42 min

Location Tracking: Is privacy a thing of the past‪?‬ Voltec Tech Talk

    • Society & Culture

This episode is about some of the ways in which big Tech are overreaching and inviting themselves into your mobile devices, learning about who you are, (as a potential consumer) knowing what you are doing, or perhaps scariest, where you are.
Referenced information is as follows:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/11/22169905/google-apple-removing-location-tracking-data-sale-government-advertisers
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/13/mobile-location-data-and-covid-19-qa
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/26/microsoft-productivity-score-feature-criticised-workplace-surveillance
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/02/microsoft-apologises-productivity-score-critics-derided-workplace-surveillance
https://www.wired.com/story/google-fitbit-project-nightingale-antitrust/
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/3/21312383/google-fibit-acquisition-antitrust-data-regulatory-eu-scrutiny
https://www.wired.com/story/the-best-privacy-app-alternatives/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2020/10/27/heres-how-2020-created-a-tipping-point-in-trust-and-digital-privacy/?sh=5a7fd9ff4fc5
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ciphertrace-develops-monero-tracing-tool-to-aid-us-dhs-investigations

This episode is about some of the ways in which big Tech are overreaching and inviting themselves into your mobile devices, learning about who you are, (as a potential consumer) knowing what you are doing, or perhaps scariest, where you are.
Referenced information is as follows:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/11/22169905/google-apple-removing-location-tracking-data-sale-government-advertisers
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/13/mobile-location-data-and-covid-19-qa
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/26/microsoft-productivity-score-feature-criticised-workplace-surveillance
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/02/microsoft-apologises-productivity-score-critics-derided-workplace-surveillance
https://www.wired.com/story/google-fitbit-project-nightingale-antitrust/
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/3/21312383/google-fibit-acquisition-antitrust-data-regulatory-eu-scrutiny
https://www.wired.com/story/the-best-privacy-app-alternatives/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2020/10/27/heres-how-2020-created-a-tipping-point-in-trust-and-digital-privacy/?sh=5a7fd9ff4fc5
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ciphertrace-develops-monero-tracing-tool-to-aid-us-dhs-investigations

42 min

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