Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber are paying big money to kill a California privacy initiative.
Actions speak louder than words. Also, I noticed one big tech company absent from the list.
Tag: privacy
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What an aboslute joke. I think this warrants a little more than some “quick thoughts”. Amazon is facilitating the assmbly of a surveillance state. Period. There was no public oversight.
Here’s what the EFF had to say.
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Our mobile location data is no longer private and I can’t help but feel like this genie is never going back in. It also begs the question of whether it matters how much Apple makes privacy important.
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You thought Cambridge Analytica was scary. Bloomberg just published a long read on Palantir.
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One Great Read 0004 – Your Data Is Safe With Me
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So, about that once-a-week thing… Don’t worry though. I figured out a better system for choosing reads for this list and I have a bunch of them all queued up and ready for you.
Unless you completely avoid news, which BTW is really good for your health, you’ve likely seen a lot of news around Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Shortly after it all happened, I was going through my todo list and came upon an item that read, “Request your personal data from Cambridge Analytica. It was from last year. Needless to say, I hadn’t gotten around to checking that todo item off my list.
Anyone with Facebook should most definitely download their data. Even if you never use it, download your data and see what they have on you. You’ll probably be as surprised as Brian X. Chen from the New York Times was. He wrote an article called “I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes.”
So, yeah…
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Hello Future Pastebin Readers — The Message — Medium
All data leaks. This is not a property of the internet, but a property of data — just ask the Pharaohs of Egypt about their secret tombs. Data is observed (and therefore replicated), or obliterated through time. All public data has the power to replicate on its own. That may seem a strange statement, but I mean that it doesn’t have to be pushed to be preserved. It can be copied, learned by new people, archived in strange places, and ultimately passes out of control.
Source: Hello Future Pastebin Readers — The Message — Medium
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If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance
If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance
America’s National Security Agency gathers unfathomable mountains of Internet communications from fiber optic taps and other means, but it says it only retains and searches the communications of “targeted” individuals who’ve done something suspicious. Guess what? If you read Boing Boing, you’ve been targeted. Cory Doctorow digs into Xkeyscore and the NSA’s deep packet inspection rules.Between reading Boing Boing and using Tor, I guess I’m suspicious.
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Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously? 2014 Edition | TorrentFreak
Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously? 2014 Edition | TorrentFreak
Been a happy customer of Private Internet Access for years. Use it on my Mac, iPhone and iPad.
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FastMail’s servers are in the US: what this means for you | FastMail Weblog
FastMail’s servers are in the US: what this means for you | FastMail Weblog
Makes me feel pretty good about using them, though that might be the point of this post. I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt here and, hey, no advertising or selling my info. That’s nice too. I’ve had an account for a while and recently have been migrating from Gmail.