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[Link] SafeGraph Investor Selling His Stake, Donating the Money to Planned Parenthood

Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com

Motherboard reported that SafeGraph was selling aggregated location data of people who visited family planning centers, raising concerns the data could be used to figure out which clinics were providing out-of-state abortions. Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance.

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[Link] Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins Explains Why Ukraine Is Winning the Information War

Read: 9/3/2022 time.com

The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they’re seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what’s known as open-source intelligence (OSINT).

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[Link] Lawmakers Plan Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

Lawmakers have proposed new legislation that they say would ban surveillance-based advertising. The legislation would target the underlying practice of targeted or personalized ads that facilitates surveillance-based advertising itself.

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[Link] 'I talk to 20 Australians a day': Meet Frank, his job is to scam you

Read: 8/12/2021 www.abc.net.au

If you answer your phone and Frank* is on the other end of the line, he'll keep you talking for as long as he can. And Frank has already done his homework before calling you in Australia.

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[Link] Why are the Last 4 Digits of an SSN Important?

Read: 11/11/2021 www.stilt.com

Social Security Numbers are issued by the government and they are used for various purposes. A lot of times, different companies will use the last four digits of your SSN. However, these four digits are crucial and you need to protect them. But why are the last 4 digits of an SSNso important?

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[Link] Richard Spencer Held Parties in 'Fash Loft' For White Nationalists, Court Hears

Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com

It became known as “the fash loft”—and hosted as many as six parties for white nationalist influencers that summer. None of them were recorded.  But many otherwise make unlikely bedfellows.

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[Link] ‘Asian Achievers,’ ‘Gay’: How ISPs Label Customers for Advertisers

Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com

A new FTC report has revealed that ISPs collect and sell a horrifying amount of sensitive data about their customers.

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[Link] The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous

Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com

Lots of people who use ad blockers say they do it to block malicious ads that can sometimes hack their devices or harvest sensitive information on them. It turns out, the NSA, CIA, and other agencies in the U.S.

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[Link] Services Australia defends use of Excel in rectifying robo-debt errors

Read: 2/9/2021 www.zdnet.com

The remarks were made on Friday during a hearing held by the Community Affairs References Committee as part of its ongoing probe of Centrelink's compliance program.

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[Link] The Future of Weaponized App Data

Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com

It’s an old story with a new twist. A top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after someone leaked information about his private life. Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill left his post after a Catholic-oriented Substack accused him of being a frequent user of Grindr.

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[Link] Amazon will pay you $10 in credit for your palm print biometrics

Read: 6/8/2021 techcrunch.com

How much is your palm print worth? If you ask Amazon, it’s about $10 in promotional credit if you enroll your palm prints in its checkout-free stores and link it to your Amazon account.

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[Link] How to Check if the Business That Won’t Pay You a Fair Wage Got a PPP Loan

Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com

Summer’s ugliest trend is bosses pinning the blame for business interruptions on “lazy” workers.

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[Link] Data isn’t oil, whatever tech commentators tell you: it’s people’s lives

Read: 2/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

The phrase “data is the new oil” is the cliche du jour of the tech industry. It was coined by Clive Humby, the genius behind Tesco’s loyalty card, who argued that data was “just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used.

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[Link] ATO matches insurance info on luxury goods with declared incomes to catch out tax cheats

Read: 30/7/2021 www.abc.net.au

About 300,000 Australians who may have made purchases of luxury cars, private jets, yachts, thoroughbred horses and artwork are being warned by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to declare all their income or they could face a review or audit.

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