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jmlocation home-assistant home automation tracking deviceshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9457f1dfb5a3/NHSX release the source for their COVID-19 tracking apps2020-05-07T21:01:48+00:00
https://twitter.com/NHSX/status/1258453749691027465
jmnhsx nhs uk covid-19 ble bluetooth tracking contact-tracing ios android appshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6c04196c212b/We Need A Massive Surveillance Program (Idle Words)2020-03-23T14:21:59+00:00
https://idlewords.com/2020/03/we_need_a_massive_surveillance_program.htm
jmThe most troubling change this project entails is giving access to sensitive location data across the entire population to a government agency. Of course that is scary, especially given the track record of the Trump administration. The data collection would also need to be coercive (that is, no one should be able to opt out of it, short of refusing to carry a cell phone). [...]
But the public health potential of commandeering surveillance advertising is so great that we can’t dismiss it out of hand. I am a privacy activist, typing this through gritted teeth, but I am also a human being like you, watching a global calamity unfold around us. What is the point of building this surveillance architecture if we can't use it to save lives in a scary emergency like this one?
+1000.]]>surveillance advertising contact-tracing contact-tracking tracking location smartphones covid-19 pandemics\https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6a09bf75c53a/good twitter thread roundup on smartphone contract-tracing apps2020-03-22T22:59:10+00:00
https://twitter.com/julicouras/status/1241815017961541636
jmMobile contact tracing for #COVID19
A thread with multiple references about what is being done in the world, what has already been done and what is not being done in the European Union.
]]>contact-tracing tracking apps smartphone mobile euhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9aeb8156dedf/Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy - The New York Times2019-12-19T14:55:14+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html?te=1&nl=the-privacy%20project&emc=edit_priv_20191219?campaign_id=0&instance_id=0&segment_id=0&user_id=7c8ff3fc774920a57c39e5d6cb28327e®i_id=020191219
jmtechnology privacy surveillance phones mobile location location-tracking tracking geohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2f425d3391e7/How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age - The New York Times2019-10-03T10:12:45+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/magazine/ice-surveillance-deportation.html#click=https://t.co/106daANqmy
jmTracking immigrants in this country is an increasingly trivial exercise because it’s an increasingly trivial exercise to track any of us. [...] Over the course of more than a year, I tried to reverse-engineer individual ICE officers’ use of America’s vast post-Sept. 11 domestic-surveillance apparatus, retracing their hunt for targets down to the very searches they entered into their computers.
The scale of domestic surveillance of the general population in the US is huge. We need more friction:
'What may be most unusual about Washington State is not what it collects and not what it has shared but the degree to which it has been forced to become transparent about the vast quantity of personal data that courses through its bureaucracy. For decades, the overriding objective of American business and government has been to remove friction from the tracking system, by linking networks, by speeding connections, by eliminating barriers. But friction is the only thing that has ever made privacy, let alone obscurity, possible. If there’s no friction, if we can all be profiled instantly and intimately, then there’s nothing to stop any of our neighbors from being targeted — nothing, that is, except our priorities.']]>ice privacy data-protection data-privacy immigration us-politics trump surveillance palantir great-oak trackinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b5462c83960f/Formal GDPR complaint against IAB Europe’s “cookie wall” and GDPR consent guidance2019-04-03T09:37:02+00:00
https://brave.com/iab-cookie-wall/
jmTracking and cookie walls:
Visitors to IAB Europe’s website, www.iabeurope.eu, are confronted with a “cookie wall” that forces them to accept tracking by Google, Facebook, and others, which may then monitor them. Dr. Ryan has complained to the Irish Data Protection Commission that this is a breach of the GDPR, which protects people in Europe from being forced to accept processing for their data for any purpose other than the provision of the requested service.
“One should not be forced to accept web-wide profiling by unknown companies as a condition of access to a website”, said Dr Johnny Ryan of Brave. “This would be like Facebook preventing you from accessing the Newsfeed until you have clicked a button permitting it to share your data with Cambridge Analytica.”
Simon McGarr of McGarr Solicitors, who has worked on data protection cases for Digital Rights Ireland, represents Dr Ryan in his complaint. Mr McGarr said “Where companies rely on consent to process people’s data it is critical that this is more than a box ticking exercise. For consent to be valid, it must be freely given, informed, specific and unambiguous. There’s nothing intrinsically good or bad in cookie technology – what matters is ensuring it’s applied in a way which respects individuals’ rights.”
Challenging IAB Europe’s industry guidance on the GDPR:
The complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commission will also test IAB Europe’s GDPR guidance to the online advertising industry. IAB Europe has put itself forward as a primary designer of the online tracking industry’s data protection notices. It has told major media organizations, tracking companies, and advertising technology companies that they can sidestep the GDPR, and rely instead on the ePrivacy Directive, which IAB Europe has interpreted as more lax in protecting personal data.
IAB Europe has widely promoted the notion that access to a website or app can be made conditional on consent for data processing that is not necessary for the requested service to be delivered, despite the clear requirements of the GDPR, and statements from several national data protection authorities, that say otherwise.
“This complaint will make it plain that the media and advertising industry should not rely on IAB Europe for GDPR guidance”, said Dr Ryan.
]]>dpc ireland brave iab-europe iab cookies tracking gdpr law euhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c4de5422a77f/'digital health will lead to forms of enslavement we can barely imagine'2019-02-25T11:22:10+00:00
https://www.independent.ie/life/health-wellbeing/modern-medicine-is-like-the-medieval-church-37749518.html
jmPerhaps most alarming of all is his analysis of the future of the world of digital health - "Anyone with a smartphone will be monitoring themselves, or - more likely - will be monitored by some external agency. Health and life insurance companies will offer financial inducements to people to be monitored, and big corporations will undoubtedly make the wearing of health-tracking devices mandatory. The danger of all of this is that in countries where health care is paid for by insurance, a new underclass of uninsured people will emerge. Digital health," he points out, "is presented as something empowering, but the reality is that it will lead to forms of enslavement that we can barely imagine. Facebook and Google have shown how easily people hand over their privacy and personal data in return for a few shiny trinkets. They have also shown how this personal data can be monetised."
]]>health medicine tracking privacy insurance surveillance datahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:69ae9874a376/How to revoke all ad permissions from Oath GDPR pages2018-05-31T16:33:10+00:00
https://twitter.com/paulobsf/status/1001118242440654849
jmdocument.querySelectorAll('input[type=checkbox]').forEach(val => val.checked = false)
(via stx)
]]>via:stx oath gdpr privacy tracking adshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2dbed152c136/Tracking Firm LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers Without Consent in Real Time Via Its Web Site2018-05-17T20:51:32+00:00
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking-firm-locationsmart-leaked-location-data-for-customers-of-all-major-u-s-mobile-carriers-in-real-time-via-its-web-site/
jmLocationSmart, a U.S. based company that acts as an aggregator of real-time data about the precise location of mobile phone devices, has been leaking this information to anyone via a buggy component of its Web site — without the need for any password or other form of authentication or authorization — KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The company took the vulnerable service offline early this afternoon after being contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, which verified that it could be used to reveal the location of any AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon phone in the United States to an accuracy of within a few hundred yards.
]]>locationsmart verizon sprint t-mobile att brian-krebs security location-tracking tracking mobile phones locationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f83f64790ea5/GDPR will pop the adtech bubble2018-05-15T10:18:58+00:00
https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2018/05/12/gdpr/
jmWithout adtech, the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) would never have happened. But the GDPR did happen, and as a result websites all over the world are suddenly posting notices about their changed privacy policies, use of cookies, and opt-in choices for “relevant” or “interest-based” (translation: tracking-based) advertising. Email lists are doing the same kinds of things.
“Sunrise day” for the GDPR is 25 May. That’s when the EU can start smacking fines on violators.
Simply put, your site or service is a violator if it extracts or processes personal data without personal permission. Real permission, that is. You know, where you specifically say “Hell yeah, I wanna be tracked everywhere.”
Of course what I just said greatly simplifies what the GDPR actually utters, in bureaucratic legalese. The GDPR is also full of loopholes only snakes can thread; but the spirit of the law is clear, and the snakes will be easy to shame, even if they don’t get fined. (And legitimate interest—an actual loophole in the GDPR, may prove hard to claim.)
Toward the aftermath, the main question is What will be left of advertising—and what it supports—after the adtech bubble pops?
]]>advertising europe law privacy gdpr tracking data-privacyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4ee6f2fe1a61/The Australian Bureau of Statistics Tracked People By Their Mobile Device Data.2018-04-24T12:38:55+00:00
https://medium.com/@Asher_Wolf/the-australian-bureau-of-statistics-tracked-people-by-their-mobile-device-data-and-didnt-tell-them-16df094de31
jmThe ABS claims population estimates have a “major data gap” and so they’ve been a busy bee figuring out a way to track crowd movement. Their solution? Mobile device user data. “…with its near-complete coverage of the population, mobile device data is now seen as a feasible way to estimate temporary populations,” states a 2017 conference extract for a talk by ABS Demographer Andrew Howe.
While the “Estimated Resident Population” (ERP) is Australia’s official population measure, the ABS felt the pre-existing data wasn’t ‘granular’ enough. What the ABS really wanted to know was where you’re moving, hour by hour, through the CBD, educational hubs, tourist areas. Howe’s ABS pilot study of mobile device user data creates population estimates with the help of a trial engagement with an unnamed telco company. The data includes age and sex breakdowns. The study ran between the 18th April to 1st May 2016. [....]
Electronic Frontiers Australia board member Justin Warren also pointed out that while there are beneficial uses for this kind of information, “…the ABS should be treading much more carefully than it is. The ABS damaged its reputation with its bungled management of the 2016 Census, and with its failure to properly consult with civil society about its decision to retain names and addresses. Now we discover that the ABS is running secret tracking experiments on the population?”
“Even if the ABS’ motives are benign, this behaviour — making ethically dubious decisions without consulting the public it is experimenting on — continues to damage the once stellar reputation of the ABS.”
“This kind of population tracking has a dark history. During World War II, the US Census Bureau used this kind of tracking information to round up Japanese-Americans for internment. Census data was used extensively by Nazi Germany to target specific groups of people. The ABS should be acutely aware of these historical abuses, and the current tensions within society that mirror those earlier, dark days all too closely.”
]]>abs australia tracking location-data privacy data-privacy mobilehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d28f89a6aa07/Why is this company tracking where you are on Thanksgiving?2017-11-16T15:34:58+00:00
https://theoutline.com/post/2490/why-is-this-company-tracking-where-you-are-on-thanksgiving
jmTo do this, they tapped a company called SafeGraph that provided them with 17 trillion location markers for 10 million smartphones.
The data wasn’t just staggering in sheer quantity. It also appears to be extremely granular. Researchers “used this data to identify individuals' home locations, which they defined as the places people were most often located between the hours of 1 and 4 a.m.,” wrote The Washington Post. [....]
This means SafeGraph is looking at an individual device and tracking where its owner is going throughout their day. A common defense from companies that creepily collect massive amounts of data is that the data is only analyzed in aggregate; for example, Google’s database BigQuery, which allows organizations to upload big data sets and then query them quickly, promises that all its public data sets are “fully anonymized” and “contain no personally-identifying information.” In multiple press releases from SafeGraph’s partners, the company’s location data is referred to as “anonymized,” but in this case they seem to be interpreting the concept of anonymity quite liberally given the specificity of the data.
Most people probably don’t realize that their Thanksgiving habits could end up being scrutinized by strangers.
It’s unclear if users realize that their data is being used this way, but all signs point to no. (SafeGraph and the researchers did not immediately respond to questions.) SafeGraph gets location data from “from numerous smartphone apps,” according to the researchers.
]]>safegraph apps mobile location tracking surveillance android iphone ios smartphones big-datahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:205b103293e9/How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner2017-06-06T11:56:44+00:00
http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reality-winner.html#.WTaXwRPyvUI
jmprinters metadata tracking documents reality-winner nsa leaks the-intercepthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5642c43236e1/Quividi - Leader in Attention Analytics2017-05-12T09:55:09+00:00
http://www.quividi.com/
jmadvertising privacy technology tracking opt-in quividi orbhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:33800d0455a1/Did you know that Dublin Airport is recording your phone's data? - Newstalk2015-11-16T09:44:46+00:00
http://www.newstalk.com/Did-you-know-that-Dublin-Airport-is-recording-your-phones-data-
jm"I think the fundamental issue is one of consent. Dublin Airport have been tracking individual MAC addresses since 2012 and there doesn't appear to be anywhere in the airport where they warn passengers that this is this occurring. "If they have to signpost CCTV, then mobile phone tracking should at a very minimum be sign-posted for passengers," he continues.
And how long are MAC addresses retained for, I wonder?]]>mac-addresses dublin-airport travel privacy surveillance tracking wifi phones cctv consenthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9024dea87d60/Red lines and no-go zones - the coming surveillance debate2015-11-09T22:49:48+00:00
http://cyberleagle.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/red-lines-and-no-go-zones-coming.html
jm"Firm limits must also be written into the law: not merely safeguards, but red lines that may not be crossed." …
"Some might find comfort in a world in which our every interaction and movement could be recorded, viewed in real time and indefinitely retained for possible future use by the authorities. Crime fighting, security, safety or public health justifications are never hard to find." [13.19]
The Report then gives examples, such as a perpetual video feed from every room in every house, the police undertaking to view the record only on receipt of a complaint; blanket drone-based surveillance; licensed service providers, required as a condition of the licence to retain within the jurisdiction a complete plain-text version of every communication to be made available to the authorities on request; a constant data feed from vehicles, domestic appliances and health-monitoring personal devices; fitting of facial recognition software to every CCTV camera and the insertion of a location-tracking chip under every individual's skin.
It goes on:
"The impact of such powers on the innocent could be mitigated by the usual apparatus of safeguards, regulators and Codes of Practice. But a country constructed on such a basis would surely be intolerable to many of its inhabitants. A state that enjoyed all those powers would be truly totalitarian, even if the authorities had the best interests of its people at heart." [13.20] …
"The crucial objection is that of principle. Such a society would have gone beyond Bentham's Panopticon (whose inmates did not know they were being watched) into a world where constant surveillance was a certainty and quiescence the inevitable result. There must surely come a point (though it comes at different places for different people) where the escalation of intrusive powers becomes too high a price to pay for a safer and more law abiding environment." [13.21]
]]>panopticon jeremy-bentham law uk dripa ripa surveillance spying police drones facial-recognition future tracking cctv crimehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6ba7e0d6eea5/London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked2015-11-09T22:06:54+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/06/garden-bridge-mobile-phone-signals-tracking-london
jmIf it goes ahead, people’s progress across the structure would be tracked by monitors detecting the Wi-Fi signals from their phones, which show up the device’s Mac address, or unique identifying code. The Garden Bridge Trust says it will not store any of this data and is only tracking phones to count numbers and prevent overcrowding.
]]>london surveillance mobile-phones mac-trackers trackinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:314d73c1f918/User data plundering by Android and iOS apps is as rampant as you suspected2015-11-05T10:53:30+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/user-data-plundering-by-android-and-ios-apps-is-as-rampant-as-you-suspected/
jmAn app from Drugs.com, meanwhile, sent the medical search terms "herpes" and "interferon" to five domains, including doubleclick.net, googlesyndication.com, intellitxt.com, quantserve.com, and scorecardresearch.com, although those domains didn't receive other personal information.
]]>privacy security google tracking mobile phones search piihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1a81e1400333/Madhumita Venkataramanan: My identity for sale (Wired UK)2014-11-04T17:31:02+00:00
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2014/11/features/my-identity-for-sale/viewall
jmAs the data we generate about ourselves continues to grow exponentially, brokers and aggregators are moving on from real-time profiling -- they're cross-linking data sets to predict our future behaviour. Decisions about what we see and buy and sign up for aren't made by us any more; they were made long before. The aggregate of what's been collected about us previously -- which is near impossible for us to see in its entirety -- defines us to companies we've never met. What I am giving up without consent, then, is not just my anonymity, but also my right to self-determination and free choice. All I get to keep is my name.
]]>wired privacy data-aggregation identity-theft future grim biometrics opt-out healthcare data data-protection trackinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a50748e07bb4/Vodafone UK, Verizon add mandatory device-tracking token on all web requests2014-10-28T14:25:38+00:00
https://twitter.com/tjmcintyre/status/527093821667287040
jmuidh verizon vodafone privacy tracking http cookies advertisinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5db2265453a4/Irish NewsDiffs2014-04-07T14:35:43+00:00
http://irishnewsdiffs.com/
jmTracking Irish News Stories Over Time;
Irish NewsDiffs archives changes in articles after publication.
Currently, we track rte.ie and irishtimes.com.
]]>rte irish-times diffing diffs changes tracking newspapers news ireland historyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:835e4b976f04/Ukrainian police use cellphones to track protestors, court order shows2014-01-30T18:09:12+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/ukrainian-police-use-cellphones-to-track-protestors-court-order-shows/
jmProtesters for weeks had suspected that the government was using location data from cellphones near the demonstration to pinpoint people for political profiling, and they received alarming confirmation when a court formally ordered a telephone company to hand over such data. [...] Three cellphone companies — Kyivstar, MTS and Life — denied that they had provided the location data to the government or had sent the text messages. Kyivstar suggested that it was instead the work of a “pirate” cellphone tower set up in the area. In a ruling made public on Wednesday, a city court ordered Kyivstar to disclose to the police which cellphones were turned on during an antigovernment protest outside the courthouse on Jan. 10.
]]>tech location-tracking tracking privacy ukraine cellphones mobile-phones civil-libertieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9b5c8c6e2101/Spybike2013-07-17T16:02:41+00:00
http://www.integratedtrackers.com/GPSTrack/Spybike.jsp
jmspybike cycling theft gps trackinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7780917083e8/Cellphones Track Your Every Move, and You May Not Even Know - NYTimes.com2011-03-26T22:06:05+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/business/media/26privacy.html?_r=3&hp
jmdata-retention germany phones mobile geolocation tracking mobile-phones surveillancehttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:14fa545d4568/Network Advertising Initiative: Opt-Out of Behavioural Advertising2010-06-28T10:08:51+00:00
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
jmads advertising browser cookies via:jordansissel google marketing opt-out privacy tracking web behavioralhttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b9ffc2914b0d/Track down your stolen laptop – Prey2009-10-19T22:00:59+00:00
http://preyproject.com/
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