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Thai telcoms regulator wants tourists to use location-tracking SIMs

Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission has proposed issuing tracking-chips to all visitors to the country, which would allow the government to monitor the movements of all...

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After ACLU investigation, Twitter blocks US surveillance "fusion centers"...

The ACLU of Northern California recently published a leaked email showing that Dataminr -- a Twitter-monitoring company partially owned by Twitter itself -- was selling access to US domestic...

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Seattle spends five years failing to come up with a privacy policy for its...

Five years after activists forced Seattle's mayor to return the city's surveillance drones to their manufacturer, the city has announced that it is terminating its warrantless mass-surveillance...

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Raleigh cops are investigating crime by getting Google to reveal the identity...

Public records requests have revealed that on at least four occasions, the Raleigh-Durham police obtained warrants forcing Google to reveal the identities of every mobile user within acres of a crime...

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The secret, unaccountable location-tracking tool favored by dirty cops has...

Securus is the widely abused location-tracking tool that exploits a loophole in privacy law to allow police to extract realtime and historical cellphone location data without a warrant or any...

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California proposes location-tracking, e-ink license plates that display...

A new California pilot program will let drivers replace their metal license plates with e-ink versions that will eliminate the need to use stickers to prove that you've renewed your tags, allow you to...

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Ad brokers are selling the fact that you visited an emergency room to...

Philadelphia's WHYY radio reports that visitors to the city's hospital emergency room are blitzed for weeks with ads for personal injury lawyers, thanks to "geofenced ad" brokerages. These brokers buy...

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The most interesting thing about the "Thanksgiving Effect" study is what it...

Late last year, a pair of economists released an interesting paper that used mobile location data to estimate the likelihood that political polarization had shortened family Thanksgiving dinners in...

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China mandates radio-tracking beacons in all cars

As of July 1, registering a car in China will involve registering an RFID radio-beacon that will be planted on the car in order to track its movements. The Chinese government says it will use...

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EBGAP: Error Between Google and Privacy

Yesterday's Associated Press exposé by Ryan Nakashima is the 2018 version of this scenario. When people turn off Google "Location History" they, predictably, expect their location history to be turned...

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Surveillance libraries in common smartphone apps have amassed dossiers on the...

An investigation by the New York Times into the shadowy world of location-data brokerages found a whole menagerie of companies from IBM, Foursquare and the Weather Channel to obscure players like...

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Bounty hunters track targets by buying realtime location data generated by...

If you want to follow someone in realtime, you don't need to shell out to shady data-brokers like Securus (which use a marketing company that exploits a privacy law loophole to obtain phone location...

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Why the hell do we continue to believe the carriers' promises to respect our...

There have been several attempts to force the US telcoms industry to respect our privacy: to stop our ISPs from spying on us and selling our usage data to marketers, to stop the mobile carriers from...

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Google Fi to carriers: don't sell our customers' location data to third parties

In the wake of this week's Motherboard scoop that the major US carriers sell customers' location data to marketing companies that sell it on to bounty hunters and other unsavory characters, Google has...

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Trump's FCC chairman won't do anything about your cellular company selling...

Motherboard's blockbuster story about mobile carriers selling your realtime location data into a marketplace where bounty hunters and other villains can buy it for just a few dollars has triggered an...

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Data-broker implicated in bounty-hunters' access to mobile location data...

When Motherboard broke the story of a thriving underground in bounty-hunters and other unsavory sorts buying realtime location data from America's cellular carriers, many were outraged that the...

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Toronto cops can frequently get your public transit history without a warrant

Metrolinx, the provincial agency that supplies the Presto cards used to pay for public transit rides in Toronto, has continued to hand over riders' travel history to Toronto-area cops without asking...

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Vast majority of Americans and Europeans believe ad-targeting and feed...

An RSA survey of 6,000 US and EU adults found that only a minority (48%) believes there is any ethical way to use personal data (that figure rises to 60% when considering US respondents alone); 57%...

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Manhattan DA served Google with a "reverse search warrant" in a bid to...

In October 2018, Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes was invited to speak at the Manhattan Republican club, drawing neo-Nazi supporters and antifa protesters; Proud Boy thugs waded into the protest and...

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Apple poses a false dichotomy between "privacy" and "competition"

Back in September, a Congressional committee investigating anticompetitive conduct by America's tech giants sent a letter to Apple (among other Big Tech firms) asking it for details of business...

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