seize the means of computation Germany's powerful IG Metall trade union is organizing Youtubers to force Google to play fair Cory Doctorow
faith-based science A generalized method for re-identifying people in "anonymized" data-sets Cory Doctorow
google home Like Amazon, Google sends voice assistant recordings to contractors for transcription, including recordings made inadvertently Cory Doctorow
highster A deep dive into stalkerware's creepy marketing, illegal privacy invasions, and terrible security Cory Doctorow
wipro Facebook hands hundreds of contractors in India access to its users' private messages and private Instagram posts in order to help train an AI Cory Doctorow
zuckster fire Mobile apps built with Facebook's SDK secretly shovel mountains of personal information into the Zuckermouth Cory Doctorow
privacy international How Facebook tracks Android users, even those without Facebook accounts Cory Doctorow
zuckerpunched Facebook gave third party developers access to 6.8 million users' private photos Cory Doctorow
population-scale kompromat Britons! Tell the UK government that the compulsory porn-viewing logs need compulsory privacy standards Cory Doctorow
doxing the conference App for UK Conservative Party conference exposes all attendees' private info Cory Doctorow
you're doing it wrong British Airways won't let you check in while ad-blocking, insists that passengers post personal info to Twitter "for GDPR compliance" Cory Doctorow
algorithmic discrimination On June 20, an EU committee will vote on an apocalyptically stupid, internet-destroying copyright proposal that'll censor everything from Tinder profiles to Wikipedia (SHARE THIS!) Cory Doctorow
articles of faith The most interesting thing about the "Thanksgiving Effect" study is what it tells us about the limits of data anonymization Cory Doctorow
putin's app store Telegram: ever since Russia's blocking demand, Apple has prevented us from updating our app Cory Doctorow
