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Joao P. Vilela
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Online trackers add audio fingerprinting to their arsenal of tools to identify and follow people on the web.
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Plus: Apple patches newly discovered flaws exploited by NSO Group spyware, North Korean hackers target security researchers, and more.
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Because the chat app doesn't encrypt conversations by default—or at all for group chats—security professionals often warn against it.
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Data about exercise routes shared online by soldiers can be used to pinpoint overseas facilities
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A redditor claims to have found a way to identify New York City Muslim cab drivers from a massive anonymized dataset.
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The relevance of background knowledge for re-identification is clear here!
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And when this was written by Schneier in 2016 we were still far from GDPR being in place...
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Joe Westby is Amnesty International's Technology and Human Rights researcher. Recently, in response to Google's launch of a new messaging service, Westby argued that Google,
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When smartphones start being used to collect more data than the one on the smartphones alone...
Tiyisela S's curator insight,
May 22, 2018 4:02 AM
privacy is important as it protects your identity
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University of Washington researchers have shown just how cheaply spies can exploit ad networks for fine-grained, individualized surveillance.
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Recent updates to iOS and Android contain fixes for Broadpwn, found in chips used in iPhones, Samsung Galaxies and Google Nexus devices
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Privacy advocates warn feds about surreptitious cross-device tracking.
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John Oliver discusses how much data brokers know about us, what they’re doing with our personal information, and one….unusual way to change privacy laws.
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Privacy awareness with John Oliver
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An interesting privacy education project from EFF.
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When I learned that Google was acquiring the intimate medical records of 50 million patients, I couldn’t stay silent
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"Transfers of healthcare data to big tech companies need to be shared with the public and made fully transparent, with monitoring by an independent watchdog. Patients must have the right to opt in or out. The uses of the data must be clearly defined for all to see, not just for now but for 10 or 20 years into the future."
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The nightmare scenario for computer security - artificial intelligence programs that can learn how to evade even the best defenses - may already have arrived.
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AI can be used both ways -- we have to make sure it is used successfully for defense. The game is on...
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Mozilla Fellow Hang Do Thi Duc joins us to share her Data Selfie art project. It collects the same basic info you provide to Facebook. Sharing this kind of dat
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From
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It’s why something may cost less on your phone than your laptop.
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A journalist and a data scientist secured data from three million users easily by creating a fake marketing company, and were able to de-anonymise many users
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How much do you value your privacy and security? Researchers at Black Hat found a series of phones that are secretly sending data to Chinese servers.
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An emerging tracking technique uses inaudible sounds to communicate with apps on your phone and track you. Here's how to stop it.
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This is a demonstration of all the data your browser knows about you. All this data can be accessed by any website without asking you for any permission.
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