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How to delete what Facebook knows about your life outside of Facebook
www.vox.com • 5 min
The "Off-Facebook Activity" tool lets you see — and somewhat control — what other sites and apps tell Facebook about you
Apple vs Meta: The Illusion of Privacy
growth.design
Learn how Apple and Meta use psychology and UX to collect your data while creating an illusion of privacy.
The Open Sky
www.thenewatlantis.com • 8 min
How revolutions in space, imaging, and AI could open up satellite surveillance to the masses
Police Use of Face Recognition Is Sweeping the UK
www.wired.co.uk
Face recognition technology has been controversial for years. Cops in the UK are drastically increasing the amount they use it.
In 2023, digital privacy is, in many ways, a fiction: Knowingly or not, we are all constantly…
www.theatlantic.com
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How to make your offline self harder to find online
www.theverge.com • 11+ min
Keep your personal information personal
The one thing George Orwell's 1984 got wrong
www.bbc.com • 10 min
When the copyright for George Orwell's work expired, two writers reimagined his towering masterpieces, 1984 and Animal Farm. Dorian Lynskey finds out why.
American Phone-Tracking Firm Demo’d Surveillance Powers by Spying on CIA and NSA
theintercept.com • 13+ min
Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button.
How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
www.vice.com • 10 min
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.
How to Check Your Devices for Stalkerware
www.wired.com
You deserve privacy. Here's how to check your phone, laptop, and online accounts to make sure no one's looking over your shoulder.
Without a Trace: How to Take Your Phone Off the Grid
themarkup.org • 6 min
A guide on anonymizing your phone, so you can use it without it using you
Inside Google's Plan to Kill the Cookie
gizmodo.com • 13+ min
To replace the cookie in Chrome and Android, Google has an offering for the world called “Privacy Sandbox." Here's an exclusive peek into how it will work.
When deepfakes go nuclear
www.codastory.com • 12+ min
Governments already use fake data to confuse their enemies. What if they start doing this in the nuclear realm?
On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world
www.theguardian.com • 15+ min
The long read: Bulgaria in the 1980s became known as the ‘virus factory’, where hundreds of malicious computer programs were unleashed to wreak havoc. But who was writing them, and why?