“Lots of the companies that have gotten wealthy from selling us data-collecting devices — or from collecting our data — have learned to talk the talk on privacy. But they’re very often defining privacy in ways that serve their own interests first.”
- iPhone apps were beaming my personal information to all sorts of tracking companies I’d never heard of
- Facebook’s new version of its “privacy checkup” page doesn’t give us new powers to stop the social network from surveilling us.
- You can now say to Google voice Assistant “Hey, Google that wasn’t for you” when you notice it randomly recording your family’s intimate conversations
- Amazon’s Ring’s privacy and security dashboard doesn’t change most of its (insufficient) default privacy and security settings
Apple, Facebook, Amazon preach privacy, but don’t believe the hype