Privacy, censorship, & security in the news.

Here are a collection of links to articles I have found about privacy, censorship, and securty that are worth a read! I can't possibly write articles covering all the news on these topics, but I can share some good articles from other websites with you here instead. Note that I occasionally find a decent article from a source I can't stand. In this case, I will run the link through "archive.today" so I don't send the site in question any traffic.

Canada’s national archives website deletes page on Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John Macdonald

July 6, 2021
"Deleting uncomfortable history."
#censorship
#Canada
Read full article onReclaim The Net

Chatcontrol: European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communications

July 6, 2021
"Today, the European Parliament approved the ePrivacy Derogation, allowing providers of e-mail and messaging services to automatically search all personal messages of each citizen for presumed suspect content and report suspected cases to the police. The European Pirates Delegation in the Greens/EFA"
#privacy
#messaging
#EU
Read full article onPatrick Breyer

How much does your car know about you — and who else can get their hands on your data?

July 6, 2021
"Our cars collect a vast amount of personal data. A cybersecurity expert at Privacy4Cars explains data privacy and security risks."
#privacy
#security
#cars
Read full article onCoda Story

NHS staff denied access to COVID data collected by Big Data company Palantir

July 6, 2021
"Data grab."
#privacy
#NHS
#Palantir
Read full article onReclaim The Net

Google starts adding "no reliable sources" tag to some search engine results

June 27, 2021
"Adding labels to search results."
#censorship
#Google
#search
Read full article onReclaim The Net

Facebook and its advertisers are 'panicking' as the majority of iPhone users opt out of tracking

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"With iOS 14.5 released to the public earlier this year, iPhone and iPad users now have the ability to easily opt out of cross-site and cross-app tracking and targeting. New data from analytics firm Branch indicates that just 25% of users are opting in to tracking, which is causing panic in the advertising industry. As […]"
#privacy
#iOS
#Apple
#tracking
Read full article on9to5Mac

You make a privacy-first service → You get banned on Google

July 12, 2021
"Yet another sad story of how big companies kill small ones because of poor processes."
#privacy
#Google
#Microsoft
Read full article onMedium

Ending Anonymity: Why the WEF’s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens the Future of Privacy

July 8, 2021
"With many focusing on tomorrow’s Cyber Polygon exercise, less attention has been paid to the WEF’s real ambitions in cybersecurity..."
#privacy
#World Economic Forum
#cybercrime
Read full article onThe Last American Vagabond

Trouble Ahead: Kaseya Attack Shows Payout Demands and Ransomware Attacks are Increasing - Many Industries Remain at Risk | RestorePrivacy

July 6, 2021
"The REvil cybergang has officially taken credit for the Kaseya ransomware attack and is demanding a $70 million payout. While this would appear to be the largest payout ever, we see payout demands continuing to increase, along with the frequency of attacks. We examine how many different industries remain vulnerable to further exploits and the …"
#security
#Kaseya
#ransomware
Read full article onRestorePrivacy

Federal Watchdog Finds Lots Of Facial Recognition Use By Gov't Agencies, Very Little Internal Oversight

July 6, 2021
"Facial recognition tech remains controversial, given its tendency to produce false positives and send cops after the wrong people. Private companies offering even sketchier tech than what's already in use (looking at you, Clearview) have made..."
#privacy
#security
#facial recognition
Read full article onTechdirt.