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Tag: Security / Privacy
Europe Is Building a Huge International Facial Recognition System
The Prüm II documents, dated from April 2021, when the plans were first being discussed, show the huge number of face photos that countries hold. Hungary has 30 million photos,…
NFTs Are a Privacy and Security Nightmare
Venmo’s baffling decision to turn payments into a social media feed, where public transactions are the default, has rightly been met with criticism. But at the very least, it’s always…
Russia Inches Toward Its Splinternet Dream
Russian Twitter users noticed something strange when they tried to access the service on March 4: They couldn’t. For the previous six days, anyone trying to access Twitter from within…
The Future of Digital Cash Is Not on the Blockchain
This means that, despite the various options for making online payments, true digital cash doesn’t exist. This is not merely a theoretical distinction. Paper cash has been on the decline…
How to Limit Who Can Contact You on Twitter
Perhaps more than any other social network, Twitter goes beyond family and friends to connect you to a global audience—it’s not unlike a town square for the whole world to…
NFTs Don’t Work the Way You Might Think They Do
To make matters more complicated, marketplaces are only one method of interacting with the blockchain, but anyone can do it. So even if every major NFT marketplace put tools in…
How Police Abuse Phone Data to Persecute LGBTQ People
All the lawyers Rigot interviewed said police take data from WhatsApp, and 22 of the 29 legal cases included photos—some explicit—from galleries in chats. “What it takes for individuals to…
The Quiet Way Advertisers Are Tracking Your Browsing
Creepy cookies that track all your online activity are (slowly) being eradicated. In recent years major web browsers, including Safari and Firefox, have restricted the practice. Even Chrome has realized…