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Secret-sharing app Whisper left users’ locations, fetishes exposed on the Web - The Washington Post - 13 mars 2020
Hundreds of millions of users’ intimate messages, tied to their locations, were publicly viewable until after the company was contacted by The Washington Post.
Whisper, the secret-sharing app that called itself the “safest place on the Internet,” left years of users’ most intimate confessions exposed on the Web tied (...)
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Ring and Nest helped normalize American surveillance and turned us into a nation of voyeurs - The Washington Post - 12 mars 2020
For all the worries about hacking, owners of Internet-connected cameras say they love watching people silently from afar — often their own family members
Margaret Cudia thought her Ring doorbell camera was “the best thing since sliced bread.” She loved watching the world pass by through her suburban New Jersey (...)
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HireVue’s AI face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job - The Washington Post - 4 mars 2020
HireVue claims it uses artificial intelligence to decide who’s best for a job. Outside experts call it ‘profoundly disturbing.’
An artificial intelligence hiring system has become a powerful gatekeeper for some of America’s most prominent employers, reshaping how companies assess their workforce — and how prospective (...)
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Confidential therapy notes being used against immigrant children - 24 février 2020
It was time for another hearing in the ongoing efforts of the U.S. government to deport a Honduran teenager named Kevin Euceda, who had already been in detention for more than two years. In a Northern Virginia courtroom, U.S. immigration judge Helaine Perlman peered at a TV screen as a detainee came into blurry (...)
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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades - 11 février 2020
For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.
For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build (...)
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Apps are selling your location data. The U.S. government is buying. - 9 février 2020
AMERICANS HAVE lately been learning that the apps they use to check whether they need an umbrella, or follow their favorite sports team, or hurl one animated animal at another for points are sucking up their location data and selling it. Now it turns out that it’s not only advertising companies and other private (...)
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machine - 2 février 2020
When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin’s Introduction to Information Technologies class, seven small Bluetooth beacons hidden around the Grant Auditorium lecture hall connect with an app on their smartphones and boost their “attendance points.”
And when they skip class ? The SpotterEDU app (...)
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As use of facial recognition expands, travelers worry about privacy - 23 janvier 2020
Before Santiago Gassó’s recent flight from Atlanta to Mexico City, a Delta Air Lines gate agent announced a new boarding procedure. Instead of showing an ID and receiving paper boarding passes, passengers could line up to be photographed.
“I didn’t show any form of picture ID, yet the machine that took the picture (...)
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Dear tech companies, I don’t want to see pregnancy ads after my child was stillborn - The Washington Post - 12 janvier 2020
Dear Tech Companies :
I know you knew I was pregnant. It’s my fault, I just couldn’t resist those Instagram hashtags — #30weekspregnant, #babybump. And, silly me ! I even clicked once or twice on the maternity-wear ads Facebook served up. What can I say, I am your ideal “engaged” user.
You surely saw my heartfelt (...)
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How we survive the surveillance apocalypse - 3 janvier 2020
Online privacy is not dead, but you have to be angry enough to demand it.
Go, go gadgets has long been the attitude in my house. Perhaps yours, too : A smartphone made it easier to stay in touch. A smart TV streamed a zillion more shows. A smart speaker let you talk to a smart thermostat without getting out of (...)
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Colleges want freshmen to use mental health apps. But are they risking students’ privacy ? - 31 décembre 2019
As director of the University of Florida’s Counseling and Wellness Center, Sherry Benton could never keep up with the student demand for services. Adding three new positions bought the center only two waitlist-free weeks. Knowing the school could never hire its way out of the resource shortage, she and Bob Clark, a (...)
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands - 30 décembre 2019
When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin’s Introduction to Information Technologies class, seven small Bluetooth beacons hidden around the Grant Auditorium lecture hall connect with an app on their smartphones and boost their “attendance points.”
And when they skip class ? The SpotterEDU app (...)
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What does your car know about you ? We hacked a Chevy to find out. - 24 décembre 2019
Our privacy experiment found that automakers collect data through hundreds of sensors and an always-on Internet connection. Driving surveillance is becoming hard to avoid.
Behind the wheel, it’s nothing but you, the open road — and your car quietly recording your every move.
On a recent drive, a 2017 Chevrolet (...)
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Police can keep Ring camera video forever and share with whomever they’d like, Amazon tells senator - 12 décembre 2019
Police officers who download videos captured by homeowners’ Ring doorbell cameras can keep them forever and share them with whomever they’d like without providing evidence of a crime, the Amazon-owned firm told a lawmaker this month.
More than 600 police forces across the country have entered into partnerships with (...)
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The doorbells have eyes : The privacy battle brewing over home security cameras - 12 décembre 2019
Police want to register — and even subsidize — private security cameras. That’s just the start of the ethical challenges ahead.
Ding-dong, your doorbell is looking a bit creepy.
Ring video doorbells, Nest Hello and other connected security cameras are the fastest-growing home improvement gadgets since garage-door (...)
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Former Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia by digging into the accounts of kingdom critics - 8 novembre 2019
The Justice Department has charged two former Twitter employees with spying for Saudi Arabia by accessing the company’s information on dissidents who use the platform, marking the first time federal prosecutors have publicly accused the kingdom of running agents in the United States.
One of those implicated in the (...)
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I worked on political ads at Facebook. They profit by manipulating us. - 7 novembre 2019
The company can’t avoid damaging democracy.
I joined Facebook in June 2018 as its "head of Global Elections Integrity Ops" in the company’s business integrity organization, focused specifically on political advertising. I had spent much of my career working to strengthen and defend democracy "” including freedom of (...)
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Why WhatsApp is pushing back on NSO Group hacking - 30 octobre 2019
In May, WhatsApp announced that we had detected and blocked a new kind of cyberattack involving a vulnerability in our video-calling feature. A user would receive what appeared to be a video call, but this was not a normal call. After the phone rang, the attacker secretly transmitted malicious code in an effort to (...)
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Chinese app on Xi’s ideology allows data access to users’ phones, report says - 15 octobre 2019
The Chinese Communist Party appears to have "superuser" access to the entire data on more than 100 million Android-based cellphones through a back door in a propaganda app that the government has been promoting aggressively this year.
An examination of the coding of the app used by phones running the Android (...)
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Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything we watch - 18 septembre 2019
In our latest privacy experiment, we tracked how four of the most popular TV brands record everything we watch
Wrapped in a Snuggie, I like to binge on reruns of “The Golden Girls” all by myself. Except I’m not really alone.
Once every few minutes, my TV beams out a report about what’s on my screen to Samsung, the (...)
