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While digital surveillance is being used to curb coronavirus, it also has the potential to be used long after the pandemic to monitor individuals' movement.
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Dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The Times Privacy Project obtained one such files.
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A new law would give the country’s 1.3 billion people more power over data collected by companies but allow the government to exempt itself from the rules.
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More colleges are taking advantage of big data technology to keep tabs on students and find ways to intervene, but it's gotten to the point for tracking student locations on campus, raising privacy concerns.
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Hackers are actively exploiting a critical weakness found in most mobile phones to surreptitiously track the location of users and possibly carry out other nefarious actions, researchers warned.The attacks work by exploiting an interface intended to be used solely by cell carr
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Dorsey’s account began posting racial epithets, profanities and bomb threats. A company spokesman confirmed it was hacked.
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Amazon employs a global team that transcribes the voice commands captured after the wake word is detected and feeds them back into the software to help improve Alexa’s grasp of human speech so it can respond more efficiently in the future.
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Recent news reports in the last week revealed that Amazon has thousands of workers listening to Amazon Echo aka Alexa voice assistant recordings. The article lists ways to increase your privacy.
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A Princeton study analyzed of one million websites, and reveals the newest breed of site snoopers are tracking everything from battery level to your fonts, and it doesn't need cookies to do so.
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Private groups - like the one used by students whose Harvard acceptances were recently rescinded - may offer a false sense of confidence.