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  1. Zorak (zorak)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Feb-2019 14:40:24 UTC Zorak Zorak
    This should be the expectation: a note of "microphone (disabled in software)" at minimum.

    Also, they're not selling it to you, they're renting it out. Such is the pathology of turning products into services. It's a sick market dynamic.

    #google #nest #privacy #surveillance
    about a month ago from social.ilikefreedom.ro permalink
  2. Zorak (zorak)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 17:17:07 UTC Zorak Zorak
    > How to fight the #surveillance economy (medium.com)

    Step 0: publish on your own platform without trackers, not on medium.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19115081 #hn
    about 2 months ago from social.ilikefreedom.ro permalink
  3. Zorak (zorak)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 17:15:58 UTC Zorak Zorak
    > How to fight the #surveillance economy (medium.com)

    Step 0: publish on your own platform without trackers, not on medium.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19115081
    about 2 months ago from social.ilikefreedom.ro permalink
  4. Christopher Lemmer Webber (cwebber)'s status on Friday, 01-Feb-2019 22:24:20 UTC Christopher Lemmer Webber Christopher Lemmer Webber

    What's more troubling: a website that says "we don't recognize the computer you're using" or a website that usually says that and doesn't this time? #surveillance

    about 2 months ago from octodon.social permalink
  5. Zorak (zorak)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2019 19:39:47 UTC Zorak Zorak
    in reply to
    • Zorak
    #Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete #Facebook. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18864220

    Demonstrably not true for my S7 portable #surveillance and #tracking device. You can install #LineageOS if your phone supports it. Better yet: S3 with #Replicant.
    about 2 months ago from social.ilikefreedom.ro permalink
  6. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 02:59:25 UTC Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    Reuters: "Move aside, backseat driver! New tech at CES monitors you inside car"

    https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/70686

    (Internet Archive link because the article now 404's.)

    This type of tracking of a driver and car occupants can indeed provide useful features---both safety and convenience. But I would only be in favor of this sort of thing if it were free software and the car were under complete control of the user, and the system could be wholly disabled with clearly visible and unambiguous hardware switch, which is also visible to passengers.

    But proprietary systems doing this will be incentivized to sell data to third parties. The article gives some examples of some terrible uses of this type of tracking.

    As we move further and further into the future where these types of things are going to become more commonplace, the goal IMO shouldn't be to resist technological progress---it should be to ensure that it _empowers_ users, rather than making them servants or products.

    #privacy #surveillance #ethics
    about 2 months ago from web permalink
  7. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Friday, 11-Jan-2019 04:27:25 UTC Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    The Intercept reports that Amazon Ring gave employees and its Ukrainian-based R&D team access to private cameras:

    https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-camera/

    This practice is wrong, but any system that makes this type of thing possible is broken by design.

    You can imagine that I love the fact that one of my neighbors down the street at my child's bus stop has one of these devices.

    #privacy #surveillance
    about 2 months ago from web permalink
  8. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 03:59:12 UTC Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    An article detailing some of the ways that cell phone location data (cell tower connections) is made available to third parties:

    https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/70592

    #privacy #surveillance
    about 3 months ago from web permalink
  9. jpmens (jpmens)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jan-2019 09:57:47 UTC jpmens jpmens

    An OpenStreetMap of CCTV / public surveillance cameras: http://osmcamera.dihe.de/ (source code https://github.com/khris78/osmcamera) #surveillance

    about 3 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
  10. FSFE (fsfe)'s status on Friday, 28-Dec-2018 12:01:13 UTC FSFE FSFE

    Next in the @fsfe@twitter.com track at 14:00: #HumanRights and #Surveillance by Marco KΓΌhnel in Lecture Room M2
    https://events.ccc.de/congress/2018/wiki/index.php/Session:Human_Rights_and_Surveillance

    #35C3 #CCC

    about 3 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
  11. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2018 17:37:21 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @RosemaryFreiTO@twitter.com

    Thanks @doctorow@twitter.com for writing about the latest shenanigans between @sidewalklabs@twitter.com and @WaterfrontTO@twitter.com, including my Rabble article, on @BoingBoing@twitter.com! #surveillance #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli https://boingboing.net/2018/12/17/harbourfront-and-cn-tower.html

    πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/RosemaryFreiTO/status/1074714207357206529

    about 3 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  12. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Dec-2018 16:31:18 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @OrchidProtocol@twitter.com: The End of Trust (@mcsweeneys@twitter.com) is an interesting collection of essays and interviews about #tech, #privacy, and #surveillance. It features several @EFF@twitter.com authors like Cory Doctorow (@doctorow@twitter.com), and Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog@twitter.com). Download it for FREE! https://bit.ly/2SmWv6u

    πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/OrchidProtocol/status/1069990881208483840

    about 4 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  13. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2018 14:41:13 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @andreasmoellen@twitter.com: "The End of Trust", an investigation of #surveillance and #privacy in the digital age: @mcsweeneys@twitter.com issue in collaboration with @EFF@twitter.com including essays by @BiellaColeman@twitter.com, @doctorow@twitter.com, @rushkoff@twitter.com, @maassive@twitter.com, @schneierblog@twitter.com and others is free online: https://www.eff.org/the-end-of-trust

    πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/andreasmoellen/status/1067789147539152896

    about 4 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  14. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2018 17:45:01 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @spellboundblog@twitter.com: The End of Trust (the first all-nonfiction @mcsweeneys@twitter.com issue, created w/@EFF, focuses on tech, #privacy, & #surveillance & features Cindy Cohn, Soraya Okuda, @doctorow@twitter.com, @maassive@twitter.com, @schneierblog@twitter.com, & other digital rights thinkers) is free online: https://www.eff.org/the-end-of-trust

    πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/spellboundblog/status/1067473950551261185

    about 4 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  15. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Monday, 19-Nov-2018 16:18:08 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @singularityblog@twitter.com: "Sole and Despotic Dominion": a fictional story by @doctorow@twitter.com that may turn to become reality if we keep doing nothing https://snglrty.co/2Bi04oJ #Privacy #BigData #surveillance #DRM

    πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/singularityblog/status/1064552651638095873

    about 4 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  16. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Thursday, 13-Sep-2018 17:44:27 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @teh_aimee@twitter.com: Today's #mustread, complete with tips on what to do next. Thank you, @doctorow@twitter.com :)

    "Today...Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one."

    #surveillance #copyright

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/today-europe-lost-internet-now-we-fight-back

    πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/teh_aimee/status/1040294573598224384

    about 6 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  17. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Sep-2018 20:19:26 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @singularityblog@twitter.com: @Doctorow@twitter.com closing #keynote from the second #Decentralized #Web Summit http://craphound.com https://snglrty.co/2NhjJvM #Privacy #surveillance #monoploy #freedom

    πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/singularityblog/status/1037433193375428608

    about 7 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  18. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Sep-2018 13:05:44 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @Kirst3nF@twitter.com: Here's @doctorow@twitter.com on the latest 5 Eyes Statement of Principles on Access to "Evidence" and #Encryption: Oh for fuck's sake, not this fucking bullshit again
    https://boingboing.net/2018/09/04/illegal-math.html
    #surveillance #security #privacy #backdoors

    πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/Kirst3nF/status/1037249753522814979

    about 7 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  19. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Aug-2018 19:51:51 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    "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

    about 7 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
  20. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Aug-2018 16:47:17 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab
    • snowden

    "@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

    about 7 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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