9 Best Articles in 2020
VICE
Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware
VICE
10 min read · 4151 saves · From 2017 · A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking.
Gizmodo
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met
Gizmodo
9 min read · 701 saves · From 2017 · In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.
The Atlantic
China Is the First Surveillance Superpower
The Atlantic
20+ min read · 640 saves · Jul 29th · Ross Andersen · Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
Fast Company
Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web
Fast Company
4 min read · 584 saves · From 2018 · With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.
Guardian Tech
Internet privacy: the apps that protect you from your apps
Guardian Tech
7 min read · 579 saves · Feb 16th · Alex Hern · Worried about the data collected about you? A new generation of startups is making apps to put your privacy settings straight
medium.freecodecamp.com
How to encrypt your entire life in less than an?hour
medium.freecodecamp.com
4 min read · 527 saves · From 2016 · “Only the paranoid survive.” — Andy Grove
The New York Times
Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
The New York Times
~19 min read · 507 saves · 2019-12-19 · What we learned from the spy in your pocket.
Bloomberg
Palantir Knows Everything About You
Bloomberg
20+ min read · 505 saves · From 2018 · Facebook may currently be the black sheep when it comes to privacy and data violations, but it isn’t?the only company capable of watching every step you take. Bloomberg Businessweek writers?Lizette Chapman, Jordan Robertson and?Peter Waldman?profile?the big-data firm Palantir Technologies, which has evolved from helping the US government catch terrorists to assisting companies monitor their employees and helping law enforcement detect possible offenders. A common thread that runs through both companies is their desperate need to make money and please investors – which, as it turns out, is at odds?with protecting people’s privacy.
New Statesman
Slouching towards dystopia: the rise of surveillance capitalism and the death of privacy
New Statesman
~12 min read · 490 saves · Feb 28th · Suppose you walk into a shop and the guard at the entrance records your name. Cameras on the ceiling track your every step in the store, log which items you looked at and which ones you ignored. After…
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github.blog
No cookie for you
github.blog
232 saves · Dec 17th · Good news: we removed all cookie banners from GitHub! ?? No one likes cookie banners. But cookie banners are everywhere. So how did we pull this off? Well, EU law requires you to use cookie
Gizmodo
Your Credit Score Should Be Based on Your Web History, IMF Says
Gizmodo
2 min read · 188 saves · Dec 18th · International Monetary Fund (IMF) researchers see the possibility of using the data from your browsing, search, and purchase history to create a more accurate mechanism for determining the credit…
Tom Fishburne
Consumer Privacy cartoon
Tom Fishburne
2 min read · 126 saves · Dec 6th · In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg famously said that privacy was no longer a "social norm." New research this month showed that 94% of consumers are uncomfortable with how their personal data is shared online.
WIRED
6 Privacy-Focused Alternatives to the Apps You Use Every Day
WIRED
1 min read · 116 saves · Dec 13th · David Nield · From messaging to maps, many popular apps slurp up your data to sell you ads. There’s a better way.
Futurism
A new satellite can peer inside buildings, day or night
Futurism
3 min read · 100 saves · Dec 16th · Cloud cover, and even in some cases walls, can't block this ultra-precise satellite's view.
Stratechery
In Defense of Digital Advertising
Stratechery
~13 min read · 91 saves · Dec 8th · Ben Thompson · Apple’s position on privacy seems unimpeachable, but it ignores trade-offs, and risks a bad outcome for the Internet as a whole.
Daring Fireball
Facebook: Free as in Bullshit
Daring Fireball
2 min read · 76 saves · Dec 18th · This whole ad reads more like an ad *for* Apple’s privacy initiatives than against.
Guardian US
Revealed: China suspected of spying on Americans via Caribbean phone networks
Guardian US
4 min read · 55 saves · Dec 15th · Security expert claims Chinese surveillance may have affected tens of thousands of Americans
Mozilla
Apple’s anti-tracking plans for iPhone
Mozilla
1 min read · 50 saves · Dec 14th · Apple plans to improve privacy on iPhone, but it’s already pushed back the implementation. Apple needs to hear that consumers want anti-tracking features as soon as possible.
getpocket.com
How to Navigate Kids’ Digital Privacy
getpocket.com
2 min read · 37 saves · Dec 20th · What to know about the security of connected devices, and how to steer kids toward the best digital practices.
