Mastodawn

We publish a major Citizen Lab report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising.

Customers include ICE, El Salvador and Hungary.

Our research shows that ad-based surveillance is now used by military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies down to local police in several countries.

Full report here:
https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based-geolocation-surveillance-tech/

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 3d ago

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USBee Dec 19

Firefox for Web Developers Dec 18

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.

We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.

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USBee Dec 19

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Firefox for Web Developers Dec 18

All AI features will also be opt-in. I think there are some grey areas in what 'opt-in' means to different people (e.g. is a new toolbar button opt-in?), but the kill switch will absolutely remove all that stuff, and never show it in future. That's unambiguous.

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USBee Dec 19

@x41h
What do you propose now?

USBee Dec 18

@x41h
What should they have done in your opinion? They publicly accused russia of the murders. It is one of the most serious things you can do as a government if you do not want to declare war immediately.

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USBee Dec 16

@thc I can hazzz mor than buy me a coffee?

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USBee Dec 16

@thc how do you fund this?

USBee Dec 12

If you develop web apps, make sure to deal with browser translation #security properly. I even came across a #passwordManager with a show #password option and no translate="no" attribute set. Users unknowingly leaked passwords to google #translate and other services by clicking on show password. My organization was lucky to use #Firefox as the default browser, since its translation is done locally.

USBee Dec 12

@ra6bit @da_667 Beeware!