How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? (Updated 2024) – The Markup
Explore guidance for privacy best practices when attending a protest: https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2024/05/04/how-do-i-prepare-my-phone-for-a-protest-updated-2024
A Day in the Life of AI – The Guardian
Discussions about AI often focus on the futuristic threat posed by superhuman intelligence. But AI is already woven into the… read more
How to Make Sure You’re Not Accidentally Sharing Your Location – Wired
What happens if you distinctly remember turning location tracking off on a device, yet your position is still popping up… read more
The Streets Are Watching: How Billboards are Spying on You – Big Brother Watch
Billboard advertising is becoming increasingly data-driven with high-tech tools being used to make sure that screens show the right adverts… read more
Targeted Billboard Ads Are a Privacy Nightmare – Gizmodo
“We’ve uncovered new ways in which millions of people’s movements and behaviours are tracked to target us with ads on… read more
Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police – EFF
A data broker has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies,… read more
How the Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data – EFF
Over the past few years, data brokers and federal military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies have formed a vast, secretive… read more
A Peek Inside the FBI’s Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet – Wired
The FBI’s biggest-ever investigation included the biggest-ever haul of phones from controversial geofence warrants, court records show. A filing in… read more
Who is collecting data from your car? – The Markup
Andrea Amico is founder and CEO of Privacy4Cars, an automotive data privacy company. Amico said of vehicle data hubs, “So,… read more
Data Broker Veraset Gave Bulk Device-Level GPS Data to DC Government – EFF
This is far from the only instance of data sharing between private location data brokers and government agencies. Reports at… read more