Your Rights Online Stories for 2019

US Retailers Rush To Comply With California Privacy Law 54
Brazil Fines Facebook $1.6 Million for Improper Sharing of User Data 38
French Court Clears Social Media Tracking Plan in Tax Crackdown 37
Security Camera Startup Wyze Leaked Data on Millions of Customers 36
How Tech Companies Could Skirt California's Strict New Privacy Law 33
Are Government Shutdowns of the Internet Becoming The World's New Normal? 111
CNET Releases '2019 Data Breach Hall of Shame' Dishonoring This Year's Biggest Data Breaches 19
How Should Students Respond To Their School's Surveillance Systems? 138
UK Government Accidentally Doxxes Award Winners 27
Trump Could Mandate Free Access To Federally Funded Research Papers 194
New Law Finally Bans Bullshit Cable TV Fees 49
Amazon, Ring Face Class-Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Security Camera Hacks 35
China Shows Its Dominance in Surveillance Technology 44
Ask Slashdot: What Will the 2020s Bring Us? 207
Worker Fired For Declining a Face Scan Awarded $23,200 59
How Cruise Ships Bring 1,200 Tons of Toxic Fumes To Brooklyn a Year 71
Electric Bikes and Scooters Will Stay Illegal In New York Thanks To Governor Cuomo 82
Huawei Reportedly Got By With a Lot of Help From the Chinese Government 47
Ring's Security Woes Cause Some Tech Review Sites To Rethink Glowing Endorsements 38
Turkey's Wikipedia Ban Violates Rights, Top Court Rules 42
The US Government Has Approved Funds for Geoengineering Research 150
Pentagon Wants Open-Source 5G Plan in Campaign Against Huawei 64
Iran Curbs Internet Before Possible New Protests 21
Colleges Are Turning Students' Phones Into Surveillance Machines, Tracking the Locations of Hundreds of Thousands 148
Russia 'Successfully Tests' Its Unplugged Internet 41
Mike Bloomberg Is Plowing Millions of Dollars Into a Secretive Tech Firm Called Hawkfish 62
New York Governor Promises Net Neutrality Legislation In 2020 21
A Twitter App Bug Was Used To Match 17 Million Phone Numbers To User Accounts 5
Baltimore Police Back Pilot Program for Surveillance Planes, Reviving Controversial Program 31
A 22-Year-Old Was Convicted For Attempting To Blackmail Apple For $100,000 In iTunes Gift Cards 32
The Navy's Flawed Bridge Technology Set the USS McCain Up For Disaster 167
Judge Strikes Down NYC Law Limiting Uber, Lyft Driver Cruising Time 27
T-Mobile/Sprint Deal Is Good Actually, Feds Tell Court In States' Lawsuit 17
IT Worker With Grudge Jailed 31
No, Spotify, You Shouldn't Have Sent Mysterious USB Drives To Journalists 53
Popular Messaging App ToTok Reportedly an Emirati Spy Tool 19
40% of Anti-Vaccine Group's Funding Came From Wealthy 'Alternative Health' Vendor 110
How a Fake Murder-For-Hire Site Led To Real Convictions 38
DNS Over HTTPS: Not As Private As Some Think? 83
How Much Are Cars Spying On Their Owners? 101
Vox Media Fires Hundreds of Freelance Writers, Blaming California's 'Gig Economy' Law 178
Brookline Votes To Ban Face Surveillance 32
Wawa Announces Data Breach Potentially Affecting More Than 850 Stores 30
Over 267 Million Facebook Users Reportedly Had Data Exposed Online 17
US Government Lists Fictional Nation Wakanda as Trade Partner 65
Cox Owes $1 Billion To Record Labels for Harboring Music Pirates, Jury Decides 87
Contractor Admits Planting Logic Bombs In His Software To Ensure He'd Get New Work 117
Multiple States Are Investigating Intuit Over TurboTax Free File Marketing 36
Why the Second-Hand eBook Market May Never Take Off 55
SpaceX Is Lobbying Against Amazon's Internet-Beaming Satellites 42
Robocall Fines Rise To $10,000 Per Call Under Newly Passed Law 62
An Investigation Into the Smartphone Tracking Industry 52
House Impeaches President Trump For Abuse of Power, Obstruction of Congress 1183
House Calls 'Save the Internet Act' One of Its Biggest 2019 Accomplishments 49
Judge Rules Edward Snowden Can't Profit From His Book 104
Facebook Fails To Convince Lawmakers It Needs To Track Your Location At All Times 25
Samsung Chair Imprisoned and 24 Others Found Guilty In Union-Busting Case 40
FCC Funds 25Mbps, Data-Capped Satellite In Rural Areas 53
Engineer Says Google Fired Her For Browser Pop-Up About Worker Rights 129
Apple and Google Named In US Lawsuit Over Congolese Child Cobalt Mining Deaths 108
Twitch Sued For $2.8B Over Alleged Pirated Streaming of Premier League Games 28
Will China Export Its Surveillance Technology? 54
FBI Busts Massive Pirate Streaming Service With More Content Than Netflix 124
Arizona Man Sues State Agency Over Right To Call Himself an Engineer 210
America's FCC Votes Unanimously To Divide 'Safety Spectrum' Into Wifi and Auto Applications 64
More Small Tests Are Happening For Universal Basic Incomes 285
Bank Employee Steals Cash, Then Posts Pics of It On Facebook and Instagram 78
America Considers Declassifying Military Information on US, Chinese, and Russian Space Programs 55
37-Year-Old Mom Finds Instagram's Sex Predators By Pretending To Be 11 123
Researchers Fooled Chinese Facial Recognition Terminals With Just a Mask 24
India Shuts Down Internet Once Again, This Time In Assam and Meghalaya 66
Someone Stole Facebook Payroll Data For Thousands of Employees 29
New Orleans City Government Shuts Off Computers After Cyberattack 30
AT&T Drops Out of FCC Speed-Test Program So It Can Hide Bad Results 53
Mozilla To Force All Add-on Devs To Use 2FA To Prevent Supply-Chain Attacks 21
Lawsuit Forces CenturyLink To Stop Charging 'Internet Cost Recovery Fee' 43
Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented 'Geofence' Search 53
988 Will Be the New 911 For Suicide Prevention 66
FTC May Try To Delay Facebook's Plan To Integrate its Apps 9
Inside the Podcast that Hacks Ring Camera Owners Live on Air 112
Iran Banks Burned, Then Customer Accounts Were Exposed Online 47
Genetic Database That Identified Golden State Killer Acquired By Crime Scene DNA Company 39
Ask Slashdot: Will We Ever Be Able To Make Our Own Computer Hardware At Home? 117
Netflix Ordered To Stop Poaching Fox Employees 96
If Logged Into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used For Ads 36
ACLU is Suing ICE For Details on How It Uses Phone Spying Devices 14
India Proposes New Rules To Access Its Citizens' Data 14
The Pirate Bay Is Trialing High-Quality Video Streaming Links 35
Chrome Now Warns You When Your Password Has Been Stolen 49
Iran's Internet Freedom is On Life Support 60
Google Releases Chrome 79 With New Features Including an Option To Freeze Tabs and Back-Forward Caching 29
Investigation Reveals It's Possible For Anyone To Find Geographic Coordinates of Ring Devices Using Post from Amazon's Neighbors App 66
Apple Sues iPhone CPU Design Ace After He Quits To Run Data center Chip Upstart Nuvia 100
Apple To Speak At CES Conference For First Time In Decades 16
Apple's Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market 105
NHS Gives Amazon Free Use of Health Data Under Alexa Advice Deal 25
When a DNA Test Says You're a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away 76
Former Oracle Product Manager Claims He Was Forced Out For Refusing to Sell Vaporware 81
Chinese Newspaper Touts Videogame Where Players 'Hunt Down Traitors' in Hong Kong 96
Reddit Bans 61 Accounts, Citing 'Coordinated' Russian Campaign To Interfere In UK Vote 135
'Why Are Cops Around the World Using This Outlandish Mind-Reading Tool?' 93
The U.S. Considers Ban on Exporting Surveillance Technology To China 73
Jury Sides With Elon Musk, Rejects $190M Defamation Claim Over Tweet 101
Apple Fails To Stop Class Action Lawsuit Over MacBook Butterfly Keyboards 36
Trump Administration Drops Plans For Mandatory Face Scans of Citizens 31
FTC Finds Cambridge Analytica Deceived Facebook Users 11
EU Study Shows Online Piracy is Complex and Not Easy To Grasp 44
Nestle Cannot Claim Bottled Water Is 'Essential Public Service,' Court Rules 75
Most of the Largest US Voting Districts Are Vulnerable To Email Spoofing 19
Filmmakers Sue State Department Over Social Media Surveillance Rules 20
Facebook Sues Chinese Malware Operator For Abusing Its Ad Platform 9
A Billion Surveillance Cameras Forecast To Be Watching Within Two Years 40
Huawei Launches New Legal Challenge Against US Ban 69
US Shows a 'Concerning Lack of Regard For the Privacy of People's Biometrics' 58
TikTok's Parent Company Sued For Collecting Data On Kids 23
The iPhone 11 Pro's Location Data Puzzler 74
2020 US Census Plagued By Hacking Threats, Cost Overruns 66
He Gave a Cryptocurrency Talk In North Korea. The US Arrested Him. 244
Huawei Manages To Make Smartphones Without American Chips 123
Ring Reportedly Outed Camera Owners To Police With a Heat Map 102
FBI Asked Sony For Data On User Who Used PlayStation Network To Sell Cocaine 39
Dutch Politician Faces 3 Years In Prison For Hacking iCloud Accounts, Leaking Nudes 31
FaceApp and Other Russian Apps Pose Potential Counterintelligence Threats, Says FBI 22
Genius Sues Google For 'No Less Than $50M', Alleging 'Anticompetitive Practices' Over Lyrics 69
Mozilla Removes Avast and AVG Extensions From Add-on Portal Over Snooping Claims 26
Firefox 71 Arrives With Better Lockwise and Tracker Blocking, Picture-in-Picture on Windows 53
DHS Wants Airport Face Recognition Scans To Include US Citizens 104
Putin Signs Law Making Russian Apps Mandatory On Smartphones, Computers 64
Google, Facebook In EU Probe Over User Data 14
Prominent Tech Execs Sign Renewed Commitment To Paris Agreement 131
All New Cellphone Users In China Must Now Have Their Face Scanned 69
Portland Plans To Propose the Strictest Facial Recognition Ban in the Country 54
Amazon Lets Doctors Record Your Conversations and Put Them in Your Medical Files 66
Millions of SMS Text Messages Exposed In Unencrypted Database 17
What Happened After The Explosion at a Virology Campus in Siberia? 34
DC Comics Deletes 'Batman' Image That China Complained Was Supporting Hong Kong Protesters 132
Facebook Bows to Singapore's 'Fake News' Law, Posts 'Correction' 37
How Russian Trolls Spread Propaganda Using Uplifting Tweets 164
The File /var/lib/dbus/machine-id Matters For Your Privacy (and Devuan Fixed It) 147
Walmart Dodged US Tax on $2 Billion by Routing Cash Through Multiple Countries, Whistleblower Says 226
Only a Few 2020 US Presidential Candidates Are Using a Basic Email Security Feature 88
Oracle Responds To Wage Discrimination Claims By Suing US Department of Labor 125
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Still Rising, UN Report Says 263
AT&T and Verizon Agree To Change Their eSIM Practices 15
Democrats Propose Sweeping Online Privacy Laws 118
It's Way Too Easy To Get a .gov Domain Name 42
NSO Employees Take Legal Action Against Facebook For Banning Their Accounts 53
Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built On Facial Recognition 68
Psilocybin For Major Depression Granted Breakthrough Therapy By FDA 89
Facebook and Twitter Users' Data Exposed Due To Third-Party SDK Bug 10
Vegan Sues Burger King For False Advertising, Alleging 'Impossible Whopper' Cooked With Beef Fat 350
US Police Already Using 'Spot' Robot From Boston Dynamics In the Real World 36
The California DMV Is Making $50 Million a Year Selling Drivers' Personal Info 62
Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Launches Plan To 'Fix' the Internet 109
Mozilla's Annual Buyer's Guide Rates Amazon and Google Security Cameras 'Very Creepy' 40
Police Can Keep Ring Camera Video Forever, and Share With Whomever They'd Like 107
What Caused Uber's Fatal 2018 Crash? NTSB Reveals Its Findings 82
EFF Challenges Ring's Spokesperson Shaq To A Discussion About Police Surveillance 64
Defecting Chinese Spy Offers Information Trove To Australian Government 82
Court Rules Apple Doesn't Owe Patent Troll $503 Million 29
NYC Creates a High-Level Position To Oversee Ethics In AI 58
Anonymous Hacker Gets Six Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks 76
Federal Court Approves First 'Pirate' Site Blockade In Canada 24
DOD Joins Fight Against 5G Spectrum Proposal, Citing Risks To GPS 33
Facebook Built a Facial Recognition App That Let Employees Identify People By Pointing a Phone at Them 27
1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server 17
'The Ducks Have Won': French Court Says They May Keep on Quacking 124
Apple CEO Tim Cook: China Really Hasn't Pressured Us. 79
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Police Can't Force You To Tell Them Your Password 73
Russia Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software 78
T-Mobile Reveals Data Breach Affecting Prepaid Customers 15
Uber Embraces Videotaping Rides, Raising Privacy Concerns 80
This 'Robot Lawyer' Can Take the Mystery Out of License Agreements 36
Senators Press Amazon For Answers On Ring's Sloppy Security Practices 12
Password Data For About 2.2 Million Users of Currency, Gaming Sites Dumped Online 25
Justice Department To Abolish Movie Distribution Rules Dating To 1949 141
FCC Chairman Wants Public Auction To Repurpose Satellite Bands For 5G 65
Senator Introduces Bill That Would Block US Companies From Storing Data In China 49
Disney+ Fans Without Answers After Thousands Hacked 46
Cops Put GPS Tracker On Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft For Removing It 286
Senators Ask Zuckerberg To Explain Why Facebook Still Tracks Users' Location Even When They Have Asked it Not To 39
Antivirus Vendors and Non-Profits Join To Form 'Coalition Against Stalkerware' 23
Google and Samsung Fix Android Spying Flaw. Other Makers May Still Be Vulnerable 10
Some Fitbit Users Say They're Getting Rid of the Devices Because They Don't Trust Google 64
India Says Law Permits Agencies To Snoop on Citizens' Devices 35
Woman Who Inherited Huntington's Disease Sues Doctors 142
Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data From Cayman National Bank 44
Juul Sued by California for Marketing E-Cigarettes To Teens 68
Microsoft Announces Plan To Support DoH In Windows 97
Microsoft: We're Changing All Your Cloud Contracts After Privacy Complaints 14
Facebook, Google Donate Heavily To Privacy Advocacy Groups 30
Why Two Pentesters In Iowa Are Facing A Criminal Investigation and Trespassing Charges 110
Iran Shuts Down Country's Internet In the Wake of Fuel Protests 46
Ask Slashdot: What Should You Do If Someone's Trying To Steal Your Identity? 146
Most Americans Think They're Being Constantly Tracked, Study Finds 73
Germany Forces Apple To Let Other Mobile Wallet Services Use iPhone's NFC Chip 56
White House Unveils Rules Requiring Online Disclosure of Hospital Prices 119
Supreme Court Will Hear Long-Running Google and Oracle Copyright Lawsuit 60
Disney + and 'The Mandalorian' Are Driving People Back To Torrenting 277
Google Almost Made 100,000 Chest X-rays Public -- Until it Realized Personal Data Could Be Exposed 49
A Jury of Random People Can Do Wonders For Facebook 90
Andrew Yang Wants To Tax Digital Ads, Launch a New Algorithm Regulator 126
Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract 78
Uber Hit With $650 Million Employment Tax Bill In New Jersey 152
FCC Sued By Dozens of Cities After Voting To Kill Local Fees and Rules 106
GitHub Faces More Resignations In Light of ICE Contract 226
The NYPD Kept an Illegal Database of Juvenile Fingerprints For Years 63
YouTube's New Kids' Content System Has Creators Scrambling 97
Facebook Says Government Demands For User Data Are at a Record High 31
Health Websites Are Sharing Sensitive Medical Data with Google, Facebook, and Amazon 22
Dutch Court Orders Facebook To Ban Celebrity Crypto Scam Ads 23
Unusual New 'PureLocker' Ransomware Is Going After Servers 22
A US Federal Court Finds Suspicionless Searches of Phones at the Border is Illegal 127
As 5G Rolls Out, Troubling New Security Flaws Emerge 19
Facebook Bug Has Camera Activated While People Are Using the App 92
IRS Identifies 'Dozens' of New Crypto, Cybercriminals 57
EPA To Limit Science Used To Write Public Health Rules 273
Microsoft Vows To 'Honor' California's Sweeping Privacy Law Across Entire US 30
Google's Secret 'Project Nightingale' Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans 67
Thousands of Bots Are Retweeting Claims of Voter Fraud In Kentucky 314
Phones and PCs Sold In Russia Will Have To Come Pre-installed With Russian Apps 75
Tech Sites Including Microsoft's Bing Criticized Over Child Pornography Policies 73
GIF Site Gfycat Announces Mass Deletions, Threatens Archive Team With Lawsuit 21
Work-Life Balance: After Cryptographer's Lawsuit, BAE Division Will Retrain HR 89
Mysterious Hacker Dumps Database of Infamous IronMarch Neo-Nazi Forum 186
DHS Will Soon Have Biometric Data On Nearly 260 Million People 40
Amazon Ring Doorbells Exposed Home Wi-Fi Passwords To Hackers 25
How Cloudflare Stood up to a Patent Troll -- and Won 58
A Bipartisan Group of Senators Wants To Extend the Space Station To 2030 56
Vast Dragnet Targets Theft of Biomedical Secrets For China 58
Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia 32
Trend Micro Security Incident Involving Selling Customer Data Was an Inside Job 16
Fitbit Says Data of Its 28 Million Users Will Not Be Sold Or Used For Google Ads 56
Facebook Sued by California Over User-Data Practices Subpoenas 4
This Is How the US Military's Massive Facial Recognition System Works 51
Leaked Documents Show Facebook Leveraged User Data To Fight Rivals and Help Friends 22
IBM Calls For Regulation To Avoid Facial Recognition Bans 60
'Game-Changer' Warrant Let Detective Search Genetic Database 108
Walmart Reaches Settlement With Tesla Over Solar Panel Fires, Drops Lawsuit 42
AT&T Users Whose 'Unlimited Data' Was Throttled Get $60 Million In Refunds 44
Facebook Says 100 Software Developers May Have Improperly Accessed User Data 17
T-Mobile Says It Owns Exclusive Rights To the Color Magenta 150
Little-known Companies Are Amassing Your Data and Selling the Analysis To Clients 45
Alcohol Breath Tests, a Linchpin of the Criminal Justice System, Are Often Unreliable 136
Warehouses Are Tracking Workers' Every Muscle Movement 54
Undercover Reporter Reveals Life In a Polish Troll Farm 101
US Begins Formal Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord 245
GitLab Considers Ban On New Hires In China and Russia Due To Espionage Fears 41
Facebook Rebrands To 'FACEBOOK' As Calls For Government-Led Breakup Continue 62
ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says 70

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