Tag: Privacy

Facebook let Netflix and Spotify read the private messages of its users

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The New York Times reports that Facebook let Netflix and Spotify read the private messages of its users among other things; everything it’s said about protecting user privacy has been a slippery lie of one sort or another. For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed, effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules, according to internal records and interviews.

Source: Facebook let Netflix and Spotify read the private messages of its users

Tech industry told ‘privacy is not absolute’ and end-to-end encryption ‘should be rare’

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An international network of intelligence agencies has told the tech industry that ‘privacy is not an absolute’ and that the use of end-to-end encryption ‘should be rare’ … NordVPN The statements were made in a joint communiqué and statement of principles following a meeting of the so-called Five Eyes nations – the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Source: Tech industry told ‘privacy is not absolute’ and end-to-end encryption ‘should be rare’

AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not

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I remember when a certain company’s motto was, “Don’t be evil!”

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used privacy settings that say they will prevent it from doing so.

Source: AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not

Let’s Not Blame Tech Tools if This Sheriff Illegally Violated People’s Privacy

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Cory Hutcheson, a young sheriff elected in 2016 to lead deputies in rural Mississippi County, Missouri, faces a host of state and federal charges for, among other things, inappropriately using cell phone tracking technology to keep tabs on a judge and members of the state highway patrol.

Source: Let’s Not Blame Tech Tools if This Sheriff Illegally Violated People’s Privacy

Selling data on millions ‘is the opposite of our business model,’ says Facebook’s Boz

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Facebook’s former VP of ads has weighed in on the ongoing disaster involving his company’s apparent negligence in allowing data on as many as 50 million users to be used for nefarious purposes by Cambridge Analytica. In a post on (what else) Facebook , Andrew “Boz” Bosworth gave variations on the line we’ve come to expect from tech in these situations: They’re not supposed to do that, and anyway how could we have known?

Source: Selling data on millions ‘is the opposite of our business model,’ says Facebook’s Boz

‘I’ll Tell You One Goddamned Thing for Sure. I’m Not Staying at a Motel 6 From Now On.’

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Are two Motel 6 locations in Phoenix routinely sending in leads to immigration agents when they suspect guests of being undocumented? While an investigation by the Phoenix New Times was unable to get confirmation from Motel 6 headquarters, employees at the motels in question said that collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is standard practice: “We send a report every morning to ICE—all the names of everybody that comes in,” a front-desk clerk told the New Times .

Source: ‘I’ll Tell You One Goddamned Thing for Sure. I’m Not Staying at a Motel 6 From Now On.’