Tag: privacy

• The Ringification of Suburban Life

  September 29, 2019

  Across the US, consumers are canvassing their communities with a new type of device that’s changing civic life. Camera-equipped doorbells and other home surveillance devices, made by companies like Ring,… more ›

• This Company Built a Private Surveillance Network. We Tracked Someone With It

  September 22, 2019

  In just a few taps and clicks, the tool showed where a car had been seen throughout the U.S. A private investigator source had access to a powerful system used… more ›

• Essay: The street as platform

  September 3, 2019

  I was recently asked to comment on ‘the street of the future’; a response for a quango responsible for the built environment and a government department responsible for transport, roads… more ›

• (Can’t) Picture This 2

  July 23, 2019

  Internet platform companies operating in China are required by law to control content on their platforms or face penalties, under the expectation that companies will invest in the technology and… more ›

• I found your data. It’s for sale.

  July 20, 2019

  I’ve watched you check in for a flight and seen your doctor refilling a prescription. I’ve peeked inside corporate networks at reports on faulty rockets. If I wanted, I could’ve… more ›

• More information about our processes to safeguard speech data

  July 12, 2019

  We’re focused on building products that work for everyone, and as part of this, we invest significant resources to ensure that our speech technology works for a wide variety of… more ›

• “Networked Privacy”

  July 6, 2019

  “Networked Privacy” danah boyd Personal Democracy Forum 2011 June 6, 2011 [This is a VERY rough unedited crib of the actual talk. This talk builds off of a paper that… more ›

• The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs

  March 16, 2019

  When the kids in Skyler’s school want to tell a friend something in class, they don’t scrawl a note down on a tiny piece of paper and toss it across… more ›

• When Chinese hackers declared war on the rest of us

  January 13, 2019

  Late one Wednesday in March 2015, an alarm sounded in the offices of GitHub, a San Francisco–based software firm. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612638/when-chinese-hackers-declared-war-on-the-rest-of-us/ more ›

• The Privacy Wars Are About to Get A Whole Lot…

  September 11, 2016

  The Privacy Wars Are About to Get A Whole Lot Worse">Cory Doctorow: » It used to be that server logs were just boring utility files whose most dramatic moments came… more ›