Author: Carl Sinclair

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

AI pixelated image reversal could soon be an easy accomplishment

Pixelation is a bad form of attempting privacy.

Jun 22, 2020
EU questions the legality of face-scraping analytics company Clearview AI

If Clearview AI was found to be illegal, it would hardly be surprising.

Jun 12, 2020
Tool that lets users search the internet by faces gets privacy scrutiny

Critics say it could help stalkers and increase cyber surveillance.

Jun 12, 2020
It somehow took the George Floyd protests to get Big Tech to pull back on facial recognition tech

IBM, Amazon and Microsoft are rethinking whether they want to offer surveillance tech.

Jun 11, 2020
A tool to protect your identity online, secure passwords, prevent sites from getting your real card number and more

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Jun 9, 2020
UK contact tracing app breaches GDPR, will store personal user data for 20 years

The apps have been a privacy nightmare from the start.

Jun 2, 2020
How to easily encrypt your files when using cloud storage, so not even the provider can snoop

?This is for those that want to use easy cloud storage but want to keep their files private.

Jun 2, 2020
Not enough people are talking about stalkerware

? It’s not just surveillance from Big Tech you have to worry about.

May 27, 2020
North Dakota’s contact tracing app reveals the dangers of corona surveillance

? User privacy is at risk.

May 25, 2020
Court rules feds need warrant to look at your phone’s lockscreen

The court ruled it’s protected by the Fourth Amendment.

May 23, 2020
German court rules government no longer allowed to spy on the world’s internet traffic

Some good news for once? Assuming they adhere to it.

May 20, 2020
How face mask selfies are proving valuable to train face-detection AI

Companies want to be able to detect your identity even while you wear a mask.

May 20, 2020