Mozilla’s annual holiday shopping guide names and shames the gadgets that mishandle your privacy — In simpler times, we never had to consider a loved one’s privacy when gift buying. But as technology has continued its high-speed advance and growth at all costs mentality, many companies and the products they create have long been skirting adequate data and privacy protection, leaving users at risk. What…

Here’s what developers need to know about plans to reshape app store standards and put user trust first — “Technology does not need vast troves of personal data, stitched together across dozens of websites and apps, in order to succeed. Advertising existed and thrived for decades without it. If a business is built on misleading users, on data exploitation, on choices that are no choices at all, then it…

Your DNA will soon be on file, if it’s not already. What will the consequences be? — In 2011, historian Yuval Noah Harari predicted that algorithms will at some point “know us better than we know ourselves.” On many digital platforms, this is already happening. When you scroll through YouTube, TikTok, or Facebook, you don’t have to worry about what you want to watch next. Heck, you…

Facebook shifts the burden of privacy protections to the consumer once again It’s easy to criticize Facebook for its consumer “spy glasses,” officially sold as Ray-Ban Stories. …

Deepfake is a terrifying sexual harassment weapon — You’re probably familiar with apps like Photo Lab. You hop in, upload a selfie, then wait a few seconds only to find yourself marveling at what you’d look like in a comic book or an ancient painting. Now picture a similar app but instead of a cute portrait, you get…

With its new Smart Glasses, the social media giant raises a whole new set of privacy concerns — If you’re an avid user of Facebook, it likely knows you better than you know yourself. …

It’s not a picture, it’s your real license — Apple’s promise of adding driver’s licenses and state IDs to Apple Wallet is coming to fruition and bringing with it a wallet-full of questions. As soon as I posted the news, people expressed concerns about holding up their phone or, worse, handing it over so an official can ogle your…

Harmful dominance, democratic privacy controls, interop and illegitimate greatness. — In “The New Antitrust/Data Privacy Law Interface,” Temple Law’s Erika M Douglas presents a fascinating look at the tensions between privacy and competition. https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-new-antitrustdata-privacy-law-interface It’s only fitting that Douglas published her paper in the Yale Law Journal, as that’s the same journal that kickstarted the modern antitrust revolution when it…