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Technology and the state. Surveillance capitalism
Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)
Stop the EARN IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption | EFF Action Center
The House and Senate are both pushing forward with the so-called “EARN IT” Act, a bill that will undermine encryption and free speech online. Attor... (2020)
How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home - The New York Times
As we shelter in place in the pandemic, more employers are using software to track our work — and us. (2020)
Facebook to Pay $550 Million to Settle Facial Recognition Suit - The New York Times
It was another black mark on the privacy record of the social network, which also reported its quarterly earnings. “ Facebook said on Wednesday ... (2020)
London Police Are Taking Surveillance to a Whole New Level - The New York Times (2020)
The city, stepping into a debate over privacy, says it will use real-time facial recognition technology “to tackle serious crime.” (2020)
Opinion | Why Are You Publicly Sharing Your Child’s DNA Information? - The New York Times
By uploading their children’s genetic information on public websites, parents are forever exposing their personal health data. (2020)
Opinion | How to Stop the Abuse of Location Data - Foursquare - The New York Times (2019)
There are no formal rules for what is ethical — or even legal — in the location data business. That needs to change. In the op-ed, Jeff (Foursqu... (2019)
Drivers Beware: The Traffic Safety Reporting Apps Are Coming
It’s getting easier for city residents to use technology that can report bad drivers who block bike lanes. Welcome to the self-surveillance era of ... (2019)
Microsoft Launches Decentralized Identity Tool on Bitcoin Blockchain - 2019 - CoinDesk
A new decentralized ID solution from Microsoft built directly on the bitcoin blockchain could have far-reaching impacts. (2019)
Microsoft, Facebook, trust and privacy — 2019 - Benedict Evans
There are strong parallels between organised abuse of Facebook and FB’s attempts to respond, in the last 24 months, and malware on Windows and Offi... (2019)
How to Safeguard Your Tech, and Your Money, While Traveling - The New York Times
Getting a “throwaway” email for online booking is one tip experts offer. Another: Consider signing up for a credit card only for online purchases. (2019)
Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger - The New York Times
Facebook’s chief executive has asserted control over its sprawling divisions and mandated the social network’s messaging services be knitted together. (2019)
Monero to Become First Billion-Dollar Crypto to Implement 'Bulletproofs' Tech - CoinDesk
A highly anticipated technology designed to make blockchain privacy features more scalable will be tested on Monero soon. (2018)
US is using road signs to capture license plate data — Quartz
It takes a photograph of your license plate. (2018)
Forget the new iPhones, Apple's best product is now privacy || Fast Company
Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as important a feature as shiny indu... (2018)
Kairos: Face recognition AI transforms visual data analysis
Cameras are Watching and Machines are Learning: The Beginning An explosion of images and video is creating massive opportunities for understandi... (2018)
Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Next Level - The New York Times
A new bill will help its intelligence agencies circumvent encryption. And what starts Down Under won’t necessarily stay there. (2018)
How smart TVs are getting quite smart about you || Fast Company
Smarter sets could mean more niche programming and fewer annoying ads, says the TV industry. Privacy advocates worry consumers are being kept in th... (2018)
Google Is Training Machines to Predict When a Patient Will Die - Bloomberg
AI advances by the 'Medical Brain' team could help the internet giant finally break into the health-care business (2018)
Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox and you should too - FastCoDesign
The time has come. "Google already runs a lot of my online life–it’s my email, my calendar, my go-to map, and all my documents. I use Duck Du... (2018)
4 Projects Seeking to Solve Ethereum's Privacy Paradox - CoinDesk
Ethereum uses transparency as part of its security but potential problems with data exposure are now being addressed. (2018)
GDPR and Blockchain: Is the New EU Data Protection Regulation a Threat or an Incentive?
New European data protection regulation to trigger even more blockchain innovation. (2018)
The Next Privacy Battle in Europe Is Over This New Law - The New York Times
The tech industry is fighting a pending measure that’s even stricter than the recently enacted G.D.P.R. It’s called the ePrivacy Regulation. (2018)
Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police. Critics See Surveillance Risk. - The New York Times
More than two dozen civil rights organizations asked the tech giant to stop selling its image recognition system to law enforcement agencies... (2018)
Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning From Its Own History of Hate - The New York Times
A country taps its past as it leads the way on one of the most pressing issues facing modern democracies: how to regulate the world’s biggest socia... (2018)
Is a Dumber Phone a Better Phone? - The New York Times
A new crop of smartphones has arrived, aiming to improve on the iPhone — not by being better but by being substantially worse. (2018)
Palantir Knows Everything About You | Bloomberg
Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers. (2018)
Whois public database in public breach of GDPR, according to European authorities
Whois is dead as Europe hands DNS overlord ICANN its arse • The Register “Can we still have a GDPR moratorium, asks US domain-name body... (2018)
I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes. - The New York Times
Using a tool that Facebook offers its users, our columnist found out more than he wanted to know about the social network, the ad industry and hims... (2018)
The New European General Data Protection Regulations GDPR - and Automated Mail Marketing
In our previous article, we took an in-depth look at the implications of the new data protection laws in relation to eCommerce and web-based busine... (2018)
TechCrunch Live: Roblox, SuperAwesome, and Fingerprint executives discuss the state of kids media
With large majorities of all children (70% in the U.S. and U.K.) staying home from school during the COVID-19 crisis, use of digital media properti... (2020)
Joe Rogan Experience #1368 - Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he w... (2019)
Black Mirror S03E01 Airport scene
When your rating matters... (2019)
Right To Be Forgotten - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight Published on May 19, 2014 John Oliver covers the new European law that would allow people to erase themselves from internet sea... (2018)
The Terrifying Cost of "Free” Websites
If you're not paying, you're not the customer--you're the product. (2018)
The End of Privacy as We Know It? - The New York Times
An unregulated facial recognition app can probably tell the police your name, and help them find out where you live and who your friends are. (2020)
Crypto Security and the New Web3 Mindsets for Users - a16z Podcast | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. Today’s episode is all about crypto security — that is, the new mindsets and the new strategie... (2021)
Contact tracing: So promising. So invasive. - Should This Exist? - Podcast
Listen to this episode from Should This Exist? on Spotify. It’s one of the best weapons we have to contain a pandemic. But can it defe... (2020)
What to Know about GDPR – a16z Podcast: Andreessen Horowitz
Given concern around data breaches, the EU Parliament finally passed GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) after four years of preparation and ... (2018)