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The Surveillance Detection Scout can track license plates and faces near your Tesla—with all the privacy concerns that implies.
Eavesdropping, reprogramming, talking to strangers: Welcome to the harmless and not-so-harmless fun of hacking elevator call boxes.
Protesters are turning to Tinder, Pokémon Go and Apple’s AirDrop to spread messages
In partnership with Psiphon, we are launching a custom app for Android and Windows devices that circumvents China’s censorship of The Intercept.
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In recent years, the country has rushed to pursue “intelligent education.” Now its billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas.
Promo video of a Chinese military drill in Hong Kong started making the rounds on patriotic sections of China’s TikTok
The question of what should be moderated, and when, is an increasingly frequent one in tech. There is no bright line, but there are ways to get closer to an answer.
Documents, screenshots, and audio obtained by Motherboard show that humans listen to Skype calls made using the app's translation function.
Its founder Fredrick Brennan is appalled by the notorious chat site’s links to right-wing extremism and mass shootings. Inside his tortured journey through the web’s cesspool and his attempt at redemption.
Photographer and designer Ceres Henry embellishes her portrait subjects with floral body paint and fresh blossoms in her Adam & Eve series. The New York-based artist hand-painted each person before the shoot, inspired in the moment by the flowers she had pre-selected, and then worked the three-d
I’ve discovered a few avenues for finding people having fun on the internet. Metafilter, Pinboard, and Github are all interesting places to start. You go there and start poking around and you can find all kinds of interesting things. It feels like walking through the woods looking for mushrooms versus just buying a prewrapped container of mushrooms at the supermarket. Harder, but more nourishing and satisfying.
Metaphorically speaking, I’ve found some amazing fungi out there. I also think I’ve been getting better at exploring. The internet is still a really great place to explore. But you have to get back into Internet Nature instead of spending all your time in Internet Times Square wondering how everything got so loud and dehumanising.
Metaphorically speaking, I’ve found some amazing fungi out there. I also think I’ve been getting better at exploring. The internet is still a really great place to explore. But you have to get back into Internet Nature instead of spending all your time in Internet Times Square wondering how everything got so loud and dehumanising.
Meer achtergrond over het client side filteren en of het nou wel of niet in de plannen van Facebook zou zitten. Het lijkt hier in ieder geval al wel op dat Facebook aan het cashen is op de credibility van Nate Cardozo.
Mmm, nu blijft 5G en IMSI-catchers gewoon nog wel te werken
At its core, artificial intelligence is a military technology. Why is the company sharing it with a rival?
There are two types of people in the world: those with hundreds of unread messages, and those who can’t relax until their inboxes are cleared out.
Edward Snowden's memoir, "Permanent Record," will go on sale on Sept 17
Teenaged girl becomes a resistance symbol for her peaceful reading of the Russian constitution to a Putin goon-squad (they beat her up later)
It occupies a spot next to 'Black Mirror' and Big Brother in popular imagination, but China’s social credit project is far more complicated than a single, all-powerful numerical score.
Vanuit een buitenwijk in Haarlem bestiert de Syrische filmmaker Dareen Hasan Halimah een internationaal Arabisch feministisch platform. Ze vertelt me over Arabisch en westers feminisme, over ouderwetse misogynie en moderne onderdrukking door de linkse Gutmensch, en waarom ze de politieke islam wel degelijk gevaarlijk vindt.
Deze man beargumenteerd dat we richting een wereld gaan waarin onze apparaten vanaf de cloud lokale filters krijgen gepusht waarmee zaken gecensureerd en direct afgetapt kunnen worden. Facebook is al bezig met dit soort technologie. Het zou volgens hem het einde van de cryptowars betekenen: die zijn dan irrelevant.
So I am learning how to build a theme in hugo and wanted to document the things I found that were not obvious to me.
€4.5 million has been pumped into the virtual policeman project meant to judge the honesty of travelers. An expert calls the technology “not credible.”
A GPX track plugin for Leaflet.js. Contribute to mpetazzoni/leaflet-gpx development by creating an account on GitHub.
convert KML and GPX to GeoJSON, without the fuss. Contribute to tmcw/togeojson development by creating an account on GitHub.
For more than a decade, consumer rights groups (including EFF) worked with technologists and companies to try to standardize Do Not Track, a flag that browsers could send to online companies signaling that their users did not want their browsing activity tracked. Despite long hours and backing from...
The Lakeland, Florida police department is required to “encourage adoption” of Ring products as part of a secret agreement with the company.
Soms is het noodzakelijk om je zakelijke mailadressen te veranderen. Zo’n verandering is niet helemaal zonder risico. 5 tips om dat op een zorgvuldige manier te doen.
A powerful and comprehensive template letter to make the most of the rights to access your data and metadata in the GDPR.
In its next release, Android plans to up its privacy game. But the operating system still caters to ad trackers at its users’ expense.The newest release of Android, dubbed “Q,” is currently in late-stage beta testing and slated for a full release this summer. After a year defined by new privacy...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: The most common way public agencies protect our identities is anonymization. This involves stripping out obviously identifiable things such as names, phone numbers, email addresses, and so on. Data sets are also altered to be less preci...
William Barr's terrible, stupid idea to ban working crypto is slightly less terrible and stupid than earlier ideas
Women are much more likely to be injured in car crashes, probably because crash-test dummies are mostly male-shaped
‘Maar goed’, zei ze over mensen die op een terrasje zitten in de zomer. ‘Dat kan ook mijn Amsterdamse bubbel zijn.’Toen ik laatst iemand voor de zoveelste keer zich hoorde verexcuseren voor haar ‘bubbel’, was ik er klaar mee. Moet je dan echt in een Oeteldonkse carnavalstent hebben gehost om nog chardonnay te mogen sippen op een Amsterdams terras, dacht ik. Ik vind carnaval al niks sinds ik als kind schaars verkleed als Romeinse senator in de grafkou op een Nijmeegs schoolplein stond.Mag dat? Soms denk ik: misschien is dit wel mijn bubbel. De bubbel van mensen die tegen hun zin in in een bubbel zitten. Moet je zeventig jaar geleden eens om zijn gekomen. De oer-Hollandsche zuilen: dat waren nog eens bubbels. Eigen partij, eigen omroep, eigen kerk, eigen universiteit, eigen kruidenier, eigen zwembad, eigen korfbalclub – een waarlijke scheiding der geesten! Zo maken we ze niet meer. En echt niet dat er dan in Staphorst zo’n jonge gereformeerde Hendrik tijdens de Bijbelles met nog negen jongens die ook allemaal Hendrik heetten, opstond en zei: ‘Zeg, die pratende slang in dat Paradijs, zijn we onszelf niet wat veel aan het bevestigen in ons eigen gelijk? Moeten we niet eens buiten onze bubbel treden? Misschien iets lezen van Marx, Mao, de Paus...?’
The second annual CyFyAfrica 2019, The Conference on Technology, Innovation, and Society [1] took place in Tangier, Morocco, 7 – 9 June 2019. It was a vibrant, diverse and dynamic gathering …
( Note to reader: These are lightly expanded notes for a class I once gave on freedom of speech. The notes are intended to explain the...
Integriteit:
The answer may not be what we think.
Moynaq, Aral Sea, CC-BY 2.0 Arian Zwegers
Many developers work on the “web platform” because they believe in the model of competing and interoperable implementations (i.e. browsers). These folks (of which I am one) believe that competing and interoperable implementations is what makes the web fundamentally stronger than other platforms. Unlike Windows, iOS, or Android (for example), the web’s users have choice about how they participate. If they disagree with how their chosen browser is being managed, they can switch to another.
Many developers work on the “web platform” because they believe in the model of competing and interoperable implementations (i.e. browsers). These folks (of which I am one) believe that competing and interoperable implementations is what makes the web fundamentally stronger than other platforms. Unlike Windows, iOS, or Android (for example), the web’s users have choice about how they participate. If they disagree with how their chosen browser is being managed, they can switch to another.
Why do we care about encryption? Why was it a big deal, at least in theory, when Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier this year that Facebook would move to end-to-end encryption on all three of its messaging platforms? We don’t just support encryption for its own sake. We fight for it because...
Het kabinet heeft vlak voor de parlementaire zomervakantie zijn klimaatbeleid bekend gemaakt. Na lang polderen zijn er plannen te over, maar het is te weinig en te laat. Politiek Dagboek over de keus: geruststellen en mensen ‘meenemen’, of de ramp vergroten.
Before there was Big Tech, there was "adversarial interoperability": when someone decides to compete with a dominant company by creating a product or service that "interoperates" (works with) its offerings.In tech, "network effects" can be a powerful force to maintain market dominance: if everyone...
An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining
Het gezichtsherkenningsnetwerk van de Nederlandse recherche ontwikkelt zich razendsnel, maar burgers worden daar nauwelijks bij betrokken.
Following the panic over this viral app, the moral of the story is: don’t worry too much about ‘the Russians’. You should worry about everything
The latest release of Privacy Badger gives it the power to detect and block a new class of evasive, pervasive third-party trackers, including Google Analytics. Most blocking tools, like uBlock Origin, Ghostery, and Firefox’s native blocking mode (using Disconect’s block lists), use human-curated...
In the past week, a controversy around F-Droid took place at its forum and in the fediverse. We feel like we have to put out a public statement to clear F-Dr...
Politie: De Nationale Politie negeert interne meldingen over discriminatie, seksuele intimidatie en ander grensoverschrijdend gedrag. Politiecoach Carel Boers en andere medewerkers slaan alarm.
Startup plans to use small ‘threads’ to detect neuron activity, as Musk claims tests already show ‘monkey can control computer with its brain’
Many of the key Googler Uprising organizers have quit, citing retaliation from senior management
From a letter written in 1905 by Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump’s grandfather, to Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria. Trump had been ordered to leave Bavaria for failing to complete mandatory military service and to register his initial emigration to the United States twenty years earlier. Prince Luitpold rejected Trump’s request for repatriation; the family later settled in New York. Translated from the German by Austen Hinkley.
Om afgrijzen op te wekken vertel ik aan echtparen graag het verhaal van de vrouw zonder sleutel. Ooit las ik een interview met een vrouw die geen sleutel bezat van haar eigen huis. Haar man had er eentje, zei ze, en ze had haar man altijd bij zich. Of hij haar.In de Verenigde Staten is rumoer ontstaan over een huwelijksconstructie die hier wat op lijkt: de Billy Graham Rule. Robert Foster, in de…
Mastodon is figuring out how to address Gab joining its platform
An invitation to the palace to accept a New Year honour... you must be joking. Benjamin Zephaniah won't be going. Here he explains why.