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https://www.wired.com/story/whos-listening-talk-google-assistant/

https://www.cnet.com/news/more-than-1000-android-apps-harvest-your-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://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-furthers-privacy-lead/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01679-5

with just four data points per person, 95% of 1.5 million callers in an anonymized mobile-phone data set can be identified

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/google-privacy-turnaround/

Google’s argument is that they’re able to protect you from other companies’ privacy-rejecting technologies, but you can and should give them more of your private data.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/06/alexa-has-been-eavesdropping-you-this-whole-time/

I listened to four years of my Alexa archive and found thousands of fragments of my life […] There were even sensitive conversations that somehow triggered Alexa’s “wake word” to start recording

https://nrkbeta.no/2019/05/02/disse-knappene-kan-avslore-om-du-soker-psykisk-helsehjelp/

At du besøker disse informasjonssidene deler Kristiansand kommune med det amerikanske IT-selskapet Oracle, noe de ikke opplyser om på sine personvernsider.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-adds-option-to-auto-delete-location-history-data/

the company has been sued in the US, and is also facing GDPR investigations in seven EU countries for using deceptive UI controls that hide the fact the company is sometimes collecting location data.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html

The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.