## 4_tonsofuserdata

[Browsers & Search Engines | My Thoughts - b3n.org](https://b3n.org/browsers-and-search-engines)

[UK Government scans all web servers hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33470079)
[NCSC Scanning information - NCSC.GOV.UK](https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/ncsc-scanning-information)
[@NCSC](https://twitter.com/NCSC)
the National Cyber Security Centre. Helping to make the UK the safest place to live and work online.

[Data shows that the EU's CSAM scanning will not have the intended effect | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31489076)
[CSAM Scanning: EU Commission's lies uncovered.](https://tuta.com/blog/posts/eu-csam-scanning/)

[Telegram Will Share User IP Addresses, Phone Numbers With Police Upon Request](https://gizmodo.com/telegram-will-share-user-ip-addresses-phone-numbers-with-police-upon-request-2000502252)

[Telegram tweaks T&Cs on IP address, phone number privacy • The Register](https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/23/telegram_tcs_suspect_info/)

[Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data | Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data)

[Senators Say TSA's Facial Recognition Program Is Out of Control, Here's How to Opt Out](https://gizmodo.com/senators-say-tsas-facial-recognition-program-is-out-of-control-heres-how-to-opt-out-2000528310)

## 6_ai training

[AI and Mass Spying | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530880)
[AI and Mass Spying - Schneier on Security](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-mass-spying.html)

[The right not to be subjected to AI profiling based on publicly available data | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40597503)
[The Right Not to Be Subjected to AI Profiling Based on Publicly Available Data—Privacy and the Exceptionalism of AI Profiling | Philosophy & Technology](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-023-00616-9)

## 7 cyberbullying

[Developer account removed by Apple | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38394364)
[Notion - The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.](https://seraleev.notion.site/Our-developer-account-was-removed-by-Apple-and-they-haven-t-paid-out-108-878-b61192711c74487480373badc70d42c0)

[I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39326559)
[I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death](https://jacobin.com/2023/11/i-was-illegally-fired-by-amazon-for-speaking-out-about-a-coworkers-death/)

[Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38627652)
[Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life's Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data | Techdirt](https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/12/google-promises-unlimited-cloud-storage-then-cancels-plan-then-tells-journalist-his-lifes-work-will-be-deleted-without-enough-time-to-transfer-the-data/)

## 8 cybercoercion

[YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345858)
[Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. : youtube](https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/)

[Meta's Onavo VPN removed SSL encryption of competitor's analytics traffic | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39881962)
[DocumentCloud](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24520332-merged-fb)

[Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493770)
[How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds - Open RSS](https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds)

[YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38611466)
[YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads : youtube](https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/18gjiqy/youtube_doesnt_want_to_take_down_scam_ads/)

[Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38745673)
[Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims | Meta | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/21/meta-facebook-instagram-pro-palestine-censorship-human-rights-watch-report)

[Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38777516)
[Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th - The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/26/24015595/amazon-prime-video-ads-coming-january-29)

[AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592607)
[AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable :: Adriano Caloiaro's personal blog](https://adriano.fyi/posts/2023/2023-04-16-att-traffic-shaping-makes-websites-unusable/)

## 9 right to repair

[Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video] | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788360)
[Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains - media.ccc.de](https://web.archive.org/web/20240106093138/https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains)
[Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by train company | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628635)
[Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them](https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-repaired-trains-the-manufacturer-artificially-bricked-now-the-train-company-is-threatening-them/)
[Dieselgate, but for trains - some heavyweight hardware hacking | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38567687)
[Dieselgate, but for trains - some heavyweight hardware hacking - BadCyber](https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavyweight-hardware-hacking/)
[Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885)
[q3k :blobcatcoffee:: "I can finally reveal some rese…" - Warsaw Hackerspace Social Club](https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111528162462505087)
[Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38638865)
[Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find | Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/manufacturer-deliberately-bricked-trains-repaired-by-competitors-hackers-find/)

## 10 incompetence

[Google Drive files suddenly disappeared | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38427864)
[Google Drive files suddenly disappeared. The Drive literally went back to condition in May 2023 - Google Drive Community](https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245055606/google-drive-files-suddenly-disappeared-the-drive-literally-went-back-to-condition-in-may-2023?hl=en)

[Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38431743)
[The mystery of the disappearing Google Drive files • The Register](https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/google_drive_files_disappearing/)

[Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38429291)
[Dan Fixes Coin-Ops: "Watching a mutual ask for prin…" - Retro Social](https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/111480744130939877)

[Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691025)
[Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook | TokyoDev](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/unbricking-my-macbook-took-an-email-to-tim-cook)

[Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32970623)
[Corrupted photos - Google Photos Community](https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180787712/corrupted-photos?hl=en)

[Goodbye non-KISS appliances | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39238010)
[Goodbye Non-KISS Appliances](https://willbush.dev/blog/complex-appliances/)

[Comcast gave false map data to FCC | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34725776)
[Comcast gave false map data to FCC-and didn't admit it until Ars got involved | Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/comcast-gave-false-map-data-to-fcc-and-didnt-admit-it-until-ars-got-involved/)