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October, 2020

Amazon Argues Users Don't Actually Own Purchased Prime Video Content | Hollywood Reporter
RIAA's YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub's CEO * TorrentFreak
Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data breach - BBC News
Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition technology - The Verge
Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police - The New York Times
VoIP Firm Broadvoice Leaks 350 Million Customer Records - Infosecurity Magazine

Elasticsearch misconfiguration to blame

LocalCDN – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
uBlock Origin Suggested Settings – 12Bytes.org
Projects · Ricki Hirner / fdroid-firefox · GitLab
Bromite F-Droid repository | Bromite - take back your browser
DOJ Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google - The New York Times
Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
NanoAdblocker / NanoDefender is malware now - firefox
Tasmota

Open source firmware for ESP8266 devices

A Warning About Glassdoor - jobs
AT&T is selling your phone calls and text messages to marketers. Here is how to opt out: - privacy
Hidden cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up | CBC News

It’s safe to say that online shoppers like the promise of easy — and even better, free — returns. But it may surprise consumers to learn what can actually happen to all those unwanted items. 

Facebook leak hints at its defense against a government-ordered breakup | Engadget

Facebook's defense against a goverment-mandated breakup has leaked, suggesting it would focus on the difficulty of splitting Instagram and Whatsapp.

Sonos is spying on me… (and you) | Gingerlime
Troy Hunt: Hacking Grindr Accounts with Copy and Paste

Sexuality, relationships and online dating are all rather personal things. They're aspects of our lives that many people choose to keep private or at the very least, share only with people of our choosing. Grindr is "The World's Largest Social Networking App for Gay, Bi, Trans, and Queer People" which

Mall real estate company collected 5 million images of shoppers, say privacy watchdogs | CBC News

The real estate company behind some of Canada's most popular shopping centres embedded cameras inside its digital information kiosks at 12 shopping malls in major Canadian cities to collect millions of images — and used facial recognition technology without customers' knowledge or consent — according to a new investigation by the federal, Alberta and B.C. privacy commissioners.

The RIAA's fraudulent attack on youtube-dl is not a DMCA §512 infringement/safe-harbour, and the reality is weird
British Airways fined £20m over data breach - BBC News
My toothbrush streams gyroscope data
Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”
Adblockers installed 300,000 times are malicious and should be removed now | Ars Technica
Expanded extension support in Firefox for Android Nightly | Mozilla Add-ons Blog
Known Repositories - Wiki - F-Droid Forum
Google Meddling With URLs In Emails, Causing Security Concerns | Hackaday
About Google's penalty | The Online Slang Dictionary
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
ESPHome — ESPHome
Uninstall Nano Defender Immediately
We Hacked Apple for 3 Months: Here’s What We Found

Between the period of July 6th to September 6th myself, Brett Buerhaus, Ben Sadeghipour, Samuel Erb, and Tanner Barnes worked together and hacked on the Apple bug bounty program.

The FBI Team Sent to ‘Exploit’ Protesters’ Phones in Portland | by Mattathias Schwartz | The New York Review of Books
ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'
Tell HN: FB tracked my sensitive buy outside FB, cant delete a suggestion in app | Hacker News
Anbox - Android in a Box

Android in a Box

When Coffee Machines Demand Ransom, You Know IoT Is Screwed | WIRED

Watch along as hacked machine grinds, beeps, and spews water.

Conservancy Announces New Strategy for GPL Enforcement and Related Work, Receives Grant from ARDC - Software Freedom Conservancy

Software Freedom Conservancy, the only organization actively engaged in General Public License (GPL) enforcement and compliance work for Linux, announces today a new strategy toward improving compliance and the freedom of users of devices that contain Linux-based systems. The new work has received an initial grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC).

Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products | Reuters
A Guy Walks Into an Apple Store
'Ruined my life': After going all in on Amazon, a merchant says he lost everything
Music industry forces widely used journalist tool offline
Facebook tells academics to stop monitoring its political ads for any rule-breaking.... on privacy grounds • The Register
The film 'Steve Jobs' nailed one crucial detail about how Apple works
Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet - The New York Times
magnolia1234 / bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean / issues / #37 - Welcome to Bypass Paywalls Clean — Bitbucket
mobile-friendly-reddit – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
Container proxy – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Moxie Marlinspike Has a Plan to Reclaim Our Privacy  | The New Yorker
Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites including Mother Jones - The Verge
Google Made Some Improvements to Its Search and I Have Concerns
Plan Your Route Privately: DuckDuckGo Now Has Driving & Walking Directions
House antitrust committee: Facebook 'monopoly' buys, kills competitors
Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks | Reuters
Facebook revenue chief says ad-supported model is 'under assault'
Police Want Your Smart Speaker—Here's Why | WIRED

Requests are rising from law enforcement for information on the devices, which can include internet queries, food orders, and overheard conversations.

Samsung Ads

Samsung Ads, named one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work 2020, is Advanced TV Advertising built on the largest, most powerful source of TV data.

GitHub - mxrch/GHunt: 🕵️‍♂️ Investigate Google Accounts with emails.

🕵️‍♂️ Investigate Google Accounts with emails. . Contribute to mxrch/GHunt development by creating an account on GitHub.

The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website – The Markup

Trackers piggybacking on website tools leave some site operators in the dark about who is watching or what marketers do with the data