Carl Sinclair, Author at Reclaim The Net

Carl Sinclair

Carl Sinclair is a technology reporter covering anti-competetive practices and privacy issues for Reclaim The Net. [email protected]

IRS accused of buying smartphone data from unsuspecting surveillance targets

Google handed over to police data on everyone who searched for certain terms

Virtual learning puts kids under increased surveillance

Indian COVID surveillance app has massive data leaks

UK government ignores privacy concerns and pushes for digital ID system

UK citizens want to know why government sends their data to a credit agency when they request a COVID test

Federal court rules geofence warrants are unconstitutional

Bridgefy is considered to be a private app for protesters but is a privacy nightmare

Australia’s anti-encryption law has damaged the country’s tech industry

Genealogy DNA websites are getting breached

Facebook agrees to pay revised $650M to settle face tracking lawsuit

Access Dots lets Android users know when they’re being listened to or watched

Apple refuses to let YouTube alternative Floatplane update unless they give Apple a 30% cut

Advertising industry pushback against Apple’s new privacy changes highlight murky problems with online ads

Uganda’s uptake of Huawei’s “Safe Cities” surveillance initiative is getting a foothold

Apps such as TikTok are secretly snooping on your iPhone’s clipboard and Apple is only half addressing it

Massive data breach of billions of records shows the murky world of online tracking

AI pixelated image reversal could soon be an easy accomplishment

EU questions the legality of face-scraping analytics company Clearview AI

Tool that lets users search the internet by faces gets privacy scrutiny

It somehow took the George Floyd protests to get Big Tech to pull back on facial recognition tech

UK contact tracing app breaches GDPR, will store personal user data for 20 years

Court rules feds need warrant to look at your phone’s lockscreen

German court rules government no longer allowed to spy on the world’s internet traffic