Your Rights Online Stories for 2020

T-Mobile Data Breach Exposed Phone Numbers, Call Records 14
NSO Used Real People's Location Data To Pitch Its Contact-Tracing Tech, Researchers Say 19
Global Digital-Tax Detente Ends, as US and France Exchange Blows 70
VMware Sues Former Executive Who Left for CEO Job at Nutanix 35
Apple Researching Keyboards With Adaptive Displays on Each Key 225
Police Turn To Car Data To Destroy Suspects' Alibis 194
New York Post's Hunter Biden Laptop Source Sues Twitter for Defamation 468
Tech Giants Are Giving China a Vital Edge In Espionage. 108
Finland Says Hackers Accessed MPs' Emails Accounts 17
Will America's Next President Change Its Space Program? 134
Are Tech Companies Censoring Their Users For Access to China's Market? 85
Edward Snowden Urges Donations to the EFF 99
Will America's Next President Break Up Facebook? 171
'Unforced Error' in Suspected Russian Data Breach May Have Led to Its Discovery 50
XRP Cryptocurrency Crashes Following Announcement of SEC Suit Against Ripple 34
The ACLU Is Suing For More Information About the FBI's Phone-Hacking Lab 31
Facebook Managers Trash Their Own Ad Targeting In Unsealed Remarks 13
Dozens Sue Amazon's Ring After Camera Hack Leads To Threats and Racial Slurs 71
Hackers Threaten To Leak Plastic Surgery Pictures 33
BMW Backtracks: 'We Do Not Draw on Warranty Status' For Targeted Ads 29
ExamSoft Flags One-Third of California Bar Exam Test Takers For Cheating 82
Nintendo Conducted Invasive Surveillance Operation Against Homebrew Hacker 23
Russia Lawmakers Pass Bills That Could Block Social Media Sites 25
Oracle's Hidden Hand Is Behind the Google Antitrust Lawsuits 51
DHS Is Looking Into Backdoors In Smart TVs By China's TCL 85
France Bans Use of Drones To Police Protests In Paris 23
MIT Electrical Engineer Selected For US Senate 120
SEC Formally Sues Cryptocurrency Company Ripple 40
'Dozens of Email Accounts' Were Hacked At US Treasury 24
New York Halts Use of Facial Recognition in Schools 51
Law Enforcement Take Down Three Bulletproof VPN Providers 36
2,000 Parents Demand Major Academic Publisher Drop Proctorio Surveillance Tech 66
Firefox To Ship 'Network Partitioning' As a New Anti-Tracking Defense 65
Fired COVID-19 Data Manager Rebekah Jones Sues FDLE Over Raid On Her Home 144
YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used To Upload 'Pirate' Movies and File DMCA Notices 53
The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony 114
Civil Rights Groups Move To Block Expansion of Facial Recognition in Airports 26
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla Ban Kazakhstan's MitM HTTPS Certificate 45
Dozens of Journalists' iPhones Hacked With NSO 'Zero-Click' Spyware, Says Citizen Lab 45
How Do US Government Agencies Verify Security Software from Private Contractors? 117
Facebook's Criticism of Apple's Tracking Change Called 'Laughable' by EFF 46
Capella Space Defends High-Resolution Satellite Photos Described as 'Eerily Observant' 79
Apple-Criticizing Banner Ads Now Added to Some of Facebook's iOS Apps 82
FAA and Boeing 'Inappropriately Coached' Pilots In 737 MAX Testing 83
Tech Giants Will Block Kazakhstan's Web Surveillance Efforts Again 47
DOJ Case Against Google Likely Won't Go To Trial Until Late 2023, Judge Says 29
Microsoft: 2021 Is the Year Passwords Die 185
Law Banning 'Rental' Fees For Customer-Owned Routers Takes Effect Sunday 39
'Evil Mobile Emulator Farms' Used To Steal Millions From US and EU Banks 59
Judge Orders Tim Cook and Craig Federighi To Testify in Epic Case 33
Facebook Hits Back at Apple With Second Critical Newspaper Ad 109
Trump Considers Clemency For Silk Road 'Kingpin' Ross Ulbricht 169
Amazon Wants To Scan Your Body To Make Perfectly Fitting Shirts 112
UK Politicians Call For 'Making the Resale of Goods Purchased Using An Automated Bot an Illegal Activity' 126
Texas Plans To Sue Google for Alleged Anticompetitive Behavior 38
Nigeria Orders Mobile Users To Link Phones To National ID Numbers 38
Australia Sues Facebook Over Its Use of Onavo To Snoop 28
40 Girls Do Porn Victims Are Suing Pornhub For $1 Million Each 313
SolarWinds Hides List of High-Profile Customers After Devastating Hack 58
Senator Tries To Block Frontier's FCC Funding, Citing ISP's Various Failures 34
Facebook To Move UK Users To California Terms, Avoiding EU Privacy Rules 67
Israeli Spy Tech Firm Says It Can Break Into Signal App 87
Electoral College Certifies Biden's Victory, As Trump Still Refuses To Concede 550
Apple Launches New App Store Privacy Labels So You Can See How iOS Apps Use Your Data 7
Suspected Russian Hackers Breached Department of Homeland Security 55
FTC Launches Sweeping Privacy Study of Top Tech Platforms 16
Russia Breached Update Server Used by 300,000 Organizations, Including the NSA 115
U.S. Schools are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Uses to Investigate Terrorists 115
US Treasury Department Breached by 'Hackers Backed By Foreign Government' 64
Why Apple, Cloudflare, and Fastly Proposed a New Privacy-Focused DNS Standard Called 'Oblivious DoH' 64
Hackers Are Selling More Than 85,000 MySQL Databases On a Dark Web Portal 24
'Save Europe from Software Patents', Urges Nonprofit FFII 33
Facebook Says Hackers Backed By Vietnam's Government Are Linked To IT Firm 11
The Zodiac Killer's Cipher Has Been Solved After 51 Years 78
FDA Approves Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use in America 222
Florida Governor Defends Police Raid On COVID Data Whistleblower 145
Proposed US Law Could Slap Twitch Streamers With Felonies For Broadcasting Copyrighted Material 208
FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Pfizer's Covid Vaccine For Emergency Use 152
Brave Browser-Maker Launches Privacy-Friendly News Reader 12
Original Jailbreak App Store Cydia Sues Apple for its Monopoly 102
Google Will Change How Chrome Extensions Access Data in 2021 9
Germany, France, 11 Other EU Countries Team Up For Semiconductor Push 45
BTC-e Founder Sentenced To Five Years in Prison for Laundering Ransomware Funds 9
Did COVID Data Whistleblower Hack Florida's Emergency Alert System? Police Raid Home 210
Court Suspends 'Copyright Troll' Lawyer From Practicing Law 39
Kazakhstan's Government Begins Intercepting HTTPS Traffic In Its Capital 126
Some Ransomware Gangs are Now Phoning Victims Who Restore from Backups 133
New Report: Havanna Syndrome Could Be Directed Microwave Energy 86
TikTok Misses US Deadline For Sale Without Punishment 36
Report Claims Huawei Finance Chief Meng Wanzhou Could Be Set Free In Exchange of Admitting Guilt 43
Netflix Sued Again for Poaching -- This Time by Activision Blizzard 65
Trump Signs Another Executive Order on Governmental AI Development 62
US Used Patriot Act To Gather Logs of Website Visitors 34
Data of 243 Million Brazilians Exposed Online via Website Source Code 34
US States Plan To Sue Facebook Next Week 38
Trump To Congress: Repeal Section 230 Or I'll Veto Military Funding 511
UK Seeks Site For World's First Fusion Power Station 47
Spotify Invents AI Tech That Will Police Songwriter Plagiarism 47
ACLU Sues DHS Over Purchase of Cellphone Location Data Used To Track Immigrants 60
Massachusetts Lawmakers Vote To Pass a Statewide Police Ban On Facial Recognition 50
Italy Fines Apple $12 Million For Unfair Claims About iPhone Water Resistance 68
Ford Calls On Automakers To Support California Fuel Economy Deal 168
Tesla Whistleblower Martin Tripp Ordered To Pay $400,000 To Settle Hacking Case 60
Microsoft Will Remove User Names from 'Productivity Score' Feature After Privacy Backlash 37
Verizon Wiring Up 500K Homes With FiOS To Settle Lawsuit 25
Pirate Bay Founder Warns US Govt Against Mafia-Esque Copyright Lobby 32
The Supreme Court Will Hear Its First Big CFAA Case 61
Report Claims America's CIA Also Controlled a Second Swiss Encryption Firm 100
How Lion Air's Boeing 737 Max Experienced a Near-Crash The Day Before 2018's Fatal Crash 73
Microsoft Also Patented Tech to Score Meetings Using Filmed Body Language, Facial Expressions 78
Will Tesla Update Bring Remote Access To Car Cameras? 59
What Happened After Silicon Valley Tried to Make Telecommuting Permanent 114
America's Top Court Strikes Down Covid-19 Restriction On Religious Groups 465
Chinese Police Have Seized $4.2 Billion Cryptos from PlusToken Ponzi Crackdown 81
A Hacker is Selling Access To the Email Accounts of Hundreds of C-Level Executives 40
Microsoft Productivity Score Feature Criticised as Workplace Surveillance 60
Cambridge University Says Darwin's Iconic Notebooks Were Stolen 52
hCaptcha Runs On 15% Of the Internet 66
Struggling Electric Jet Startup Zunum Sues Boeing For Fraud and Misuse of Trade Secrets 23
IRS Could Search Warrantless Location Database Over 10,000 Times 16
2FA Bypass Discovered In Web Hosting Software cPanel 9
Nintendo Sues More Hack Sellers, 'a Worsening International Problem' 41
Google Ordered To Hand Over Emails in $600 Million Divorce Battle 33
Three Members of TMT Cybercrime Group Arrested in Nigeria 15
Vestager Seeks Patents Overhaul Amid Court Fights Over Cars 15
Amazon Partners With the US Government To Stop the Sale of Counterfeit Goods 72
Apple Security Chief Maintains Innocence After Bribery Charges 71
India Bans Another 43 Chinese Apps Over Cybersecurity Concerns 13
Baidu's Android Apps Caught Collecting Sensitive User Details 19
'Smart' Doorbells For Sale On Amazon, eBay Came Stocked With Security Vulnerabilities 30
Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company's Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups 53
Indian Coding Startup WhiteHat Jr Sues Critics 32
Ask Slashdot: Why Haven't We Implemented Public Key Infrastructure Voting? 433
US Congress Passes an IoT Security Bill 'That Doesn't Totally Suck' 80
Apple Lets Some Network Traffic Bypass Firewalls on MacOS Big Sur 113
Why Amazon's Echo Shines an Ominous Red Light When Its Microphone is Muted 94
After Restoring YouTube-dl, GitHub Revamps Its Copyright Takedown Policy 24
The US Could Soon Ban the Selling of Carrier-Locked Phones 62
Google, Facebook and Twitter Threaten To Leave Pakistan Over Censorship Law 37
Biden Team Lacks Full US Cybersecurity Support in Transition Fracas 212
Apple Defends Delay of Privacy Feature, Slams Facebook 22
Messaging App Go SMS Pro Exposed Millions of Users' Private Photos and Files 17
LidarPhone Attack Converts Smart Vacuums Into Microphones 33
Massive, China-State-Funded Hack Hits Companies Around the World, Report Says 99
'Extremely Aggressive' Internet Censorship Spreads In the World's Democracies 239
The Worst Passwords of 2020 Show We Are Just As Lazy About Security As Ever 128
FCC Takes Spectrum From Auto Industry In Plan To 'Supersize' Wi-Fi 49
Starting Next Year, Chrome Extensions Will Show What Data They Collect from Users 15
FAA Chief '100% Confident' of 737 MAX Safety As Flights To Resume 170
Companies Could Face Hefty Fines Under New Canadian Privacy Law 35
Trump Fires Election Security Director Who Corrected Voter Fraud Disinformation 587
Google Sued After Cellular Data Allowances Eaten by Hidden Transfers 19
Micropayments Company Coil Distributes New Privacy Policy With Email That Puts Users' Addresses in the 'To:' Field 22
Apple Hits Back at European Activist Complaints Against Tracking Tool 29
Trump Administration, In Late Push, Moves To Sell Oil Rights In Arctic Refuge 373
Google Will Make It Slightly Easier To Turn Off Smart Features 15
GitHub Reinstates YouTube-dl Library After EFF Intervention 47
How the US Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps 40
Apple Responds To Gatekeeper Issue With Upcoming Fixes 54
Another Cryptocurrency Heist, This Time $2 Million Stolen from Akropolis 60
15 Asia-Pacific Countries Form World's Largest Trade Bloc, Exclude the US 295
Cheating-Detection Software Provokes 'School-Surveillance Revolt' 143
Aaron Swartz's Memory Honored with Virtual Hackathon 30
Credit Card Numbers For Millions of Hotel Guests Exposed By Misconfigured Cloud Database 46
EFF Launches New Podcast: How to Fix the Internet 76
Election Was Most Secure In American History, US Officials Say 423
Your Computer Isn't Yours 345
Six Reasons Why Google Maps Is the Creepiest App On Your Phone 121
Commerce Department Announces Stay of TikTok Shutdown Order 21
Swiss Report Reveals New Details On CIA Spying Operation 36
Face For Sale: Leaks and Lawsuits Blight Russia Facial Recognition 13
Microsoft Engineer Gets Nine Years For Stealing $10 Million From Microsoft 41
Tim Berners Lee's Startup Inrupt Releases Privacy Platform for Enterprises 20
HP Replaces 'Free Ink for Life' Plan With '99 Cents a Month Or Your Printer Stops Working' 193
Antitrust Investigations and Policy Towards China: How Biden's Victory Impacts Tech 61
President Biden Will Rejoin the World Health Organization on His First Day 281
What Biden's Victory Means For Net Neutrality - and for Ajit Pai 173
Former Astronaut Wins US Senate Seat Once Held By Republican John McCain 82
Uber and Lyft Will Push For More Laws Classifying Drivers as Independent Contractors 73
EFF Argues RIAA is 'Abusing DMCA' to Take Down YouTube-DL 49
A Biden Victory Positions America For a 180-Degree Turn On Climate Change 251
Boeing's 737 Max: Carrying Passengers Again In December? 85
Electric Bike Motors Will Be Shut Down When Entering Residential Areas of Amsterdam 106
T-Mobile Will Stop Saying Its 5G Network Is Better Than It Actually Is 36
Apple Says New 'Nutrition Labels' For App Privacy Will Be Required Starting December 8 11
MPA Lawyers Are Trying To Shut Down Pirate Anime Giant Nyaa.si 40
US Formally Withdraws From Paris Climate Agreement 250
Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver For Linux 46
RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub 62
Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited To US But Can Also Appeal 56
Proposition 24 Passes in California, Pushing Privacy Rights To the Forefront Again 19
Massachusetts Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right-to-Repair Ballot Initiative 32
Police Will Pilot a Program To Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras 84
Movie Industry: VPNs and Tor Pose a Threat to Legitimate Streaming Platforms 90
GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned 111
A New Idea: Replacing Daylight Saving Time With 'Universal Solar Time' 234
In World First, Slovokia Plans To Test the Entire Country For COVID-19 80
Support Grows For Universal Basic Income Trials in UK 177
Massachusetts Votes on Expanding Access To Car Data, 'Could Set the National Standard' 34
Zuckerberg Acknowledges 'Risk of Civil Unrest' After US Elections, Promises Newsfeed Updates 314
Why Do We Keep Setting Our Clocks Back an Hour? 290
Trump's TikTok Ban Temporarily Blocked by US Judge 85
Software Freedom Conservancy: Microsoft Should Resign from RIAA Over Youtube-DL Takedown Demand 48
Therapy Patients Blackmailed For Cash After Clinic Data Breach 55
SpaceX Will 'Make Its Own Laws On Mars' 293
Russian Hackers Targeted California, Indiana Democratic Parties In Repeat of 2016 Attacks 58
Privacy Investigation Finds 5 Million Shoppers' Images Collected At Malls Across Canada 36
Brave Browser First To Nix CNAME Deception 47
China's Leaders Vow Tech 'Self-Reliance,' Military Power and Economic Recovery 108
Grubhub Hit With Lawsuit for Listing Restaurants Without Permission 154
Facebook Targeted In UK Legal Action Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal 23
iOS 14's Upcoming Anti-Tracking Prompt Sparks Antitrust Complaint In France 114
NSA Ducks Questions About Backdoors In Tech Products 84
White House Science Office Says Trump Ended COVID-19 Pandemic as US Hits Record Cases 445
Trump's Campaign Website Hacked By Cryptocurrency Scammers 108
Facebook Tells Academics To Stop Monitoring Its Political Ads 63
Russia Orders National Mask Mandate As COVID-19 Cases Spike 59
RIAA's YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub's CEO 58
FCC Votes To Maintain 2017 Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules 84
CBP Refuses To Tell Congress How It's Tracking Americans Without a Warrant 72
Surveillance Startup Used Own Cameras To Harass Coworkers 54
Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom 'Censorship' 113
CNET: Police Are Using Facial Recognition For Minor Crimes, 'Because They Can' 196
'How 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator' 110
'Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet' 29
Is Right to Repair Gaining Momentum? 64
The Battle Over Chips is About to Get Uglier 74
Russians Who Pose Election Threat Have Hacked Nuclear Plants and Power Grid 66
Massive Criminal Trial Begins For 'Cyberbunker' Dark Web Server 16
Hackers Behind Life-Threatening Attack On Chemical Maker Are Sanctioned 77
T-Mobile Screwups Caused Nationwide Outage But FCC Isn't Punishing Carrier 38
Facebook Touts Free Speech. In Vietnam, It's Aiding in Censorship 41
Bot Generated Fake Nudes of Over 100,000 Women Without Their Knowledge, Says Report 57
Drivers Sue Uber Over Pressure To Support Prop 22 77
WHO To Grant Wikipedia Free Use of Its Published Material To Combat Covid Misinformation 51
Firefox 'Site Isolation' Feature Enters User Testing, Expected Next Year 14
How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark 18
Google AI Tech Will Be Used For Virtual Border Wall, CBP Contract Shows 76
FCC Defends Helping Trump, Claims Authority Over Social Media Law 116
The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone 96
FCC To Delay $9 Billion Rural Broadband Push To Fix Data Flaws 49
US Accuses Google of Protecting Illegal Monopoly 143
Instagram's Handling of Kids' Data Is Now Being Probed In the EU 2
Proprietary Grapes Come With Draconian End User License Agreement 223
Privacy Advocates Alarmed By Singapore's World-First Face-Scanning Plans 25
What If the Government Ran a Social Network? 190
Another California City Launches a Two-Year Guaranteed Income Program 136
3 TB of Private Webcam/Home Security Video Leaked on Porn Sites 44
Make Remote Work Permanent? No Way, Say Bay Area Leaders 169
US Antitrust Regulators Could Target Google's Chrome Browser For Breakup 45

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