Notices tagged with privacy

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/

New Nevada law "offers a new definition of 'sale,' unlike those seen in recently passed privacy laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)..." #privacy https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/nevada-ups-the-ante-on-privacy-adds-new-62395/

great update on CCPA amendments #privacy: https://fpf.org/2019/06/04/ccpa-amendment-update-june-2019-twelve-bills-survive-assembly-and-move-to-the-senate/

.@Framasoft effort to replace Facebook events: "From a friends and familiy birthday party to a march for climate change, today our gatherings are trapped in the tech giants' platforms." #privacy https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

.@Framasoft effort to replace Facebook events: "From a friends and familiy birthday party to a march for climate change, today our gatherings are trapped in the tech giants' platforms." #privacy joinmobilizon.org/en/

important discovery in the article by @davywtf: "*Neither* of these windows use JavaScript but the position of the cursor in the left window is sent to the right window. This works on Tor Browser with JS disabled." #tracking #privacy https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/developer-creates-a-two-way-chat-using-only-css-and-html/

Google headlining “Digital Wellbeing” festival, major whitewashing of surveillance capitalism going on right now.

If you want to help me call bullshit on this on birdsite, RTs etc. welcome: https://mobile.twitter.com/aral/status/1124245429523238912

#SurveillanceCapitalism #Google #FuckGoogle #whitewashing #privacywashing #privacy #HumanRights

#privacy is the freedom to act without being watched and thus, in a sense, to be who we really are — not who we want others to think we are. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/sunday/privacy-capitalism.html

Just popped up on my XPS 13 updates:

“This update integrates the BIOSConnect feature into Dell SupportAssist OS Recovery. This feature connects the system to the Dell image server to download and recover the operating system.”

Umm… how about no, Dell, do not connect my BIOS to the Internet thank you very much.

Wtf is wrong with these people? *smh*

#security #privacy

“This update integrates the BIOSConnect feature into Dell SupportAssist OS Recovery. This feature connects the system to the Dell image server to download and recover the operating system.”

Umm… how about no, Dell, do not connect my BIOS to the Internet thank you very much.

Wtf is wrong with people? *smh*

#security #privacy