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This Week in Privacy (#2) (blog.privacyguides.org)

Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads (www.404media.co)

A marketing team within media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims it has the capability to listen to ambient conversations of consumers through embedded microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices to gather data and use it to target ads, according to a review of CMG marketing materials by 404 Media and details from a...

CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens hand out medical records to cops without warrants (arstechnica.com)

Epic Win Against Google (simplifiedprivacy.com)

Huge win for Epic Games in their court case against Google. The court decided that Google’s Play app store operated as an illegal monopoly and the case also challenged the transaction fees of up to 30% that Google imposes on Android app developers....

At COP28, 12,000 surveillance cameras are causing privacy concerns (www.euronews.com)

This Week in Privacy (#1) (blog.privacyguides.org)

Governments spying on Apple and Google users through phone notifications, U.S. senator says (www.cnbc.com)

Dealing w/ Gov requests for push notifications (simplifiedprivacy.com)

We posted a recent Vice article about the US government requesting nearly all Apple and Google push notifications:...

Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator (arstechnica.com)

The LAPD Is Using Controversial Mass Surveillance Tracking Software (www.vice.com)

You SHOULD connect to Tor via a VPN, actually (yewtu.be)

In Africa’s first ‘safe city,’ surveillance reigns (www.codastory.com)

Nairobi boasts nearly 2,000 Huawei surveillance cameras citywide. But in the nine years since they were installed, it is hard to see their benefits.

A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab (www.wired.com)

Most private crypto wallet? (kbin.social)

The whole point of me making certain payments with crypto is for it not to be attached to my name. obviously the crypto service company has my cc details. whats the most privacy friendly one? ty :)

Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (www.wired.com)

A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.

SimpleX Self-Host Script, Tutorial, on Monero Provider (monero.town)

cross-posted from: monero.town/post/1084048...

Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Alleged RCMP leaker says he was tipped off that police targets had 'moles' in law enforcement (www.cbc.ca)

According to Ortis, briefed him about a “storefront” that was being created to attract criminal targets to an online encryption service. A storefront, said Ortis, is a fake business or entity, either online or bricks-and-mortar, set up by police or intelligence agencies....

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