““The app developers were not clear about their intentions,” one Ever user said. “I believe it’s a huge invasion of privacy.”
“Electrodes on the brain have been used to translate brainwaves into words spoken by a computer – which could be useful in the future to help people who have lost the ability to speak.”
“If you were on the internet in the late 1990s, you might remember companies like AllAdvantage that promised to pay you to surf the web.”
“The in-depth investigation by the Times revealed many details about how Google uses its in-house database — called Sensorvault — to cooperate with law enforcement. Using the database, Google is able to provide police with the data of phones from a specific time and location.”
“Pity the poor public-relations specialist hired to influence what is said about his clients on Wikipedia. The sprawling, chaotic storehouse of knowledge is governed by thousands of independent-minded volunteers committed to being neutral and allergic to self-serving manipulators.”
“It’s been a busy day for Facebook exec op-eds. Earlier this morning, Sheryl Sandberg broke the site’s silence around the Christchurch massacre, and now Mark Zuckerberg is calling on governments and other bodies to increase regulation around the sorts of data Facebook traffics in.”
“Putting Facebook and other social networks in a bind, consumers are more worried than ever about their privacy — but few say they’re willing to pay to secure their personal information. That’s according to findings from Norton LifeLock’s latest Cyber Safety Insights Report.”
“Ever since the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Panopticlick initiative in 2010, I’ve been sensitized to the risks and potential harms that come from adtech’s tracking of consumers. Indeed, in the years since, it has gotten far far worse.”
“At my bodega down the block, photos of shoplifters sometimes litter the windows, a warning to would-be thieves that they’re being watched. Those unofficial wanted posters come and go, as incidents fade from the owner’s memory.”
“Steve Hardigree hadn’t even gotten to the office yet and his day was already a waking nightmare.”
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