Privacy
Facebook wants to monitor and manage your phone’s WiFi
A code researcher has discovered the unreleased features hidden within Facebook’s app.
Trump admin eyes proposal to curb gun violence by monitoring mental states with Alexa, Apple Watch, and more
The proposal would also use advanced AI to identify mental changes that make people more prone to violent behaviors.
Big tech is lobbying hard against state privacy laws
Tech giants say they don’t want individual state privacy laws.
New Facebook emails show employee concerns about Cambridge Analytica data scraping months before media reports
Facebook says the September 2015 discussions were a separate incident to the sale of user data to Cambridge Analytica that Facebook discovered in 2015.
Telegram’s design is putting Hong Kong protestors’ privacy at risk, engineers say
Telegram has been vital in helping Hong Kong protestors stay anonymous while organizing.
Local cities and police want Amazon to share data of who has a Ring surveillance device
According to Ring, the information was shared to help the city block people from using a discount code twice.
Gizmodo Media bans reporters from using encrypted communications, wants access to their tweets
The employers want access to quite a lot.
MoviePass reportedly exposes 50,000 customer card numbers, hundreds of emails, and credit card numbers
Earlier this month, MoviePass was also accused of changing customer passwords to encourage them to use the service less.
Tech companies push back against India’s plan to link social media accounts to Aadhar state identity numbers
The state wants social media usage tied to identity.
Vermont’s data brokers law aimed to bring data traders out of the shadows, but it’s not without limitations
The data law has several pitfalls that other state legislators will be able to learn from.
UK ISP Virgin Media appears to store customer passwords in plain text, sends them to customers by post
This means Virgin Media staff or people who get access to the letter containing the password could maliciously access Virgin Media customer accounts.
Sen. Peters demands answers from Zuckerberg on why Facebook contractors listened to private audio messages
Zuckerberg told Peters during a Senate hearing last year that the idea of Facebook listening to the microphone and using it for ads is a “conspiracy theory.”