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[Link] Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data
Read: 8/9/2022 www.vice.com
Earlier this year, Motherboard reported about an internal Facebook document that said the company has no idea where users’ data goes, and what the company is doing with it.
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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] Catalan leaders targeted using NSO spyware, say cybersecurity experts
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Dozens of pro-independence Catalan figures, including the president of the north-eastern Spanish region and three of his predecessors, have been targeted using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to a report from cybersecurity experts.
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[Link] Cops Tried Playing Disney Music to Censor a Video
Read: 10/4/2022 www.vice.com
This time, it’s Disney. Around 11 p.m. on Monday in Santa Ana, a city just south of Los Angeles, a YouTuber with a channel called Santa Ana Audits started recording a group of police investigating a car theft in his neighborhood.
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[Link] Starbucks CEO Announces NFTs to Workers Amid Union Drive
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
In a town hall meeting on Monday aimed at Starbucks workers amid a massive union drive, failed presidential candidate and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz revealed a development that he hoped would excite workers: crypto.
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[Link] VPNs: Russia Forces Google to Delete Masses of Links Amid Ukraine Invasion
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
Russia's determination to control the minds of its citizens is proceeding full force. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russian telecoms regulator Roscomnadzor has forced Google to delist tens of thousands of new URLs that link to VPN resources providing access to 'banned' content.
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[Link] This TikTok-Viral WFH Mouse Jiggler Will Make Your Boss Think You're Online
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
A fair point.
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[Link] Tech Firm Offers Cops Facial Recognition to ID Homeless People
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
“Police use ODIN facial recognition to identify even non-verbal or intoxicated individuals,” the brochure from surveillance firm ODIN Intelligence reads. ODIN’s specific homelessness product is called ODIN Homeless Management Information System, or ODIN HMIS.
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[Link] IRS to Stop Use of Facial Recognition Tech After Widespread Backlash
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
The IRS said on Monday it will stop the use of ID.me, an identification verification service that uses facial recognition technology. Lawmakers had raised concerns with the service over the last week, with multiple members of Congress and Senators urging the IRS to stop the deployment of ID.me.
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[Link] Facebook appeal over Cambridge Analytica data rejected by Australian court as ‘divorced from reality’
Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Facebook has lost a major battle with the Australian regulator over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after a court dismissed the social media giant’s claim that it neither conducts business nor collects personal information in the country.
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[Link] People Are Selling AirTags with Disabled Speakers that Are Totally Not for Stalking
Read: 6/2/2022 www.extremetech.com
Apple released AirTags last year, giving iOS users a better way to track and find their belongings. However, the tracking capabilities of AirTags were so good that many expressed concerns about privacy and safety.
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[Link] Yangon’s silenced streets: how a hotbed of anti-coup resistance was extinguished
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
As Thitsar* walked through her neighbourhood one December morning, she was struck by its emptiness. The bamboo shacks that line the streets of Hlaing Tharyar, an industrial township on the outskirts of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, lay in tatters, overgrown with weeds.
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[Link] This NFT on OpenSea Will Steal Your IP Address
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
NFTs are usually passive affairs. A consumer buys the token, and then sells or stores the NFT. The NFT doesn’t really do anything.
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[Link] LAPD Emails Reveal Fallout of Citizen’s Botched Manhunt
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
After Citizen's CEO Andrew Frame offered a $30,000 bounty on the wrong person, LAPD officers said they would no longer work with Citizen.
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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] Researchers Made a Camera That’s the Size of a Grain of Salt
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
It can take images that are better than existing tech. A newly-developed camera the size of a grain of salt can take clear, full-color images—at the level of cameras that are 500,000 times larger.
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[Link] Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theregister.com
In brief Prisons around the US are installing AI speech-to-text models to automatically transcribe conversations with inmates during their phone calls.
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[Link] Korean Facial Recognition Project Faces Opposition
Read: 1/12/2021 hackaday.com
It was discovered last month that a South Korean government project has been providing millions of facial images taken at Incheon International Airport to private industry without the consent of those photographed.
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[Link] Court Throws Out Messages Obtained by FBI Honeypot Phone Company Anom
Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Tuesday a Finnish court ruled that chat messages secretly gathered by the FBI from encrypted phone company Anom can’t be used as evidence against two particular suspects, according to a report from Finnish outlet Iltalehti.
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[Link] NSW laws criminalising secret recordings of animal cruelty ‘too great a burden on speech’, high court hears
Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Laws criminalising the use of secretly recorded vision of animal cruelty and abuse are posing “too great a burden on speech”, animal rights activists have told the high court.
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[Link] Apple Sues NSO Group For Hacking Its Users
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
The tech giant’s lawsuit is just the latest in a string of bad news for NSO in the last few weeks.
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[Link] Amazon Staten Island Workers Withdraw Request for Union Vote
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
The workers had spent months collecting signatures to call for an election.
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[Link] Clearview AI ordered to delete all facial recognition data belonging to Australians
Read: 14/11/2021 www.theverge.com
Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been ordered to destroy all images and facial templates belonging to individuals living in Australia by the country’s national privacy regulator.
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[Link] Infrastructure Bill's Drunk Driving Tech Mandate Leaves Some Privacy Advocates Nervous
Read: 14/11/2021 gizmodo.com
The recently passed $1 trillion infrastructure package is jam-packed with initiatives but sprinkled in there amid alongside $17 billion in funding for road safety programs is a mandate requiring carmakers to implement monitoring systems to identify and stop drunk drivers.
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[Link] Clearview Finally Submits AI For Independent Testing; Only Tests Feature It Isn't Actually Selling
Read: 8/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
At long last, Clearview has finally had its AI tested by an independent party.
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[Link] Remote WA town steamrolled by media attention as Cleo Smith rescued
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
For a sleepy beach town of 5,000 people, it was three weeks in the eye of a storm. The visceral shock of a vulnerable little girl just disappearing in the night resonated around the world.
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[Link] Don’t Go Cheering Facebook for Killing Its Face Recognition Database Just Yet
Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
On Tuesday, Facebook offered us a brief respite from the deluge of awful news stories on the company with a pretty pleasant-sounding announcement.
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[Link] US Sanctions Could Cut-off NSO from Tech It Relies On
Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. government added NSO Group to a federal denylist that prohibits any American company or individual from selling or providing services to the controversial Israeli spyware seller. The sanctions effectively prohibit any U.S. company, as well as American citizens working in the U.S.
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[Link] Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
Read: 29/10/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook’s new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it’s done to our existing reality.
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[Link] Alleged TikTok ‘Skyrim IRL’ Murders Shows the Real Danger of Stalkerware
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Last week Ali Nassar Abulaban, a popular TikTok and other social media personality with over a million followers combined across his accounts, allegedly murdered his wife and a man.
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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] Tiktoker finds folder with thousands of audio recordings from home gadgets
Read: 21/10/2021 www.news.com.au
The woman, who goes by my.data.not.yours on TikTok, posted a now-viral video explaining that she requested to see what data Amazon had collected about her, but wasn’t expecting to receive so much. She revealed that she has three Amazon smart speakers.
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[Link] Facebook’s Brand Is So Toxic Zuckerberg Reportedly Wants to Change Its Name
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. In the middle of one of the worst crises his company has ever faced, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not digging in and fixing the democracy-destroying problems he’s created. Instead, he’s reportedly planning to rebrand.
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[Link] Looks Like Facebook Found a Way to Bypass Europe’s Privacy Rules
Read: 14/10/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Amazon Astro is ‘terrible’ and will ‘throw itself down’ stairs, developers reportedly claim
Read: 29/9/2021 www.theverge.com
Some of the people building Amazon’s Astro home robot are not impressed with it, according to a report by Vice.
[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] Sunglasses Have Terms of Service Agreements Now, Thanks to Facebook
Read: 9/9/2021 www.vice.com
They are without a doubt the most iconic sunglasses in the world. They are a cliche symbol representation of cool, and yet, somehow still cool. They are decades old, and have been popularized by cartoonishly suave celebs, from Muhammad Ali, to James Dean, to Bruce Willis.
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[Link] Boogaloo Bois Are Using Amazon Ring Doorbells to Protect Them From the FBI
Read: 6/9/2021 www.vice.com
Paranoia is the bread-and-butter for Amazon’s Ring camera system.
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[Link] Why You Suddenly Need To Delete Google Chrome
Read: 29/8/2021 www.forbes.com
A shocking new tracking admission from Google, one that hasn’t yet made headlines, should be a serious warning to Chrome’s 2.6 billion users. If you’re one of them, this nasty new surprise should be a genuine reason to quit.
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[Link] Many Americans aren't aware they're being tracked with facial recognition while shopping
Read: 26/8/2021 www.techradar.com
Despite consumer opposition to facial recognition, the technology is currently being used in retail stores throughout the US according to new research from Piplsay.
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[Link] WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
The Taliban have effectively taken control of Afghanistan, entering the capital Kabul as U.S. diplomats and allies flee the country.
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[Link] Warner Bros. 'Reminiscence' promo uses deepfake tech to put you in the trailer
Read: 26/8/2021 www.engadget.com
If you want to see yourself on screen with Hugh Jackman, this is your chance. The promo for Warner Bros. upcoming Reminiscence movie uses deepfake technology to turn a photo of your face — or anybody's face, really — into a short video sequence with the star.
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[Link] The UK finally got Big Tech to boost teens’ privacy
Read: 17/8/2021 www.protocol.com
Social media platforms are suddenly all increasing privacy standards for teen users. Why now, after all these years? It looks like new U.K. privacy rules got the ball rolling.
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[Link] Apple to only seek abuse images flagged in multiple nations following backlash
Read: 15/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Apple says it will hunt only for pictures that have been flagged by clearing houses in multiple countries following criticism over its planned system for detecting images of child sex abuse.
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[Link] Senate Infrastructure Bill Would Invest $500 Million in “Smart City” Surveillance Technology
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Buried in the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill is a grant program that would distribute $500 million to cities to experiment with sensors, autonomous vehicles, drones, and other technologies intended to improve urban living standards. Under the $1.
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[Link] Mass Resignations at Scientific Journal Over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Eight members of the editorial board of a scientific journal have resigned after it published a slew of controversial papers that critics fear could be used for DNA profiling and persecution of ethnic minorities in China.
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[Link] FTC Slams Facebook For Lying About Why it Shut Down Misinformation Research
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Controversial crime app Citizen launches $20/month Protect service
Read: 6/8/2021 techcrunch.com
After months of testing with upwards of 100,000 beta testers, Citizen today is launching its premium Protect offering for all users. The subscription service runs $20 a month and opens up a number of features on the app.
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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] The Pegasus Project Shows Tech Giants Need to Do More to Keep Users Safe
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Cybersecurity experts have been sounding the alarm about industrialized insecurity for years, but the Pegasus Project has to be a line in the sand. As you might have noticed, this newsletter was dormant for the last 6 months.
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[Link] Apple Introduces Parental Control Feature That Scans Messages for Nudity
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Apple plans to introduce a new feature that would scan messages sent to and by child users of iPhones to determine if the images contain nudity, the company announced on Thursday. The move is a major development in the ongoing debate around privacy and the inspection of communications.
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[Link] Israeli authorities investigate NSO Group over Pegasus spyware abuse claims
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Israel's Ministry of Defense says the nation's government has visited spyware-for-governments developer NSO Group to investigate allegations its wares have been widely – and perhaps willingly – misused.
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[Link] DARPA flings cash at FENCE — a smart camera that only sends pics when pixels change
Read: 9/7/2021 www.theregister.com
The USA’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced it will fund development of a new type of “event-based” camera that only transmits information about pixels that have changed.
[Link] Australian universities may allow pseudonyms to protect students including those critical of China
Read: 2/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australian universities may allow students to submit written assignments under pseudonyms and in hard copy amid growing concerns about foreign government-linked harassment over politically sensitive topics.
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