Tag Archives: Privacy

Name & Shame: Procter & Gamble

Posted on 2021-04-11 by jcs

The other day, I saw this disturbing post on Daring Fireball. The TL;DR is that Procter & Gamble (P&G) has been working with several Chinese trade and advertising groups to develop and test a way of bypassing Apple’s upcoming iOS … Continue reading →

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Justice!

Posted on 2021-04-06 by jcs

This wants to be a Red Meat Friday item but it’s not Friday and there’s not really any red meat since everyone—but Zuckerberg, perhaps—is totally onboard with this. So no red meat but all the schadenfreude you can eat. Of … Continue reading →

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The TSA: Keeping Us Safe From Cash

Posted on 2021-04-05 by jcs

One, not so bad, consequence of covid19 is that we haven’t heard much from the TSA and its shenanigans. That doesn’t mean, however, that they haven’t been busy violating people’s rights. You’d think that traveling domestically with cash is legal … Continue reading →

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Data Leverage

Posted on 2021-03-07 by jcs

Over at the MIT Technology Review, Karen Hao has a seemingly promising article with the enticing title How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you. I read the article with great anticipation hoping it would provide … Continue reading →

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Facebook and Apple

Posted on 2021-02-27 by jcs

It’s unlikely that any sentient being in the known universe, let alone any Irreal reader, is unaware of the squabble raging between Apple and Facebook over Apple’s forthcoming iOS change that will require apps to ask a user’s permission before … Continue reading →

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Tracking Pixels

Posted on 2021-02-25 by jcs

Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, taking a break from criticizing the president who is not the president (it’s a Zen thing), has an excellent rant on the abomination that is email tracking pixels. As most Irreal readers surely know, tracking pixels … Continue reading →

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Burner Emails

Posted on 2021-02-10 by jcs

FourZeroThree has a nice four and a half minute video on how and why you should have a burner email account. The idea has been around for a long time under the name of disposable email addresses. The idea is … Continue reading →

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This Is Tech Journalism II

Posted on 2020-12-24 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago I made fun of tech journalism. It was an easy—some might even say a cheap—shot but Gizmodo brings this kind of ridicule on themselves. Sadly, besides the buffoonery, there’s actual malpractice going on. Cellebrite is … Continue reading →

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The DEA Supplies Another Example

Posted on 2020-12-02 by jcs

Speaking of governments supplying examples of the Iron Law of Data Collection, one of the US Government’s most notorious abusers of data collection and constitutional protections whose TLA is not NSA, has stepped up to provide yet another example. The … Continue reading →

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The Iron Law and Abuse

Posted on 2020-12-01 by jcs

I’ve written many times about the iron law of data collection. Briefly, it’s the notion that whenever data is collected No matter the original rationale given for its collection, new uses will be found for the data. The data will … Continue reading →

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