Investing in Rewind - a16z Andreessen Horowitz
Rewind is launching a Mac desktop app. When you search for a given term, you see every occurrence wherever it happened, as well as what else was op...
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What is Pegasus? A cybersecurity expert explains how the spyware invades phones and what it does when it gets in
A tool made for tracking criminals and terrorists has potentially been used against politicians, dissidents and journalists. Here’s how the spyware...
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Apple’s Mistake – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
While it’s possible to understand Apple’s motivations behind its decision to enable on-device scanning, the company had a better way to satisfy its...
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The UK is secretly testing a controversial web snooping tool | WIRED UK
The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly tr...
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Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance - The Verge
What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match? Machine learning is helping CCTV cameras to analyze what we do in real time, creating a ...
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Will Everything Stay in New Orleans If Cameras Capture It All? - The New York Times
Will 1,500 Street Cameras Be a Wet Blanket in New Orleans? Residents wonder whether the city’s freewheeling appeal will suffer if bars, clubs an...
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Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Supreme Court in Unanimous Verdict
Indians enjoy a fundamental right to privacy, that it is intrinsic to life and liberty and thus comes under Article 21 of the Indian constitution
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Your fitness tracker knows too much about you | Mashable
Strava Heatmap shows that fitness trackers represent a privacy threat. Where you jog, where you work, and, yes, where you sleep — all this and...
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The Autonomous Selfie Drone Is Here. Is Society Ready for It? - The New York Times
A start-up called Skydio has created a consumer drone that flies itself. Its tech is likely to become ubiquitous. “The drone knows your face, yo...
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Here’s Why Public Wifi is a Public Health Hazard – Medium
Maybe Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi We took a hacker to a café and, in 20 minutes, he knew where everyone else was born, wh...
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The City That Remembers Everything - The Atlantic
The smart city is moving beyond cameras and microphones to stranger surveillance tools.
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Madison Square Garden Has Used Face-Scanning Technology on Customers - The New York Times
Facial-recognition systems can help bolster security, but some experts say the technology raises questions about privacy and data security.
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How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop — Smashing Magazine
Europe’s imminent privacy overhaul means that we all have to become more diligent about what data we collect, how we collect it, and what we do wit...
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How Airlines don’t care about your privacy: Case Study Emirates
I asked my wife if it is alright if her Date of Birth is known to a stranger. Only if they send me a birthday gift, she joked. What about your pass...
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The University of Arizona is tracking students' locations to predict dropouts — Quartz
At the University of Arizona, school officials know when students are going to drop out before they do. The public college in Tucson has been quiet...
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Schools Are Spending Millions on High-Tech Surveillance of Kids
Advanced surveillance technologies once reserved for international airports and high-security prisons are coming to schools across America. From Ne...
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Police are asking Google to provide user data for all people near crime scenes
Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, have presented Google with warrants to obtain data from mobile phones from not just specific suspects who were i...
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Chinese man caught by facial recognition at pop concert - BBC News
The suspect was caught by facial recognition technology at a pop concert, which he regrets attending.
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Article 8 - Protection of personal data | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
The FRA provides the EU institutions and Member States with independent, evidence-based advice on fundamental rights. The aim is to contribute towa...
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(practical tips) How to save your privacy from the Internet’s clutches – TechCrunch
Another week, another massive privacy scandal. When it’s not Facebook admitting it allowed data on as many as 87 million users to be sucked out by ...
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Palantir Knows Everything About You | Bloomberg
Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers.
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How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked — according to the person who built it
The method was similar to the one Netflix uses to recommend movies — no crystal ball, but good enough to make an effective political tool.
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‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances - The New York Times
The government requires its people to submit finger, eye and facial images. The ID is mandatory for many services, but opponents say it infringes p...
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DoD: Turn Off Your Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch GPS
Hey! Take off that Fitbit and turn it off. Hand in that Apple Watch. Make sure you’ve turned off the geolocation capabilities of your Garmin. That ...
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Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior In a ‘Risk’ Database - VICE
The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, he...
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The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in Schools | WIRED
A growing number of districts are deploying cameras and software to prevent attacks. But the systems are also used to monitor students—and adult cr...
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Joe Rogan Experience #1368 - Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he w...
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