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Karen is a life coach and she's happy to help you work through a few things in your life. You interact with Karen through an app. When you begin, she asks you some questions about your outlook on the world to get an understanding of you. In fact, her questions are drawn from psychological profiling questionnaires. She - and the software - are profiling you and she gives you advice based on your answers.

We've all seen them - windows that pop up before you install a new piece of software, full of legalese. To complete the install, you have to scroll through 60 screens of dense text and then click an "I Agree" button. Sometimes you don't even have to scroll through to click the button. Other times, there is no button because merely opening your new gadget means that you've "agreed" to the chunk of legalese.

"Instead of requiring a typed password or a fingerprint, this security software asks the user to speak or mouth a password directly at a device's camera."

Smart TV voice recognition software could transmit 'personal or other sensitive information' to a third party, Samsung's policy warns

"While the Philips Hue system is based on open technologies we are not able to ensure all products from other brands are tested and fully interoperable with all of our software updates. For guaranteed compatibility you need to use Philips Hue or certified Friends of Hue products"

"Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware No client-side software required Install by running one command: curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash"

The Digital Standard is an ambitious, open, and collaborative effort to create a digital privacy and security standard to help guide the future design of consumer software, digital platforms and services, and Internet-connected products.

London's Metropolitan Police have been urged to back down on plans to once again use facial recognition software at next weekend's Notting Hill Carnival. Privacy groups including Big Brother Watch, Liberty and Privacy International have written to police commissioner Cressida Dick (PDF) calling for a U-turn on the use of the tech. Automated facial recognition technology will snap the party-goers' faces, and run them against a database. The aim is to alert cops to people who are banned from the festival or are wanted by the police, presumably so they can take immediate action. The tech was first tested at the festival - where relations between police and revellers are often strained - last year, but it failed to identify anyone.

"A decentralized video hosting network, based on free/libre software"

Dyson smart rooms is a crystal maze - style pop-up to find new software engineers

Podcasting service using open source software and Fediverse support

"A proposed standard which allows websites and services to disclose information about their usage of analytics software and user tracking. "

The standard for public code is a set of criteria that supports public organisations in developing and maintaining software and policy together

"OpenDP is a community effort to build trustworthy, open-source software tools for statistical analysis of sensitive private data. These tools, which we call OpenDP, will offer the rigorous protections of differential privacy for the individuals who may be represented in confidential data and statistically valid methods of analysis for researchers who study the data. "

Algorithms used in American criminal justice is found to be biased against blacks

"You are being watched. Private and state-sponsored organizations are monitoring and recording your online activities. privacytools.io provides knowledge and tools to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance."

openPDS/SafeAnswers allows users to collect, store, and give fine-grained access to their data all while protecting their privacy.