Your Rights Online Stories for 2018

FCC To Suspend Most Operations Thursday if the Partial Government Shutdown Continues 398
Several Popular Apps Share Data With Facebook Without User Consent 146
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Prosecutors Request Prison Time For Executives 138
Is a Lack of Data Holding Back Universal Basic Income Programs? 497
'My Airbnb Guests Threw a New Year's Party For 300 People' 374
Chinese Schools Are Using 'Smart Uniforms' To Track Their Students' Locations 95
FTC Warns Netflix Users About Email Phishing Scam 37
EPA Proposes Rule Change That Would Let Power Plants Release More Toxic Pollution 400
No More Paperwork: Estonia Edges Toward Digital Government 93
India Curbs Power of Amazon and Walmart To Sell Products Online 135
Hacker Steals Ten Years Worth of Data From San Diego School District 82
Top Amazon Boss Privately Advised US Government on Web Portal Worth Billions To Tech Firm 56
India Wants Tech Platforms To Break Encryption And Remove Content The Government Thinks Is 'Unlawful' 108
US Geological Survey Unable To Provide Indonesia Tsunami Data Due To Government Shutdown 370
Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules 95
Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data To the Public; Requires Federal Agencies To Publish 'Non-Sensitive' Info in 'Machine-Readable' Format 89
Trump Signs Legislation To Boost Quantum Computing Research With $1.2 billion 120
Should Parents Shun Toys That Track Their Kids? 191
Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers 520
Kansas is Trying to Unload $10M in Unused Computer Equipment 117
FCC Fines Swarm $900,000 For Unauthorized Satellite Launch 119
JD.com's Billionaire CEO Will Not Be Charged With Sexual Assault 62
ACLU To Feds: Your 'Hacking Presents a Unique Threat To Individual Privacy' 67
Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree 61
Can You Really Sue Fortnite For 'Stealing' Your Dance Moves? 141
India To Intercept, Monitor, and Decrypt Citizens' Computers 108
Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix For Internet Explorer Zero Day 39
Australian Court Orders ISPs To Block 181 'Pirate' Domains, Including Subtitle Sites 95
Apple To Pull Some iPhones In Germany Following Ruling In Qualcomm Patent Case 18
FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS-For-Hire Sites 49
China Hacked HPE, IBM and Then Attacked Clients, Report Finds 59
Business Communication Service Slack, in Compliance With US Regulations, Broadens Ban on Users in Sanctioned Nations 43
US Slams China For Corporate Cyber Espionage, Indicts Two Spies 54
Intel Attacks Qualcomm for Allegedly Stifling Competition 40
Amazon Error Allowed Alexa User To Eavesdrop on Another Home 91
US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling 129
Apple Tweaks iOS Animation In China In Attempt To Avoid Sales Ban 47
DC Attorney General Sues Facebook Over Alleged Privacy Violations From Cambridge Analytica Scandal 70
Hackers Swipe Card Numbers From Local Government Payment Portals 15
Tumblr Blocked Archivists Just Before Starting the NSFW Content Purge 204
Facebook Gave More Than 150 Companies, Including Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify, Amazon and Yahoo, Unprecedented Access To Users' Personal Data: NYT 114
Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn't Stop It From Tracking Your Location 165
UK Police Are Testing Facial Recognition on Christmas Shoppers in London this Week 91
Swedish ISP Bahnhof Fights Sci-Hub Blocking Order 53
Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence 127
FCC Forces California To Drop Plan For Government Fees On Text Messages 79
Google's Secret China Project 'Effectively Ended' After Internal Confrontation: Report 82
Taylor Swift Used Facial Recognition Tech At Concerts To Spy On Stalkers 147
Bing Recommends Piracy Tutorial When Searching For Office 2019 45
Data-Wiping Malware Destroys Data At Italian and UAE Oil and Gas Companies 39
Apple Lied About iPhone X Screen Size and Pixel Count, Lawsuit Alleges 168
Sean Parker Builds Beach-Access App To Atone For His Rule-Violating Wedding 73
CNN Contributor Urges: Stop Calling Facebook a Tech Company 157
One Year After Net Neutrality Repeal, America's Democrats Warn 'The Fight Continues' 152
Experts Urge US To Continue Support For Nuclear Fusion Research 234
Porn Sites Collect More User Data Than Netflix Or Hulu 70
Facebook Says A Bug May Have Exposed The Unposted Photos Of Millions Of Users 51
Hiding in Plain Sight: The YouTubers' Crowdfunding Piracy 79
WordPress Plugs Bug that Led to Google Indexing Some User Passwords 32
A Corporate-issued Laptop Stolen From a Lenovo Employee in September Contained Unencrypted Payroll Data on APAC Staff 65
Qualcomm Asks China To Ban the iPhone XS and XR 53
Google Pledges To Hold Off On Selling Facial Recognition Technology 46
Tesla Is Seeking $167 Million From Former Employee Accused of Sabotage 90
President Trump To Use Huawei CFO As a Bargaining Chip 351
Facebook Settles Oculus VR Lawsuit With ZeniMax 26
Net Neutrality Bill 38 Votes Short In Congress, and Time Has Almost Run Out 229
Amazon Fires Employees Over Data Leak As It Fights Seller Scams, Report Says 48
Google's CEO Thinks Android Users Know How Much Their Phones Are Tracking Them 131
Canada Grants Bail For Arrested Huawei CFO Who Faces US Extradition 234
Border Agents Fail To Delete Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says 89
Android Trojan Steals Money From PayPal Accounts Even With 2FA On 56
China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG 183
Facebook Filed a Patent To Calculate Your Future Location 104
Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams 105
At Least One Major Carrier Lied About Its 4G Coverage, FCC Review Finds 46
House Panel Issues Scathing Report On 'Entirely Preventable' Equifax Data Breach 75
Malicious Sites Abuse 11-Year-Old Firefox Bug That Mozilla Failed To Fix 91
Google Will Shut Down Google+ Four Months Early After Second Data Leak 53
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret 98
Can Democrats In Congress Restore America's Net Neutrality Rules? 256
US Senator Attacks Failure To Crack Down On Google's Ad Fraud Problems 72
12,000 Uber Drivers Claim Uber Is Now Failing To Pay Arbitration Fees 83
Huawei's CFO Is Being Accused of Fraud, and Her Main Defense Is a PowerPoint 121
California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses 563
Chinese Mobile App Companies Are a National Security Risk, Says a Top Democrat 76
EU Governments Agree To Tougher Stance On E-evidence 19
Luxembourg To Become First Country To Make All Public Transport Free 215
Facial Recognition Has To Be Regulated To Protect the Public, Says AI Report 55
China Calls For Release of Arrested Huawei CFO Detained In Canada 200
Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] 289
FCC Chairman Admits Russia Meddled In Net Neutrality Debate 171
Canada Arrests Top Huawei Executive For Allegedly Violating Iran Sanctions 163
Thieves Are Boosting the Signal From Key Fobs Inside Homes To Steal Vehicles 269
Facebook Used Its VPN App To Track Competitors, Documents Reveal 48
Internal Emails Show Facebook Weighing the Privacy Risks of Quietly Collecting Call and Text Records From Its Android Users -- Then Going Ahead Anyway 117
Apple Hit With Class Action Suit Over Lack of Dust Filters In Macbook, iMac 208
The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House 55
China Announces Punishments For Intellectual-Property Theft 67
Quora Data Breach Exposes 100 Million Users' Personal Info 40
Marriott's Breach Response Is So Bad, Security Experts Are Filling In the Gaps 78
Sci-Hub 'Pirate Bay of Science' Blocked In Russia Over Medical Studies 65
Trump Administration Wants To End Subsidies For Electric Cars, Renewables 481
Search Engine DuckDuckGo Removes 'Pirate' Site Bangs To Avoid Liability 56
Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th 317
Prison Inmates Catfished $560,000 Out of Military Service Members in Sextortion Scam, NCIS Says 165
SKY Brasil Exposes 32 Million Customer Records 19
Intel Sues Ex-Engineer For Trying To Steal 3D XPoint Technology On His Way To Micron 33
Jailed 'Iceman' Hacker Now Charged With Drone-Smuggling Scheme Orchestrated From Prison 39
Lenovo Finally Pays $7.3 M Fine Over Invasive 2014 'Superfish' Adware Pre-Installations 79
George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States, Dies At 94 408
Automakers Give the Chinese Government Access To Location Data of Electric Cars 32
Samsung's Foldable Screen Tech Has Been Stolen, Sold To China 75
Facebook Discussed Using People's Data As a Bargaining Chip, Emails and Court Filings Suggest 30
Companies 'Can Sack Workers For Refusing To Use Fingerprint Scanners' 145
Marriott Says 500 million Starwood Guest Records Stolen in Massive Data Breach 71
In China, Your Car Could Be Talking To the Government 73
After Microsoft Complaints, Indian Police Arrest Tech Support Scammers At 26 Call Centers 77
NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company 83
Google Shut Out Privacy, Security Teams From Secret China Project 138
Democrats Demand Info On Law Enforcement's Use of Amazon Facial Recognition Tool 54
Starbucks Says It Will Start Blocking Porn On Its Stores' Wi-Fi In 2019 218
DOJ Made Secret Arguments To Break Crypto, Now ACLU Wants To Make Them Public 105
Justice Department Indicts Two Iranians Over SamSam Ransomware Attacks 47
Dell Says It Detected A Security Breach Earlier This Month, But Financial Data Was Not Exposed 17
Real Life Ads Are Taking Scary Inspiration From Social Media 73
Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking 203
Customer Service Agents Might Be Able To See What You're Typing In Real Time 135
Urban Massage Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Comments On Its Creepy Clients 38
Google Workers Sign Letter Seeking End To China Search Project 54
Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China 387
IBM CEO Joins Apple In Blasting Data use By Silicon Valley Firms 63
The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website To Unmask a Cybercriminal 82
Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Bots From Ruining Holiday Shopping 153
US Top Court Leans Toward Allowing Apple App Store Antitrust Suit 163
Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative 289
Washington DC Made GitHub Its Official Digital Source For Laws 66
UK Parliament Seizes Cache of Facebook Internal Papers 225
Alphabet's Cybersecurity Group Touts Its New Open Source Private VPN 106
Can The Police Remotely Drive Your Stolen Car Into Custody? 217
Hollywood Wants Hosting Providers To Block Referral Traffic From Pirate Sites 149
India-Based Zapr Has Developed Tech That Listens To Ambient Sounds Around Users To Build Targeted Ad Profiles, Several Popular Local Services Use Its Tech 51
Ajit Pai Isn't Saying Whether ISPs Deliver the Broadband Speeds You Pay For 53
Amazon Has Emailed an Unspecified Number of Customers To Inform Them That Their Names and Addresses Were Disclosed by the Website, Blames 'Technical Error' 31
Court Again Rules That Cable Giants Can't Weaponize the First Amendment 152
Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps 135
Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress 407
Department of Commerce Could Be the First US Entity To Broadly Regulate an Aspect of AI 51
Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business 498
Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions 267
Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers 60
AWS Rolls Out New Security Feature To Prevent Accidental S3 Data Leaks 32
Apple CEO Explains How a Few Billion Dollars From Google Changes His Views on the Company's 'Unsettling' User Data Mining Activities 112
Facebook Now Faces a Massive Backlash. But Will Anything Change? 175
How I Got Locked Out of the Chip Implanted In My Hand 106
More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands 337
Compelling New Suspect For DB Cooper Skyjacking Found By Army Data Analyst 111
Facebook Filed a Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos 98
Man Spoofs GPS To Fake Shop Visits For Profit, Gets Caught 97
EFF, MuckRock Partner To See How Local Police Are Trading Your Car's Location 60
Hacker Says They Compromised ProtonMail; ProtonMail Calls BS 55
Dutch Government Report Says Microsoft Office Telemetry Collection Breaks EU GDPR Laws 87
86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg To Improve Takedown Appeals 81
A New Senate Bill Would Hit Robocallers With Up To a $10,000 Fine For Every Call 180
Trump Signs Bill That Creates the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency 72
A Leaky Database of SMS Text Messages Exposed Password Resets and Two-Factor Codes 37
PlayStation Begins Collecting Amusement Tax From Chicago Users 165
FCC Paves the Way For Improved GPS Accuracy 78
Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely On a Lone, DRM-Breaking CPAP Machine Hacker 154
Justice Department Is Preparing To Prosecute WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange 452
Senators Ask Four Major Carriers About Video Slowdowns 108
Fake Fingerprints Can Imitate Real Ones In Biometric Systems, Research Shows 64
Chinese Telecoms Giant ZTE is Helping Venezuela Build a System That Monitors Citizen Behavior Through a New Identification Card 109
Mozilla's 'Privacy Not Included' Gift Report Highlights Security Concerns 45
Many Free Mobile VPN Apps Are Based In China Or Have Chinese Ownership 67
Comcast Forced To Refund $700,000 To Customers Over Misleading Fees 87
ProtonVPN Passes 1 Million Users and Launches on iOS 32
Google Accused of 'Trust Demolition' Over Health App 60
Food Taste 'Not Protected By Copyright,' EU Court Rules 107
Man Pleads Guilty To Swatting Attack That Led To Death of Kansas Man 283
Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims 275
Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million 160
Hitman 2's Denuvo DRM Cracked Days Before the Game's Release 111
Inside the Messy, Dark Side of Nintendo Switch Piracy 77
Facebook To Let French Regulators Investigate On Moderation Processes 54
Should Comcast Be Investigated For Antitrust Violations? 103
The Real Reason Palmer Luckey Was Fired From Facebook 142
Drive-By Shooting Suspect Remotely Wipes iPhone X, Catches Extra Charges 218
Switzerland Remains 'Extremely Attractive' For Pirate Sites, MPAA Says 135
What Your Phone is Telling Wall Street 108
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Service Launches on Android and iOS 105
Can Facebook Keep Large-Scale Misinformation From the Free World? 189
Were Russian Hackers Deterred From Interfering In America's Election? 240
Tesla Worker Charged With Embezzling More Than $9 Million 55
Only 22% of Americans Now Trust Facebook's Handling of Personal Info 75
The DEA and ICE Are Hiding Surveillance Cameras In Streetlights 158
Facebook Follows Google To End Mandatory Arbitration For Sexual-Harassment Claims 72
Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data In Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms 32
Amazon Is Kicking All Unauthorized Apple Refurbishers Off the Site 271
Vulnerability Could Make DJI Drones a Spy In the Sky 18
Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp Doxes Thousands of Absentee Voters 452
EU Court Rules Hungary's State Monopoly Over Mobile Payments Is Illegal 120
Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App 122
Chinese 'Gait Recognition' Tech IDs People By How They Walk; Police Have Started Using It on Streets of Beijing and Shanghai 135
Apple Not in Settlement Talks 'at Any Level' With Qualcomm, Report Says 31
Zuckerberg Rebuffs Request To Appear Before UK Parliament 209
Chinese President Vows To Boost Intellectual Property Protection 118
Blockchain-Based Elections Would Be a Disaster For Democracy 168
'Almost All' Pakistani Banks Hacked In Security Breach, Report Says 23
AT&T To Cut Off Some Customers' Service in Piracy Crackdown 85
Oracle Says China Telecom Has Misdirected Internet Traffic, Including Out of the US, in Recent Years 58
Tencent Will Soon Require Chinese Users To Present IDs To Play Its Video Games 56
Edward Snowden Says a Report Critical To an NSA Lawsuit Is Authentic 70
EFF Unveils VR Tool To Help People Spot Surveillance Devices In Their Communities 24
Tim Berners-Lee Launches Campaign To Save the Web From Abuse 179
Supreme Court Rejects Industry Challenge of 2015 Net Neutrality Rules 56
Chinese Chip Firm Fujian Jinhua Denies Stealing IP From Micron 58
Equifax Extends Free Credit Monitoring -- But Outsources It To Experian 47
Tesla Says Justice Department, SEC Are Investigating Model 3 Production Targets 116
A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada 116
Iranians Compromised a Highly Sensitive CIA Covert Communications System in 2011 by Using Google Search: Report 154
Iran Allegedly Hit By Computer Virus More Violent Than Stuxnet 181
Bleedingbit Zero-Day Chip Flaws May Expose Majority of Enterprises To Remote Code Execution Attacks 55
Patent Troll Values Its Entire Portfolio At $2, Goes Bankrupt 117
Senator Introduces Bill That Would Send CEOs To Jail For Violating Consumer Privacy 104
US Declines in Internet Freedom Rankings 153
CIA Vault7 Leaker To Be Charged For Leaking More Classified Data While in Prison 94
Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment 342
Supreme Court Scrutinizing Class Action Settlements That Leave Consumers Empty-Handed 133
The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country's Sunniest State 202
Hawaii Supreme Court Approves Thirty Meter Telescope On Mauna Kea 177
US Indicts Chinese Hacker-Spies In Conspiracy To Steal Aerospace Secrets 80
Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance 421
Apple's New T2 Security Chip Will Prevent Hackers From Eavesdropping On Your Microphone 145
Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7 Billion Behind In Royalty Payments 116
Feds Expand Security Researchers' Ability To Hack Without Going To Jail 51
US Bans Exports To Chinese DRAM Maker Citing National Security Risk 101
Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle 183
FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' 313
UK Announces Digital Services Tax on Tech Giants 90
What Happens When Telecom Companies Search Your Home For Piracy 124
Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Will Now Plead Guilty To Dozens More Swat Incidents 196
Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions 290
Morocco Decides To Scrap Seasonal Time Changes 95
Chinese Court Rules Bitcoin Should Be Protected As Property 51
Google's Smart City Dream Is Turning Into a Privacy Nightmare 61
Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign 54
Tesla Faces FBI Probe Over Model 3 Production Numbers 143
California Delays Net Neutrality Law's Enforcement Until After Court Case 76
Worried About Trump iPhone Eavesdroppers? China Recommends a Huawei 109
Scientists Push For Government Research Program Focused On Sucking Carbon From Air 222

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