September 10th, 2021 | General | No Comments Yet
ProtonMail: Compromised
This week in Privacy News, Outlook reveals names when an email is spoofed, LAPD asks for your social media to feed into Palintar, and Whatsapp user messages can be sent to contractors for review. Also, ProtonMail may be forced to de-anonymize people for the government. We also talk about some rouge algorithm news.
Texas Bans Tech De-platforming
This week in Business News, a Texas website is taken offline for Wrong Think, El Salvador makes BitCoin an official currency, and Tesla will start selling its homicidal autopilot system. Also, Amazon rolling out casherless payments in Whole Foods and Texas tries to ban social media deplatforming. We conclude with SillyVille.
Privacy
https://www.dionach.com/blog/spoofing-microsoft-outlook-contact/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/lapd-officers-collect-social-media-account-info-from-people-they-detain/
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users
https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/privacy-focused-protonmail-provided-a-users-ip-address-to-authorities/
Algorithms
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/6/22659225/automated-hiring-software-rejecting-viable-candidates-harvard-business-school
https://www.rt.com/usa/533942-facebook-apology-video-recommendation/
https://www.techspot.com/news/91129-singapore-using-robots-detect-bad-behavior-among-public.html
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22664846/amazon-labor-algorithms-warehouse-newsom-california-senate
Business
https://www.techspot.com/news/91130-official-el-salvador-first-country-adopt-bitcoin-official.html
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/7/22660692/tesla-full-self-driving-software-release-date-leak
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/whole-foods-market-to-launch-just-walk-out-technology-at-two-locations
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/texas-abortion-snitch-website-kicked-off-godaddy-for-invading-peoples-privacy/
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22661626/texas-social-media-law-hb-20-signed-greg-abbott
SillyVille
https://www.techspot.com/news/91110-court-ruling-uspto-cannot-issue-patents-artificial-intelligence.html
https://www.techspot.com/news/91128-man-swallows-working-phone-requires-surgical-removal.html
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/new-roomba-promises-to-not-smear-dog-poop-all-over-the-house/