Instagram briefly launched a basic Threads web UI, offering an early look at what to expect before its July 6 launch; the service appears to have 2,500+ users
Instagram's new Threads app, a Twitter competitor, isn't supposed to launch until July 6th, but the web interface went live for a few hours today for everyone to explore.
Citing “alleged serious breaches” of data protection laws, UK's ICO notifies Clearview AI of its provisional intention to fine the company £17M+
Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI is facing a potential fine in the UK. Source: ICO .
A joint probe by Australia and UK's Information Commissioners finds Clearview AI collected data on 3B+ people by indiscriminately scraping info from the web
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A look at the origins of Clearview AI, which far-right activist Charles Johnson says he co-founded, as it is besieged by lawsuits and investigations
In May 2019, an agent at the Department of Homeland Security received a trove of unsettling images. Found by Yahoo in a Syrian user's account …
In a privacy policy update, T-Mobile says it will automatically enroll all subscribers in an ad program informed by their online activity, starting on April 26
Wireless carrier tells subscribers it could share their browsing, app data and other online activity with advertisers unless they opt out
UK High Court rules that security services cannot search the computers and phones of millions of people under a single “general warrant”
Emma Woollacott / Forbes : Tweets: @privacyint and @privacyint Tweets: @privacyint : WE WON. After a five year battle, the UK High Court agreed with us: general warrants defy 250 ...
UK High Court rules that security services cannot search the computers and phones of millions of people under a single “general warrant”
Emma Woollacott / Forbes : Tweets: @privacyint and @privacyint Tweets: @privacyint : WE WON. After a five year battle, the UK High Court agreed with us: general warrants defy 250 ...
The European Court of Justice, EU's highest legal authority, rules that member states cannot collect mass mobile and internet data of citizens
Google says it will auto-delete location and search data by default for new users after 18 months, as part of a broader expansion of its privacy options
A compromise between privacy and ad-targeting data — On Wednesday, Google announced broad changes in its default data practices for new users …
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rules that spying on the Frankfurt exchange's global internet traffic by the BND, its intelligence agency, is illegal
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Tests find Facebook's Download Your Information tool gives users an incomplete and inconsistent list of advertisers who have uploaded their data to Facebook
In 2018, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook announced the “Download Your Information” feature allowing users … Tweets: @micronauta , @privacyint , @wolfiechristl ,...
Tests find Facebook's Download Your Information tool gives users an incomplete and inconsistent list of advertisers who have uploaded their data to Facebook
In 2018, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook announced the “Download Your Information” feature allowing users … Tweets: @micronauta , @privacyint , @wolfiechristl ,...
An EU report, circulated among EU and national officials in November 2019, calls for the creation of a network of national police facial recognition databases
some lawful, others that violate human rights...” #Surveillance #PoliceState #SiliconValley #Snowden https://21stcenturywire.com/ ... Wolfie Christl / @wolfiechristl : “A report dr...
Brave browser report: 198 local UK councils' websites are using real-time bidding advertising, which is the subject of a number of data protection complaints
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An in-depth look at facial recognition technology, with a primer on how it works, who is using it in the US, and how to avoid it online and in public
The controversial and nearly ever-present technology that could replace the fingerprint — From iPhones and Snapchat filters …
Laws that ban facial recognition miss the larger point: we need laws on all tech used for identification and to decide how much of our data should be surveilled
and the ways that data is combined to create searchable profiles of us without any consent on our part. https://www.nytimes.com/... Dahlia Peterson / @dahlialpeterson : “A ban on f...
Laws that ban facial recognition miss the larger point: we need laws on all tech used for identification and to decide how much of our data should be surveilled
The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that.
New study shows how popular apps including Grindr, OkCupid, Tinder, and the period-tracking apps Clue and MyDays share intimate user data with data brokers
A new study shows how information about your sexuality, religion, and location is sent straight from phones to data brokers
Amnesty International says Facebook and Google's omnipresent surveillance is inherently incompatible with the right to privacy and is a danger to human rights
Facebook and Google's omnipresent surveillance of billions of people poses a systemic threat to human rights …
The High Court of South Africa rules that bulk surveillance is unlawful, in case brought after a reporter found his phone communications were recorded in 2008
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