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March, 2021

The hidden fingerprint inside your photos - BBC Future
Addon Unavailable on Google Chrome · Issue #102 · ClearURLs/Addon · GitHub
Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy - Mozilla Security Blog

  We are pleased to announce that Firefox 87 will introduce a stricter, more privacy-preserving default Referrer Policy. From now on, by default, Firefox will trim path and query string ...

Facial Recognition: What Happens When We’re Tracked Everywhere We Go? - The New York Times

When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.

Phone app can figure out the shape of your house key by listening to you use it | Boing Boing
Line app allowed Chinese firm to access personal user data | The Record by Recorded Future
Telegram App Is Booming but Needs Advertisers—and $700 Million Soon - WSJ
Cricut to Charge for Unlimited Use of Its Cutting Machines
Why Librem Tunnel is Leaving iOS – Purism
DuckDuckGo sur Twitter : "After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. No wonder they wanted to hide it. Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search engine. We would know (our app is both in one). https://t.co/lJBbLTjMuu" / Twitter
Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images | Scientific Reports
Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are tracked - BNN Bloomberg
Pay for Twitter Super Follows? You Can Thank Google and Facebook - Bloomberg
J'ai plongé dans le fichier des 500 000 patients qui a fuité sur Internet.
Exclusive: Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro's page over COVID-19 misinformation | Reuters
Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing - Mozilla Security Blog
In 2020, Two Thirds of Google Searches Ended Without a Click | SparkToro
Amazon Keeps Getting Sued for Paying Drivers Less Than Minimum Wage
Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook messenger down for users around the world | The Independent
GitHub - alyssaxuu/screenity: The most powerful screen recorder & annotation tool for Chrome 🎥
Cars Have Your Location. This Spy Firm Wants to Sell It to the U.S. Military
Google Play Store Suspends Polyamory Dating App
A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16
Day 435: Google Took Down My Chrome Extension for Using Lodash
How Amazon Crushes Unions - The New York Times
TikTok wants to keep tracking iPhone users with state-backed workaround | Ars Technica
Facebook's GDPR bypass reaches Austrian Supreme Court
Hackers breach thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jails, hospitals - BNN Bloomberg
Social media algorithms are 'dangerous': author Walter Isaacson
EU unveils law curbing power of tech giants
Dark Patterns after the GDPR: Scraping Consent Pop-ups and Demonstrating their Influence | Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Dr. Seuss Books Deemed Offensive Will Be Delisted From eBay - WSJ
Google to Stop Selling Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing - WSJ
Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are… | Almost Secure
Google's Got A Secret - Knuckleheads' Club
Leaked memo shows Amazon knows delivery drivers resort to urinating in bottles | Amazon | The Guardian
The S in IOT is for Security – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

Young female Japanese biker is really 50-year-old man with luscious hair using FaceApp - Mothership.SG - News from Singapore, Asia and around the world
Apple gets boost in French privacy fight, but still faces probe | Reuters | Business | The Telegram
TikTok will no longer let people opt out of personalized ads - The Verge
Conny Duck : "#Tusky has been removed from the PlayStore by Goo…" - chaos.social
Herman Maritz sur Twitter : "Really disappointed with @GooglePlayDev @googledevs Our app was banned because the button says "Report User" and not just "Report" https://t.co/1tFxBz4F8L" / Twitter
Saagar Jha sur Twitter : "iOS 14 gives users the ability to control which photos they would like to share with apps, even when they request blanket permissions. @googlephotos specifically detects this and locks the user out until they give full access. I am surprised and outraged that this shipped. https://t.co/AZDAWpTkkj" / Twitter
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Why Is Facebook Going All-Out To Stop Apple's iPhone Update? : NPR
Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version • The Register