Notices tagged with privacy

"Most worryingly, Google appears to be scooping up information about people who use incognito mode in their browsers – which most people think makes their activities invisible from Google." #privacy #security #surveillance

https://www.fastcompany.com/90222071/study-says-google-is-collecting-more-data-about-you-than-you-realize

Graphic CC BY-SA Sean O'Brien

"@snowden has said that @UIDAI has created a mass surveillance system with Aadhaar... Snowden talked about the recent controversy where many Android phone users found the UIDAI helpline number had been added to their contact lists" #privacy #surveillance https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/snowden-calls-for-criminal-action-against-aadhaar-misuse/articleshow/65466124.cms

#privacy tips to go with today's AP story on Google location. But remember: "simply connecting to the internet on any device flags an IP address that can be geographically mapped. Smartphones also connect to cell towers, so your carrier knows your general location at all times." https://www.apnews.com/b031ee35d4534f548e43b7575f4ab494/How-to-find-and-delete-where-Google-knows-you%27ve-been

"Sean O’Brien, a @YalePrivacyLab researcher with whom the AP shared its findings, said it is 'disingenuous' for Google to continuously record these locations even when users disable Location History. 'To me, it’s something people should know,' he said." #privacy https://apnews.com/f60bc112665b458cb6473d7ee9492932

RT @OpenRightsGroup@twitter.com: Read about how #ageverification technology won't protect #privacy and or uphold #GDPR in @AlecMuffet@twitter.com's essay. https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/why-we-need-a-pci-for-porn-metadata-92151f778f15

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/OpenRightsGroup/status/1028926907876876288

"The Forum included a live [demo of] cyber exploitations that highlight common cyber risks — many of which can be easily defended against using common sense cyber hygiene" Demos use code at https://frama.link/cyber-demo & PiRogue from Pirahnalysis https://frama.link/yale-cyber-2018 #privacy #security

#Privacy policies are not only long, they're downright confusing - too much legalese, techspeak, and language unintelligible to non-native speakers (or "the average user"). Projects like Pribot's Polisis and ToS;DR are promising: https://pribot.org/polisis/ and https://tosdr.org

"Software like pcAnywhere is used by system administrators to access and control systems from a remote location to conduct maintenance or upgrade or alter software. But election-management systems and voting machines are supposed to be air-gapped for security reasons - that is, disconnected from the internet and from any other systems that are connected to the internet." #privacy #security

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states

"Officials had discovered “technical irregularities” this year in its collection from phone companies of so-called call record details, or metadata showing who called or texted whom and when, but not what they said." #privacy https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/politics/nsa-call-records-purged.html

"Oh, it also tracks your every move and taps your smartphone's microphone, supposedly in the name of helping to root out unauthorized match broadcasts in bars, restaurants and cafes." #privacy #futbol https://boingboing.net/2018/06/11/spanish-football-app-turns-use.html

"Industry lobbyists who want to continue monetising users’ online data are battling against new ePrivacy regulations, targeting EU member states in the Council. And some member state governments are only too happy to help." #privacy #gdpr #rgdp https://corporateeurope.org/power-lobbies/2018/06/shutting-down-eprivacy-lobby-bandwagon-targets-council

large Ticketfly data breach. Shout out to the excellent haveibeenpwned service that notifies users of #privacy disasters like this :) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ticketfly-eventbrite-data-breach-disruption-today-2018-06-03/

"For more than a year, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome may have leaked users’ Facebook usernames, profile pictures, and likes if the users’ browsers visited malicious websites that employed a cutting-edge hack" #privacy #security

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/chrome-and-firefox-leaks-let-sites-steal-visitors-facebook-names-profile-pics/

"@eff has joined the ACLU and a coalition of civil liberties organizations demanding that Amazon stop powering a government surveillance infrastructure." #privacy #surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/amazon-stop-powering-government-surveillance

our @diggity on GDPR: "Warning screens and verbose agreements often become software malpractice: they not only mask the poison coursing through the system, they sedate the user into a click-through coma." #privacy #gdpr https://boingboing.net/2018/05/25/gdpr-dont-forget-to-bring-a.html

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."
#privacy #security

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

#privacy