Your Rights Online Stories for 2020

Prosecutors Are Investigating Amazon's Treatment of Third-Party Sellers 16
Trump Fires TVA Chair, Cites Hiring of Foreign Workers 267
Chinese Games Will Force Players To Use Their Real Names 60
China's Xiao-i Sues Apple for $1.43 Billion Over Siri AI Infringement 70
After 5 Years, Australia Finally Cracked a Drug Kingpin's BlackBerry 70
A 17-Year-Old's Journey: Minecraft, SIM-Swapping Bitcoin Heists, Breaching Twitter 135
Will China's AI Surveillance State Go Global? 109
Google Victory In German Top Court Over Right To Be Forgotten 23
Amazon Says Police Demands For Customer Data Have Gone Up 11
Twitter Permanently Bans White Supremacist David Duke 393
Should the US Military Be Recruiting On Twitch? 160
GOP Congressman Turns Antitrust Hearing Into Personal Tech Support Session 136
Google's $2.1 Billion Fitbit Deal Faces Full-Scale EU Antitrust Investigation 12
Apple Emails Reveal Internal Debate on Right to Repair 36
Nancy Pelosi Mandates Masks On House Floor 247
The Vatican Is Said To Be Hacked From China Before Talks With Beijing 55
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos 'Can't Guarantee' Policy Against Using Seller Specific Data Hasn't Been Violated 19
Trump's Plan To Regulate Social Media 292
Alcohol Delivery Service Drizly Confirms Data Breach 15
Rite Aid Deployed Facial Recognition Systems In Hundreds of US Stores 36
Trump Blasts 'Trending' Section On Twitter: 'Really Ridiculous, Illegal, and, of Course, Very Unfair!' 354
Huge Apparent Leak Unearths Nintendo's Prototype History 21
Facebook Takes EU To Court For Invading Privacy 28
Australian Regulator Says Google Misled Users Over Data Privacy Issues 11
Digital Banking Site 'Dave' Admits Security Breach Impacting 7.5 Million Users 21
Apple Being Sued For Refusing To Help iTunes Gift Card Scam Victims 111
Judge Urged To Release Documents About Google's Cellphone Tracking 20
Twenty Years On, Japan Government's Digital Ambitions Still Stuck In Piles of Paper 49
ICE Bars New Foreign Students From US If Classes Are Fully Online 150
Trump Campaign Angry That Cell Carriers Blocked Company Texts To Voters 103
FBI Warns US Companies About Backdoors In Chinese Tax Software 36
More Than 1,000 People at Twitter Had Ability To Aid Hack of Accounts 29
EU Demands Major Concessions From Google Over Fitbit Deal 24
Tesla Accuses Rivian of Poaching Employees, Stealing Secrets 45
Garmin Services and Production Go Down After Ransomware Attack 22
Steve Wozniak Sues YouTube Over Twitter-Like Bitcoin Scam 39
Facebook Adds $100 Million To Landmark Facial Recognition Settlement Payout 15
Appeals Court Blocks Trump Appointee's Takeover of Web Nonprofit 20
New York Bans Use of Facial Recognition In Schools Statewide 29
Security Breach Exposes More Than One Million DNA Profiles On Major Genealogy Database 28
'World's Most Wanted Man' Involveld In Bizarre Attempt To Buy Hacking Tools 27
Ajit Pai Urges States To Cap Prison Phone Rates After He Helped Kill FCC Caps 106
Ukraine President Plugs 15-Year-Old Film To Free Hostages 34
Google Promises Privacy With Virus App But Can Still Collection Location Data 83
Most Dedicated VPN IP-Addresses Are Not Anonymous 27
Full Text of US State Department Cables Finally Released, Showing Safety In Chinese Lab 220
America's Border Patrol 'Can Track Everyone's Car' By Buying License Plate-Reader Data 142
Surveillance Software Scanning File-Sharing Networks Led To 12,000 Arrests 106
'Mozilla VPN' Launches in Six Countries 69
The FBI Secretly Used Travel Company 'Sabre' As A Global Surveillance Tool 74
Stockton Basic Income Program Extended. Is Support For the Idea Growing? 110
VPN With 'Strict No-Logs Policy' Exposed Millions of User Log Files 86
South Korea Commits $61 Billion For 'Net-Zero Society' By 2025 57
Suspect Is Arrested In Grisly Killing of Tech CEO Fahim Saleh 56
Russian Hackers Are Linked To Sweeping Bid To Steal Vaccine Data 69
Iranian Spies Accidentally Leaked Videos of Themselves Hacking 41
Tech Firms Like Facebook Must Restrict Data Sent From EU To US, Court Rules 74
White House Reportedly Orders Hospitals To Bypass CDC During COVID-19 Data Collection 189
German Court Bans Tesla Ad Statements Related To Autonomous Driving 3
California Investigating Google For Potential Antitrust Violations 67
US Threatens To Restrict WeChat Following TikTok Backlash 36
iPhone User Sues Microsoft's LinkedIn For Spying Through Apple's 'Clipboard' 39
Wells Fargo Tells Employees: Delete TikTok from Company Phones 95
Why Did a Tech Executive Install 1,000 Security Cameras Around San Francisco? 148
TikTok Pulls Out of Hong Kong 41
'Guilty' Verdict for Russian Who Stole 117M Dropbox and LinkedIn Login Codes in 2012 31
DuckDuckGo Restored in India, Responds to Favicon Concerns 13
US Secret Service Creates New Cyber Fraud Task Force 28
Police Surveilled Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr 68
Canadian Genetic Non-Discrimination Act Upheld 57
Signal's New PIN Feature Worries Cybersecurity Experts 45
Apple Advises Against MacBook Camera Covers Due To Display Cracking 126
Amazon Makes Employees Delete TikTok From Phones, Citing Security Risk [Update] 64
Amazon Will Pay $135,000 To Settle Alleged US Sanction Violations 37
Indian Army Personnel Banned From Using 89 Apps 15
Police Are Buying Access To Hacked Website Data 41
MIT and Harvard Sue DHS and ICE Over International Student Rule 182
Security Cameras Can Tell Burglars When You're Not Home, Study Shows 119
Only 9% of Visitors Give GDPR Consent To Be Tracked 33
Trump Administration Begins Formal Withdrawal From WHO 313
7th Former eBay Employee Charged In Cyberstalking Campaign Targeting Natick Couple 21
Hackers Are Exploiting a 5-Alarm Bug In Networking Equipment 32
Foreign Students Must Leave the US If Their Universities Transition To Online-Only Learning 169
Supreme Court Upholds Cellphone Robocall Ban 64
Facial-Recognition Firm Ends Operations in Canada, Watchdog Says 11
US Tech Giants Halt Reviews of Hong Kong Demands For User Data 45
Body Cam with Military Police Footage Sold on Ebay 17
US Senate Amends EARN IT Act -- To Let States Restrict Encryption 89
Former Yahoo Engineer Who Infiltrated 6,000 Accounts Avoids Jail 35
Americans Lag Behind Other Countries -- and Pay More for Their Cellphone Service 144
Facebook, Twitter, Google Face Free-Speech Test in Hong Kong 62
Google-backed Groups Criticize Apple's New Warnings on User Tracking 46
LinkedIn Says iOS Clipboard Snooping After Every Key Press is a Bug, Will Fix 38
Inside the Plot To Kill the Open Technology Fund 80
New Free Speech Site Gets in a Tangle Over ... Free Speech 181
Facebook Says 5,000 App Developers Got User Data After Cutoff Date 3
One Out of Every 142 Passwords is '123456' 71
How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime 87
New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears 49
US Secures World Stock of Key COVID-19 Drug Remdesivir 391
Uncovered: 1,000 Phrases That Incorrectly Trigger Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant 53
Zoom Misses Its Own Deadline To Publish Its First Transparency Report 5
China's Influence Via WeChat Is 'Flying Under the Radar' of Most Western Democracies 19
Supreme Court Says Generic Domains Like Booking.com Can Be Trademarked 83
National Mask Mandate Could Save 5 Percent of GDP, Economists Say 481
Google Removes 25 Android Apps Caught Stealing Facebook Credentials 33
With DOJ Charges, Former VC Mike Rothenberg Could Now Be Facing Serious Jail Time 29
1 Killed, 2 Shot Outside Amazon Warehouse In Jacksonville 63
Apple Declined To Implement 16 Web APIs in Safari Due To Privacy Concerns 120
America Pushes Europe to Reject Chinese Baggage Screening Tech 96
Are Uber Drivers Employees? Uber Faces Two Big Court Challenges 104
IBM's New Differential Privacy Library Works With Just a Single Line of Code 45
How Did the World Miss Covid-19's Silent Spread? 265
Whatever Happened to the 'Flash Crash' Trader? 91
Apple Will Force Apps to Ask for Permission Before Tracking Users 47
Journalist's Phone Hacked: All He Had To Do Was Visit a Website. Any Website. 123
Apple 'Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users', Claims Forbes 61
Charter Seeks FCC Permission to Impose Data Caps and Charge Fees to Video Services 102
Sweden Tries Out a New Status: Pariah State 382
Mobilewalla Used Cellphone Data To Estimate the Demographics of Protesters 24
Lyft Settles With Justice Department Over Disability Lawsuit 24
California City Bans Predictive Policing In US First 140
House Democrats Pass DC Statehood Bill 249
Facial Recognition Bill Would Ban Use By Federal Law Enforcement 56
Comcast Becomes the First ISP To Join Mozilla's TRR Program 85
Democrats Pitch $100 Billion Broadband Plan, Repeal of State Limits On Muni Networks 213
Safari 14 Will Let You Log in To Websites With Your Face or Finger 42
Trump Administration Says Huawei, Hikvision Backed By Chinese Military 182
Amazon Launches Counterfeit Crimes Unit To Fight Knockoffs On Its Store 75
Boston Votes To Ban Government Use of Facial Recognition 51
Google Says It Will Keep Less Browser History and Location Data By Default 36
It's Unconstitutional For Cops To Force Phone Unlocking, Court Rules 116
Safari 14 Removes Flash, Gets Support for Breach Alerts, HTTP/3, and WebP 54
Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm 352
80,000 Printers Are Exposing Their IPP Port Online 56
America Is Reopening. Coronavirus Tracing Apps Aren't Ready. 124
EU May Ban Travel From US As It Reopens Borders, Citing Coronavirus Failures 231
Facebook Loses Antitrust Case In Germany Over Data Collection 9
Appeals Court Says California's IMDb-Targeting 'Ageism' Law Is Unconstitutional 140
'BlueLeaks' Exposes Files From Hundreds of Police Departments 147
Encrypted Phone Network Says It's Shutting Down After Police Hack 31
How Did Vietnam Become the Largest Nation Without Coronavirus Deaths? 179
Washington Post: A Top NASA Official Improperly Contacted Boeing 34
How The FBI Identified That Masked Arsonist Identified and Jailed Because of Her Etsy Review 259
France Upholds $50M Fine Against Google For GDPR Violations 26
Why The $100 Million Police Body Camera Experiment 'Isn't Working' 309
America Can Achieve Its 90% Clean Energy Goals 15 Years Early 241
Cell Phone Pings Lead Investigators to Buried Bodies 61
The US Government Is Now Stuck with 63 Million Doses of Hydroxychloroquine 310
IRS Used Cellphone Location Data To Try To Find Suspects 24
A Former Google Executive Takes Aim at His Old Company With a Start-Up 48
Oracle's BlueKai Tracks You Across the Web. That Data Spilled Online 20
NYC Passes POST Act, Requiring Police Department To Reveal Surveillance Technologies 48
Mozilla To Launch VPN Product 'in the Next Few Weeks' 73
Discord Removes Servers Dedicated To Pirating Porn 46
Microsoft Says Antitrust Regulators Need To Review App Stores 74
To Evade Detection, Hackers Are Requiring Targets To Complete CAPTCHAs 28
Massive Spying on Users of Google's Chrome Shows New Security Weakness 21
FBI Used Etsy, LinkedIn To Make Arrest In Torching of Philadelphia Police Vehicles 325
Microsoft Pitched Its Facial Recognition Tech To the DEA, New Emails Show 25
Zoom To Launch End-to-End Encryption For All Users -- Not Just Paid Accounts 39
China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys, Using US Equipment 67
'Hey Siri, I'm Getting Pulled Over': iPhone Feature Will Record Police Interaction, Send Location 253
Americans Don't Trust Content Decisions Made By Social Media Giants, Study Says 89
Dating Apps Exposed 845GB of Explicit Photos, Chats, and More 43
The Pirate Bay's IP Address Belongs To a VPN Provider, ISP Tells Court 88
T-Mobile's Outage Yesterday Was So Big That Even Ajit Pai Is Mad 103
New York AG Asks Google and Apple To Vet Third-Party COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps 10
Mozilla, EFF, 19,000 Citizens Urge Zoom To Reverse End-to-End Encryption Decision 44
US Commerce Dept. Amends Huawei Ban To Allow For Development of 5G Standards 54
More Than 7 In 10 Americans Won't Use Contact-Tracing Apps, Data Shows 99
Meet the Big Tech Critic Behind Hey, Basecamp's Radical New Email Platform 42
Amazon Says Jeff Bezos Is Willing To Testify Before Congress 17
U.S. Supreme Court Endorses Gay, Transgender Worker Protections 421
The US Government Just Paid a Crypto Startup to Explore Digital Dollars 49
How Accurate Were Ray Kurzweil's Predictions for 2019? 70
Python Overtakes Java? JetBrains Releases 'State of Developer Ecosystem' Survey 67
How an Online Mob Doxxed an Innocent Man 158
In America, Only Three States Use Google-Apple Contact Tracing App 42
Many Police Departments Have Software That Can Identify People In Crowds 37
Spies Can Eavesdrop By Watching a Light Bulb's Vibrations 71
Apple Removes Two Podcast Apps From China Store After Censorship Demands 22
Google Sues Sonos in Escalation of Wireless Speakers Fight 12
City of Knoxville Shuts Down Network After Ransomware Attack 23
Activists Rally To Save Internet Archive as Lawsuit Threatens Site 41
Microsoft Won't Sell Police Its Facial-Recognition Technology 48
30,000 Unsuspecting Rose Bowl Attendees Were Scooped Up in a Facial Recognition Test 35
3M Sues Price-Gougers Who Used Amazon To Sell Masks At 1,800% Markup 82
Some States Have Embraced Online Voting. It's a Huge Risk. 338
Amazon Pauses Police Use of Facial Recognition Tech For a Year 32
Babylon Health Data Breach Allowed Users To View Other Patients' Video Consultations 9
Illegal Netflix, Amazon Streamers Cut Off After European Arrests 66
Android 11 Will Help You Rein In Zombie App Permissions 37
Amazon, Facebook and Google Turn To Deep Network of Political Allies To Battle Back Antitrust Probes 26
FCC Failed To Monitor Chinese Telecoms For Almost 20 Years: Senate Report 38
Apple Granted Patent That Would Allow For Socially Distant Group Selfies 37
Obscure Indian Cyber Firm Spied On Politicians, Investors Worldwide 16
WhatsApp Was Exposing Users' Phone Numbers in Google Search 15
IBM Gets Out of Facial Recognition Business, Calls On Congress To Advanced Policies Tackling Racial Injustice 70
ACLU Sues LA Over Controversial Scooter Tracking System 61
Apple Should Acquire DuckDuckGo To Put Pressure On Google Search, Analyst Argues 94
Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Could Be Used On Protesters 74
In Data-Driven South Korea, AI is Monitoring 3,200 Senior Citizens 45
Brave Browser Mistake Adds Its Referrer Code For Cryptocurrency Sites 26
Will Schools Turn to Surveillance Tech to Prevent Covid-19 Spread? 69
When the Police Get Filmed, Is There More Accountability? 269
Microsoft Dropped for Open Source Again in Germany: Hamburg Follows Munich's Lead 88
New Java-Based Ransomware Targets Linux and Windows Systems 37
Joe Biden Formally Clinches Democratic Nomination 422
States Are Leaning Toward a Push To Break Up Google's Ad Tech Business 29
Matthew Green on Zoom Not Offering End-To-End Encryption To Free Users 39
Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use its Tech 58
Instagram Just Threw Users of Its Embedding API Under the Bus 68
Musk Says 'Time To Break Up Amazon,' Escalating Feud With Bezos 129
Incognito Mode Detection Still Works in Chrome Despite Promise To Fix 40
Signal Launches Face-Blurring Tool as US Protesters Embrace Encrypted Messaging 117
Germany Bans Digital Doppelganger Passport Photos 58
Frontier Users Must Pay 'Rental' Fee For Equipment They Own Until December 56
Governments and WHO Changed COVID-19 Policy Based On Suspect Data From Tiny US Company 140
From RealPlayer To Toshiba, Tech Companies Cash in on the Facial Recognition Gold Rush 29
Zoom Won't Encrypt Free Calls Because it Wants To Comply With Law Enforcement 70
DEA Authorized To Conduct Surveillance On Protesters 186
The 50 Years of Crowd Control Research Police Are Ignoring 524
Google Faces $5 Billion Lawsuit In US For Tracking 'Private' Internet Use 42
Senators Introduce COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Privacy Bill 38
Lawsuit Says Trump's Social Media Crackdown Violates Free Speech 237
Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive for Systematic Mass Scanning and Distribution of Literary Works 97
Are News Outlets Responsible For Comments Left On Their Facebook Pages? 122
What Would The Internet Look Like If America Repeals Section 230? 519
As Coronavirus Hospitalizations Rise in the US, Many States Hide Their Data 167
Many Scientists Warn CDC's New Death Rate Estimates Far Too Low 151
Western Digital Gets Sued For Sneaking SMR Disks Into Its NAS Channel 79
Amazon Will No Longer Support the Echo Look, Encourages Owners To Recycle Theirs 25
Senator Ted Cruz Calls For Criminal Investigation of Twitter 161
Joe Biden Doesn't Like Trump's Twitter Order, But Still Wants To Revoke Section 230 223
Twitter Flags Trump and White House Tweets About Minneapolis Protests for 'Glorifying Violence' 603
ACLU Accuses Clearview AI of Privacy 'Nightmare Scenario' 22
Google Sued by Arizona Over Location Data and Alleged Consumer Fraud 8
YouTube Says China-Linked Comment Deletions Weren't Caused By Outside Parties 51
NSA Warns of Ongoing Russian Hacking Campaign Against US Systems 25
Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting Protections For Social Media Platforms 466
Anti-Porn Filters Stop Dominic Cummings Trending On Twitter 162
Japan Enacts High-Tech 'Super City' Bill Where AI, Big Data and Other Technologies Are Utilized To Resolve Social Problems 35
Proposed Bill Would Ban Microtargeting of Political Advertisements 120
Chrome and Firefox Block Torrent Site YTS Over 'Phishing' 34
House Leaders Strike Deal To Protect US Web Browsing Data From Warrantless Surveillance 38
As Chinese Authorities Expand Use of Health Tracking Apps, Privacy Concerns Grow 55
A Massive Database of 8 Billion Thai Internet Records Leaks 13
eBay Port Scans Visitors' Computers For Remote Access Programs 100
Tech Companies Urges US House to Protect the Privacy of Americans' Browsing and Search History 49

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