N-gated Hacker News1d ago
🍏🔒 Oh, look! #Apple is secretly collecting your data without consent, because who needs #privacy in 2023? 🤷‍♂️ Meanwhile, iOS 18.5 is the new spy in your pocket, bypassing security like a boss. But hey, at least your code is safe with GitHub Copilot – because privacy is so 2010. 🙃
https://github.com/JGoyd/iOS-18.5-Bluetooth-Privacy-Vuln #DataCollection #iOS18 #GitHubCopilot #DigitalPrivacy #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - JGoyd/iOS-18.5-Bluetooth-Privacy-Vuln: Discovery of a critical Bluetooth and GPS privacy vulnerability in iOS 18.5 enabling silent BLE scans, covert GPS activation, and trust metadata exposure without user consent. Native Apple daemons bypass TCC and cryptographic checks, violating expected iOS privacy guarantees.

Discovery of a critical Bluetooth and GPS privacy vulnerability in iOS 18.5 enabling silent BLE scans, covert GPS activation, and trust metadata exposure without user consent. Native Apple daemons ...

GitHub
Hacker News1d ago

iOS 18.5 silently triggers Bluetooth and GPS data collection – no user consent

https://github.com/JGoyd/iOS-18.5-Bluetooth-Privacy-Vuln

#HackerNews #iOS #18.5 #Bluetooth #Privacy #DataCollection #NoUserConsent

GitHub - JGoyd/iOS-18.5-Bluetooth-Privacy-Vuln: Discovery of a critical Bluetooth and GPS privacy vulnerability in iOS 18.5 enabling silent BLE scans, covert GPS activation, and trust metadata exposure without user consent. Native Apple daemons bypass TCC and cryptographic checks, violating expected iOS privacy guarantees.

Discovery of a critical Bluetooth and GPS privacy vulnerability in iOS 18.5 enabling silent BLE scans, covert GPS activation, and trust metadata exposure without user consent. Native Apple daemons ...

GitHub
beSpacific5d ago
1) #Trump nominee to run the #BLS, E.J. Antoni, said yesterday that he wants monthly #jobs reports suspended, claiming there were needed corrections. Background: Trump #fired the head of BLS after the agency published a #jobs report showing poor #job growth for a three-month stretch. #censorship. Cuts to #DataCollection May Erode Reliability of #Economic #Statistics. BLS reducing/ending collection of #data that is used to calculate #ConsumerPriceIndex.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/business/bls-data-collection-cuts-cpi.html
Cuts to Data Collection May Erode Reliability of Economic Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index.

The New York Times
Negative PID Inc.Aug 6

What happens when we click the "Accept" button of a cookie banner on a website? Who are we sending our data to, and from where?
In this article, we explain what happens and the best ways to protect your privacy and online security with browsing best practices.

https://negativepid.blog/cookies-what-do-we-agree-to-when-we-click-accept/

#cookies #dataPrivacy #browsers #dataCollection #privacyExtensions

Quantum SplashAug 5

⛔ #Google #DataCollection research https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08/21/google-data-collection-research/

✅ Alternative: #Fairphone
https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/9979154556817-Google-free-Android

#privacy #degoogle #profiling #android #OpenSource

Google data collection research

While the public has been focused on the ongoing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, Google has largely avoided public scrutiny about its data collection practices despite having the ability to collect far more personal data about consumers across a variety of touchpoints. In the new report “Google Data Collection,” Douglas C. Schmidt, Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, catalogs how much data Google is collecting about consumers across all of its products and how that data is being tied together.

Digital Content Next
Denise GutzmerAug 4

Sustainable Switch Climate Focus: EU breaks dependency on US science

Europe is breaking its reliance on critical scientific data that was provided by the United States, which was historically made freely available to the world, as President Trump’s administration rolls back vital climate regulations on greenhouse gases.

The European Union is ramping up its own data collection systems to monitor climate change and weather extremes, according to Reuters interviews.

#science #datacollection #climatechange #weather #climate

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-switch-climate-focus-eu-breaks-dependency-us-science-2025-08-04/

Kathy BrysonAug 4

What's behind the headlines - #datatracking #datacollection #research #statisticalanalysis #reporting

Trump says #BureauLaborStatistics ‘scam.’ Here’s how the jobs report really works | CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/business/bureau-of-labor-statistics-jobs-report-explainer-hnk

Trump says the Bureau of Labor Statistics orchestrated a ‘scam.’ Here’s how the jobs report really works

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” Yet revisions by the BLS were neither historic nor evidence of corruption.

CNN
Lowyat.NETAug 1

Opinion: Double Standards On Personal Data Collection Criticism? #cybersecurity #datacollection #editorial #features #mpd #mydigitalid #opinion #padu

https://www.lowyat.net/2025/361317/double-standards-on-personal-data-collection-criticism/

Python Job SupportJul 28

The Essential Beginner’s Guide to Data Management Principles

datamanagement #datacollection #dataorganization #datastorage #dataretrieval Effective data management has become ... source

https://quadexcel.com/wp/the-essential-beginners-guide-to-data-management-principles/

The Essential Beginner's Guide to Data Management Principles - QuadExcel.com

datamanagement #datacollection #dataorganization #datastorage #dataretrieval Effective data management has become ... source

QuadExcel.com
Show threadKevin Karhan Jul 23

@solomonschuler @torproject exactly that is the wrong assumption.