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Topic · Privacy and security
Surveillance
175 links saved from 2009 to 2026; 151 with a note, 115 in a Weekly Thing.
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- eff.org 20, theverge.com 12, arstechnica.com 10, theguardian.com 8, nytimes.com 6
2026
- Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think
- Trump's Use of Truth Social's Pay-To-See-Posts-First Scheme Violates Americans' 1st Amendment Equal Access Rights
- Your car is selling your data
- With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
- Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda
- ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
2025
- Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private
- Kevin Boone: The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
- Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
- Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line
- Daring Fireball: Gurman Reports That Apple Is Preparing to Sell Ads in Maps Starting in 2026
- 🛰️ SATCOM Security
- Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot | Songs on the Security of Networks
- Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates’ go-to streaming device
- Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.
- License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows
- TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials
- DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
- How to delete for 23andMe data & Test Sample – On my Om
- California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly
- Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
- Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed
- Daring Fireball: Apple Pulls Advanced Data Protection From the UK, in Defiance of UK Demand for Global Backdoor
- Pay to get playlisted? The accusations against Spotify’s Discovery Mode
- Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
- How Google turned 'I'm not a robot' into a massive surveillance system
- Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor
- Everyone knows your location
- NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X
2024
- The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed
- 'FYI. A Warrant Isn’t Needed': Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data
- CTV industry’s unprecedented “surveillance”
- College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time
- LG Smart TVs, including OLEDs, now show screensaver ads
- FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance is Out of Control
- FTC Staff Report Finds Large Social Media and Video Streaming Companies Have Engaged in Vast Surveillance of Users with Lax Privacy Controls and Inadequate Safeguards for Kids and Teens
- Billions in profits, millions in fines!
- How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can)
- Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service
- The House Intelligence Committee's Surveillance 'Reform' Bill is a Farce
2023
- Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding
- Please, United: Don’t Do It.
- CEO Reminds Everyone His Company Collects Customers' Sleep Data to Make Zeitgeisty Point About OpenAI Drama
- Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
- Why a search engine that scans your face is dangerous : NPR
- How Mastercard sells its ‘gold mine’ of transaction data
- *privacy not included | Shop smart and safe | Mozilla Foundation
- Zoom’s CEO thinks Zoom sucks for building trust, leaked audio reveals
- Damus Zaps vs. the App Store
- Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy”
- Smart Locks Endanger Tenants’ Privacy and Should Be Regulated
- The privacy loophole in your doorbell
2022
2021
- There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data
- The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history
- data-brokers.md
- Just 4 percent of U.S. iPhone users opt in to ad tracking
- How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you
- Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything we watch
- A Home Security Tech Hacked Into Cameras To Watch People Undressing And Having Sex, Prosecutors Say
2020
- My Phone Was Spying on Me, so I Tracked Down the Surveillants
- You Need to Opt Out of Amazon Sidewalk
- Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states next year
- TikTok says the Trump administration has forgotten about trying to ban it, would like to know what’s up
- The Ring Always Home Cam Flies Around Inside Your House
- U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
- Daring Fireball: Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy
- Amazon Halo is a subscription fitness wearable and platform
- Kindle Collects a Surprisingly Large Amount of Data
- How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, a New Book by Cory Doctorow
- The Big Tech firms are dividing the world between them | The Spectator
- Face masks are breaking facial recognition algorithms, says new government study
- The Senate’s New Anti-Encryption Bill Is Even Worse Than EARN IT, and That’s Saying Something — Deeplinks
- We are implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
- IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology
- ACLU Sues Clearview AI Over Faceprint Collection, Sale
- Working from home surveillance software for your boss
- Some shirts hide you from cameras—but will anyone wear them?
- Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too
- Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition App Is Violating Apple’s Rules
- Doc Searls Weblog · Going #Faceless
- How Big Companies Spy on Your Emails
- Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
- Backdoors, Golden Keys: Here We Go Again
- Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos
2019
- Be Paranoid About Privacy
- Robocall fines rise to $10,000 per call under newly passed law
- Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
- Ring's Neighbors Data Let Us Map Amazon's Home Surveillance Network
- How Ring Went From ‘Shark Tank’ Reject to America’s Scariest Surveillance Company
- Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses an unprecedented danger to human rights
- I'm the Google whistleblower. The medical data of millions of Americans is at risk | Anonymous | Opinion
- Mobile phone apps like Citizen aim to curb neighborhood crime
- Without encryption we will lose all privacy. This is our new battleground | Edward Snowden | Opinion
- Google and Ambient Computing
- Here’s What Those Phone Charging Lockers Are Doing With Your Personal Information
- Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement
- Samsung accidentally makes the case for not owning a smart TV
- In Stores, Secret Bluetooth Surveillance Tracks Your Every Move
- We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster.
- Millions of people uploaded photos to the Ever app. Then the company used them to develop facial recognition tools.
- A doorbell company owned by Amazon wants to start producing “crime news” and it’ll definitely end well
- Report: 26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband
- Small stickers on the ground trick Tesla autopilot into steering into opposing traffic lane / Boing Boing
- You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook.
- Google will stop peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door
- Sprint to Stop Selling Location Data to Third Parties After Motherboard Investigation
- For Owners of Amazon's Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching
- T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Are Selling Customers' Real-Time Location Data, And It's Falling Into the Wrong Hands
2018
- Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door | American Civil Liberties Union
- I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming
- GM’s data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz
- It turns out that Facebook could in fact use data collected from its Portal in-home video device to target you with ads
- Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China
- Why does everyone hate Read Receipts? We did some research to find out.
- Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals
- China's social credit system blocked people taking 11 million flights
- Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?
- You Can’t Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows
- Open, Closed, and Privacy
- Palantir Knows Everything About You
- Amazon won't sell Nest products from Google
- The Internet of Things' Dangerous Future: Bruce Schneier
- California Legislature to Hear EFF’s License Plate Cover Bill
2017
- Snowden-Backed App 'Haven' Turns Your Phone Into a Home Security System
- Amazon Comprehend – Continuously Trained Natural Language Processing
- Want to see something crazy? Open this link on your phone with WiFi turned off.
- 'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia | Technology
- Palantir: the ‘special ops’ tech giant that wields as much real-world power as Google | World news
- Roombas have been busy mapping our homes, and now that data could be up for sale
- TrendLabs Security Intelligence BlogAndroid Backdoor GhostCtrl can Silently Record Your Audio, Video, and More - TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog
- List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots
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2012
- Schneier on Security: QR Code Scams
- Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu spyware because it tracks searches
- Minneapolis police pushing for more license plate data privacy
- Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) Restriction Request
- Acxiom Corp: The 'faceless organization that knows everything about you'
- Google Engineer Told Others of Data Collection, F.C.C. Report Reveals
- Girls Around Me
- The Case Against Google
- Legal Censorship: PayPal Makes a Habit of Deciding What Users Can Read
- Honeywell goes after Nest Learning Thermostat for patent infringement
2011
- Sen. Franken demands answers from Carrier IQ, suggests phone snooping violates federal law Al Franken
- Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything | Threat Level
- Why Simply Selling Our Airwaves Will Cost Us in the Long Run
- Listen to EFF's Courtroom Arguments Against Warrantless Wiretapping
- Senator Al Franken's (D-MN) 24-page letter to the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice
- Google, Facebook: do not track bill a threat to California economy
- Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement
- What is Traitorware?
- The privacy industry: Scare and sell