TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Since Wednesday, Twitter has been sending out emails and notifications to its over 300 million monthly users to inform them of changes to their privacy policy. The new policy, which goes into effect on June 18, includes changes to data collection, data sharing, and digital advertising. The policy is being run on an ‘opt-out’ basis, Read More…
“We have data on that 21-year-old who’s living at home with mom and dad.” The fight for internet privacy has focused much of its attention on government surveillance, but mass data collection is done by private companies as well—and one such firm has “centralized and weaponized” all that information for its customers, Bloomberg reports on Friday. Read More…
In recent years this country has undergone some massive shifts regarding the average American’s personal privacy. Primarily, after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration began an effort to remove any barriers that impede different parts of the government from working closely and sharing information, primarily in regards to terrorism, yet the reach has gone far Read More…
Recently, Anti-Media covered the revelation that Samsung transmits audio commands recorded by their Smart TVs to a third-party company, which raises all sorts of red flags regarding encryption standards and, more importantly, people’s privacy in their own homes. Last year, a list of surprising objects endowed with surveillance or data extraction capabilities were reported— including the Statue Read More…