Privacy

2024-10-22: Currently trying out a combo of FreshRSS and NetNewsWire to experience the joy (?) of aggregating, …

Google moves to end geofence warrants, a surveillance problem it largely created: Geofence warrants require companies to hand over data about everyone that was using a mobile device within a given geographical region - a type of reverse search warrant.

The ‘Internet of Things’ helping to provide key evidence in criminal trials: The Crown Prosecution Service’s take on the utility of our data-gathering gadgets.

Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator: Inevitably the centralisation and lack of encryption around push notifications makes them a useful source of surveillance material.

Governments Are Using Spyware on Citizens. Can They Be Stopped?: Companies like the NSO Group are happy to sell commercial spyware to governments who will predictably use it for bad things.

2024-10-21: The wrongness of 'If you've got nothing to hide then you've nothing to fear'

Who owns your shiny new Pixel 9 phone? You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance: Researchers find the Pixel 9 phone transmits “location, email address, phone number, network status, and other telemetry” to Google every 15 minutes by default.

2024-10-12: I’m curious about precisely what level of surveillance technology is powering this (admittedly …

Why Privacy Matters: You should care about your privacy even if you don’t have any secrets.

2024-10-04: 📚 Finished reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff.

Apple is Silently Removing VPN Apps from Russia’s App Store: Presumably at government request, limiting the ability to access uncensored information and privacy of Russian internet users.

Spy companies using Channel Islands to track phones around the world: The Channel Islands are a hotspot for the SS7 attacks that may allow hackers to track almost any phone’s location as well as intercepting calls and SMS.

2024-09-28: Honestly it’s probably a losing battle, but if you want to try then organisations like CNN and …

NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules: The US National Institute of Standards and Technology advises that it’s counterproductive to make users set passwords with specific composition rules or change them regularly.

2024-09-01: Telegram is only end-to-end encrypted if you solely use 'secret chats'

2024-01-29: 143 companies want to know that I visited the Teen Vogue website

2023-07-14: The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT et al, in order to …

2023-06-19: US residents can join class actions against Google and Facebook's abuse of their data

2022-12-12: Cookie paywalls: would you pay money to not be tracked on the web?

2022-06-22: Check how a website is tracking you with the Blacklight service

2022-06-19: See how trackable your web browsing is with the Cover Your Tracks service

2022-05-16: Some longer-form thoughts on the Roe v Wade leak with relevance to data privacy. Honestly, however …