Your Rights Online Stories for 2024

Did the US Government Ignore a Chance to Make TikTok Safer? 9
How Facial Recognition Tech Is Being Used In London By Shops - and Police 62
Apple's AI Plans Include 'Black Box' For Cloud Data 11
How an Apple AirTag Helped Police Recover 15,000 Stolen Power Tools 75
FCC Ends Affordable Internet Program Due To Lack of Funds 64
All Santander Staff and 30 Million Customers In Spain, Chile and Uruguay Hacked 9
Cooler Master Hit By Data Breach Exposing Customer Information 15
Apple Puts iPhone Durability Ahead of Easy Repairs, Exec Says 74
Amazon Execs May Be Personally Liable For Tricking Users Into Prime Sign-Ups 60
'Ottawa Wants the Power To Create Secret Backdoors In Our Networks' 38
Hackers Claim To Have Breached Ticketmaster, Stealing Personal Data of 560 Million Users 29
Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Sentenced To 7.5 Years In Prison 14
Lawyers To Plastic Makers: Prepare For 'Astronomical' PFAS Lawsuits 110
Nvidia Denies Pirate e-Book Sites Are 'Shadow Libraries' To Shut Down Lawsuit 105
Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password To a $3 Million Software-Based Crypto Wallet 74
Trump Promises He'd Commute the Life Sentence of 'Silk Road' Founder Ross Ulbricht 282
Britain Covered Up Tainted Blood Scandal That Killed Thousands, Report Finds 78
Meta, Activision Sued By Parents of Children Killed in Last Year's School Shooting 153
FTC Chair: AI Models Could Violate Antitrust Laws 42
UK Law Will Let Regulators Fine Big Tech Without Court Approval 34
Signal Slams Telegram's Security 33
Political Consultant Behind Fake Biden Robocalls Faces $6 Million Fine, Criminal Charges 49
IRS Extends Free File Tax Program Through 2029 21
Leaked Contract Shows Samsung Forces Repair Shop To Snitch On Customers 34
iFixit is Breaking Up With Samsung 13
US Sues To Break Up Ticketmaster Owner, Live Nation 60
Mozilla Says It's Concerned About Windows Recall 67
Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message 38
Google Brings Back Group Speaker Controls After Sonos Lawsuit Win 16
DOJ Makes Its First Known Arrest For AI-Generated CSAM 98
EU Sets Benchmark For Rest of the World With Landmark AI Laws 28
Apple Says US Antitrust Lawsuit Should Be Dismissed 64
Google Cuts Mystery Check To US In Bid To Sidestep Jury Trial 38
Police Found Ways to Use Facial Recognition Tech After Their Cities Banned It 32
What Happened After a Reporter Tracked Down The Identity Thief Who Stole $5,000 46
Amazon Defends Its Use of Signal Messages in Court 54
Deep Fake Scams Growing in Global Frequency and Sophistication, Victim Warns 19
America Takes Its Biggest Step Yet to End Coal Mining 162
Are AI-Generated Search Results Still Protected by Section 230? 63
Eight Automakers Grilled by US Lawmakers Over Sharing of Connected Car Data With Police 35
The Delta Emulator Is Changing Its Logo After Adobe Threatened It 56
Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments 74
Palantir's First-Ever AI Warfare Conference 37
France Bans TikTok In New Caledonia 48
SEC: Financial Orgs Have 30 Days To Send Data Breach Notifications 12
User Outcry As Slack Scrapes Customer Data For AI Model Training 34
Arizona Woman Accused of Helping North Koreans Get Remote IT Jobs At 300 Companies 46
Arizona Accuses Amazon of Unfair, Deceptive Business Practices 12
Has Section 230 'Outlived Its Usefulness'? 278
The Walls Are Closing In On John Deere's Tractor Repair Monopoly 107
Threat Actor Scraped Dell Support Tickets, Including Customer Phone Numbers 16
Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering $1.2 Billion of Crypto 95
Apple and Google Introduce Alerts for Unwanted Bluetooth Tracking 39
Big Three Carriers Pay $10 Million To Settle Claims of False 'Unlimited' Advertising 33
Maryland Passes Two Bills Limiting Tech Platforms' Ability To Track Users 19
Dell Says Data Breach Involved Customers' Physical Addresses 18
US Patent and Trademark Office Confirms Another Leak of Filers' Address Data 13
Ransomware Crooks Now SIM Swap Executives' Kids To Pressure Their Parents 13
Defense Think Tank MITRE To Build AI Supercomputer With Nvidia 44
TikTok Sues US Government Over Law Forcing Sale or Ban 169
In Argentina, Facing Surging Inflation, 500K Accept Worldcoin's Offer of $50 for Iris-Scanning 67
Can Technology Help Reduce Drunk-Driving Deaths? 155
America's Federal Regulators Are Preparing More Lawsuits Against Crypto Companies 23
The US Just Mandated Automated Emergency Braking Systems By 2029 286
When a Politician Sues a Blog to Unmask Its Anonymous Commenter 79
US Official Urges China, Russia To Declare AI Will Not Control Nuclear Weapons 85
Senators Want Limits On TSA Use of Facial Recognition Technology For Airport Screening 29
German Police Bust Europe's 'Largest' Scam Call Center 24
An Open Database Leaked Submissions To Utah's 'Bathroom Bill' Snitch Form 251
Congress Lets Broadband Funding Run Out, Ending $30 Low-Income Discounts 129
Dropbox Says Hackers Breached Digital-Signature Product 12
UnitedHealthCare CEO Says 'Maybe a Third' of US Citizens Were Affected By Recent Hack 34
13.4 Million Kaiser Insurance Members Affected by Data Leak to Online Advertisers 10
Supreme Court Declines To Block Texas Porn Restriction 145
Cyber Criminal Jailed For Blackmailing Therapy Patients 16
Major US Newspapers Sue OpenAI, Microsoft For Copyright Infringement 75
Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original 243
Russia Issues Arrest Warrant For Ex-Chess Champion Garry Kasparov 79
America's Commerce Department is Reviewing China's Use of RISC-V Chips 130
Bezos, Other Amazon Execs Used Signal - a Problem for FTC Investigators 93
Pegasus Spyware Used on Hundreds of People, Says Poland's Prosecutor General 22
A School Principal Was Framed With an AI-Generated Rant 26
Boeing Accused of Retaliating Against Two Engineers in 2022 51
$5.6 Million in Refunds Sent to Ring Customers, Settling Unauthorized Access and Privacy Violations 10
EyeEm Will License Users' Photos To Train AI If They Don't Delete Them 27
Ring Customers Get $5.6 Million In Refunds In Privacy Settlement 9
Court Upholds New York Law That Says ISPs Must Offer $15 Broadband 47
IRS Free Tax Filing Pilot Saved Consumers $5.6 Million In Prep Fees 37
Android TVs Can Expose User Email Inboxes 29
US Teacher Charged With Using AI To Frame Principal With Hate Speech Clip 124
FCC Votes To Restore Net Neutrality Rules 54
Net Neutrality is About To Make a Comeback 38
Airlines Required To Refund Passengers For Canceled, Delayed Flights 77
Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type 78
Ex-Amazon Exec Claims She Was Asked To Ignore Copyright Law in Race To AI 29
How GM Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On 58
Meta Opens Quest OS To Third Parties, Including ASUS and Lenovo 27
Ex-White House Cyber Policy Director: Microsoft is a National Security Risk 124
Lying to Investors? Co-Founder of Startup 'HeadSpin' Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence for Fraud 28
EU: Meta Cannot Rely On 'Pay Or Okay' 110
Insufficient Redundancy? Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage 90
US Passes Bill Reauthorizing 'FISA' Surveillance for Two More Years 45
Sell or Be Banned: Anti-TikTok Bill Passed by US Representatives 96
Two Major ISPs Threaten They'll Stop Complying With US FISA Orders 34
Dutch Privacy Watchdog Recommends Government Organizations Stop Using Facebook 18
Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules 146
Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data 15
Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme 9
Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist 30
House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties 54
Google Workers Arrested After Nine-Hour Protest In Cloud Chief's Office 308
Escobar Brother Barred by EU Court From Trademarking Family Name 17
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages 49
Telegram Founder Accuses Google and Apple of Censorship Threat 35
SEC Targets Its Own Staff's Texting, Nixes WhatsApp On Work Phones 15
Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government 522
Apple's iOS 18 AI Will Be On-Device Preserving Privacy, and Not Server-Side 59
Judge Refuses To Ctrl-Z Divorce Order Made By a Misclick 202
US Senate To Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like' 55
Justice Department To File Antitrust Suit Against Ticketmaster-Parent Live Nation 48
The IRS's New Tax Software: Rave Reviews, But Low Turnout 90
Roku Makes 2FA Mandatory For All After Nearly 600K Accounts Pwned 26
America's Legal System May Be 'Closing In' on Regulating Cryptocurrencies 45
Stop 'Harmful 5G Fast Lanes', Legal Scholar Warns America's FCC 41
Data Collected by the US Justice Department Exposed in Consultant's Breach 9
US Government Says Recent Microsoft Breach Exposed Federal Agencies to Hacking 15
Should the US Ban Chinese EVs? 283
House Votes To Extend -- and Expand -- a Major US Spy Program 85
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Info With Meta, Google, Data Brokers 21
Your Anonymous OpenTable Reviews Will Soon Display Your First Name 34
We Never Agreed To Only Buy HP Ink, Say Printer Owners 116
Google Is Killing Its VPN Service 30
Amazon Owes $525 Million In Cloud-Storage Patent Fight, US Jury Says 38
Hackable Intel and Lenovo Hardware That Went Undetected For 5 Years Won't Ever Be Fixed 62
US Lawmaker Proposes a Public Database of All AI Training Material 30
Apple Will Open the iPhone To Repair With Used Parts 23
DuckDuckGo Launches Privacy Pro: A 3-in-1 Service That Includes a VPN 34
UK Considers Banning Smartphone Sales To Children Under 16 108
Microsoft Employees Exposed Internal Passwords In Security Lapse 24
Biden Considering Request To Drop Assange Charges 146
MPA Has Big Plans To Crack Down on Movie Piracy Again 88
Proton Acquires Standard Notes 10
Cox Plans To Take Piracy Liability Battle To the Supreme Court 70
A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress 27
Insurers Are Spying on Your Home From the Sky 104
Crypto Scam Criminal Trial Tests 'Code Is Law' Claim by Trader 87
NIST Blames 'Growing Backlog of Vulnerabilities' Requiring Analysis on Lack of Support 22
US Energy Department Announces 'Blueprint' for Slashing Emissions From Buildings and Reducing Energy Use 76
In America, A Complex Patchwork of State AI Regulations Has Already Arrived 13
Four Baseball Teams Now Let Ticket-Holders Enter Using AI-Powered 'Facial Authentication' 42
US Invests $20 Billion More to Finance Clean-Energy Projects 86
Is The US About To Pass a Landmark Online Privacy Bill? 35
Biden Takes Aim At SpaceX's Tax-Free Ride In American Airspace 222
Trudeau Pushes 3D-Printed Homes To Solve Canada Housing Crisis 174
Academics Probe Apple's Privacy Settings and Get Lost and Confused 24
Terraform Labs and Founder Do Kwon Found Liable In US Civil Fraud Trial 12
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia Names and Shames Customers Over Bank Glitch Money 26
Roku's New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game 119
Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository Over Piracy Fears 60
Feds Finally Decide To Do Something About Years-Old SS7 Spy Holes In Phone Networks 32
George Carlin Estate Forces 'AI Carlin' Off the Internet For Good 31
Missouri County Declares State of Emergency Amid Suspected Ransomware Attack 41
UK and US Sign Landmark Agreement On AI Safety 6
'Russia Might Have Caused Havana Syndrome' 188
FCC To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules 60
New XZ Backdoor Scanner Detects Implants In Any Linux Binary 33
The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Now 20 Years Old 15
Google Pledges To Destroy Browsing Data To Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit 35
Arizona's Governor Signs Bill Making Pluto the Official State Planet 118
America's FDA Forced to Settle 'Groundless' Lawsuit Over Its Ivermectin Warnings 350
AT&T Says Data From 73 Million Customers Has Leaked Onto the Dark Web 21
Do Age Verification Laws Drag Us Back to the Dark Ages of the Internet? 159
Can Apps Turn Us Into Unpaid Lobbyists? 73
More AI Safeguards Coming, Including Right to Refuse Face-Recognition Scans at US Airports 23
America's DHS Is Expected to Stop Buying Access to Your Phone Movements 49
Are State Governments Slowing the Build-Out of America's EV Charging Stations? 120
Congress Bans Staff Use of Microsoft's AI Copilot 32
NYC's Government Chatbot Is Lying About City Laws and Regulations 57
Apple Sues Former Employee For Leaking Journal App, Vision Pro Details 47
Cloud Server Host Vultr Rips User Data Ownership Clause From ToS After Web Outage 28
Biden Orders Every US Agency To Appoint a Chief AI Officer 48
Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced To 25 Years in Prison 143
Nigerian Woman Faces Jail Time For Facebook Review of Tomato Sauce 72
Oregon Governor Signs Nation's First Right-To-Repair Bill That Bans Parts Pairing 139
TikTok Is Under Investigation By the FTC Over Data Practices 11
'Operation 404' Results In First Prison Sentence For Pirate IPTV Operator 14
UK Court Denies Bid To Extradite Assange To the US 151
Florida Braces For Lawsuits Over Law Banning Kids From Social Media 168
Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone To Wiretap Snapchat 58
Portugal Orders Altman's Worldcoin To Halt Data Collection 24
Telegram's Peer-to-Peer Login System is a Risky Way To Save $5 a Month 32
Binance Executive Detained In Nigeria Escapes Custody 19
US, UK Announce Sanctions Over China-Linked Election Hacks 29
SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods, Inaccurate 'FindMy' App Tracking 164
Tennessee Becomes First State To Protect Musicians, Other Artists Against AI 23
Consumers Sue Apple, Taking Page From Justice Department Lawsuit 116
DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Says Apple Is Causing Android Users 'Social Stigma' 237
Judge Orders YouTube to Reveal Everyone Who Viewed A Video 169
Steve Wozniak Decries Tracking's Effect on Privacy, Calls Out 'Hypocrisy' of Only Banning TikTok 137
Could a Guilty Plea Free Julian Assange From Jail? 94
Database For UK Nurse Registration 'Completely Unacceptable' 42
General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers 34
Dutch Court Orders ISP To Block 'Anna's Archive' and 'LibGen' 26
DOT Wants To Know How Big Airlines Use Passenger Data 11
Texas Sues xHamster and Chaturbate 292
Hackers Found a Way To Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks In Seconds 33
UN Adopts First Global Artificial Intelligence Resolution 12
Epic, Spotify, Others Back DOJ Lawsuit Against Apple 68
EPA Sets Strict New Limits On Tailpipe Emissions That Could Boost EV Sector 282
Woman With $2.5 Billion In Bitcoin Convicted of Money Laundering 70
India Will Fact-Check Online Posts About Government Matters 32
Users Ditch Glassdoor, Stunned By Site Adding Real Names Without Consent 101
'Disabling Cyberattacks' Are Hitting Critical US Water Systems, White House Warns 77
AT&T Says Leaked Data of 70 Million People Is Not From Its Systems 25
Nokia Tells Reddit It Infringes Some Patents in Lead-Up To IPO 33
C++ Creator Rebuts White House Warning 258
EPA Bans Chrysotile Asbestos 98
BitTorrent Is No Longer the 'King' of Upstream Internet Traffic 37
32-Hour Workweek for America Proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders 390
Why Oregon's Drug Decriminalization Failed 194
EFF Opposes America's Proposed TikTok Ban 67
TikTok is Banned in China, Notes X User Community - Along With Most US Social Media 148
Amazon Violated Rights of Workers Trying to Unionize, Labor Regulators Find 24
What Happened to Other China-Owned Social Media Apps? 73
Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data 125
India Drops Plan To Require Approval For AI Model Launches 2
Sam Bankman-Fried Deserves 40-50 Years in Prison For FTX Fraud, Prosecutors Say 85
Apple, Investors Reach $490 Million Settlement in Fraud Case 5
Supreme Court Tosses Rulings on Public Officials' Social Media Blockings 58
CIA Used Chinese Social Media In Covert Influence Operation Against Xi Jinping's Government 114
FTC and DOJ Think McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Should Be Legal To Fix 66
Court Docs Reveal Epic CEO's Anger At Steam's 30% Fees 109
Record Breach of French Government Exposes Up To 43 Million People's Data 11
Bitcoin Fog Crypto Mixer Found Guilty of Money Laundering, Jury Finds 15
Stanford University Failed To Detect Ransomware Intruders For 4 Months 22
America's Last Top Models 17
US House Passes Bill To Force ByteDance To Divest TikTok or Face Ban 233
New York Times Denies OpenAI's 'Hacking' Claim In Copyright Fight 25
Over 15,000 Roku Accounts Sold To Buy Streaming Subscriptions, Devices 25
EU's Use of Microsoft 365 Found To Breach Data Protection Rules 46
Worldcoin Fails To Get Injunction Against Spain's Privacy Suspension 9
US Must Move 'Decisively' To Avert 'Extinction-Level' Threat From AI, Gov't-Commissioned Report Says 139
Airbnb is Banning Indoor Security Cameras 103
US Intelligence Officer Explains Roswell, UFO Sightings 43
Canada's 'Online Harms' Bill Would Be an Assault On Free Speech, Civil Liberties Groups Say 200
California State Legislator Proposes Ending Daylight Saving Time 186
New US Defense Department Report Found 'No Evidence' of Alien Technology 66
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' To Officially Be Removed from Food Packaging, FDA Says 39
US Cybersecurity Agency Forced to Take Two Systems Offline Last Month After Ivanti Compromise 4
How $138B in US Student Loans Were Cancelled - Roughly One-Third of Planned Amount 162

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