Tech Companies Are Quietly Phasing Out a Major #Privacy Safeguard
More and more companies are failing issue transparency reports to tell consumers how much of their information governments have demanded.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/09/what-happened-transparency-reports/599035/
Australia audits Paypal for money laundering, terror law compliance
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-regulator-paypal-hldg-idUSKBN1W902E
Google on Its Own Transparency Report: This Is Not Good Enough
In the latest installment of its semi-annual report, Google puts an emphasis on the project’s limits.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/google-on-its-own-transparency-report-this-is-not-good-enough/281473/
DPA rules websites must allow people to refuse tracking cookies
https://www.gdprtoday.org/dutch-dpa-rules-websites-must-allow-people-to-refuse-tracking-cookies/
Is it possible to refuse offering service to GDPR-protected customers?
https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/29562/is-it-possible-to-refuse-offering-service-to-gdpr-protected-customers
Brains are the last frontier of privacy
https://www.axios.com/robotic-brains-data-technology-companies-6ba7269e-1553-4395-a6db-3560fead7e24.html
Brain–computer interfaces, once used exclusively for clinical research, are now under development at several wealthy startups and a major tech company, and rudimentary versions are already popping up in online stores.
Why it matters: If users unlock the information inside their heads and give companies and governments access, they’re inviting privacy risks far greater than today’s worries over social media data, experts say — and raising the specter of discrimination based on what goes on inside a person’s head.
What’s happening: Machines that read brain activity from outside the head, or in some cases even inside the skull, are still relatively limited in the data they can extract from wearers’ brains, and how accurately they can interpret it.
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613409/how-to-hide-from-the-ai-surveillance-state-with-a-color-printout/
https://twitter.com/0xDUDE/status/1095702540463820800
China Uncensored
@ChinaUncensored
First @TeamYouTube demonetizes all our #HongKongProtest episodes. Now they’re removing our channel verification!
https://twitter.com/ChinaUncensored/status/1174808446299975680