Collaborate Disseminate
There was a website I discovered a while back called "spur.us". The site collects information on IP addresses. Some of the information they collect is somewhat easy to find:
If the IP is part of a proxy network (easy to find out… Continue reading How does this site know what I do online? [closed]
In good news for anyone who has ever stayed in an Airbnb property or has a creepy landlord, researchers say that they have developed a way that anyone could detect hidden spy cameras with just a modern smartphone.
Read more in my article on the Hot … Continue reading Boffins say they can spot a hidden spy cam with just a smartphone
Booking.com got hacked five years ago, and didn’t tell its customers… but now we know who might have been behind it. Bossware rears its ugly head again in the workplace, spying on employees. And did you receive a warning email from the FBI?
All th… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #252: Hotel hacks, workplace spies, and the FBI
I think in 2021 everyone knows how harmful surveillance capitalism is for society. The biggest corporations are Facebook and Google. But still, most people want to use social media and other services.
A new trend is alternative front-ends … Continue reading Are alternative and open source front-ends for "surveillance capitalism" services better for privacy?
By Deeba Ahmed
Facebook has announced that it will shut down its Facial Recognition System and delete the templates of over 1 billion people stored by this feature.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook to end facial recogni… Continue reading Facebook to end facial recognition and delete billions of records
I’ve been searching for IP cameras for indoor security. Some send the signal over Wi-Fi, while others do it via Ethernet cable.
However, the descriptions of Wi-Fi ones say that they cannot be connected by cable, and the Ethernet ones say t… Continue reading Is there any IP Camera that works both over Wi-Fi and over Ethernet? [closed]
Vice has a detailed article about how the FBI gets data from cell phone providers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, based on a leaked (I think) 2019 139-page presentation.
Continue reading How the FBI Gets Location Information
Corporations and governments use a variety of de-anonymization techniques to identify and profile users.
All aspects of our personal lives are now consolidated online (banking, medical, academic, remote work, shopping, dating, messaging, s… Continue reading Best practices against mass surveillance for everday internet usage?
It’s not actually banned in the EU yet — the legislative process is much more complicated than that — but it’s a step: a total ban on biometric mass surveillance.
To respect “privacy and human dignity,” MEPs said that EU lawmakers should pass a permanent ban on the automated recognition of individuals in public spaces, saying citizens should only be monitored when suspected of a crime.
The parliament has also called for a ban on the use of private facial recognition databases — such as the controversial AI system created by U.S. startup Clearview…
Continue reading The European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance
By Deeba Ahmed
The company maintains that it has to help fund Firefox’s optimization/development, and therefore, it has introduced a new feature called Firefox Suggest in Firefox 93.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Firefox Sugg… Continue reading Firefox Suggest to display sponsored ads but users can disable them