#Facebook doesn’t care about your #privacy, it just wants to farm your personal data – these confidential documents prove it... - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/12/facebook-doesnt-care-about-your-privacy-it-just-wants-to-farm-your-personal-data-heres-the-proof/ #surveillance

#USA #Privacy #DataProtection: "After years of claiming self-regulation would keep them in line, big tech companies spooked by new state data privacy safeguards are now calling for a national privacy law—one that would roll back these vital state protections.

We are one of sixteen consumer privacy and civil rights groups to remind Congress that while we support federal baseline data privacy legislation that provides basic protection for all Americans, such a law must not come at the price of dismantling (or as lawyers say, “preempting”) the legal rights of people who live in states with stronger data privacy protections.

State governments across the country have stepped up in the fight to strengthen privacy, with laws that grant their citizens important protections—such as a right to know what personal information companies collect about them (California), the right to decide whether to share biometric information with companies (Illinois), and protection from fraudulent collection of their data (Vermont)."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/privacy-coalition-congress-dont-dismantle-stronger-state-data-privacy-laws

#Google #privacy
https://medium.com/s/story/the-complete-unauthorized-checklist-of-how-google-tracks-you-3c3abc10781d

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Think Google will receive just punishment?

#android #news #google #tech #privacy

Yet another #privacy #scandal at #Facebook …
“[…] The bug also impacted photos that people uploaded to Facebook but chose not to post. […]”
“[…] Currently, we believe this may have affected up to 6.8 million users and up to 1,500 apps built by 876 developers. […]”

Insurance companies spy on patients through their sleep apnea machines #security #privacy #cloud #CPAP @EFF

#YouTube is reading text in users’ #video's... #Risk #Privacy #Google #urlscraping #vulnerability #XSS #XSSExploit #SocialMedia #SecurityAwareness

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/12/14/youtube-is-reading-text-in-users-videos/

#DataRights #DataProtection #DigitalRights #Privacy: "Data rights should protect privacy, and should account for the fact that privacy is not a reactive right to shield oneself from society. It is about freedom to develop the self away from commerce and away from governmental control. But data rights are not only about privacy. Like other rights—to freedom of speech, for example—data rights are fundamentally about securing a space for individual freedom and agency while participating in modern society. The details should follow from basic principles, as with America’s existing Bill of Rights. Too often, attempts to enunciate such principles get bogged down in the weeds of things like “opt-in consent models,” which may fast become outdated.

Clear, broad principles are needed around the world, in ways that fit into the legal systems of individual countries. In the US, existing constitutional provisions—like equal protection under the law and prohibitions against “unreasonable searches and seizures”—are insufficient. It is, for instance, difficult to argue that continuous, persistent tracking of a person’s movements in public is a search. And yet such surveillance is comparable in its intrusive effects to an “unreasonable search.” It’s not enough to hope that courts will come up with favorable interpretations of 18th-century language applied to 21st-century technologies.

A Bill of Data Rights should include rights like these:

- The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable surveillance shall not be violated.

- No person shall have his or her behavior surreptitiously manipulated.

- No person shall be unfairly discriminated against on the basis of data.

These are by no means all the provisions a durable and effective bill would need. They are meant to be a beginning, and examples of the sort of clarity and generality such a document needs."

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