… On October 2, about two months after DEICER’s launch, the US Department of Justice contacted Apple to demand the removal of all apps that “put ICE agents at risk for doing their jobs.” The next day, Concepcion received an email from the corporation explaining that DEICER, which now had roughly 30,0… …
… There is no ad-tracking layer, and Chunkr’s listing in Apple’s App Store contains a privacy disclosure that states the developer does not collect any data from the app. …
… The discovery of NameTag in the live Meta AI app shows that Meta had begun shipping face-recognition code to users' phones while publicly describing it as something the company was still “thinking through.” In April, Meta said if it were to utilize face recognition, it wouldn't be rolled out withou… …
… A year after its launch, Chris Soghoian, then a principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, called CopperheadOS “the most exciting thing happening in the world of Android security.” Open source advocacy groups like the Guardian Project, as well as the Google Play store alternative… …
… Before going onstage I was looking at the dashboards for the platform, and I started to see something strange happening. Then I started to check other resources, like the stats on the app stores. …
… Biometric surveillance is everywhere now: at your hotel, on your dating app, in the drug store, on Ring door cameras, in your Meta sunglasses. …