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I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone
10. We need strong regulation to protect our privacy
20. Goto 10

I think every large company has violated our privacy now—selling user data is the culture! So we need to change that culture via regulation. Congressional investigations with no follow-up are not scaring companies; so promises like this ring hollow: AT&T says it'll stop selling your location data. The week before it was IBM selling Weather Channel app location data: Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data. With no repercussions we'll see these headlines over and over.
Recommended · Jan 13th, 2019, 9:41 am
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Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email
This really rang true for me, especially: "I don’t sit there and think about what other people might think about what I’m writing — just the person who emailed me. To me, this is closer to what true friendship is like." I feel like we've collectively forgotten what private one-on-one relationships are.
Recommended · Jan 12th, 2019, 12:43 pm
  • Apple: Untrustable « random($foo)
    Leonard has a great summary of the Apple security problem: "Either Apple’s security was so incompetent or negligent that they have not been aware of what was going on, or they knew, but actively ignored the issue and decided that it was not worth fixing."
Sep 10th, 2014, 5:00 pm
  • The Internet With A Human Face
    Maciej is correct. Again. "Perhaps they didn't feel they had a say in the matter. Maybe the economic interests promoting car culture were too strong. Maybe they thought this was the inevitable price of progress."
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  • Emptyage: Yes, I was hacked. Hard.
    Mat Honan is experiencing a nightmare cascade failure of interconnected services. This is a good reminder to back things up and make sure your passwords are unique for each service.
Aug 4th, 2012, 4:00 pm
  • Branch: Owning Your Own Words – Is It Important?
    Not only words, but it's important to think about all of the digital artifacts of living. They're all moving toward the domain of companies in the name of convenience. This conversation explains some of the problems with that. [via waxy]
Jun 20th, 2012, 4:00 pm
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  • Futility Closet: Home Made
    "Sears used to sell houses by mail." Someone please put old catalog pictures side by side with modern pictures of those houses still in use.
  • rc3.org - Managing my mistrust of Facebook
    "From now on, when I want to visit Facebook, I’ll be using the private browser setting in whatever browser I’m using." This is my new strategy too. What a hassle.
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