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FBI’s Facial Recognition Programs Under Fire Over Privacy, Accuracy Concerns The bureau has largely ignored the Government Accountability Office’s concerns about its use of facial recognition in criminal investigations. The … Read more
by: JD Heyes (Natural News) A freshman Republican senator lambasted Google on Tuesday for invading users’ privacy by tracking them and building profiles on them that the tech giant later … Read more
by fartjoke69 Post-Post Snowden, this idea continues to circulate that apple cares about protecting user privacy more than competing device manufacturers, to the point where it’s been ingrained in me … Read more
via techcrunch: Last year, Facebook was forced to admit that after months of pestering its users to switch on two-factor by signing up their phone number, it was also using … Read more
CNBC, Released on 2/13/19 Sean Parker, chairman of The Parker Foundation, discusses big tech’s data privacy problem.
A federal judge ruled late Friday she is unconvinced of an immediate need to block a citizenship question from the 2020 census over privacy concerns. US District Judge Dabney Friedrich … Read more
BIG TECH MERGING WITH BIG BROTHER? A FRIEND OF mine, who runs a large television production company in the car-mad city of Los Angeles, recently noticed that his intern, an aspiring … Read more
From Axios: Our phones’ GPS and location capabilities are a key part of what make them magical — enabling them to speed our commutes, hail rides, and find the devices when … Read more
Amazon’s popular security system, Ring, is billed as a round-the-clock sentry for homeowners. But lax privacy practices have allowed Ring employees to turn the security cameras into ‘surveillance’ devices, reports … Read more
The ever decreasing right to privacy on the Internet is entirely by design, we need the right to compensation for gross violations by companies like Facebook and Google to slow … Read more
BILLIONAIRE Mark Zuckerberg has halted the sale of his Facebook stock after the company’s value collapsed last year. The controversial 34-year-old has seen his company fall from grace, and failed … Read more
by: Tracey Watson (Natural News) Anyone who has visited a loved one in a hospital in recent years will be familiar with the hand sanitizing pumps scattered all over the … Read more
via 9to5mac: Aleksandra Korolova, a University of Southern California computer science professor, has shared a post on Medium diving deeper into Facebook’s targeted ad technology. Specifically, Korolova focuses on how Facebook … Read more
Internal records show that the social network had arrangements with Microsoft, Amazon and others, effectively exempting some partners from its usual privacy rules. The documents underscore how personal data has … Read more
On Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was interrogated by the House Judiciary Committee over a number of topics including potential bias in the search results it provides users. DuckDuckGo — a privacy-focused search engine … Read more
Google has disclosed another privacy leak from Google+, this time affecting millions of users, and now says it will push forward the shutdown forward from August to April. Today, Google … Read more