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A lot of recent articles about the #DoH (#DNS over #HTTPS) security protocol. Read carefully, there is a lot of bad faith, too.

A set of Internet actors wrote to the US congress to complain that activation of DoH by Google may deprive them of the spying and manipulation they’re used to ▻https://www.ncta.com/sites/default/files/2019-09/Final%20DOH%20LETTER%209-19-19.pdf

Summary of the issue in the Wall Street Journal ▻https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-draws-house-antitrust-scrutiny-of-internet-protocol-11569765637 (paywall, note how the Akamai spokeperson clearly states that they monitor DNS requests and want to continue to do so).

▻https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/isps-worry-a-new-chrome-feature-will-stop-them-from-spying-on-you (one of the few articles that do not copy blindly the discourse of the Internet operators and ISPs)

▻https://www.cnet.com/news/google-reportedly-under-antitrust-scrutiny-for-new-internet-protocol (based on the Wall Street Journal article, with a nice addition “cable and wireless companies being cut off from much of users’ valuable DNS surfing data”, which spills the beans.)

▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/encrypted-dns-could-help-close-biggest-privacy-gap-internet-why-are-some-groups (#EFF opinion, with a strange idea “EFF is calling for widespread deployment of DNS over HTTPS support by Internet service providers themselves”, so asking DoH support by the very entities that you do not fully trust.)

#privacy

Des applications de suivi des règles transmettent des données très personnelles à Facebook
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2019/09/10/des-applications-de-suivi-des-regles-transmettent-des-donnees-tres-personnel

Une enquête de l’ONG Privacy International montre que des informations aussi sensibles que la date du dernier rapport sexuel étaient transmises dans des conditions peu claires. Date du dernier rapport sexuel, humeur, type de contraception utilisée… Une nouvelle étude de l’ONG Privacy International, publiée lundi 9 septembre, révèle que certaines applications de suivi des règles partagent de vastes quantités de données très personnelles sur leurs utilisatrices avec Facebook. Le problème ne concerne pas (...)

#Facebook #BigData #santé #PrivacyInternational

##santé

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No Body’s Business But Mine : How Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Your Data
▻https://www.privacyinternational.org/long-read/3196/no-bodys-business-mine-how-menstruation-apps-are-sharing-your-

In December 2018, Privacy international exposed the dubious practices of some of the most popular apps in the world. Out of the 36 apps we tested, we found that 61% automatically transfer data to Facebook the moment a user opens the app. This happens whether the user has a Facebook account or not, and whether they are logged into Facebook or not. We also found that some of those apps routinely send Facebook incredibly detailed and sometimes sensitive personal data. Again, it didn’t matter (...)

#Facebook #BigData #santé #PrivacyInternational

##santé

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More than 1,000 Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions

The apps gather information such as location, even after owners explicitly say no. Google says a fix won’t come until Android Q.
►https://www.cnet.com/news/more-than-1000-android-apps-harvest-your-data-even-after-you-deny-permissions

Fundamentally, consumers have very few tools and cues that they can use to reasonably control their privacy and make decisions about it.

#privacy #android #security

Your Inbox Is Spying on You
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/opinion/email-tracking.html

Why Does Google Know Everything You’ve Bought on Amazon for the Past Six Years?
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/opinion/google-purchases.html

Superhuman is Spying on You
▻https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2019/06/superhuman-is-spying-on-you
▻https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2019/07/superhumans-superficial-privacy-fixes-do-not-prevent-it-from-spying-

C’est vraiment formidable #superhuman. #mail #privacy

Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and Google
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/07/12/semptian-surveillance-mena-openpower

It is the size of a small suitcase and can be placed discreetly in the back of a car. When the device is powered up, it begins secretly monitoring hundreds of cellphones in the vicinity, recording people’s private conversations and vacuuming up their text messages. The device is one of several spy tools manufactured by a Chinese company called Semptian, which has supplied the equipment to authoritarian governments in the Middle East and North Africa, according to two sources with knowledge (...)

#IBM #Google #OpenPower #Semptian #Xilinx #algorithme #Aegis #géolocalisation #exportation #activisme #écoutes #sécuritaire #surveillance #web #PrivacyInternational #iNext #Owlet #spyware #HawkEye (...)

##Falcon

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Obfuscation – A User`s Guide for Privacy and Protest
( Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum )

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▻https://www.amazon.fr/Obfuscation-User%60s-Guide-Privacy-Protest/dp/0262029731

How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today’s pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less—and why we should.

With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today’s pervasive digital surveillance—the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects. Brunton and Nissenbaum provide tools and a rationale for evasion, noncompliance, refusal, even sabotage—especially for average users, those of us not in a position to opt out or exert control over data about ourselves. Obfuscation will teach users to push back, software developers to keep their user data safe, and policy makers to gather data without misusing it.

Brunton and Nissenbaum present a guide to the forms and formats that obfuscation has taken and explain how to craft its implementation to suit the goal and the adversary. They describe a series of historical and contemporary examples, including radar chaff deployed by World War II pilots, Twitter bots that hobbled the social media strategy of popular protest movements, and software that can camouflage users’ search queries and stymie online advertising. They go on to consider obfuscation in more general terms, discussing why obfuscation is necessary, whether it is justified, how it works, and how it can be integrated with other privacy practices and technologies.

about the book:
▻https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yp3ex7/obfuscate-yourself-nissenbaum-brunton

When it comes to maintaining their digital privacy, many people probably think about software like encrypted messaging apps and Tor browsers. But as Brunton and Nissenbaum detail in Obfuscation, there are many other ways to hide one’s digital trail. Obfuscation, the first book-length look at the topic, contains a wealth of ideas for prankish disobedience, analysis-frustrating techniques, and other methods of collective protest. The aim, as Brunton tells Motherboard, was to create an approach that could be adopted by people without access or training to the best tools, or in situations where they can’t get away with using strong crypto, for instance.

▻http://mitp.nautil.us/feature/257/how-to-obfuscate

#TrackMeNot
#privacy
#book #livre

#australia seems to have become worst of the worst when it comes to...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/9240656

#australia seems to have become worst of the worst when it comes to #privacy protection — even worse than #china in some regards ▻https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190618/10172242421/australian-home-affairs-minister-says-government-still-considering-spying-

Data collection leads to discrimination and self-censorship, MPs told
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/19/data-collection-leads-to-discrimination-and-self-censorship-mps-told

Human rights committee launches inquiry into right to privacy and digital revolution Widespread data collection practices lead to self-censorship and discrimination even though most users are not fully aware of how much their privacy is being infringed, a parliamentary committee has been warned. On Wednesday, the human rights committee, beginning its inquiry into the right to privacy and the digital revolution, published evidence from privacy and data protection organisations including (...)

#BigData #surveillance #censure #profiling #PrivacyInternational #ICO-UK

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« Est-il vrai qu’on ne peut plus prendre le train incognito en France ? » (Spoiler : vrai. Encore un bout de la #viePrivée qui nous est retiré. Prenez la bagnole !)

▻https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2019/06/18/est-il-vrai-qu-on-ne-peut-plus-prendre-le-train-incognito-en-france_17343

#SNCF #train

In Stores, Secret Bluetooth Surveillance Tracks Your Every Move (ht...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/9209638

In Stores, Secret Bluetooth Surveillance Tracks Your Every Move | #beacon #bluetooth #privacy #retail #surveillance #tracking

Surveillance Company Cellebrite Finds a New Exploit : Spying on Asylum Seekers
▻https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/2776/surveillance-company-cellebrite-finds-new-exploit-spying-asylu

Cellebrite, a surveillance firm marketing itself as the “global leader in digital intelligence”, is marketing its digital extraction devices at a new target : authorities interrogating people seeking asylum. Israel-based Cellebrite, a subsidiary of Japan’s Sun Corporation, markets forensic tools which empower authorities to bypass passwords on digital devices, allowing them to download, analyse, and visualise data. Its products are in wide use across the world : a 2019 marketing brochure (...)

#Cellebrite #smartphone #migration #hacking #sécuritaire #surveillance #PrivacyInternational

Apple interdit certains mouchards dans les applications pour enfants
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2019/06/04/apple-interdit-certains-mouchards-dans-les-applications-pour-enfants_5471185

Omniprésents dans les applications mobiles, ces outils collectent de gigantesques quantités de données. Le changement n’a pas été annoncé avec tambours et trompettes. Il n’a même pas été présenté par Tim Cook, le président-directeur général d’Apple, lors de la conférence des développeurs qui s’est déroulée lundi 3 juin, et durant laquelle l’entreprise a présenté plusieurs nouveautés. Et pourtant, c’est une modification majeure qu’a apportée Apple aux règles qu’elle impose aux développeurs d’applications qui (...)

#Apple #enfants #BigData #publicité #PrivacyInternational

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Image ▻https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/08/19/smartphone_user_photo_via_s...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/9126478

Germany mulls giving end-to-end chat app encryption das boot: Law requiring decrypted plain-text is in the works • The Register

▻https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/28/german_government_encryption

Germany mulls giving end-to-end chat app encryption das boot: Law requiring decrypted plain-text is in the works Officials want to upgrade rules from device searching to message interception

#privacy

Audience contre le Privacy Shield devant le Tribunal de l’UE !
▻https://www.laquadrature.net/2019/05/23/audience-contre-le-privacy-shield-devant-le-tribunal-de-lue

Le régime de surveillance des Etats-Unis va de nouveau être examiné par les juges européens. Après 3 ans de procédure, l’audience sur notre affaire contre le « Privacy Shield » a enfin été fixée aux 1er et 2 juillet. Retour sur ces 3 années de combat. En 2000, la Commission européenne a autorisé un accord, appelé « Safe Harbor », pour faciliter le transfert de données personnelles des européens vers les États-Unis. Le 6 octobre 2015, la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne a invalidé cette autorisation, (...)

#Microsoft #PrivacyShield #législation #Safe_Harbor #GAFAM #UFC-QueChoisir #ACLU #LaQuadratureduNet

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Data Exploitation and Democratic Societies
▻https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/2850/data-exploitation-and-democratic-societies

Democratic society is under threat from a range of players exploiting our data in ways which are often hidden and unaccountable. These actors are manifold : traditional political parties (from the whole political spectrum), organisations or individuals pushing particular political agendas, foreign actors aiming at interfering with national democratic processes, and the industries that provide products that facilitate the actions of the others (from public facing ones, such as social media (...)

#Exxon_Mobil #Google #Mozilla #Facebook #WhatsApp #Instagram #Twitter #YouTube #algorithme #manipulation #électeurs #élections #BigData #publicité #profiling (...)

##publicité ##PrivacyInternational

When Your Data Becomes Political
▻https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/when-your-data-becomes-political

Have you ever wondered why you’re seeing an ad online ? In your social media feed, in apps, or while browsing the internet ? What you see is determined in large part by your data. The exploitation of data dominates the news these days - and the use of advertising in politics is front and centre to this exploitation. Advertisers are able to buy access to very personal information about you and then infer even more about you. They are able to use this information to target ads at you with (...)

#manipulation #élections #électeurs #publicité #marketing #BigData #PrivacyInternational

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Facebook has struggled to recruit since Cambridge Analytica scandal...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/9062691

Facebook has struggled to recruit since Cambridge Analytica scandal | #facebook #privacy #recruitment #scandal

#Doctolib : un géant de la #santé qui commence à inquiéter
▻https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/professions-medicales/doctolib-un-geant-de-la-sante-qui-commence-a-inquieter_3447979.html

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Succès fulgurant pour la #start-up de prise de rendez-vous médicaux : en cinq ans, la société affiche une valorisation de plus d’un milliard d’euros. Mais cette réussite pose la question de l’impact que peut avoir un tel acteur, devenu incontournable.

#numérique #ap-hp #concurrence #RGPD #données_personnelles #monopole #médecine #secrétariat_médical

How the utopian vision of Web 3.0 clashes with reality
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-the-utopian-vision-of-web-3-0-clashes-with-reality-60a8dfb2fb3b?sour

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The internet as we know it is broken. Google and Facebook have created data silos in which we have lost control over our information. You’ve heard that story a dozen times. But according to the people working on Web 3.0 they are able to fix all of that.Web 3.0 was proposed as the next evolutionary stage the internet might enter. In the early 90ies the first internet browser marks the beginning of the world wide web. Back then people were only able to access static websites without any interactive content — pretty boring from today’s perspective. However, people would often self host the data they are sharing and thus have more control about what they share with whom. The downside was that this made publishing content on the internet only accessible to those who possessed the right (...)

#blockchain #hackernoon-top-story #web-utopia #web3 #privacy

How To Boost Your Business With Residential Proxies : 5 Real-life Use Cases
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-to-boost-your-business-with-residential-proxies-5-real-life-use-case

Image credit: UnsplashMasking your IP address might be useful in a range of situations from accessing blocked content to bypassing anti-bot systems implemented by search engines and other online services. Here are several ways of organizing proxies:Residential #proxy — IP addresses that are assigned to homeowners by the ISP are called residential. These addresses are flagged in regional internet registries. Residential proxies provided by services like Infatica use such IP addresses because all requests that are sent via them are indistinguishable from those generated by regular users.Data center proxy — Such proxies are not connected to the ISP, while addresses are assigned by hosting providers who’ve purchased large pools of IP addresses.Shared proxy — In this case a proxy can be used by (...)

#privacy #seo #private-proxies #residential-proxies

Alexa, stop being creepy ! Our letter to Jeff Bezos
▻https://privacyinternational.org/feature/2820/alexa-stop-being-creepy-our-letter-jeff-bezos

Last week, an investigation by Bloomberg revealed that thousands of Amazon employees around the world are listening in on Amazon Echo users. As we have been explaining across media, we believe that by using default settings and vague privacy policies which allow Amazon employees to listen in on the recordings of users’ interactions with their devices, Amazon risks deliberately deceiving its customers. Amazon has so far been dismissive, arguing that people had the options to opt out from (...)

#Amazon #Alexa #domotique #écoutes #profiling #BigData #famille #surveillance #PrivacyInternational

What will you check before handing over your smartphone?
▻https://hackernoon.com/what-will-you-check-before-handing-over-your-smartphone-cbb77244ef10?sou

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Retrospective on data we have on handsetsSuppose you are handing away your mobile to a friend to use from now on. What all will you check before handing it over? How about if you are exchanging it with your mom or dad?(Ok, we are ruling out the factory reset option, why? Because we want this blog post to proceed, and more importantly, let’s assume we want to hand over the convenience of pre-installed apps to our friend as well.)Let’s do a quick scan and figure out what all a person can know from the present state of our smart phone.Let’s go through your apps and folders~Starting with the image gallery. Ah, good old times, old friends, fun videos, cool trips, you time travel a bit.Once the nostalgia fades away, you check if these pics are synced to the cloud already, if not, you back up them on (...)

#humans #privacy #technology #tech #smartphones

Avoiding consumer lock-in with the decentralised web
▻https://hackernoon.com/avoiding-consumer-lock-in-with-the-decentralised-web-c618f28241ab?source

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Avoiding Consumer Lock-ins with the Decentralised WebThis is the third blog post in our series exploring aspects of the Arweave’s decentralised, permanent web. You can catch up with the other parts here and here.If you are like me, you have been an avid user of #google’s Gmail service since the first few months of the ‘private’ beta over a decade ago. Over this time, Google has rendered a fantastic service to us, with consistent releases of new features, fast and reliable service (I can only remember it being offline once when I needed it), and the simplicity that only great products can provide.Over this period, I have also given out my personal Gmail email address to hundreds of people — many of whom only have this mechanism of contacting me. Google has also sold access to my profile (...)

#decentralization #privacy #data #blockchain

What is the Best Free #privacy Software?
▻https://hackernoon.com/what-is-the-best-free-privacy-software-3b427ce871e2?source=rss----3a8144

Free and open source tools are the most trusted and respected privacy tools available. Since anyone can view the source code behind them…Continue reading on Hacker Noon »

#best-privacy-software #cybersecurity #free-privacy-software #security