privacy You know who does creepier stuff with your data than Cambridge Analytica? Your ISP Cory Doctorow
Boing Boing Gadgets Your smart TV is trivial to hack and leaks your personal information like crazy unless you disable all its useful features Cory Doctorow
Business Leaked presentation from AI snake-oil salesmen to AAA game company promises horrific, dystopian manipulation of players to drain their wallets Cory Doctorow
Business Facebook hired a pollster to track Zuck's public image, but he quit because working for Facebook filled him with shame Cory Doctorow
privacy America's school systems serve unencrypted web resources that are riddled with ad-tech trackers Cory Doctorow
twitter Fitness app releases data-set that reveals the location of sensitive military bases, patrol routes, aircrew flightpaths, and individual soldiers' jogging routes Cory Doctorow
politics Research report explains how adtech supercharges political deceit, allowing even bumblers to be master propagandists Cory Doctorow
Business Thanks to "consent" buried deep in sales agreements, car manufacturers are tracking tens of millions of US cars Cory Doctorow
web theory Complying with the new EU data protection directive requires a top-to-bottom redo of the adtech industry Cory Doctorow
class war "Blatantly unlawful": companies use Facebook targeting to ensure older workers don't see help-wanted ads Cory Doctorow
Boing Boing Gadgets (Virtually) No one should ever own an Echo or any other "voice assistant" product Cory Doctorow
