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Samsung Users Report ‘Unremovable’ Israeli Bloatware Appcloud On Devices

November 17, 2025 Middle East Eye. Educate! Data, Data Privacy, Israel, Samsung, Smart Phones, Spyware

South Korean tech giant Samsung has come under fire after users flagged that its devices contained what cybersecurity experts are calling bloatware across multiple regions globally. Bloatware is a pre-installed application that runs on a device’s operating system. Initially, the software, AppCloud, was reported to be pre-installed in Samsung Galaxy A and M series phones across West Asia and North Africa. But now, users from Europe and South Asia have reported that the bloatware also comes pre-installed on their devices, and is "unremovable". Uninstalling bloatware requires root access, the highest level of control in a computer system. In February, SMEX (formerly Social Media Exchange), a digital rights organisation based in Beirut, reported that AppCloud secretly harvests user data and lacks an accessible privacy policy, raising legal and ethical concerns due to its ties to the Israeli firm ironSource.

Denmark Takes First Step Toward Owning Your Own Information

July 7, 2025 Kurt Cobb, Resilience. Create! Artificial Intelligence, Data, Denmark, Privacy

Denmark has decided to take the first step toward protecting Danes’ personal information by giving them ownership rights to their own image and voice. The Danish culture minister told The Guardian: “In the bill we agree and are sending an unequivocal message that everybody has the right to their own body, their own voice and their own facial features, which is apparently not how the current law is protecting people against generative AI.” The purpose is to prevent “deep fakes” of an individual and to force such “deep fakes” to be taken down when an individual requests it. Under the law those violating it may have to pay compensation.

VIPS: Data Collection Can Be Effective And Legal

July 6, 2025 Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Consortium News. Create! Constitution, Data, Intelligence, Surveillance

It is not necessary to make an end-run around the U.S. Constitution to thwart terrorism and other crimes. Those claiming otherwise have been far from candid – especially since June 2013, when Edward Snowden revealed gross violations of the Fourth Amendment by NSA’s bulk electronic collection. U.S. citizens have been widely misled into believing that their Constitutional right to privacy had to yield to a superseding need to combat terrorism. The choice was presented as an Either-Or conundrum. In what follows, we will show that this is a false choice. Rather, the “choice” can be a Both-And.

ILO And Partners Advance Statistical Standards For Cooperatives

May 28, 2025 International Labour Organization. Organize! Cooperatives, Data, Economic Impact, International Labour Organization, Solidarity Economy

Following the joint kick-off meeting on 12 March 2025, the two Technical Working Groups held their first technical sessions on 28 and 29 April 2025. These meetings marked the beginning of their in-depth work to develop globally relevant statistical frameworks for cooperatives and the broader social and solidarity economy. The Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC) Technical Working Group on Measuring the Economic Contribution of Cooperatives (TWG MECC)convened on 28 April for its first technical meeting. Olivier Frey, lead author on measuring the economic contribution of cooperatives, presented the rationale for a global measurement framework, emphasizing the need for conceptual clarity, relevant indicators, and a modular methodology adaptable across countries.

Federal Workers Launch New Site To Share Information About DOGE

February 25, 2025 Lauren Feiner, The Verge. Resist! Data, DOGE, Elon Musk, Federal Workers

Around a dozen current and former federal workers are behind a new website created as an outlet to share anonymous stories and technical expertise about the Department of Government Efficiency’s dismantling of government agencies. “We the Builders” aims to be a secure outlet for government workers to share how their workplaces are being impacted by DOGE, and a place to explain the real world impact of its access to government tech systems, a former federal worker behind the project tells The Verge. The website was created by people who “made government websites easier to use while protecting the integrity of your personal information,” according to its description.

We Need A Data Revolution To Avert Climate Disaster

February 2, 2025 Stephen Marshall, DeSmog. Create! climate action, climate crisis, Data, Technology

The fires in Los Angeles represent a catastrophic failure to anticipate and respond to environmental threats. In the aftermath of such devastation, an obvious question looms: How did we miss the warning signs? The answer is clear. Unlike other feedback systems designed to drive immediate response — think of the life-saving equipment in intensive care units, or even a car’s fuel gauge — the tools we use to monitor climate resilience and risk are dangerously, and indefensibly, outdated. Take the Planetary Boundaries framework, one of the most recognized global indicators of humanity’s transgression of critical ecological thresholds, such as climate stability and biodiversity.

Whistleblower Objects To Pentagon Purchases Of Browsing Data

September 25, 2022 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Educate! Data, Mass Surveillance, NCIS, Pentagon

A United States military whistleblower filed a series of complaints alleging the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is engaged in the warrantless purchase and use of Americans’ internet browsing data, which it obtained from a broker. “According to the whistleblower, NCIS is purchasing access to data, which includes netflow records and some communications content from Team Cymru,” Senator Ron Wyden shared in a letter to the offices of the inspector general for the Pentagon, Justice Department, and Homeland Security Department. The warrantless purchase of Americans’ data is not limited to the NCIS. Wyden’s office examined public contracting records and found Team Cymru was awarded data brokering contracts with US Cyber Command, the US Army, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the US Secret Service.

Data Governance And The New Frontiers Of Resistance

February 15, 2020 Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami, Roarmag.org Strategize! Consumerism, Data

Four centuries after the East India Company set the trend for corporate resource extraction, most of the world is now in the grip of unbridled corporate power. But corporate power is on the cusp of achieving “quantum supremacy” and social movements in the digital age need to understand this in order to shift gears in their struggles. The quantum shift here comes from “network-data” power; the ingredients that make up capitalism’s digital age recipe.

Librarian Rushes To Archive Alberta’s Climate Change Data Before Change In Government

April 30, 2019 Sarah Lawrynuik, Thenarwhal.ca Create! Climate Change, Data, Library

University of Alberta librarian Katie Cuyler says industry experts and academics have requested she begin ‘guerrilla archiving’ critical information they fear could disappear under a new United Conservative government. The election of the United Conservative Party government in Alberta has kept one Edmonton-based librarian very busy. In what has come to be known as “guerrilla archiving,” Katie Cuyler, a public services and government information librarian at the University of Alberta, has gone about saving all data and information hosted on the Government of Alberta web pages before it is turned over from the NDP to the UCP.

Web Inventor Urges Users To Seek ‘Complete Control’ Of Data

March 16, 2019 Staff, Afp.com Create! Data, Internet

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on Monday slammed the increasing commodification of personal information and appealed for internet users to strive to maintain "complete control" of their data. Berners-Lee, credited with creating the web in 1989, is on a mission to save his invention from a range of problems increasingly dominating online life, including misinformation and a lack of data protection. "You should have complete control of your data. It's not oil. It's not a commodity," he told a small group of journalists gathered at Europe's physics lab CERN, where he first came up with the idea for the web 30 years ago.

Facebook Reportedly Under Criminal Investigation For Secret Data-Sharing Deals

March 15, 2019 Staff, Rt.com Educate! Data, Facebook, Investigation

Federal prosecutors are probing Facebook's illicit data-sharing partnerships, reportedly subpoenaing data from smartphone manufacturers as the regulatory walls appear to close in on the beleaguered social media firm. A New York grand jury has subpoenaed two device-makers' records as part of a criminal investigation into some of the 150+ dubiously legal data partnerships Facebook forged with technology companies and other large corporations, according to sources familiar with the requests who spoke to the New York Times.

Shifting From Tasers To AI, Axon Wants To Use Terabytes Of Data To Automate Police Records And Redactions

February 14, 2019 By Beryl Lipton, Muckrock.com Educate! Data, Police, Technology

Axon, one of the most prominent suppliers of tech tools to law enforcement, is shifting from selling its signature Tasers to embedding artificial intelligence in police departments around the country. The company changed its name from Taser in 2017, part of a plan outlined by CEO Rick Smith to de-emphasize the electrical stun guns in favor of body cameras, data storage and management products. Axon claims as customers a majority of the largest police departments, with access to a self-reported 40 petabytes of law enforcement data. Now it is using AI to develop ways of capitalizing on that trove, offering systems to help law enforcement combine data from camera footage, records, and weapons.

Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates

July 18, 2018 Marshall Allen, Propublica.org Educate! Data, Health Insurance

To an outsider, the fancy booths at last month’s health insurance industry gathering in San Diego aren’t very compelling. A handful of companies pitching “lifestyle” data and salespeople touting jargony phrases like “social determinants of health.” But dig deeper and the implications of what they’re selling might give many patients pause: A future in which everything you do — the things you buy, the food you eat, the time you spend watching TV — may help determine how much you pay for health insurance. With little public scrutiny, the health insurance industry has joined forces with data brokers to vacuum up personal details about hundreds of millions of Americans, including, odds are, many readers of this story. The companies are tracking your race, education level, TV habits, marital status, net worth.

Feds Cherry-Pick Data To Force Pipelines Through Poor Communities

June 13, 2018 Sophie Yeo, Psmag.com Educate! Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Corruption, Data, EPA, FERC, Pipelines

The government's energy regulator is facing allegations of cherry-picking data to approve pipeline projects that would disproportionately harm communities of color. According to academics, attorneys, and non-governmental organizations, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission used unreliable statistical methods in its analysis of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, masking its high cost to African-American and Native-American communities. While the Commission concluded that the pipeline poses no environmental justice concerns, these minority groups say that their environment, health, and culture will be disproportionately imperiled if the development goes ahead as planned. FERC faced similar accusations over the Sabal Trail pipeline in 2016, indicating a pattern in how the federal government manages to force unwelcome energy infrastructure through vulnerable communities.

Neo-Liberal Academia And The Death Of Education

May 28, 2018 By Davor Džalto, Dissident Voice. Educate! Capitalism, Data, Education, Higher Education

Recent cases of personal information collecting for corporate interests highlight the urgency of revisiting the topic of higher education in its connection with the corporate sector and the government. We ought to reconsider at least some aspects of the complex web of the contemporary “education industry” and its social implications. Understanding how contemporary (Western) education works (or doesn’t work) can contribute to raising the awareness of the general population as to the scale of the problem, and making a change, no matter how small.

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