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Johana Bhuiyan

@jmbooyah
49 posts
2023-01-13
New with @SamTLevin: Meta alleges surveillance firm Voyager Labs collected data on 600,000 users via fake accounts. Meta launched an investigation into Voyager's use of fake accounts after the Guardian published a series revealing its work with police. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2023-01-13 View on X
The Guardian

Meta sues to ban Voyager Labs from using Facebook and Instagram, alleging the investigative software startup created 38K+ accounts to scrape 600K+ users' data

The social media giant launched an investigation into Voyager's use of fake accounts after a Guardian investigation

2022-10-21
Texas AG keeps suing tech companies for allegedly violating the state's biometric privacy law right before an election. 1st it was Facebook and now Google. “Mr. Paxton will face a Democratic challenger, Rochelle Garza, in the general election next month.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-10-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Texas' AG sues Google for allegedly using Photos, Assistant, and Nest features to collect facial- and voice-recognition data without seeking users' full consent

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal :

2022-06-28
Tech companies & data brokers collect & store SO much user data for long periods of time which makes them huge targets for subpoenas & law enforcement requests. Tech companies can try to come up with ways to stall or fight these requests but sometimes they literally can't say no.
2022-06-28 View on X
TechCrunch

Analysis of Stardust period tracking app, the top free app on the US App Store on June 25, shows it shares users' phone numbers with analytics company Mixpanel

This Privacy Policy explains how Stardust App LLC. Tweets: @motherboard : Menstrual tracking app Stardust is one of Apple's top three most-downloaded free apps right now. It's also...

The main way to not put people's user data at risk of being handed over to law enforcement is to not collect it or to limit how much you collect and how long you store it for in the first place.
2022-06-28 View on X
Wired

How SCOTUS overturning Roe could be used to curb online freedoms and surveil vulnerable populations, as happened to sex workers following FOSTA/SESTA in 2018

FOSTA/SESTA—laws that deplatformed sex workers—helped build the gallows for overturning Roe v. Wade.

The main way to not put people's user data at risk of being handed over to law enforcement is to not collect it or to limit how much you collect and how long you store it for in the first place.
2022-06-28 View on X
TechCrunch

Analysis of Stardust period tracking app, the top free app on the US App Store on June 25, shows it shares users' phone numbers with analytics company Mixpanel

This Privacy Policy explains how Stardust App LLC. Tweets: @motherboard : Menstrual tracking app Stardust is one of Apple's top three most-downloaded free apps right now. It's also...

Tech companies & data brokers collect & store SO much user data for long periods of time which makes them huge targets for subpoenas & law enforcement requests. Tech companies can try to come up with ways to stall or fight these requests but sometimes they literally can't say no.
2022-06-28 View on X
VICE

Stardust's privacy policy said it may share “anonymized, encrypted” data to third parties “whether or not legally required”, before being changed after pushback

2022-06-27
These data practices have always been potentially harmful to vulnerable groups but there's typically not been a ton of incentive for (or pressure on) tech companies to stop collecting or storing your data — it's the new oil, they need it to make money.
2022-06-27 View on X
Protocol

In the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade, tech companies give “no comment” in response to questions about users' data that can be used in prosecutions

Tech companies have created employee reimbursement programs, but they have been silent on whether they'll protect users' data …

While it's sad that it took this, now that a broader group of people feel vulnerable for the first time, we may see a groundswell of public pressure on these companies to change the way they manage user data. (Obv unclear if it'll be enough to force the companies to change much)
2022-06-27 View on X
Protocol

In the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade, tech companies give “no comment” in response to questions about users' data that can be used in prosecutions

Tech companies have created employee reimbursement programs, but they have been silent on whether they'll protect users' data …

The main way to not put people's user data at risk of being handed over to law enforcement is to not collect it or to limit how much you collect and how long you store it for in the first place.
2022-06-27 View on X
Protocol

In the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade, tech companies give “no comment” in response to questions about users' data that can be used in prosecutions

Tech companies have created employee reimbursement programs, but they have been silent on whether they'll protect users' data …

Tech companies & data brokers collect & store SO much user data for long periods of time which makes them huge targets for subpoenas & law enforcement requests. Tech companies can try to come up with ways to stall or fight these requests but sometimes they literally can't say no.
2022-06-27 View on X
Protocol

In the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade, tech companies give “no comment” in response to questions about users' data that can be used in prosecutions

Tech companies have created employee reimbursement programs, but they have been silent on whether they'll protect users' data …

2022-03-14
Ya'll —> Ukraine has started using Clearview AI's facial recognition during war https://www.reuters.com/...
2022-03-14 View on X
Reuters

Clearview AI CEO says Ukraine is using its facial recognition tech, with 2B+ images from Russia's VKontakte, for free to identify Russian attackers and the dead

Ukraine's defense ministry on Saturday began using Clearview AI's facial recognition technology, the company's chief executive told Reuters …

2021-10-10
New from me: Frances Haugen joins a growing community of tech whistleblowers who've spoken up about a host of issues in just the last 2 years. I spoke to 5 of them about the reality of the process & what it's been like since they came forward: https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-10 View on X
Washington Post

Ex-members of Facebook's integrity team speak of demoralization as management ignored their work; at least 10 members now work in a similar division at Twitter

because if you're underpaid it's that much harder to store up the financial power to speak. https://twitter.com/... David Sacks / @davidsacks : Did anyone else notice that the Face...

2021-09-17
My 1st for @GuardianUS: There's an increase in law enforcement's use of largely unchecked mechanisms to get vast swaths of user data like geofence warrants. Some say it's just the start of an era of tech co's fielding broad warrants & “fishing expeditions” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2021-09-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How law enforcement's ability to track people via commercially available data blurs the line between investigative due diligence and warrantless surveillance

Agencies' growing use of purchased data without warrants raises new legal questions  —  In January 2020, a 14-year-old girl …

The thing that was really striking about the increase in geofence warrants is that one lawyer who represented Zach McCoy, a man who got swept up in one for just going on a bike ride, said bc these warrants are new there aren't a lot of lawyers who know how to deal with them https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How law enforcement's ability to track people via commercially available data blurs the line between investigative due diligence and warrantless surveillance

Agencies' growing use of purchased data without warrants raises new legal questions  —  In January 2020, a 14-year-old girl …

2021-07-27
Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI “the ShotSpotter output in this case was dramatically transformed from data that did not support criminal charges...to data that now forms the centerpiece of the...murder case” https://www.vice.com/...
2021-07-27 View on X
VICE

A look at ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to “detect gunshots”, as court filings suggest it frequently alters evidence at the request of police departments

Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing …

2021-06-18
NEW from me: Ring wanted to prove that it was an effective crime fighting tool, so it turned to a group of brand ambassadors. They were LAPD officers. At least 100 officers got free devices or discounts & were urged to promote Ring. https://www.latimes.com/...
2021-06-18 View on X
Los Angeles Times

Emails from 2016 show Ring provided ~100 LAPD officers with free devices or discount codes and encouraged them to promote its devices to fellow LAPD, the public

In a bid to bolster its claims as a crime-fighting tool, Ring deployed a tactic popular in the business world: influencer marketing.

Emails btwn LAPD & Ring read: “Was a good day today at the Public Safety fair...talked up Ring & had (5) officers...purchase them!” “You are killing it, by the way. Your code has 14 uses, eleven more & I will be sending you every device that we sell.” https://www.latimes.com/...
2021-06-18 View on X
Los Angeles Times

Emails from 2016 show Ring provided ~100 LAPD officers with free devices or discount codes and encouraged them to promote its devices to fellow LAPD, the public

In a bid to bolster its claims as a crime-fighting tool, Ring deployed a tactic popular in the business world: influencer marketing.

2021-03-25
From 1/20 to 6/20, Google got ~ 40k gov't requests for user info & provided “some data” in 83% of cases. For that same period, FB got 60k+ requests, producing some data in 88%. Twitter got a little more than 3k requests & said it complied 59% of the time https://www.latimes.com/...
2021-03-25 View on X
Los Angeles Times

How Google handles user data requests from DHS, ICE, and other agencies, often giving users little time to obtain a court order quashing the request

You're scrolling through your Gmail inbox and see an email with a strange subject line: A string of numbers followed by “Notification from Google.”Tweets:@aaschapiro,@zackwhittaker...

The request was an administrative subpoena from ICE meaning it was not court ordered or self enforcing. In addition to the IP address associated with the Google account, the request also asked for street address & payment sources. https://www.latimes.com/...
2021-03-25 View on X
Los Angeles Times

How Google handles user data requests from DHS, ICE, and other agencies, often giving users little time to obtain a court order quashing the request

You're scrolling through your Gmail inbox and see an email with a strange subject line: A string of numbers followed by “Notification from Google.”Tweets:@aaschapiro,@zackwhittaker...

Get an email with the subject line Notification from Google? You might want to open it. In 1 email we reviewed, Google notified a user DHS requested their personal info & they had just 7 days to get a court ordered motion to quash otherwise Google may hand over their info. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-25 View on X
Los Angeles Times

How Google handles user data requests from DHS, ICE, and other agencies, often giving users little time to obtain a court order quashing the request

You're scrolling through your Gmail inbox and see an email with a strange subject line: A string of numbers followed by “Notification from Google.”Tweets:@aaschapiro,@zackwhittaker...