Business Here are 15 privacy settings you should change from defaults, from Linkedin to cellphones to smart TVs Cory Doctorow
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Boing Boing Gadgets UK consumer review magazine Which?: your smart home is spying on you, from your TV to your toothbrush Cory Doctorow
Business Ad brokers are selling the fact that you visited an emergency room to ambulance-chasing lawyers Cory Doctorow
Business Facebook warns investors to expect bigger and worse scandals than Cambridge Analytica Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Palantir has figured out how to make money by using algorithms to ascribe guilt to people, now they're looking for new customers Cory Doctorow
charitable giving Facebook is unfixable. We need a nonprofit, public-spirited replacement. Cory Doctorow
security Under Armour: hackers stole the data of 150,000,000 Myfitnesspal users because of course they did Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Data Defenders, a media literacy game about data collection and targeting for kids in grades 4-6 Cory Doctorow
Boing Boing Gadgets The business-logic of Silicon Valley means that it can only make creepy, surveillant, pointless "smart" sex toys Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Cyber-arms-dealer Grey Heron really, really doesn't want you to know about the connections between them and the disgraced Hacking Team Cory Doctorow
surveillance capitalism Services that deliver the same functions as Facebook, for after you #DeleteFacebook Cory Doctorow
