Notices by Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab@mastodon.social), page 4

Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2019 16:02:21 EDT Yale Privacy Lab
- EFF
.@EFF 's Bennett Cyphers: "That’s all well and good, but if it’s something buried in the settings then only the most privacy-conscious people are ever going to use it..." https://gizmodo.com/the-dumb-truth-about-googles-privacy-push-1834601357
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  The Dumb Truth About Google's Privacy Push
  
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  Every big tech event in 2019 has a buzzword in common: privacy.
Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2019 13:34:42 EST Yale Privacy Lab

great work coming out of Defensive Lab and progress on v2 of PiRanhaLysis 🤓
https://twitter.com/MaliciaRogue/status/1101804251586670595

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Sean O'Brien (diggity@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2019 12:33:36 EDT Sean O'Brien

it turns out that NYTimes "Privacy Project" was a honeypot for privacy advocates all along (who built a ladder of legitimacy for Google to climb), not just readers (who had their data pilfered by tons of Big Tech trackers). #SurveillanceCapitalism

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Exodus Privacy (exodus@framapiaf.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2019 15:04:28 EDT Exodus Privacy
- Exodus Privacy
- Pas Sage en Seine
En mai et juin, l'association @exodus est présente à plusieurs événements : l'Ubuntu party de Paris, le congrès de l'Association des bibliothécaire de France (grâce à la commission Labenbib !), à la bibliothèque universitaire de Nantes et à @PasSageEnSeine !
Plus d'infos : https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/fr/page/events/
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  Evénements · Exodus Privacy
  
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Sean O'Brien (diggity@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2019 12:34:28 EDT Sean O'Brien
- The Tor Project
.@torproject protects people facing real threats to their liberty, autonomy, and lives. All privacy-by-design technologies can be used by criminals. Arguments against Tor that merely highlight criminal activity have been levied against the Internet in general, esp. by the worst dictators.

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privacytools.io🛡️ (privacytools@social.privacytools.io)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2019 19:23:32 EDT privacytools.io🛡️
Who to follow on #Mastodon? We are trying to give new users a better start and selected a couple of profiles for #privacy related topics:
@BurungHantu
@opennic
@jonah
@Mastodon
@torproject
@privacyint
@protonmail
@protonvpn
@Tutanota
@nextcloud
@Qwant
@libreoffice
@Purism
@matrix
@pixelfed
@prismo
@funkwhale
@cryptpad
@disroot
@yunohost
@switchingsocial
@danarel
@infosechandbook
@CCC
@freedomboxfndn
@freedombone
@eff
@Tusky
@tom79
@keybase
@debian
@Matomo
@Nitrokey
@privacylab

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Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2019 11:49:09 EDT Yale Privacy Lab

"...that’s basically been Facebook’s standard operating procedure all along. It collects information about you in order to serve you advertising and then tells you that you have control over whether that information is actually collected." #SurveillanceCapitalism https://www.marketplace.org/2019/05/03/tech/facebook-privacy-palooza-clear-history
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  Facebook’s version of privacy still collects plenty of data
  
  The company’s business model isn’t changing — it’s still collecting your info for ads.
Privacy International (privacyint@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2019 09:02:21 EDT Privacy International

We produced guides that show how to minimise targeted ads on ⬇⬇
#facebook / #instagram
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2827/facebook
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2828/instagram-owned-facebook
#twitter
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2829/twitter
#google / #youtube
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2826/google-youtube
Who next? tell us: saran@privacyinternational.org https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1123927869099364352/photo/1

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Privacy International (privacyint@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2019 12:00:08 EDT Privacy International

Today is privacy activist Ola Bini’s birthday and he has been detained in Ecuador for the past 23 days. We are proud to support him and signed a letter to ask for his release https://freeolabini.org/en/statement/ #freeolabini
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  Free Ola Bini Solidarity Letter
Sean O'Brien (diggity@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2019 19:24:33 EDT Sean O'Brien

#abusedanimals #heavypetting

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Sean O'Brien (diggity@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2019 16:19:08 EDT Sean O'Brien

a writeup on NY privacy legislation I'm helping to draft alongside Rohan Grey with Ron T. Kim: https://www.governing.com/week-in-finance/gov-tech-companies-tax-data-states.html
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  Should Tech Companies Be Taxed for Using Our Data?
  
  There's a growing movement to, but some say it's a misguided policy.
FreedomBox (freedomboxfndn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2019 18:26:02 EDT FreedomBox

MILESTONE: We hit 1,000 followers on Mastodon today! 🎉 🎉 🎉
When we made our Mastodon account 15 months ago, growth was slow. But the Fediverse kept expanding, and now Mastodon competes with Twitter!
Mastodon community: you promote our work, you helped us launch our first commercial product, and now you got us to 1,000! Thanks for all the love! ❤️
#TheFutureIsFederated #BeAPioneer

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Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2019 15:51:53 EDT Yale Privacy Lab
- Aladar
@aladar we linked to https://archive.is/iUVrw for this reason.
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  The Secret Trust Scores Companies Use to Judge Us All - WSJ
  
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doctorow (doctorow@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2019 21:18:41 EDT doctorow

RT @adrianshort@twitter.com
Google company @sidewalklabs@twitter.com are hard at work building a world where people can scan a QR code to view a set of 20 icons so they can supposedly work out whether the #surveillance they're already under is OK, and then be able to do effectively nothing about it. #SmartCities https://twitter.com/sidewalklabs/status/1119256258035572736
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/adrianshort/status/1119321394339356672

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Paula (paulakreuzer@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2019 03:56:46 EDT Paula

https://write.privacytools.io/paulakreuzer/how-to-live-without-google-and-other-evil-tech-giants
#LivingWoGoogle #FuckOffGoogle #FAANG #SurvaillenceCapitalism #DataPrivacy #replicant #lineage #YourDataIsYourData #fdroid #gdroid #tor #TorBrowser #uBlockOrigin #CloudFirewall #EFF #Ecosia #Riseup #Tutanota #K9 #Silence #Fediverse #WriteFreely #Fedilab
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  How to Live Without Google and Other Evil Tech Giants
  
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  This is my personal list of tools to avoid Surveillance Capitalism. I will try to keep it up to date, add more stuff and fix mistakes that are pointed out to me. Please also give me tips for ot...
Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2019 01:09:19 EDT Yale Privacy Lab

"When you’re logging in to a Starbucks account, booking an Airbnb or making a reservation on OpenTable, loads of information about you is crunched instantly into a single score, then evaluated along with other personal data..." #SurveillanceCapitalism https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-trust-scores-companies-use-to-judge-us-all-11554523206
https://archive.is/iUVrw

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Sean O'Brien (diggity@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2019 01:35:27 EDT Sean O'Brien
- Mike Gerwitz
- Yale Privacy Lab
@mikegerwitz ...called "Keep Internet Devices Safe Act" (SB1719). Amazon and Google are opposing it with the attached talking points (via https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1115991653662195713).
I know of two other cases like this Alexa example that made press. Samsung SmartTV in 2015 w/ help from Nuance Comms (now a partner for Apple's Siri), and "My Friend Cayla" dolls in 2017 (again w/ Nuance).
At @privacylab we think we've found an example of speech broken into syllables and disguised as a nUHF signal. Stay tuned. 3/3

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Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2019 21:33:49 EDT Mike Gerwitz
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- Sean O'Brien
@diggity While this practice is expected (as the article notes, other companies do it as well), most users are definitely not aware of it and I think that many more people would be uncomfortable using these devices if they did learn that this isn't all just being processed by computers. Some of that conversation happened during the Snowden revelations---is it okay if it's just computers "listening" rather than a human being? (Of course, it's never just computers.)

It's also another example of AI capabilities being over-sold to users.

Thanks for sharing!

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Sean O'Brien (diggity@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2019 21:00:04 EDT Sean O'Brien

fresh off the press - this is why I don't like to give the "benefit of the doubt" to Big Tech, even though I will limit my comments to the available info:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/is-anyone-listening-to-you-on-alexa-a-global-team-reviews-audio

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Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2019 19:33:56 EDT Yale Privacy Lab

friendly reminder: "Private Browsing doesn't make you anonymous on the Internet. Your Internet service provider, employer, or the sites themselves can still gather information about pages you visit." https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/common-myths-about-private-browsing

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