Trust Students, Suspect Algorithms (Beauchamp, 2020)
When universities across the United States reacted to the coronavirus pandemic by shifting to remote instruction last spring, many of… read more
Corona Detective & Corona Milder – Tijmen Schep
As a privacy designer I wanted to point out that the bluetooth-based contact tracing apps are not anonymous, even though… read more
How do I prepare my phone for a protest? – The Markup
All protesting and all marches are a series of balancing acts of different priorities and acceptable risks,” said Mason Donahue,… read more
Thousands of ICE Employees Have Access to Massive, Nationwide License Plate-Tracking System – Gizmodo
Hat-tip Rita Premo! The ACLU of Northern California wrote the records show that more than 9,000 ICE officers have been… read more
Hot New COVID Tech Is Wearable and Constantly Tracks You – NYT via Yahoo! News
Civil rights and privacy experts warn that the spread of such wearable continuous-monitoring devices could lead to new forms of… read more
Coronavirus opens door to workplace surveillance – Politico
Privacy advocates warn of a slippery slope toward “normalizing” new levels of employer surveillance. Ravindranath, M. (2020, June 26). Coronavirus… read more
How to disappear – Bloomberg CityLab
Writing about urban surveillance for Bloomberg CityLab, Jessica Leigh Hester asks: Is it possible to move through a smart city… read more
Facebook Container by Mozilla Firefox
This Firefox browser extension helps protect your online browsing behaviors from Facebook tracking. It allows you to access Facebook in… read more
Behind the one-way mirror: A deep dive into the technology of corporate surveillance (EFF)
This series from the Electronic Frontier Foundation pulls back the curtain on corporate personal data tracking, the use of online… read more
A third of popular websites are ‘fingerprinting’ you
Fowler, G. A. (2019, October 31). Think you’re anonymous online? A third of popular websites are ‘fingerprinting’ you. Washington Post…. read more