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Sleep Walking into a War – Tobias Stone – Medium
We are 10 years into a war. A war most people don’t realise is happening, and which our governments are only just beginning to see. This is the Gre... (2017)
Don't Buy Anyone an Echo
Three years ago, we said the Echo was “the most innovative device Amazon’s made in years.” That’s still true. But you shouldn’t buy one. You should... (2017)
Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany - The New York Times
A Hamburg regulator said on Tuesday that neither the messenger nor its parent company had received individuals’ permission to share digital informa... (2017)
Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People
Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies Inc., a massive breach that the company concealed for mo... (2017)
The Brutal Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss
Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2017: "Silicon Valley makes billions of dollars peddling personal information, supported by an ecosystem of bit players. O... (2017)
Netflix Knows Some Very Strange Things About Public Viewing Habits
Wired Magazine, 2017: "Ever cried while watching 'Grey's Anatomy' on the subway? Netflix is on to you. Ever since smartphones got fast enough t... (2017)
Equifax CEO to Congress: Not Sure We Are Encrypting Data
Wall Street Journal, 2017: "Two months after Equifax reported one of the worst data breaches in history, its interim chief executive told a congre... (2017)
IRS Cracks Down on Coinbase Users -
2017: "With the quickly growing cryptocurrency industry, the IRS is demanding to see the records of thousands of Coinbase users. Cryptocurrency h... (2017)
Senators push to ditch Social Security numbers in light of Equifax hack
TechCrunch, 2017: "Eyeing more secure alternatives to Social Security numbers, lawmakers in the U.S. are looking abroad. Today, the Senate Commer... (2017)
Big Brother isn't just watching: workplace surveillance can track your every move
The Guardian, 2017: "Employers are using a range of technologies to monitor their staff’s web-browsing patterns, keystrokes, social media posts an... (2017)
Rumors That Facebook Is Secretly Recording You Refuse to Die
Gizmodo, 2017: "Is Mark Zuckerberg spying on you? Oh, yes, absolutely. Is he secretly recording your voice like, all the time? Probably not. Per ... (2017)
Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users – The Markup
The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements (2024)
AI Regulation: EU lawmakers deal on 'global first' AI rules | TechCrunch
After marathon 'final' talks which stretched to almost three days European Union lawmakers have tonight clinched a political deal on a risk-based A... (2023)
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)
Investing in Rewind - a16z Andreessen Horowitz
Rewind is launching a Mac desktop app. When you search for a given term, you see every occurrence wherever it happened, as well as what else was op... (2022)
After George Floyd’s murder, police built a secretive surveillance machine that lives on | MIT Technology Review
An investigation by MIT Technology Review reveals a sprawling, technologically sophisticated system in Minnesota designed for closely monitoring pr... (2022)
iRobot's Roomba will soon be owned by Amazon, which raises privacy questions
In the development of ever smarter homes, Amazon could soon have access to the maps of our houses created and stored by Roomba vacuums. (2022)
The walls are closing in on Clearview AI as data watchdogs get tough | MIT Technology Review
The controversial face recognition company was just fined $10m for scraping UK faces from the web. That might not be the end of it. (2022)
Life360 sells its family location tracking data — now it owns Tile - The Verge
Life360 is acquiring Bluetooth tracking device maker Tile. A report by The Markup highlights how Life360 sells user data for millions of dollars. C... (2021)
How Amazon Ring uses domestic violence to market doorbell cameras | MIT Technology Review
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, where Eileen Guo is an Ida B. Wells Fellow, and is being co-published by MIT Tec... (2021)
What is Pegasus? A cybersecurity expert explains how the spyware invades phones and what it does when it gets in
A tool made for tracking criminals and terrorists has potentially been used against politicians, dissidents and journalists. Here’s how the spyware... (2021)
Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship Around the World | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Apple’s new program for scanning images sent on iMessage steps back from the company’s prior support for the privacy and security of encrypted mess... (2021)
Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system | Reuters
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday said that iPhone users' entire photo libraries will be checked for known child abuse images if they are stored in the ... (2021)
Apple’s Mistake – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
While it’s possible to understand Apple’s motivations behind its decision to enable on-device scanning, the company had a better way to satisfy its... (2021)
How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies | MIT Technology Review
A growing number of tools now let you stop facial recognition systems from training on your personal photos (2021)
Anyone can use this powerful facial-recognition tool — and that's a problem - CNN
You probably haven't seen PimEyes, a mysterious facial-recognition search engine, but it may have spotted you. (2021)
How a Google Street View image of your house predicts your risk of a car accident | MIT Technology Review
Google Street View has become a surprisingly useful way to learn about the world without stepping into it. People use it to plan journeys, to explo... (2021)
The UK is secretly testing a controversial web snooping tool | WIRED UK
The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly tr... (2021)
Ancestry says it fought two police requests to search its DNA database – TechCrunch
The DNA profiling company said it challenged the requests, which were later withdrawn. (2021)
Why Denmark’s “corona passport” is more of a promise than a plan | MIT Technology Review
When acting Danish finance minister Morten Bødskov announced last week that Denmark would soon launch a digital “corona passport,” the news spread ... (2021)
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)
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)
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)
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)