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What does your data say about you?

Read the final part of the series “What Everybody Knows About You” by Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Editor Andrew Oram for a summing-up and a look forward: https://lpi.org/yraj

Special thanks to Magdalena Góralczyk of White Label Consultancy for reviewing the series. 🐧 💛

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#dataprivacy #datacollection #surveillance #LPI #cybersecurity #opensource #digitalprivacy #whateverybodyknowsaboutyou

Linux Professional Institute 4d ago

This article in the series “What Everybody Knows About You” by Andrew Oram dives into how employers can track employees’ activity, location, and behavior through workplace #surveillance and #data collection.

Read it here: https://lpi.org/iqa9

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#dataprivacy #employeemonitoring #workplacesurveillance #digitalrights #datacollection #whateverybodyknowsaboutyou #surveillance

N-gated Hacker News Apr 9

🚨 Ah, the Vercel Claude Code plugin: because who wouldn't want a nosy deployment plugin rummaging through every digital diary entry you ever typed? 🤦‍♂️ Surprise! It's like inviting a vacuum cleaner to critique your poetry while insisting it's "just collecting data"—all on projects it has no business in. 😂
https://akshaychugh.xyz/writings/png/vercel-plugin-telemetry #VercelClaudeCode #NosyPlugins #DigitalPrivacy #DevHumor #DataCollection #HackerNews #ngated

The Vercel Plugin on Claude Code wants to read all your prompts!

09 Apr 2026 The Vercel Plugin on Claude Code wants to read all your prompts!

akshay chugh

Derek Law Apr 9

What’s New in #ArcGIS #Survey123 (March 2026) https://tinyurl.com/3zdn4cwd

#survey #form #DataCollection #mobile #GIS #esri #ArcGISApps #GISchat #geospatial @esri @esrislgov @arcgisapps @esritraining

Linux Professional Institute Mar 30

Different institutions frequently collect people’s private data. This episode of the series “What Everybody Knows About You” by Andrew Oram focuses on governments.

Check it out: https://lpi.org/xqlz

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#datacollection #dataprivacy #governmentdata #personalinformation #surveillance #privacyrights #whateverybodyknowsaboutyou #LPI

CBC Thunder Bay Mar 27

EcoSuperior speaks about participating in international webinar on reducing plastic pollution
EcoSuperior shared its experiences using trash traps to engage, educate and empower locals to take action on plastic pollution during a International Trash Trap Network (ITTN), co-run by the Ocean Conservancy and U of T Trash Team, webinar on March 10. An ITTN manager says data collection and community engage...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ecosuperior-plastic-pollution-9.7143203?cmp=rss

Derek Law Mar 26

Add #geospatial #PDFs to your #ArcGIS Field #Maps workflows https://tinyurl.com/3k6n7ety

#FieldOperations #mobile #GIS #DataCollection #esri #mapping #GISchat #geospatial @esri @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @arcgisapps @esritraining @urisa

Winbuzzer Mar 26

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/26/github-copilot-ai-training-data-default-opt-out-xcxwbn/

GitHub Will Use Copilot Data for AI Training by Default

#AI #GitHub #GitHubCopilot #Microsoft #BigTech #AITraining #AIModels #DataPrivacy #DataCollection #Developers #SoftwareDevelopment #AICoding

Jeff Gamet Mar 25

I’m not saying Sora was a blatant move on OpenAI’s part to collect massive amounts of facial data quickly, but ending the social platform after only six months while retaining its features for paid subscribers does make me wonder. #ai #DataCollection https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/openais-sora-was-the-creepiest-app-on-your-phone-now-its-shutting-down/

OpenAI’s Sora was the creepiest app on your phone -- now it's shutting down | TechCrunch

Though the underlying Sora 2 video- and audio-generation model is scarily impressive, there was not sustained interest in an AI-only social feed.

TechCrunch

PPC Land Mar 25

Turkey's DPA bans bundled consent texts in a ruling that reshapes data collection: Turkey's KVKK issued Decision 2026/347 on February 18, requiring data controllers to keep consent and clarification texts strictly separate under Law No. 6698. https://ppc.land/turkeys-dpa-bans-bundled-consent-texts-in-a-ruling-that-reshapes-data-collection/ #DataProtection #PrivacyLaw #ConsentManagement #DataCollection #Turkey

Turkey's DPA bans bundled consent texts in a ruling that reshapes data collection

Turkey's KVKK issued Decision 2026/347 on February 18, requiring data controllers to keep consent and clarification texts strictly separate under Law No. 6698.

PPC Land