It seems Gen Z is just fine with parents knowing where they are all the time (www.businessinsider.com)
Google forced to reveal users' search histories in Colorado court ruling (www.techspot.com)
‘People have no idea’: How smart devices spy on us and reveal information about our homes (english.elpais.com)
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...
Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection (www.theregister.com)
UK proposes selfie-based, AI age verification system for porn sites (www.techspot.com)
Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)
Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity” (simplifiedprivacy.com)
Google has abandoned the “Web Environment Integrity” API that was supposed to allow websites to only allow approved and verified browser environments. The plan would allow websites to reject browser or even OS modifications that were “unattested” for the purpose of supposedly stopping bots, piracy, ad-blocking, and other...
Inside the deadly instant loan app scam that blackmails with nudes (www.bbc.co.uk)
Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | TechCrunch (techcrunch.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 :)
Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption (www.patrick-breyer.de)
How Meta’s New Face Camera Heralds a New Age of Surveillance (dnyuz.com)
Let's decentralize the web together. (articlesgallery8543.blogspot.com)
EU fingerprint checks for British travellers to start in 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine (arstechnica.com)
Governments spying on Apple and Google users through phone notifications, U.S. senator says (www.cnbc.com)
Logseq: A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management. (github.com)
With everything going on with Twitter and Reddit I feel like I have a new appreciation for having my own local knowledge base on Logseq....
Police in Canada look into tech that accesses your home security cameras (www.cbc.ca)
Police in U.S. say technology is helpful but researchers say Canada should hesitate before using it
San Francisco mayor wants drones and CCTV to stop crime (www.theregister.com)
AI facial recognition scanned millions of driver licences. Then an innocent man got locked up (www.abc.net.au)
Your Cheap Android TV Streaming Box May Have a Dangerous Backdoor (www.wired.com)
You Need to Turn on Apple’s New Stolen iPhone Tool (www.wired.com)
Apple today launched a new tool for iPhones to help reduce what a thief with your phone and passcode can access. The feature, called Stolen Device Protection, adds extra layers of protection to your iPhone when someone tries to access or change sensitive settings on your device.
CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens hand out medical records to cops without warrants (arstechnica.com)
Google Resuming the transition to Manifest V3 - Chrome for Developers (developer.chrome.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/6008113...
