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Your treadmill is likely spying on you. That’s one of the most surprising conclusions of the Mozilla Foundation’s 2021 Privacy Not Included report, which was released this morning. For the report, the Mozilla Foundation’s researchers spent over 950 hours poring over the privacy policies, data gathering procedures, and hardware capabilities…
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…
“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…
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. …
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…
If you’re an avid user of Facebook, it likely knows you better than you know yourself. …
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…
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…
I work in cryptography. I’ve published a paper on the topic and hold patents as well. To undersell a bit: I care a great deal about privacy and security. And there’s very rarely any daylight between the opinions I hold and the position of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Yet, everyone…
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