Notices tagged with privacy, page 2

That’s intrusive #privacy #PrivacyMatters #security #intrusive #Amazon #amazon #alexa

Cars as Cameras

A short overview of #Tesla #surveillance features and lessons for attack.

„Most expect to be captured on video when walking through downtown streets, which are often littered with traditional types of security cameras, such as the dome cameras, bullet cameras, or the newer remote controlled PTZ (Point, Tilt, Zoom) cameras. Previously, this was less expected in residential neighborhoods, which now have an increasing amount of home surveillance systems like Amazon’s Ring or Google Nest cameras.

Police departments have seized on the increasing popularity of these devices and struck deals with their parent companies to directly incorporate them into existing surveillance networks and access data without the knowledge or permission of the camera owner. Some doorbell style cameras offer forms of audio surveillance as well…
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Even without being bugged, almost every modern car contains technology that logs your trips (and much more) and can be easily accessed by law enforcement."

https://anarchistnews.org/content/cars-cameras

#Data #Privacy #Musk #Technology #SurveillanceCapitalism #SurveillanceCapitalism

From 2019 to at least mid-2022, Tesla employees used an internal messaging system to share "sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers' car cameras," according to a lengthy Reuters report based on interviews with nine former Tesla employees.

Although Tesla says its in-car cameras are "designed from the ground up to protect your privacy," today's Reuters report described employees as having easy access to the cameras' output and sharing that freely with other employees….

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-shared-images-from-car-cameras-including-scenes-of-intimacy/

#Tesla #Surveillance #Technology #data #Privacy

Viral Audio of JD #Vance Badmouthing Elon #Musk Is Fake, Just the Tip of the #AI Iceberg

https://www.404media.co/viral-audio-of-jd-vance-badmouthing-elon-musk-is-fake-just-the-tip-of-the-ai-iceberg/

#politics #deepfake #privacy

[#TwoWords : Elon Musk] Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/palantir_covid_inquiry_comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43470010

#billionaires #oligarchy #libertarianism #meritocracy #plutocracy #capitalism #protofascism
#surveillance #Palantir #privacy
#TwoWords

#SocialJustice #sustainability #HumanRights #EnvironmentalRights

What happens encrypted, stays encrypted… unless you add the world press to the chat 🤡

How to #PracticeSafeText:

1️⃣ Use end-to-end encryption.
2️⃣ Check your contacts.

FAO: The US Administration.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

#e2ee #encryption #privacy #security #uspolitics #signal #trump #hegseth #theatlantic #uspol

"Your #privacy is our priority. With that message has #WhatsApp last week sent all its users a message" (translated from Dutch from an article in De Telegraaf, a large newspaper in the Netherlands)

There is too much gossip about WhatsApp according topman Will Cathcart.

"#Signal is very cool: the number of new subscriptions in the Netherlands is this year 25 times as high as before"

https://archive.is/a5upc

WhatsApp is closed source. Do you trust #Meta? Signal is #opensource.

#SignalApp

The "quantum cliff" is coming sooner than you think. State secrets, financial information, medical records, private communications—all umasked. Forever.

First accessible by states & corps, then criminals, then everyone.

@jesse & I discussed it in our book The Secret Life of Data: http://www.secretlife.cc

Now there's a good @WIRED article about it: https://www.wired.com/story/q-day-apocalypse-quantum-computers-encryption/

#encryption #privacy #surveillance #quantum #qday

Okay, this is just creepy—

“Copilot (AI) will see what you see and give you real-time, personalized responses.”

This just appeared after my browser updated and I’m not sure yet if the Copilot-watching-you “experience” happens only when one presses the microphone button, but I don’t want it in my browser at all.

#tech #AI #Microsoft #privacy

DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy

There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.

https://www.404media.co/dna-of-15-million-people-for-sale-in-23andme-bankruptcy/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

#news #science #health #medicine #tech #technology #security #privacy #dna #23andme

Federal Judge Deborah L. Boardman has blocked #DOGE / #OPM from accessing large swathes of data at the Depts of #Education & #Treasury, ruling that DOGE has no right under the #Privacy Act to unjustified access to large-scale amounts of personal identifying information.

#law #USpol #Trump #Musk #InfoSec
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070.68.0_1.pdf

New from me: Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-us-cloud-services-europe/

#cloud #privacy #data

Be aware of the new AI features if you still use Gmail as your primary E-Mail account. All your data is about to become training data for AI, beyond what Google already does for advertisement. Not might be a good time to switch to a better provider
#AI #privacy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/03/22/google-confirms-gmail-upgrade-3-billion-users-must-now-decide/

"Law enforcement requests for user data from Apple, Google, and Meta mean that these companies can decide whether government authorities have access to your personal information, including location data. This means the companies with the most insight into our lives, movements, and communications are frontline arbiters of our constitutional rights and the rights of non-US citizens—a fact some are likely feeling more acutely now than ever.

Collaboration between Big Tech and the Trump administration began before Donald Trump’s swearing-in on January 20. Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Uber each gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. Separately, in personal donations, so did Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple’s Tim Cook.

Americans concerned about the Trump administration and Silicon Valley’s embrace of it, may consider becoming a “digital expat”—moving your digital life off of US-based systems. Meanwhile, Europeans are starting to see US data services as “no longer safe” for businesses, governments, and societies.

Here’s a brief rundown of the privacy, security, and civil liberties issues related to the use of US-based digital services that suddenly feel more urgent—and what to do about it."

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-era-digital-expat/

#USA #Trump #BigTech #Privacy #CyberSecurity #DataProtection

📣 📣 ✊ Tanya O’Carrol WINS against #Meta:

Meta affirms right to OPT OUT of surveillance advertising, concedes in legal case!

Another blow to the unethical and unfair business models of Meta, Google and X: targeted ads and profiling are NOT something you must simply tolerate.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-settles-u-k-right-to-object-to-ad-tracking-lawsuit-by-agreeing-not-to-track-plaintiff/

#adtech #privacy #surveillancecapitalism #gdpr

Dudek first made his threat to close down the #SocialSecurity Administration during a Bloomberg News interview Thurs night.

Such a dramatic move would be unprecedented in the agency’s history & would immediately begin halting benefit payments for millions of Americans.

#law #Trump #Musk #DOGE #YourMoney #PayrollTax #InfoSec #privacy #benefits #senoirs #survivors #disability #FICA
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-20/social-security-says-doge-ruling-could-force-agency-to-shut-down

Why do #kofi and #librepay only work through #PayPal what is this madness? Cannot even support #foss #Developers without taking a dump on my #privacy ?

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of #Trump found

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained

#France #privacy #politics

US Dist Court of Maryland Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander ruled that #DOGE was granted unusual access to non-anonymized #SocialSecurity data & could not identify any basis for that degree of access.

She wants access limited, installed software removed & data taken out of #SSA destroyed.

👏👏👏

#law #USpol #Trump #Musk #InfoSec #privacy
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.49.0.pdf

'Nude photos of me were posted online after phone hack', woman tells BBC

#DigitalSecurity #Privacy #TakeAction #HackingScandal #OnlineSafety

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7epze025yo