Below are posts associated with the “privacy” tag.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Ed Tech Usage is Up. So Are Parent Privacy Concerns'


Interesting read on an important subject.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'In Moscow’s Technological Advances, a ‘Double-Edged Sword’ - The New York Times'


Facial recognition is worrying.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Internet-Connected Products: Ever-Advancing, Ever-Creepier | by Stephen Moore | Nov, 2021 | OneZero'


Good take on the privacy issues involved with modern gift-giving.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Vizio’s profit on ads, subscriptions, and data is double the money it makes selling TVs - The Verge'


Terrifying stuff. I know “Orwellian” gets overused these days, but TVs that watch us are straight out of 1984.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Apple Has Listened And Will Retract Some Harmful Phone-Scanning'


Good progress but need more.

🔗 linkblog: just read '7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent | ZDNet'


We ought to be talking more about biometric data.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Google and Facebook’s Ad Empires - The New York Times'


Tech companies are often ad companies, and it behooves us to remember that.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Majority of Americans support national data privacy standards: poll | TheHill'


This means we’re going to get some soon, right?

🔗 linkblog: just read 'ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy | Ars Technica'


On the internet, more and more people can learn you’re a dog.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'A Thumbs Down for Streaming Privacy - The New York Times'


I have been thinking recently about streaming as a compromise in internet-era IP disputes, but this shows one reason that it’s not good enough a compromise.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Opinion | The Illusion of Privacy Is Getting Harder to Sell - The New York Times'


This blurb stood out to me: “Apple says, relentlessly, that privacy is the central feature of its iPhones. But as the photo scanning demonstrates, that’s true only until Apple changes its mind about its policies.” Seems to me we shouldn’t be dependent on tech companies’ decisions to ensure privacy.


Please also give me the confidence of an Apple exec explaining how scanning all your photos is “an advancement of the state of the art in privacy.”


Give me the confidence of a FB employee wringing hands about researchers’ allegedly “put[ting] people’s data or privacy at risk.”


The thing about getting in the habit of reading privacy policies is that it sometimes changes your behavior, but it ALWAYS ups your anxiety about the impossibility of ever changing your behavior sufficiently.