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Manipulative Social Media Practices

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consumerization, deception, facebook, google, norway, privacy, Security technology, socialmedia

The Norwegian Consumer Council just published an excellent report on the deceptive practices tech companies use to trick people into giving up their privacy. From the executive summary: Facebook and Google have privacy intrusive defaults, where users who want the privacy friendly option have to go through a significantly longer process. They even obscure some … Read More “Manipulative Social Media Practices” »

The Effects of Iran’s Telegram Ban

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censorship, iran, privacy, Security technology, telegram

The Center for Human Rights in Iran has released a report outlining the effect’s of that country’s ban on Telegram, a secure messaging app used by about half of the country. The ban will disrupt the most important, uncensored platform for information and communication in Iran, one that is used extensively by activists, independent and … Read More “The Effects of Iran’s Telegram Ban” »

Free Societies are at a Disadvantage in National Cybersecurity

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cyberattack, cybercrime, cyberespionage, cybersecurity, nationalsecuritypolicy, privacy, Security technology

Jack Goldsmith and Stuart Russell just published an interesting paper, making the case that free and democratic nations are at a structural disadvantage in nation-on-nation cyberattack and defense. From a blog post: It seeks to explain why the United States is struggling to deal with the “soft” cyber operations that have been so prevalent in … Read More “Free Societies are at a Disadvantage in National Cybersecurity” »

Accessing Cell Phone Location Information

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cellphones, lawenforcement, privacy, searches, Security technology, surveillance, tracking

The New York Times is reporting about a company called Securus Technologies that gives police the ability to track cell phone locations without a warrant: The service can find the whereabouts of almost any cellphone in the country within seconds. It does this by going through a system typically used by marketers and other companies … Read More “Accessing Cell Phone Location Information” »

COPPA Compliance

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academicpapers, children, identification, nationalsecuritypolicy, privacy, Security technology, tracking

Interesting research: “‘Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?’ Examining COPPA Compliance at Scale“: Abstract: We present a scalable dynamic analysis framework that allows for the automatic evaluation of the privacy behaviors of Android apps. We use our system to analyze mobile apps’ compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), one of the few … Read More “COPPA Compliance” »

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

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breaches, datacollection, facebook, privacy, searches, Security technology, surveillance

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, news articles and commentators have focused on what Facebook knows about us. A lot, it turns out. It collects data from our posts, our likes, our photos, things we type and delete without posting, and things we do while not on Facebook and even when we’re offline. … Read More “Facebook and Cambridge Analytica” »

The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With

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datacollection, eu, paypal, privacy, Security technology

One of the effects of GDPR — the new EU General Data Protection Regulation — is that we’re all going to be learning a lot more about who collects our data and what they do with it. Consider PayPal, that just released a list of over 600 companies they share customer data with. Here’s a … Read More “The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With” »