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Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Marcotte
Ethan Marcotte's book, "You Deserve a Tech Union," provides a mix of practical guidelines and steps that tech workers can take to form a union.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 952 posts.
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How mobile apps illegally share personal data
Some mobile apps share your personal data immediately after they're opened. This isn't compliant with EU privacy laws
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Appeals court upholds right to post public laws online
SAN FRANCISCO—Technical standards like fire and electrical codes developed by private organizations but incorporated into public law can be freely disseminated without any liability for copyright infringement, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Tuesday’s ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S...
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iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation
As market surveillance authority for radio equipment and responsible for controlling public exposure to electromagnetic fields, the ANFR runs inspections on mobile phones placed on the French market. 141 mobile phones, including Apple’s iPhone 12, have recently been tested to check compliance with limit SAR values…
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Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
The common pattern of trying to delete yourself.
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The Greatest Counterfeiter (2021)
What if you could counterfeit so much money that it stopped being illegal?
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Credit card debt collection
Credit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being sordid, for complex structural and microeconomic reasons.
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Black currants were banned in the USA (2017)
Do you know what got black currants banned? They nearly destroyed a huge part of American forests. Find out how this healthy berry became a threat.
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The end of the subscription era is coming
You’re overpaying for your porn (and journalism)
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Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla
Mozilla’s latest edition of *Privacy Not Included reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual activity, facial expressions, and genetic and health information.
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Profound Beliefs
This post previously appeared in EIX. In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs. Think of profound beliefs as “strong opi…
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Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you
The official videos from DEFCON 31 have been posted! Below you can watch our talk “Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you”. The talk, slides, files
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Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy
Learn how Apple and Meta use psychology and UX to collect your data while creating an illusion of privacy.
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The thinking path
Novel news; a review for the NYT.
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NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild
Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices. We refer to the exploit chain as BLASTPASS. The exploit chain…
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Kagi Small Web
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative. What is Kagi Small Web? To begin with, while there is no...
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Are any words the same in all languages?
Languages can be so different from each other—but there are a few words nearly all languages have in common! Can you guess which ones?
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I can tolerate anything except the outgroup (2014)
[Content warning: Politics, religion, social justice, spoilers for “The Secret of Father Brown”. This isn’t especially original to me and I don’t claim anything more than to…
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It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
Privacy Not Included was launched in 2017 to help you understand the privacy risks of tech products that connect to the internet. We are continuing that work in the form of Product Reviews at our magazine Nothing Personal, where our privacy experts do hours of hands-on testing and research on the most popular consumer…
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On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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Man, Myth and Magic
Collect the set! I don’t really need a digital copy of Man, Myth and Magic—I’ve been the fortunate owner for many years of the bound set of original magazines you see above—but I imagin…
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When tech says ‘no’
The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are bad - indeed, so does any industry. They always say that! The trouble is, sometimes it’s true, and some laws are (or would be) disasters. So which is it? Well, there are three ways that people say ‘NO!’
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The Airbnb Bubble Popping Will Pop the Housing Bubble
This is how bubbles collapse: the "vital few" 4% sell at whatever the market will bear, pushing prices down, and the 64% awaken to the rapidly narrowing window for locking in bubble capital gains. Here's how we can tell if a speculative bubble is a bubble : everyone says it isn't a bubble --the market has reached a…
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Plastic Money
You will sometimes hear someone say, in a loose conceptual sense, that credit cards have money in them. Of course we know that that isn't the case; our modern plastic card payment network relies on online transactions where the balance tracking and authorization decisions happen within a financial institution that…
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Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories
How Historians (and Others) Make Themselves Stupid
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Microsoft Edge is starting to annoy me big time
Short article slash rant discussing the Got it! button in a prompt for personalized Web experience in Microsoft Edge, covering user experience interruption, bad design, aggressive marketing, implicit decisions, other annoyances, and more
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