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Here are the internal Facebook posts of employees discussing today’s leaked memo - 30 mars 2018
"I’ve always thought our "˜open but punitive’ stance was particularly vulnerable to suicide bombers."
The publication of a June 2016 memo describing the consequences of Facebook’s growth-at-all-costs triggered an emotional conversation at the company today. An internal post reacting to the memo found employees angry (...)
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Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology - 4 mars 2018
Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans that even city council members don’t know about
In May and June 2013, when New Orleans’ murder rate was the sixth-highest in the United States, the Orleans Parish district attorney handed down two landmark racketeering indictments against dozens of men (...)
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Facebook is starting to tell more users about facial recognition - 28 février 2018
Facebook users have been noticing a strange new notification in their News Feeds, letting them know about the platform’s increasingly comprehensive facial recognition features. Users with further questions are directed to a privacy page with more information and more detailed instructions for opting out of the (...)
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The unwinding of net neutrality will begin on April 23rd - 23 février 2018
Net neutrality protections moved closer to coming off the books today with the publication of the Federal Communication Commission’s new rules in the Federal Register.
Parts of the change are set to go into effect on April 23rd, however the bulk of the order "” which reverses the tough net neutrality rules put into (...)
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Chinese police are using facial recognition sunglasses to track citizens - 8 février 2018
The glasses are being used by officers in police stations to oversee travelers during the Lunar New Year
China’s police have a new weapon in their surveillance arsenal : sunglasses with built-in facial recognition. According to reports from local media, the glasses are being tested at train stations in the (...)
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The NSA’s voice-recognition system raises hard questions for Echo and Google Home - 23 janvier 2018
Are Amazon and Google doing enough to keep spies out ?
Suppose you’re looking for a single person, somewhere in the world. (We’ll call him Waldo.) You know who he is, nearly everything about him, but you don’t know where he’s hiding. How do you find him ?
The scale is just too great for anything but a computerized (...)
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The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them - 4 décembre 2017
They betrayed you for chump change
Republicans in Congress just voted to reverse a landmark FCC privacy rule that opens the door for ISPs to sell customer data. Lawmakers provided no credible reason for this being in the interest of Americans, except for vague platitudes about "consumer choice" and "free (...)
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Sex toy company admits to recording users’ remote sex sessions, calls it a ’minor bug’ - 12 novembre 2017
I have some news : the Internet of Things is a mess. A hacked refrigerator sounds slightly scary, but a vibrator-controlling app that records all your sex sounds and stores them on your phone without your knowledge ? That’s way worse.
Today, a Reddit user pointed out that Hong Kong-based sex toy company Lovense’s (...)
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How YouTube perfected the feed - 22 septembre 2017
Google Brain gave YouTube new life
Sometime late last year, as I was playing a video game named Dishonored 2, I did a routine YouTube search about how to beat a tricky section of the game. As usual, I found a video to answer my question. But on my next YouTube visit, the site offered me even more compelling (...)
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Alphabet seeks 10,000 volunteers "” and their health data "” for a massive medical study - 20 avril 2017
Alphabet’s Google division is, fundamentally, in the business of selling data. That is a useful thing to keep in mind when Alphabet’s Verily comes calling for your medical data. But Google is also inarguably useful ; this is why, despite knowing that my every move is being tracked by the company, I still make use of (...)
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Facial recognition is coming to US airports, fast-tracked by Trump - 19 avril 2017
Soon, it may be hard for visa holders to board an international flight without submitting to a facial geometry scan. The TSA began testing facial recognition systems at Dulles Airport in 2015, then expanded the tests to New York’s JFK Airport last year. Face-reading check-in kiosks will be appearing at Ottawa (...)
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Google’s DeepMind made "˜inexcusable’ errors handling UK health data, says report - 16 mars 2017
A new academic report examining a deal between Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has said that the US tech giant made "inexcusable" errors in terms of transparency and oversight when handling sensitive medical information.
The data sharing agreement "” which was signed in (...)
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Trump silences government scientists with gag orders - 26 janvier 2017
Employees at Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Agriculture are affected
Less than a week after the inauguration, the Trump administration has already gagged employees at two federal agencies. Memos obtained by various media outlets show that scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency and (...)
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Mark Zuckerberg has a small army of Facebook employees who delete comments on his page - 20 janvier 2017
Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Facebook page looks unusually good for a busy CEO. He’s posted heartwarming photos of his family, engaging statuses, and amusing videos. He’s even sometimes responded to random commenters’ thoughts. What a guy. But if anyone was under the delusion that Zuckerberg toils away every night (...)
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New database aims to track the global surveillance industry - 2 août 2016
Privacy International releases searchable database on more than 520 surveillance companies and the powerful tools they sell to governments
Privacy International, a London-based watchdog, has launched a new searchable database on hundreds of surveillance companies across the world, as part of an effort to track a (...)
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Police are filing warrants for Android’s vast store of location data - 1er juin 2016
Google’s data is precise enough to place suspects at the scene of a crime
In February 2015, a man with a painter’s mask and a gun walked into a Bank of America office in Ramona, California, and walked out with more than $3,000. Police tried to track down the bank robber, but the mask prevented a positive ID and the (...)
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British spies tapped surveillance database to send a birthday card - 21 avril 2016
New documents reveal spies’ casual approach to citizens’ personal data
Internal documents from UK spy agencies have revealed how mass surveillance techniques are used to collect dossiers of citizens’ personal data. The files "” which include internal memos from MI5, MI6, and GCHQ "” show that the intelligence services (...)
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European companies sold powerful surveillance technology to Egypt, report says - 28 février 2016
Privacy International investigation sheds light on Egyptian intelligence agency that operates in total secrecy
European companies have been selling powerful surveillance technology to a secretive government intelligence agency in Egypt, according to an investigation from Privacy International, a London-based (...)
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Justice Department says Apple’s defense of encryption is just a marketing stunt - 19 février 2016
In a new motion filed today, the Justice Department is seeking to force Apple to comply with the order asking it assist the FBI in breaking into the iPhone 5C of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook. "Rather than assist the effort to fully investigate a deadly terrorist attack by obeying this court’s [previous (...)
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Drag queens lead a new charge against Facebook’s authentic name policy - 2 juin 2015
Serving realness to real names
Facebook’s changes to its controversial "authentic names" policy last year haven’t stopped trolls from abusing it in an effort to delete the accounts of drag queens and LGBT activists, protesters said today at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park. Recode reports that a group of (...)
