Category: data collection

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Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government

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air travel, data collection, data privacy, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized

This is news: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to internal CBP … Read More “Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government” »

Windscribe Acquitted on Charges of Not Collecting Users’ Data

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courts, data collection, data privacy, Greece, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized, vpn

The company doesn’t keep logs, so couldn’t turn over data: Windscribe, a globally used privacy-first VPN service, announced today that its founder, Yegor Sak, has been fully acquitted by a court in Athens, Greece, following a two-year legal battle in which Sak was personally charged in connection with an alleged internet offence by an unknown … Read More “Windscribe Acquitted on Charges of Not Collecting Users’ Data” »

The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt

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data collection, hacking, noncomputer hacks, Security technology, Uncategorized

Culture is increasingly mediated through algorithms. These algorithms have splintered the organization of culture, a result of states and tech companies vying for influence over mass audiences. One byproduct of this splintering is a shift from imperfect but broad cultural narratives to a proliferation of niche groups, who are defined by ideology or aesthetics instead … Read More “The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt” »

Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App

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data collection, geolocation, microsoft, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized

The ProtonMail people are accusing Microsoft’s new Outlook for Windows app of conducting extensive surveillance on its users. It shares data with advertisers, a lot of data: The window informs users that Microsoft and those 801 third parties use their data for a number of purposes, including to: Store and/or access information on the user’s … Read More “Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App” »

Class-Action Lawsuit against Google’s Incognito Mode

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browsers, courts, data collection, google, Security technology, Uncategorized

The lawsuit has been settled: Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” the company collected while users browsed the web using Incognito mode, according to documents filed in federal court in San Francisco on Monday. The agreement, part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed in 2020, caps off years of … Read More “Class-Action Lawsuit against Google’s Incognito Mode” »

OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today

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artificial intelligence, data collection, national security policy, Security technology, trust, Uncategorized

There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Here’s CNBC. Here’s Boing Boing. Some articles are more nuanced, but there’s still a lot of confusion. It seems not to be true. Dropbox isn’t sharing all of your documents with OpenAI. But here’s the problem: we don’t … Read More “OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today” »

The Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus

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cybercrime, data collection, doxing, finance, law enforcement, Security technology, Uncategorized

The new site 404 Media has a good article on how hackers are cheaply getting personal information from credit bureaus: This is the result of a secret weapon criminals are selling access to online that appears to tap into an especially powerful set of data: the target’s credit header. This is personal information that the … Read More “The Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus” »

Google Is Using Its Vast Data Stores to Train AI

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artificial intelligence, data collection, google, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized

No surprise, but Google just changed its privacy policy to reflect broader uses of all the surveillance data it has captured over the years: Research and development: Google uses information to improve our services and to develop new products, features and technologies that benefit our users and the public. For example, we use publicly available … Read More “Google Is Using Its Vast Data Stores to Train AI” »