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Yearly Archives: 2021

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How Musicians and Sex Workers Beat Facial Recognition in New Orleans

How Musicians and Sex Workers Beat Facial Recognition in New Orleans

  • Post author:Cognitive Metropolis
  • Post category:Privacy

Last December, the city of New Orleans voted to ban facial recognition, joining Oakland, Somerville, Portland, San Francisco, and other cities that have successfully pushed back against the widely-criticized surveillance…

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What happens when you try to opt out of personalized ads

What happens when you try to opt out of personalized ads

  • Post author:Cognitive Metropolis
  • Post category:Privacy

AdChoices is a program by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), a consortium of digital advertising groups. Among other things, it provides what it calls a one-stop portal where people can…

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Metadata: the hidden fingerprint inside your photos

Metadata: the hidden fingerprint inside your photos

  • Post author:Cognitive Metropolis
  • Post category:Privacy

When you take a photo, your smartphone or digital camera stores "metadata" within the image file. This automatically and parasitically burrows itself into every photo you take. It is data…

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Smart toys: Your child’s best friend or a creepy surveillance tool?
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Smart toys: Your child’s best friend or a creepy surveillance tool?

  • Post author:Cognitive Metropolis
  • Post category:AI/IOT/Privacy

Imagine a child born this year who will be surrounded by technology at every phase of her childhood. When she is three years old, Sophie’s parents buy her a smart…

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Tim Cook: Privacy and climate change are ‘the top issues of the century’

Tim Cook: Privacy and climate change are ‘the top issues of the century’

  • Post author:Cognitive Metropolis
  • Post category:Privacy

If you care about privacy—and you should—Cook’s frank speech is worth a watch. He elaborated on his thoughts when I interviewed him moments afterward. Our talk was not the typical…

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SolarWinds hack: the mystery of one of the biggest cyberattacks ever

SolarWinds hack: the mystery of one of the biggest cyberattacks ever

  • Post author:Cognitive Metropolis
  • Post category:Security

Back in December, the SolarWinds  attack made the headlines when a Russian cyber espionage group tampered with updates for SolarWinds' Orion Network Management products that the IT company provides to…

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Your insecure Internet of Things devices are putting everyone at risk of attack

Your insecure Internet of Things devices are putting everyone at risk of attack

  • Post author:Cognitive Metropolis
  • Post category:IOT

Insecure Internet of Things (IoT) devices are potentially putting society as a whole at risk from cyberattacks because cyber criminals are able to exploit these common products that haven't been…

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This Surveillance Company Claims It Can Track Nearly Any Car in Real-Time

This Surveillance Company Claims It Can Track Nearly Any Car in Real-Time

  • Post author:Cognitive Metropolis
  • Post category:Data

A surveillance company (defense contractor) that claims to have access to motor vehicle location data on a global scale says it wants to use that data to help U.S. federal…

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What’s up with the Apple App Store’s privacy changes?

What’s up with the Apple App Store’s privacy changes?

  • Post author:Cognitive Metropolis
  • Post category:Privacy

Apple privacy changes have been delayed in the past allow more time for other companies to adjust. Apple privacy ads seem to have been delayed as well, perhaps due to…

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Privacy vs Anonymity vs Security: Why They Don’t All Mean the Same Thing

Privacy vs Anonymity vs Security: Why They Don’t All Mean the Same Thing

  • Post author:Cognitive Metropolis
  • Post category:Privacy

Three of the most important concepts to understand online are: privacy, anonymity, and security. But while most treat them as synonyms for having a safe digital presence, they don't mean…

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