Daily Shaarli
June 3, 2025
In Taiwan’s AI-fueled chip boom, brokers control everything from paychecks to dorm beds, leaving workers feeling trapped and exploited.
Startups are deploying employee tracking tools in low-regulation markets with help from Silicon Valley venture capital.
Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers, increasingly using artificial intelligence, are getting entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org, a labor rights nonprofit based in New York.
Audits of more than 150 startups and regional companies based in Kenya, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and India showed workplace surveillance is expanding in scale and sophistication, the researchers said.
Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find.
...interest from this group has risen since the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year.
Privacy has become a privilege of the rich.
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115
Follow up: Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/meta_pauses_android_tracking_tech/