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https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-office-365-banned-in-german-schools-over-privacy-fears/
“if data is sent to Microsoft in the US, it is subject to US mass-surveillance laws. This is illegal under EU law.”
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.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.
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.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47893082
Amazon, Apple and Google all employ staff who listen to customer voice recordings from their smart speakers and voice assistant apps.
A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant respond to commands.
The results of the study are consistent with our Facebook study: People don’t want surveillance advertising.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/23/family-tracking-location-leak/
was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks
https://nrkbeta.no/2019/03/21/norske-telefoner-sendte-personopplysninger-til-kina/ Nokia 7 Plus
Hver gang telefonen ble slått på, skjermen aktivert eller låst opp, gikk hans geografiske posisjon, samt SIM-kortnummer og telefonens serienummer til en server i Kina.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/03/facebook-phone-number-look-up/
Users are complaining that the phone number Facebook hassled them to use to secure their account with two-factor authentication has also been associated with their user profile — which anyone can use to “look up” their profile.
Worse, Facebook doesn’t give you an option to opt-out.