Collaborate Disseminate
The most successful companies of our time are those who’ve mastered user data – collecting it, analyzing it and profiting from it – typically at the expense of user privacy. The Internet of things (IoT) has given tech companies, advertisers, data broke… Continue reading The surveillance economy has set its sights on smartphone sensors
Internal documents obtained by Motherboard detail the planning of an anti-package theft operation that used fake Amazon boxes rigged with GPS location trackers. Continue reading How Amazon Helped Cops Set Up a Package Theft Sting Operation
i just needed to get some info off my old phone that i do not have in my position anymore how can I go by doing that
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Will 3rd party apps like Twitter or Facebook on Android be able to retrieve my true IP address from the system and sent it to the services server for identification/tracking purposes when using a properly set up VPN, or will … Continue reading Android VPN IP Retrieval
Given how long humans have been warming themselves up, you’d think we would have worked out all the kinks by now. But even with central heating, and indeed sometimes because of it, some places we frequent just aren’t that cozy. In such cases, it often pays to heat the person, …read more
Continue reading Raspberry Pi Tracks Humans, Blasts Them With Heat Rays
I have been befrauded by an acquaintance of mine who borrowed large sums of money and provided contracts with his Turkish address and these contracts supposedly were sent by his lawyer in Turkey. But the several email trace … Continue reading Is it possible to trace a fraud who swindled money through email tracked IP addresses
I’m in a situation where I know the person behind this is doing it, but not sure how.
It’s been over a year and people seem to show up to places that I go to, places that I’ve told privately and places that I’ve gone out on… Continue reading Can someone be tracked in real time 24/7?
Data & Society just published a report entitled "Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance": This explainer highlights four broad trends in employee monitoring and surveillance technologies: Prediction and flagging tools that aim to predict c… Continue reading On Surveillance in the Workplace
Data & Society just published a report entitled "Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance": This explainer highlights four broad trends in employee monitoring and surveillance technologies: Prediction and flagging tools that aim to predict characteristics or behaviors of employees or that are designed to identify or deter perceived rule-breaking or fraud. Touted as useful management tools, they can augment biased and discriminatory… Continue reading On Surveillance in the Workplace
Despondent internet users who love the convenience smartphones have brought but regret losing control of their data have reasons to be optimistic, according to a veteran technology industry executive who left Silicon Valley to work for the American Civil Liberties Union. Jon Callas, a computer security expert who left Apple for the ACLU last year, said Monday it’s become too easy to become nihilistic about personal privacy because of the last decade of negative headlines about corporate data collection. But international rules and legislation have started to adjust for the digital age, Callas said, predicting that users will not tolerate constant location tracking and other tradeoffs made in the name of efficiency. “The good news is that the privacy situation has gotten so bad that people want to change it,” Callas said during a presentation at the RSA security conference in San Francisco. “That means that over the next five […]
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