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Six on Surveillance: All the Ways Google Tracks You—And How to Stop It; No one can be truly anonymous ever again; Some US Cities Are Moving Into Real-Time Facial Surveillance; Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You; It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?; How Hackers Broke WhatsApp With Just a Phone Call

All the Ways Google Tracks You—And How to Stop It

All the Ways Google Tracks You—And How to Stop It

All the Ways Google Tracks You—And How to Stop It Google knows more about you than you might think. Here's how to keep it from tracking your location, web browsin...

No one can be truly anonymous ever again thanks to genetic sequencing

"Sperm donors and those who give up a child for adoption have, in some places, long been entitled to anonymity, but this can no longer be guaranteed. Genetic ancestry tests like those offered by AncestryDNA and 23andMe – along with 90 or so other US companies – make it possible to track down relatives, even if they don’t want to be found.
 

Chelsea Whyte reports from a conference at Harvard Law School, which delved into the ethical and legal considerations of rapid advancements in technologies that sequence, analyse and alter genetic information. “A de facto national DNA database is on the horizon, if it’s not already here,” says Natalie Ram from the University of Baltimore in Maryland"

No one can be truly anonymous ever again thanks to genetic sequencing

No one can be truly anonymous ever again thanks to genetic sequencing Chelsea Whyte From the health of celebrities and presidential candidates to family secrets and hidden identities, consumer gen...

Some US Cities Are Moving Into Real-Time Facial Surveillance

Some US Cities Are Moving Into Real-Time Facial Surveillance

Some US Cities Are Moving Into Real-Time Facial Surveillance Chinese authorities apply facial-recognition programs to surveillance videos to identify subjects. Now, a report...

Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely Than Ever

Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely Than Ever

Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely ... Legal experts believe Facebook profiling may run afoul of federal law on credit checks.

 It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?

Perspective | It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?

Perspective | It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone ... https://www.facebook.com/geoffreyfowler We ran a privacy experiment to see how many hidden trackers are running from the apps on our iPhone. The tally i...

How Hackers Broke WhatsApp With Just a Phone Call | WIRED

How Hackers Broke WhatsApp With Just a Phone Call

How Hackers Broke WhatsApp With Just a Phone Call All it took to compromise a smartphone was a single phone call over WhatsApp. The user didn't even have to pick ...