privacy

Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too- Vice We used the California Consumer Privacy Act to see what information the controversial facial recognition company has collected on me. After a recent, extensive, and rather withering bout of bad press, the...

Clearview app lets strangers find your name, info with snap of a photo, report says - Cnet It may not be long before you'll have to forget about walking down the street anonymously, says a New York Times report. What if a stranger could snap your picture on the sidewalk, then use an app to...

Court Rules Government Can’t Search Your Phone At the Airport For No Reason - Vice The ruling is a significant win for privacy rights of Americans and tourists traveling to the United States. A federal court in Boston has ruled that US government agents cannot search travelers’ electronic...

Top Travel Apps Fail The Privacy And Security Test - Forbes The results of a newly published study of some of the world's most popular travel apps, on both Android and iOS platforms, make for grim reading if you like your privacy and security as much as you do an excellent money-saving travel...

Listening to My Neighbors Fight - The Atlantic When people are crammed into cities, there’s not much privacy, and neighbors become spectators to one another’s personal lives. At 11:15 p.m. on a recent weeknight, I was turning off the lights in my apartment to start winding down for sleep when...

Why Surveillance Is the Climate Change of the Internet - The Atlantic The Atlantic podcast Crazy/Genius returns to explain how privacy became the most important idea on the internet—and why it’s still so confusing. f you have a hard time understanding the meaning of privacy and the scale of...

How Self-Driving Cars Will Threaten Privacy - The Atlantic Automated vehicles will learn everything about you—and influence your behavior in ways you might not even realize. Allow me to join you, if I may, on your morning commute sometime in the indeterminate future. Here we are, stepping...

How Privacy Regulation Can Emerge from the Data Dark Ages - FEE When regulations seek consumer protection at all costs, they’ll always limit data access. Data privacy in the United States isn’t in a good place. As it stands, it’s a confusing system that’s failing to ensure consumer...

'Data is a fingerprint': why you aren't as anonymous as you think online - The Guardian So-called ‘anonymous’ data can be easily used to identify everything from our medical records to purchase histories In August 2016, the Australian government released an “anonymised” data set comprising...