The Dangers of Video Conference Calls
https://onezero.medium.com/slack-zoom-google-hangouts-are-your-remote-work-apps-spying-on-you-cf1e33809cf7 This article discusses the privacy problems with Zoom, Google Hangouts, and Slack. Slack: Slack has a setting that allows all messages, including private DMs, to be exported into a document for the administrators so see. This is a setting only available to companies who have premium accounts Zoom: Zoom’s app has an “attention tracking”…
iPhone Location History
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-turn-off-iphone-list-of-your-locations-2019-3 This is an article about an iPhone feature called “Significant Locations”. This feature keeps a detailed, itemized list of every location you’ve been with your iPhone. It keeps track of the specific addresses of places you’ve gone, how often you visit them, and when you visited them. The feature also notes specific locations to a…
Limiting how much data Google collects from you
This is an article about adjusting your settings in your Google account so it collects as little data as possible. The only way to get Google to completely stop collecting your data is to delete your Google account and never use any of their services again, but considering how many services Google owns that becomes…
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