Notices by Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab@mastodon.social), page 3

Unless you trust your device manufacturer, pin or pattern lock is way better option than revealing your fingerprint and/or face data to companies. You don't know where your super personal data will end up #Privacy

Big round of applause for Marc Whipple for writing this excellent guide. It's easy for anyone to read and understand, which makes it one of the best pieces of technical writing we have seen about #FreedomBox.

With supporters like Marc, we can empower anyone with our technology.

well, this event eclipses the 2016 Quest breach by an order of magnitude... I wonder how similar the attack vector / methodology was between the two.

https://www.businessinsider.com/quest-diagnostics-says-data-breach-could-have-hit-119-million-patients-2019-6

How do student groups build the movement for digital rights? Check out our case study of @YalePrivacyLab, a grassroots student group in the Electronic Frontier Alliance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/securing-institutions-we-rely-grassroots-case-study

New research based on publisher data has found that using invasive tracking for ads brings publishers just 4% more in revenue than ads that don't rely on tracking. Publishers should reevaluate the real costs and benefits of invasive ads. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/research-shows-publishers-benefit-little-tracking-ads

European GDPR – we published several articles about it:

– GDPR myths: https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/gdpr-myths/
– How to identify incomplete privacy policies: https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/guide-privacy-policy/
– 20 random privacy policies evaluated: https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/one-year-gdpr/
– How to log GDPR-friendly: https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/wss6-logging-monitoring/

#gdpr #privacy #rights #dataprotection #logging

Sign the petition to tell @JetBlue to end its biometric boarding program and stop violating customers' privacy:

https://act.credoaction.com/sign/jetblue

via @CREDOMobile #Privacy #Surveillance

RT @douglevin@twitter.com

Watching this video from @FERPASherpa@twitter.com on propriety of school safety technologies is evocative: Is this the future (or present?) we want for our schools? https://youtu.be/2CiDniIeE5A #edtech #privacy #surveillance cc/ @hypervisible@twitter.com @funnymonkey@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/douglevin/status/1135900135920156674

@privacylab Between Facebook and Instagram, CrossFit had 6 million followers. This was a brave move that I hope will set an example for more companies.

Quote from announcement: "Facebook collects, aggregates, and sells user information as a matter of business. Its business model allows governments and businesses alike to use its algorithmically conjured advertising categories as sophisticated data-mining and surveillance tools."

https://www.crossfit.com/battles/crossfit-suspends-facebook-instagram

EU judges have finally decided to hear the #PrivacyShield #EUdataP lawsuit T-738/16 on 1-2 July. Massive case that could impact global #datatransfers http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?oqp=&for=&mat=or&lgrec=fr&jge=&td=%3BALL&jur=C%2CT%2CF&num=T-738%252F16&page=1&dates=&pcs=Oor&lg=&pro=&nat=or&cit=none%252CC%252CCJ%252CR%252C2008E%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252Ctrue%252Cfalse%252Cfalse&language=fr&avg=&cid=9600037 … cc @LaQuadrature @lesExegetes #privacy #ePrivacy #GDPR

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