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Dear Tech Companies: Please Stop Stepping on Your Own Dicks
Forcing users to decipher what you do with their data is a terrible idea.
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Privacy Disasters: The Privacy CESspool
So many terrible ideas, so little time to rant about CES 2025.
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Privacy Disasters: Microsoft Keeps Stepping in It
Microsoft releases the Torment Nexus v. 2.
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Privacy Disasters: FaceHuggers Are Eating Your Skeets
This is a post about the current mishegoss related to Hugging Face and Bluesky's firehose, and how both companies are largely fucking over their users.
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Privacy Disasters: 23andMe, and You, and Our Genetic Data
Or, I was young and foolish in 2013, and now I'm very concerned.
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Privacy Disasters - LinkedIn Spies With its (Not-So) Little AI
This one's a bit different from a normal PD because I actually have something positive to say for once. No, not about LinkedIn, but about the Digital…
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Calmara: The Final Outcome
... Eventually, FAFO comes and bites you.
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Privacy Disasters: Microsoft, Just Because You Can
... Doesn't mean you should. Here's why.
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Privacy Disasters: AI Spy-Wearables, and the Scourge of Competing Friendants
Wherein, I break down why 'always-on' wearable tech is a blight on humanity, and share a mock DPIA covering two competing 'Friend' Pendants.
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Privacy Disasters: A Depressingly Regular Series
A friend on Bluesky shared the Calmera app with me on Bluesky, and now I am raging internally.
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Privacy Disasters: AI Spy-Wearables, and the Scourge of Competing Friendants
Wherein, I break down why 'always-on' wearable tech is a blight on humanity, and share a mock DPIA covering two competing 'Friend' Pendants.
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Privacy Disasters: Microsoft, Just Because You Can
... Doesn't mean you should. Here's why.
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