Schools Are Pushing the Boundaries of Surveillance Technologies
By Mona Wang and Gennie Gebhart A school district in New York recently adopted facial recognition technology to monitor students, and it is now one…
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Twitter “Unintentionally” Used Your Phone Number for Targeted Advertising
By Gennie Gebhart and Jacob Hoffman-Andrews Stop us if you’ve heard this before: you give a tech company your personal information in order to use…
Fixed? The FTC Orders Facebook to Stop Using Your 2FA Number for Ads
By Gennie Gebhart Since academics and investigative journalists first reported last year that Facebook was using people’s two-factor authentication numbers and “shadow” contact information for…
Don’t Let Encrypted Messaging Become a Hollow Promise
By Andrew Crocker and Gennie Gebhart Why do we care about encryption? Why was it a big deal, at least in theory, when Mark Zuckerberg…
Human Rights Watch Reverse-Engineers Mass Surveillance App used by Police in Xinjiang
By Gennie Gebhart For years, Xinjiang has been a testbed for the Chinese government’s novel digital and physical surveillance tactics, as well as human rights…
A Privacy-Focused Facebook? We’ll Believe It When We See It
By Gennie Gebhart In his latest announcement, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg embraces privacy and security fundamentals like end-to-end encrypted messaging. But announcing a plan is…
Facebook Doubles Down On Misusing Your Phone Number
By Gennie Gebhart When we publicly demanded that Facebook stop messing with users’ phone numbers last week, we weren’t expecting the social network to double…