Stories by randomwalker

FTC settlement with Ever orders data and AI deleted after face recognition pivot

Facial recognition datasets widely used despite removal due to ethical concerns

Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 100K emails [pdf]

Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenue at Twitter

Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future

Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenue at Twitter

Vulnerability Reporting Is Dysfunctional

Five Years of the Right to Be Forgotten [pdf]

Why Enterprise Software Sucks

Three recent papers uncover the extent of tracking on TVs

Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection

What Happened with West Virginia’s Blockchain Voting Experiment?

What Happened with West Virginia’s Blockchain Voting Experiment?

“In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart”

The House That Came in the Mail

Why does sorting in computer science mean ordering rather than categorizing?

If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is?

Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting

No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login

When the business model is the privacy violation

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