Privacy from States and Big Tech
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- Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How ★★★★★ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/online-behavioral-ads-fuel-surveillance...
- Meredith Whittaker: "We won't participate in the surveillance business model" ★★★★★ https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000138831199/meredith-whittaker-we-wont-par...
- Chip Backdoors: Assessing the Threat ★★★★★ https://semiengineering.com/chip-backdoors-assessing-the-threat/
- U.S. Treasury Sanctions Notorious Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash ★★★★★ https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0916
- Google Allowed a Sanctioned Russian Ad Company to Harvest User Data for Months ★★★★★ https://www.propublica.org/article/google-russia-rutarget-sberbank-sanctions-...
- Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, says it'll keep everyone in line ★★★★ https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/oracle_ai_mass_surveillance_cloud/
- Ergaster - Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale ★★★★ https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/01/18-escaping-surveillance-capitalism-at-scale/
- Adtech Surveillance and Government Surveillance are Often the Same Surveillance ★★★★ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/adtech-surveillance-and-government-surv...
- There’s still time to stop the surveillance society | Gus Hosein ★★★★ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/18/government-collecting-p...
- The problem of creeping commercial surveillance - elnion.com ★★★★ https://elnion.com/2022/02/07/the-problem-of-creeping-commercial-surveillance/
- The Shocking Truth – Simplified Privacy ★★★★ https://simplifiedprivacy.com/googles-surveillance-the-shocking-truth/
- Signal president says company will not comply with proposed U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law requiring mandatory message scanning before encryption ★★★★ https://fortune.com/2023/07/13/signal-president-mass-surveillance-uk-law/
- We Kill People Based on Metadata and Other Metadata Things ★★★★ https://darknetlive.com/post/former-nsa-director-will-kill-you-via-metadata/
- Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen’s DMs. They Used Them To Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion. ★★★★ https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/08/08/facebook-abortion-te...
- Amazon Admits Giving Ring Camera Footage to Police Without a Warrant or Consent ★★★★ https://theintercept.com/2022/07/13/amazon-ring-camera-footage-police-ed-markey/
- Peter Van Valkenburgh (@valkenburgh) ★★★★ https://twitter.com/valkenburgh/status/1519382770262417411
- How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism ★★★ https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
- Serbia: "A Digital Prison": Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia - Amnesty International ★★★ https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur70/8813/2024/en/
- Biden signs bill extending a key US surveillance program after divisions nearly forced it to lapse ★★★ https://apnews.com/article/fisa-donald-trump-surveillance-congress-johnson-81...
- UN cybercrime treaty risks becoming a 'global surveillance pact' ★★★ https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/24/un_cybercrime_treaty/
- Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger Conversations ★★★ https://www.wired.com/2012/12/public-bus-audio-surveillance/
- Here Is the Manual for the Mass Surveillance Tool Cops Use to Track Phones ★★★ https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7v34a/fog-reveal-local-cops-phone-location-d...
- Cops wanted to keep mass surveillance app secret; privacy advocates refused ★★★ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/cops-wanted-to-keep-mass-surveill...
- Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies ★★★ https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tech/twitter-whistleblower-peiter-zatko-securi...
- Class action against Oracle's worldwide surveillance machine ★★★ https://www.iccl.ie/news/class-action-against-oracle/
- Law enforcement is spying on thousands of Americans’ mail, records show ★★ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/24/post-office-mail-surveil...
- Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off “alarm bells,” tech group says ★★ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/fbi-misused-foreign-surveillance-...
- Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn’t be Tied to Funding the Government ★★ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/reauthorizing-mass-surveillance-shouldn...
- FBI Hoovering Up DNA at a Pace That Rivals China, Holds 21 Million Samples and Counting ★★ https://theintercept.com/2023/08/29/fbi-dna-collection-surveillance/
- The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool on steroids ★★ https://adguard.com/en/blog/smart-tv-ad-blocking.html
- Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21517722