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senior technology reporter / matthew.braga@cbc.ca / past: / i write a newsletter about sensors:

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    Feb 22

    🤖🐍🤔🛰 Hi! Since December I've been writing a short weekly newsletter on sensors, data collection, and algorithms — ft. links to stories with a little analysis too. You can subscribe here:

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  2. Jun 2

    going on vacation for a while. see you soon! ✈️🍻🌴☀️🚲

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  3. May 30

    it took 15 months for the RCMP to respond to a simple request for a list of briefing notes and memos sent to and from the commissioner during january 2017

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  4. May 30

    love all the fraudulent matthew green accounts replying to the real matthew green, trying to trick people into joining crypto scams

    Big piece on SS7 vulnerabilities and cellphone tracking.
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    May 30

    Big piece on SS7 vulnerabilities and cellphone tracking.

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  6. May 30

    Wrote about online markets for stolen bank account credentials and credit card data, after a person/group claiming to have breached BMO/Simplii threatened to post financial info for 90,000 customers online.

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    May 24

    These GDPR notifications are starting to get weird...

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  8. May 28

    this is a jerry paper fan account now

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  9. May 24

    Early work at puzzling out algorithmic recommendations of political videos during election time. Data collected from one computer in one location — would be very curious to see how/if this changes across devices/locations.

    Earlier this year I called for a discoverability audit of social media platforms, I am happy to make good. For ~5 weeks in the lead up to the Ontario Election, Luciano Frizzera & I studied what videos YouTube recommends for the party leaders. The results:
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  10. May 24

    is it universal basic income

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    May 24

    I'm all for examining Facebook and its practices, but this is just irresponsible and takes an allegation made in a lawsuit and reports it as fact. The evidence of alleged surveillance has been sealed or redacted. Let's not jump the gun here.

    And THIS. Second piece now up: conducted mass surveillance, including accessing photos on iPhones & tracking non-Facebook users. The scale of this is truly massive...
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    May 24

    New from me: Internally, Apple identified the bendability of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus as a 'major concern' before its release:

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  13. May 24

    this city sucks

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  14. May 23

    this is website is the fucking worst

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    May 23

    The Center for Investigative Reporting/ is non-profit. Journalists under pressure to chase clicks do not undertake months long investigations.

    Problem is journos are under constant pressure to get max clicks & earn advertising dollars or get fired. Tricky situation, as Tesla doesn’t advertise, but fossil fuel companies & gas/diesel car companies are among world’s biggest advertisers.
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  16. May 23

    this is true, i wake up every day to write stories about privacy/surveillance/tech policy because they get billions of clicks and advertising dollars

    Problem is journos are under constant pressure to get max clicks & earn advertising dollars or get fired. Tricky situation, as Tesla doesn’t advertise, but fossil fuel companies & gas/diesel car companies are among world’s biggest advertisers.
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    May 22

    The best part about Amazon's plan to scan all the faces is its "face storage" charges breakdown.

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    May 21

    this rules

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    May 20

    By age 35 you should have at least two thirds of your hard drive space taken up by recursively nested copies of the hard drives from all your previous computers

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  20. May 22

    For the bargain bin price of $6-12 a month, an Oregon sheriff's office has been using Amazon's Rekognition service to do real-time facial recognition against a database of 300,000 mug shots of suspected criminals.

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  21. May 18

    these questions are relevant in the Canadian context too

    Crucial question for carriers indeed: how exactly did we "opt-in" to mobile phone carriers sharing our *real-time* geolocation data without a way to opt-out? Follow-on question for Congress: why on earth is selling real-time location data legal?
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