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| found on Reddit |
Presumably they can't actually read your mind. I assume they just correctly recognize that you're similar to people who have expressed the same thoughts you've only ever thought inside your head and are acting on that similarity, but it's still creepy.
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| found on 9Gag |
I think we can all agree that we'd like to be able to speak privately with the important people in our lives and that some of the things we share would be deeply embarrassing if they were revealed to a wider audience. I'm sure we'd all like to be able to enjoy the freedom to communicate that way, but it's hard to feel that free when we hear about how the authorities are spying on our communications.
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| from here and here |
Actually blocking cookies seems to create problems with a surprising number of sites, so using incognito mode or private browsing mode in other browsers to limit the lifetime of the cookies to as long as the browser window is open is the next best thing. Neither stop other forms of tracking, though.
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| found on 9 Gag |
I'm of two minds, here. On the one hand, being able to bring your own privacy out and about could be useful for a whole range of applications, but on the other hand, some of those applications probably shouldn't be done out in public.
Also, it occurs to me that not being able to see what you're doing could make things problematic unless you're good at doing things by feel.
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| found on Evil Milk |
Imagine hating privacy... I could stop there, but imagine hating privacy so much that you do this to a space that is already notorious for not being private enough. It seems alien, but this clearly took extra effort above and beyond just erecting normal bathroom stalls.
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| from here and here |
Ring is in some serious trouble over it's abject failure to protect the privacy of it's customers from it's own employees and others, but the thing that stood out to me wasn't that there was an employee abusing his/her access to the video feeds, but rather the mere fact that there were video feeds coming from people's bedrooms and bathrooms. I don't know about you but I wouldn't want people peeping on me while I poop.
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| found on Izismile |
It's more private because your privates have more cover, but simultaneously far more public because it's not hidden away in a public restroom somewhere. I'm not how I would feel if faced with the prospect of using something like this.
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| from here and here |
I would probably have a pretty cavalier attitude towards an airline asking me to get on a scale, but that doesn't change the fact that it is protected health information and I'm really not sure I trust an airline to protect my health information. Also, just because I'm cavalier about it doesn't mean other people would be or should be.
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| from here and here |
Oh, sure, the prototype is probably fine, but as soon as it's productized it's going to be "Do you consent to the collection of trouser data to enhance your trouser experience?" Hell no.
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| found on ImgFlip |
If the NSA is in your threat model, putting a cover over your webcam won't be enough. They have many other ways of peering into the dark recesses of your life.
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| found on Reddit |
Considering cookies are one of the technologies that allow you to be tracked online, maybe you should be a little more discerning about which sites you accept cookies from.
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| from here and here |
Clearview AI, the biometric surveillance company everyone loves to hate because they add you to their system without your consent, is apparently ignoring French regulators trying to call it to heel over violations of the European Union's GDPR. While they haven't paid the fines yet, they're now going to be growing by the day, and the EU has already thrown out existing data transfer arrangements with the US over GDPR violations (like the Cambridge Analytica scandal) in the past.
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| found on Izismile |
It seems that once upon a time America actually appreciated and valued the idea of privacy. If people want to make America great again, they should go back to that.
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| from here (image source) |
It's compliant with the privacy policy, therefore privacy has been protected, right? RIGHT?!?!
If only things actually worked like that.
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| from here and here |
The mind-reading technology is still impractical right now, but it will only get better, smaller, and more affordable over time. That latter point is especially true if it goes down the path of so many other technologies and gets funding/subsidies from ad companies - because of course they want to know what you're thinking.
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| found on CNET |
The Japanese definitely take their bathroom time seriously. You only have to look at their high-tech toilets to see proof of that. Apparently one of the features of some of their toilets is a sonic mask to drown out your own bodily sounds so that you can keep those sounds private and not be embarrassed by them. It seems now there's also a mobile device to produce the same effect, which means now we can have that peace of mind elsewhere without the high-tech toilet. You can read more about it on CNET and from there try your best to navigate the Japanese site it's on.
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| from here and here |
So I log into my ISP, of all things, and I get a pop-up that informs me that ads are a fact of life and if I want relevant ads I should give them more information about myself. They can go pound sand.
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| from here and here |
The privacy issues with Teslas are beyond what I would have expected. Intimate moments captured by your car and shared around the Tesla offices like a joke? Or that simply walking past one in a parking lot can get you captured on camera and uploaded and examined by data labelers? Yikes.
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| Product Page |
To be honest, I think this works better as a reminder to yourself to delete your browser history regularly, rather than actually relying on the kindness of strangers (and their ability to get access to your system). Normalize deleting your own damn history, or better yet, use Incognito mode.