claiming it was just a thought experiment 'not related to any current or future products.' And yet, the company’s patent applications exhibit a mode of thinking that runs at least in parallel..."

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/19/17246152/google-selfish-ledger-patent-applications

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the question now: "How much intercepted encrypted e-mail will be (or has been) decrypted by intelligence agencies?" Not all PGP/GPG e-mail is vulnerable... but the extent of the fallout won't be known for a while. #security #privacy

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/decade-old-efail-attack-can-decrypt-previously-obtained-encrypted-e-mails/

PGP/GPG users: Keep Calm and Disable HTML Rendering. It's a good idea to protect you from other kinds of tracking (images in HTML e-mails). Short-term mitigation steps for "Efail" vulnerability: https://efail.de #security #privacy

I’m getting deluged with spam emails and for the first time ever each one makes me happy. They’re all explaining that marketing will stop and begging me to opt back in now that #GDPR is taking effect. This is why I like the #EU - laws that put people’s interests before corporations. I’m looking forward to requesting my data is deleted from so many places. #privacy

"The Cambridge academic at the centre of the Facebook data-harvesting scandal also had access to Twitter data, the social network has confirmed." #privacy

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/30/aleksandr_kogan_also_slurped_twitter_data/

"...a 'rogue Alexa skill' that bypasses Amazon's security checks: it lurks silently and unkillably in the background of your Alexa, listening to all speech in range of it and transcribing it, then exfiltrating the text and audio of your speech..." https://boingboing.net/2018/04/26/user-supplied-listening-device.html

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"The really big data brokers - firms such as Acxiom, Experian, Quantium, Corelogic, eBureau, ID Analytics - can hold as many as 3,000 data points on every consumer, says the US Federal Trade Commission." #privacy #security

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43697133

"The new terms asserted that Eventbrite staff had the right to 'enter and remain' at any event organized with the platform, record the entirety of the event with video and photography... and retain copyright over everything recorded." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/eventbrite-rolls-back-policy-that-would-have-given-it-right-to-record-events/

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"Netizens have the wrong idea about what their web browser's 'private' or 'incognito' mode actually does. This is according to researchers at the University of Chicago, in the US, and Leibniz University Hannover, in Germany, who this week declared that folks mistakenly believe that by enabling the incognito browsing mode, they are fully shielded from online tracking and malware." #privacy #security

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/24/private_web_browsing_study/

"U.S. army researchers have developed a convolutional neural network and a range of algorithms to recognise faces in the dark." #privacy https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/17/ai_thermal_imaging/

"A malicious app that can be downloaded from the Google Play store is extremely dangerous, as users will not think twice about downloading it because of their trust in Google" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/malicious-apps-in-google-play-gave-attackers-considerable-control-of-phones/ #security #privacy

Just have a look and think about it... #facebook #socialmedia #privacy

https://mastodon.social/media/MLoXj2pGA3oFclR5TXM

US citizen is suing Cambridge Analytica to hand over all data it has on him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43501184

I think after the EU’s GDPR comes into force, EU citizens can demand this freely. That will be very interesting in the case of CA. I also wonder if it’s got potential to cripple them if the number of requests is too high? Dealing with any kind of request from millions of people is a lot of effort. They’d essentially be forced to open their data.

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