Your Rights Online Stories for 2020

UK May Drop Huawei From Planned 5G Networks 133
Munich Says It's Now Shifting Back From Microsoft to Open Source Software -- Again 88
America's CDC and 11 States Erroneously Conflated Two Kinds of Coronavirus Tests 118
Trump Administration Mulls First US Nuclear Test in Decades 119
America Makes a Big Investment In Next-Gen Nuclear Power 186
Dr. Anthony Fauci Says Staying Closed For Too Long Could Cause 'Irreparable Damage' 275
Just Turning Your Phone On Qualifies As Searching It, Court Rules 41
North Dakota's COVID-19 App Has Been Sending Data To Foursquare and Google 44
Linux Desktop Org GNOME Foundation Settles Lawsuit With Patent Troll 29
Tesla Drops Lawsuit Against Alameda County Over Freemont Factory Reopening 80
Grandmother Ordered To Delete Facebook Photos Under GDPR 101
Check Point Releases Open-Source Fix For Common Linux Memory Corruption Security Hole 12
New Zealand PM Flags Four-Day Workweek To Boost Its Shuttered Economy After COVID-19 144
Signal To Move Away From Using Phone Numbers as User IDs 38
Apple Whistleblower Goes Public Over 'Lack of Action' 54
EasyJet Admits Data of Nine Million Hacked 23
German Intelligence Can No Longer Freely Spy on the World's Internet Traffic, Top Court Rules 50
Nintendo Files Lawsuits In Crackdown Against Switch Hackers 61
Trump Says He Takes Hydroxychloroquine To Prevent Coronavirus Infection Even Though It's An Unproven Treatment 470
AG Barr Seeks 'Legislative Solution' To Make Companies Unlock Phones 92
Facebook's Giphy Acquisition Sounds Antitrust Alarms In Congress 20
Rainbow Six 'Copy' Lands Apple and Google In Copyright Court 44
Edison Mail Rolls Back Update After iOS Users Reported They Could See Strangers' Emails 21
Is Now The Time to Make a Deal With Our Robot Overlords? 90
What We Need Now is 'Universal Basic Internet' 169
'King of Donkey Kong' Billy Mitchell Continues Defamation Suit Over Cheating Accusations 93
Covid-19 Could Normalize Surveillance - or Provide a Moment for Reasserting Rights 85
Is Support Now Growing for a Universal Basic Income? 238
Andrew Yang's Nonprofit Helps Fund Five-Year, $500-a-Month Basic Income Experiment 67
World Health Leaders Stress Need For Sharing of Vaccines 127
The Atlantic Warns About 2020 Election Security Holes and Possible Russian Interference 250
Programmer Discovers Unprotected Access to State's Jobless Claims Portal's Admin Mode 50
California Reject's SpaceX's Request for Subsidies, Citing Musk's Tweet About Relocating 163
Mystery Data Breach Dubbed 'db8151dd' Exposes Records of 22 Million People 25
America's FDA Halts Bill Gates-Backed Coronavirus Testing Program 105
Quantum Security Goes Live With Samsung Galaxy 51
Justice Department, State Attorneys General Likely to Bring Antitrust Lawsuits Against Google 28
Why a Voting App Won't Solve Our Problems This November 355
France Passes Law Forcing Online Platforms To Delete Hate-Speech Content Within 24 Hours 242
Austrian Citizen Files GDPR Legal Complaint Over Android Advertising ID 43
TSMC To Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory In Arizona 56
Senate Passes Surveillance Bill Without Ban On Web History Snooping 62
Ohio Stops Kicking Workers Off Unemployment After Hacker Targets Its Website 247
Court Upholds Public Right of Access To Court Documents 19
Trump Extends Order That Curbs Huawei's Access To US Market 49
Senate Defeats Amendment To Shield Browsing Histories in FISA Searches 70
Democrats Try To Ban Internet Shutoffs Until Pandemic Is Over 271
Trump Wants California To Let Automaker Tesla Reopen Assembly Plant 206
Washington Restaurants Will Need To Track Diners' Info As Part of Reopening Requirements 226
US Marshals Service Breach Exposed Personal Data of 387,000 Prisoners 9
US Govt Exposes New North Korean Malware, Phishing Attacks 17
Court Fines YouTuber For Posting IPTV Piracy Tutorials 37
Ransomware Hit ATM Giant Diebold Nixdorf 36
Slack Now Strips Location Data From Images 21
James Damore Silently Ends Lawsuit Against Google 303
Tesla Files Lawsuit Demanding Reopening of Plant As Musk Faces Criticism 256
'Video Vigilante' Arrested After Filming a Hospital's Emergency Ramp 225
US Military Is Furious At FCC Over 5G Plan That Could Interfere With GPS 77
Comcast Resists Call To Open Home Wi-Fi Hotspots, Cites Potential Congestion 99
Hackers Target WHO By Posing As Think Tank, Broadcaster 15
MPA and Amazon Ask GitHub To Suspend Kodi Add-On Developer's Account 48
White House Blocks CDC Guidance Over Economic and Religious Concerns 377
WeChat Surveils International Accounts To Decide What To Censor for Chinese Users, Study Says 60
Apple Sued Over 2016 MacBook Pro 'Stage Lighting' Issue 46
Details of 44 Million Pakistani Mobile Users Leaked Online, Part of Bigger 115 Million Cache 11
William Shatner Upset By Police Who Drew Guns Upon Stormtrooper On May 4th 431
Samsung Heir Apologizes For Corruption and Union-Busting Scandals 18
Pirated 'DVD Screeners' Will be History After Next Year's Oscars 44
No Cookie Consent Walls -- and No, Scrolling Isn't Consent, Says EU Data Protection Body 284
An Adult Cam Site Exposed 10.88 Billion Records 73
Xiaomi Releases Browser Update Amid Accusations It Collects Private Browsing Data 27
Uber and Lyft Face Worker Misclassification Lawsuit From CA Attorney General and City Attorneys 67
Adam Neumann, WeWork's Former Chief, Sues SoftBank 40
Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments Remotely 94
Apple, Google Ban Use of Location Tracking in Contact Tracing Apps 76
Apple's T2 Security Chip Has Created a Nightmare for MacBook Refurbishers 213
Google Purged Almost 1,000 Abusive 'Creeperware' Apps. Now Some Are Coming Back. 28
Unimpressed by Online Classes, College Students Demand Refunds 238
Will Cellphone Tracing Bring a Tolerance of Surveillance? 127
America's Government Approves Release of Genetically-Engineered Mosquitoes 84
Health Officials Worry About Possible Lack of Cooperation on Coronavirus Vaccines 324
President Trump Just De-Funded a Research Nonprofit Studying Virus Transmissions 231
Judge Orders FCC to Hand Over IP Addresses Linked to Fake Net Neutrality Comments 70
Google Wants Australia To Remove Civil Penalties From CLOUD Act-Readying Bill 9
New Bill Threatens Journalists' Ability To Protect Sources 97
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Called To Testify Before House Antitrust Panel 24
Oracle Women Score Major Win in Court Battle Over Equal Pay 81
New Firefox Service Will Generate Unique Email Aliases To Enter In Online Forms 70
Xiaomi Found Recording 'Private' Web and Phone Use, Researchers Claim 54
Quibi, JetBlue and Others Gave Away Email Addresses, Report Says 13
WhatsApp: Israeli Firm 'Deeply Involved' In Hacking Our Users 9
US Senator Wants To Know Which Federal Authorities Are Using Clearview AI To Track the Coronavirus 31
NSA's Guide For Choosing a Safe Text Chat and Video Conferencing Service 73
Predictive Text Patent Troll Tries To Shake Down Wikipedia 48
Half of Americans Won't Trust Contact-Tracing Apps, New Poll Finds 221
The ACLU Wants To Know Why Facebook Beat a 2018 Wiretap Case 65
How Spies Snuck Malware Into the Google Play Store -- Again and Again 34
Number-Plate Cam Site Had No Password, Spills 8.6 Million Logs of UK Road Journeys 48
Chinese Internet Users Who Uploaded Coronavirus Memories To GitHub Have Been Arrested 216
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Says 'Guaranteed Income' Is Worth Considering For Coronavirus Recovery 367
NSO Employee Abused Phone Hacking Tech To Target a Love Interest 21
CEO of SoftBank-Backed Surveillance Firm Banjo Once Helped KKK Leader Shoot Up a Synagogue 181
Parolees Are Being Forced To Download Telmate's Guardian App That Listens and Records Every Move 228
Pentagon Formally Releases 3 Navy Videos Showing 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' 142
Broadcom Offers To Scrap Exclusivity Deals To End EU Antitrust Probe 20
Georgia Loses Legal Code Copyright Clash At Supreme Court 158
NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan 36
Should the Government Subsidize Online Jobs and Classes -- and Streaming Services? 106
How Australia's New Contact-Tracing App Tries to Fight Covid-19 While Protecting Privacy 66
Should GPS Also Be Used For Contact Tracing? 110
Supreme Court To Consider Limiting America's 'Anti-Hacking' Law 21
Some 'Reopen' Domains Could Be Phishing and Malware Campaigns 29
Facebook Accuses NSO Group of Using US Servers for Spying 18
Israel Stops Using Phone Tracking To Enforce COVID-19 Quarantines 25
Trump Threatens To Block Aid For US Post Office If It Does Not Raise Prices 292
Former Labradoodle Breeder Was Tapped To Lead US Pandemic Task Force 175
Nearly 160,000 Nintendo Accounts Compromised In Massive Hack 12
Apple and Google Pledge To Shut Down Coronavirus Tracker When Pandemic Ends 63
Amazon's Top Watchdog In Congress Says Its Witness 'May Have Lied' 25
The Jury Is Still Out On Zoom Trials 43
Team Fortress 2 Source Code Leak Raises Security Fears 12
In a First, Missouri Sues China Over Coronavirus Economic Losses 263
Stripe Is Silently Recording Your Movements On Its Customers' Websites 116
Ripple Sues YouTube Over Cryptocurrency Scam Videos 27
Who's Behind the 'Reopen' Domain Surge? 384
Trump Will Temporarily Suspend Immigration Into the US For 60 Days Due To Coronavirus Fears 336
Facebook Agreed To Censor Posts After Vietnam Slowed Traffic 59
Nintendo Accounts Are Getting Hacked and Used To Buy Fortnite Currency 23
Uber Argues 'Fraud' Absolves It From Paying Star Engineer's $179 Million Fine 41
China Rolls Out Pilot Test of Digital Currency 43
Facebook Will Ban Protests That Defy Government 'Guidance' On Distancing 289
267 Million Facebook Profiles Being Sold For $600 On Dark Web 17
Mild Disney+ Censorship 'Hides a Much Bigger Problem' 194
Twitter Can't Reveal Number of US Surveillance Requests, Judge Rules 53
ICANN Delays .Org Sale After Scathing Letter from California's Attorney General 21
Bill Gates, Lancet, UN, and Many Others Lambast America's Withholding of Funds from the WHO 373
Silicon Valley Legends Launch 'Beyond Identity' To Eliminate All Passwords 143
The Tor Project Lays Off 37% of Its Staff 43
Growth In Surveillance May Be Hard To Scale Back After Pandemic, Experts Say 96
The Pirate Bay Blocked By MalwareBytes But Normal Service Will Be Resumed 16
FCC To Approve 5G Network Despite Military Saying It Will Harm GPS 56
India Says Zoom 'Not a Safe Platform' For Video Conferencing 49
Google, Apple Covid-19 Tracking Tech Faces EU Scrutiny 68
New York Orders Residents To Wear Masks In Public 247
Former Tesla Employees Brought Stolen Documents To Self-Driving Startup Zoox 45
Amazon Halts Activity At French Warehouses After Court Order 233
Hackers Are Selling a Critical Zoom Zero-Day Exploit for $500,000 38
Court Rules Photographer Gave Up Exclusive Licensing Rights by Posting on Instagram 94
Multiple Banks Have Reported Outages As People Check For Coronavirus Stimulus Checks 86
State Officials Ask Trump Administration To Pull 3D-Printed Gun Files Offline 326
Trump Halts US Funding For World Health Organization As It Conducts Coronavirus Review 580
The Trump Administration and a Group of Major Airlines Have Agreed On a $25 Billion Bailout 148
Over 500,000 Zoom Accounts Sold On Hacker Forums, the Dark Web 23
Would a Post Office Bankruptcy Kill E-Commerce? 327
6GHz Wi-Fi Access Could Boost Speeds and Generate $183 Billion By 2025, Study Says 59
Ransomware Scumbags Leak Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX Documents After Contractor Refuses To Pay 152
Governors On East and West Coasts Form Pacts To Decide When To Reopen Economies 267
Foxconn's Buildings In Wisconsin Are Still Empty, One Year Later 100
Twitter Accused of Obliterating Its Users' Privacy Choices 102
'Abolish Silicon Valley' Author Urges 'Expropriating' Platforms, Making them Open-Source Public Services 250
Cobol Programmers Heed the Call to Support America's Overloaded Unemployment Systems 113
How a Corporation Suddenly Faced 'Flood' of Lawsuits From Thousands of Gig Workers 73
Can the FBI Be Trusted with the Surveillance of Americans? 123
American Appeals Court Allows Facebook Privacy Lawsuit to Proceed 14
NIH Begins Clinical Trial To Test Hydroxychloroquine To Treat COVID-19 284
Postal Service Warns of $22 Billion Hole From Coronavirus 94
Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus To Build 'The Architecture of Oppression' 107
Turkey To Require Social Media Giants To Appoint Local Representatives 49
People Are Open-Sourcing Their Patents and Research To Fight Coronavirus 17
France Rules Google Must Pay News Firms For Content 183
Federal Support Ends For Coronavirus Testing Sites As Pandemic Peak Nears 212
US Senate Tells Members To Stop Using Zoom 17
Signal Threatens To Dump US Market If EARN IT Act Passes 82
Nintendo's Animal Crossing Becomes New Hong Kong Protest Ground 11
Italy Working On Coronavirus Tracing App To Help Lockdown Exit 74
Zoom Accused of Misrepresenting Security Measures In New Lawsuit 22
Attackers Can Bypass Fingerprint Authentication With an 80 Percent Success Rate 47
Google Told Its Workers That They Can't Use Zoom On Their Laptops Anymore 25
NASA Astronaut's Estranged Wife Charged With Lying About Space Crime Allegation 114
Easy-To-Pick 'Smart' Locks Gush Personal Data, FTC Finds 59
Taiwan Tells Agencies Not To Use Zoom On Security Grounds 28
In a First, China Knocks US From Top Spot in Global Patent Race 55
Trump Signs Executive Order To Support Moon Mining, Tap Asteroid Resources 218
US Schools Are Banning Zoom and Switching To Microsoft Teams 121
UK Government Encourages Social Distancing With In-Game Health Messages 20
PayPal and Venmo Are Letting SIM Swappers Hijack Accounts 42
Russia Accused of Spreading Coronavirus Disinformation 171
IBM is Deploying Its Watson AI to Help Governments Answer People's Covid-19 Questions 25
The Story of The Doctor Who Ordered America's First Covid-19 Lockdown 164
Pandemic Shutdowns Will Help the Economy, Too 268
Not Just 'The Death of IT'. Cringely Also Predicts Layoffs For Many IT Contractors 78
A Hacker Found a Way To Take Over Any Apple Webcam 52
Zoom Will Enable Waiting Rooms By Default To Stop Zoombombing 47
Twitter Removes 9,000 Accounts Pushing Coronavirus Propaganda Praising the United Arab Emirates 19
'Zoombombing' Is a Federal Offense That Could Result In Imprisonment, Prosecutors Warn 37
EU Rules Rental Car Companies Don't Need To Pay A License To Rent Cars With Radios That Might Play Music 18
Trump: CDC Recommends Cloth Face Covering To Protect Against Coronavirus 145
Apple Brings Its Hardware Microphone Disconnect Feature To iPads 26
Thousands of Zoom Video Calls Left Exposed on Open Web 26
Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware To Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims 14
'Call of Duty' Wins First Amendment Victory Over Use of Humvees 94
New York Finally Legalizes Electric Bikes and Scooters 95
FCC To Vote On Adding 6Ghz Band To Wi-Fi 6 To Improve Speeds 39
Moscow To Launch Mandatory Surveillance App To Track Residents In Coronavirus Lockdown 77
Trump Issues Order Under Defense Production Act To Secure More Ventilators 180
The Internet is Now Rife With Places Where You Can Organize Zoom-bombing Raids 38
SpaceX Bans Zoom Over Privacy Concerns 52
A Feature on Zoom Secretly Displayed Data From People's LinkedIn Profiles 39
Hospitals Tell Doctors They'll Be Fired If They Speak Out About Lack of Gear 310
Microsoft President Calls Washington State's New Facial Recognition Law 'a Significant Breakthrough' 48
Cloudflare Launches a DNS-Based Parental Control Service 58
OpenWRT Code-Execution Bug Puts Millions of Devices At Risk 60
Marriott Discloses New Data Breach Impacting 5.2 Million Guests 12
Zoom is Leaking Peoples' Email Addresses and Photos To Strangers 35
Authors, Publishers Condemn the 'National Emergency Library' As 'Piracy' 147
Court Finds Algorithm Bias Studies Don't Violate US Anti-Hacking Law 52
What Happens When Epidemiologists are Undermined By Politics? 504
Ask Slashdot: Should the Internet Be A Public Utility? 230
America's FDA Eases Restrictions on Mask-Sterilizing Technology Amid Coronavirus Shortages 67
After 5 Years of Construction, 'Space Fence' Finally Declared Operational 37
Remote City Council Meeting Interrupted By Pornographic Videos 37
Zoom Removes Code That Sends Data to Facebook 51
Doc Searls: 'Zoom Needs to Clean Up Its Privacy Act' 32
US Officials Reportedly Agree To Cut Off Huawei From Global Chip Suppliers 106
Trump Signs $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill 163
US Space Force Successfully Launches First Mission 76
Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don't Have a Facebook Account 25
A Hacker Stole and Leaked the Xbox Series X Graphics Source Code 33
Massive US Coronavirus Stimulus Includes Research Dollars, Some Aid To Universities 124
Singapore Government To Make Its Contact-Tracing App Freely Available To Developers Worldwide 27
Apple Blocks Third-Party Cookies in Safari 16
Hackers Hijack Routers' DNS To Spread Malicious COVID-19 Apps 13
The Supreme Court Says States Cannot Be Sued For Copyright Infringement 122
Comcast Wins Supreme Court Case Over Interpretation of Civil Rights Law 52
Hacker Selling Data of 538 Million Weibo Users 7
As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets 36
is a 'Debt Jubilee' The Only Way to Avoid a Depression? 402
Coronavirus Cases Have Dropped Sharply In South Korea. What's Its Secret? 148
What Happens When Tech Companies Offer to Fight Coronavirus With Digital Surveillance? 55
German Leader Angela Merkel in Quarantine after Her Doctor Tests Positive for Coronavirus 88
US Senator Rand Paul Has Tested Positive for Coronavirus 320
WSJ: Narrow Testing Guidelines By America's CDC 'Hid' the Growing US Epidemic 311
Russia Accused of Deploying Coronavirus Disinformation to Sow Distrust 197
Forbes: Hack on Putin's Intelligence Agency Finds Weapon to Exploit IoT Vulnerabilities 36
To Slow Coronavirus Spread, Singapore Creates a Contact-Tracing App 39
Russia Will Ban the Issuing and Selling of Cryptocurrencies 61
America's FDA Authorizes Fast Coronavirus Testing System 105
Are There Security Risks When Millions are Suddenly Working from Home? 95
Google vs. Oracle Case Postponed Due to Coronavirus 18
Locked-Down Lawyers Warned Alexa Is Hearing Confidential Calls 70

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