Your Rights Online Stories for 2021

Study Reveals Android Phones Constantly Snoop On Their Users 113
Adobe Uses DMCA To Nuke Project That Keeps Flash Alive, Secure and Adware Free 69
Pentagon Says Hypersonic Weapons Are Too Expensive 95
Is Nuclear Energy Green Energy? 10 EU Countries Call On Brussels To Add It To the List 386
Florida Judge Rules Section 230 Bars Defamation Claim Against the Wikimedia Foundation 72
Google Pulls 'Stalkerware' Ads That Promoted Phone Spying Apps 9
Apple Decides Its Victory Against Epic Wasn't Enough -- It Wants a Total Win 62
Facebook To Act on Illegal Sale of Amazon Rainforest 22
The Sad Tale of a Silicon Valley-Funded, Libertarian 'Startup City' 320
California To Ban Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers and Mowers 374
Should US Tax Collectors Get Reports From Banks About All Accounts Over $600? 190
US Flight Traffic Controllers Complain Military Tests Interfered with GPS Signals 52
US Government Investigators Still Believe Havana Syndrome is a Directed-Energy Attack 106
White House Weighs Wide-Ranging Push For Crypto Oversight 50
136 Countries Agree To Minimum Corporate Tax Rate 76
iPhone Apps No Better For Privacy Than Android, Oxford Study Finds 22
Facebook Bans Developer Behind Unfollow Everything Tool 84
Microsoft Has Committed To Right To Repair 53
Car Thieves Arrested After Using $27,000 Game Boy Device 104
US Department of Justice Creates Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit 65
Hackers of SolarWinds Stole Data On US Sanctions Policy, Intelligence Probes 12
Zodiac Expert Calls 'Bullshit' On Possible ID of Zodiac Killer 30
Cloudflare Doesn't Have To Cut Off Copyright-Infringing Websites, Judge Rules 21
US To Tell Critical Rail, Air Companies To Report Hacks, Name Cyber Chiefs 23
GitHub Removes GTA Fan Projects re3 and reVC Following New Take-Two DMCA Notice 51
Apple Says Apps Must Offer a Way To Delete Your Account Starting In Early 2022 23
European Parliament Calls For a Ban On Facial Recognition 28
Twitch Source Code and Business Data Leaked 66
Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed 52
Ransomware Bill Would Give Victims 48 Hours To Report Payments 89
FCC Plans To Rein In 'Gateway' Carriers That Bring Foreign Robocalls To US 63
Ukrainian Cops Cuff Two Over $150 Million Ransomware Gang Allegations, Seize $1.3 Million In Cryptocurrency 8
Clearview AI Has New Tools To Identify People in Photos 24
Call Center-Pranking 'Scambaiters' Amass Millions of Fans on Social Media 85
Facebook Whistleblower Speaks, Shares Documents on Deliberate Lies and Disregard of Misinformation, Contacts US Regulators 151
Ransomware Gangs are Complaining That Other Crooks are Stealing Their Ransoms 49
How Miami's Mayor Hopes to Build a New (and Crypto-Friendly) Silicon Valley 80
Neiman Marcus Discloses a 2020 Data Breach That Impacted 4.6 Million Customers 11
More Vaccinations, Less Pushback: America's Vaccine Mandates Are Working, Says Public Health Professor 308
Alliance Including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM Vows to Protect Rights and Privacy With 'Trusted Cloud Principles' 33
Who Censored Marie Antoinette's Letters? X-Rays Reveal a Surprise 26
Former OnlyFans Employees Could Access Users' and Models' Personal Information 18
A Declassified State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn't Cause 'Havana Syndrome' 118
Oracle Loses Appeal Against $3 Billion Payment To HPE Over Withdrawal of Itanium Support 47
FTC Weighs New Online Privacy Rules 12
131 Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases Where They Had a Financial Interest 92
Film Studios Sue 'No Logs' VPN Provider For $10 Million 73
Eftpos Granted Government Accreditation as First Private ID Exchange Operator 17
When the FBI Seizes Your Messages from Big Tech, You May Not Know for Years 91
With HTTPS Everywhere, EFF Begins Plans to Eventually Deprecate 'HTTPS Everywhere' Extension 48
Former Reddit CEO Asks: Why Is Theranos' Holmes the Only Tech CEO Facing Prosecution? 177
Report: In 2017 America's CIA Plotted to Kidnap Julian Assange From Ecuador 149
After 47 Years, US Power Company Abandons Still-Unfinished $6 Billion Nuclear Power Plant 206
110,000 Affected by Epik Breach - Including Those Who Trusted Epik to Hide Their Identity 112
Google Sues India's Competition Commission - For Sharing Its Findings About Google 18
Why EFF Flew a Plane Over Apple's Headquarters 29
Google Photos' Nude-Friendly Folders Coming To All Android Phones Soon 61
Engineer Devises 'UFO Patents' For US Navy 78
Are You Ready To Share Your Analprint With Big Tech? 81
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou To Be Released After Agreement With US In Wire Fraud Case 109
Other than Prison, Electronic Monitoring is 'the Most Restrictive Form' of Control, Research Finds 50
UK Appeals Court Rules AI Cannot Be Listed As a Patent Inventor 54
California Passes Law Targeting Amazon Labor Algorithms 40
Hackers Leak LinkedIn 700 Million Data Scrape 28
CDC Panel Endorses Pfizer COVID-19 Booster Shots For People 65 and Older 84
A Stalkerware Firm Is Leaking Real-Time Screenshots of People's Phones Online 11
Judge Releases Redacted Lunar Lander Lawsuit From Bezos' Blue Origin Against NASA-SpaceX Contract 36
TikTokers Are Trading Stocks By Copying What Members of Congress Do 91
The Fed Is Evaluating Whether To Launch a Digital Currency and In What Form 53
CIA Director 'Fuming' After Havana Syndrome Strikes Team Member In India 108
Leaked Apple Training Videos Show How the iPhone-Maker Undermines Third-Party Repair 133
Virgin Media Subscribers Told To Pay 'Thousands of Pounds' To Settle Piracy Laws 53
Facebook Warned Over 'Very Small' Indicator LED On Smart Glasses 112
Twitter To Pay $809.5 Million To Settle 2016 Lawsuit Over Growth Projections 6
'Freedom Hosting' Web Admin Gets 27 Years In Prison For Hosting 200+ Child Pornography Sites 178
What Happened After El Salvador Adopted Bitcoin as Legal Currency? 123
Report: Boeing Official Expected to Face Criminal Charges Over Fatal Boeing 737 Max Issues 99
Despite 'Economic Distress', Two US Nuclear Power Plants Saved From Closing Through Subsidies 128
Researchers Defeated Advanced Facial Recognition Tech Using Makeup 23
Man Who Unlocked Nearly 2 Million AT&T Phones Gets 12 Years In Prison 102
Google Will Extend Permission Auto-Reset Feature To Older Android Versions 21
FTC Releases Findings on How Big Tech Eats Little Tech 17
Telegram Emerges as New Dark Web for Cyber Criminals 44
US Judge Sentences Crypto Hedge Fund Scammer To Over Seven Years In Prison 28
FTC Warns Health Apps To Notify Consumers Impacted by Data Breaches 7
Travis CI Flaw Exposed Secrets of Thousands of Open Source Projects 28
DoorDash Sues NYC Over Customer Data Law 65
Congress Will Investigate Claims That Instagram Harms Teens 50
US Fines Former NSA Employees Who Provided Hacker-for-Hire Services To UAE 39
SEC Charges App Annie With Securities Fraud in $10 Million Settlement 10
China Uses Anti-fraud App To Track Access To Overseas Financial News Sites 25
Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors, Says Dutch Court 65
Biden To Tap Privacy Hawk For FTC Post 35
Epic Files Appeal After Loss To Apple in App Store Case 119
'Every Message Was Copied to the Police': the Daring Sting Behind the An0m Phone 105
Boeing's Directors Are Now Facing an Investor Lawsuit Over Fatal 737 Max Crashes 62
Senator Wyden Reflects on 9/11's Legacy: Mass Surveillance 26
Security Weaknesses in Mozilla VPN Found and Addressed by Audit 12
Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub Sue New York City Over Legislation on Commission Caps 35
Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Joins ProtonMail's Advisory Board 30
County IT Supervisor Mined Bitcoin At the Office, Prosecutors Say 85
After Chiding Apple On Privacy, Germany Says It Uses Pegasus Spyware 38
Biden Offers Ambitious Blueprint for Solar Energy 263
Facebook Users Liable For All Comments Under Their Posts, According To Australia High Court 189
UK's ICO Calls For Browser-Level Controls To Fix 'Cookie Fatigue' 135
WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages 87
Unity Patents 'Methods and Apparatuses To Improve the Performance of a Video Game Engine Using An Entity Component System' 46
Facebook Admits 'Trust Deficit' As It Looks To Launch Digital Wallet 61
ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist After Order By Swiss Authorities 153
Will Gaming Change Humanity As We Know It? 77
Lawsuits Accuse Siri, Alexa, and Google of Listening When They're Not Supposed To 99
Skepticism Grows Over El Salvador's Pioneering Plan to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender 89
Ethiopian Airlines Settles With Boeing, Expects Resumed 737 Max Flights in January 40
America's NSA Isn't Sure Quantum Computers Will Ever Break Public Key Encryption 92
Is America's FTC Investigating McDonalds' Right to Repair McFlurry Machines? 89
GitHub Files Court Brief Criticizing 'Vague Infringement Allegations' 24
Take-Two Sues Enthusiasts Behind GTA Fan Projects Re3, ReVC 26
Feds To Close Unit That Monitored Americans' Social Media for Census Disinformation 18
Only Humans, Not AI Machines, Can Get a US Patent, Judge Rules 48
Apple Delays Plans To Roll Out CSAM Detection in iOS 15 61
New Boss of US Digital Service: Mina Hsiang 36
Seemingly Normal Lightning Cable Will Leak Everything You Type 51
UK ISP Sky Broadband Feeds Realtime Customer Bandwidth Data To Litigious Anti-Piracy Firm 30
Apple Will Ask Before it Targets You With Its Ads in iOS 15 29
New AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation To Make Quantum Computing More Efficient 48
Judge Rules UC-Berkeley Must Freeze Its Enrollment To Assess Ecological Impact of Its Undergrads 88
Amazon Asked FCC To Reject Starlink Plan Because It Can't Compete, SpaceX Says 45
Australian Powers To Spy on Cybercrime Suspects Given Green Light 34
Apple Secures First States To Support Digital Driver's Licenses, But Privacy Questions Linger 100
Judge In Nokia and Apple Lawsuit Owned Apple Stock During Proceedings 31
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes On Trial As Jury Selection Begins 86
Biden Launches US Digital Corps To Bring Young Tech Talent To Government 124
Blue Origin's Stay of SpaceX's Moon Lander Contract Gets One-Week Extension Thanks to...PDF Files 80
10 US Government Agencies Plan Expanded Use of Facial Recognition 29
Facebook Has Trackers in 25% of Websites and 61% of the Most Popular Apps 81
Cuba's Government Will Recognize - and Regulate - Cryptocurrencies 31
Elizabeth Holmes Might Accuse Ex-Boyfriend/Former Theranos Executive of Psychological Abuse 116
America's Stock Regulators Probe Gamification in Trading Apps 17
Programmer Apologizes For Sending Letters Claiming Patent on Age-Old Web Standard 56
How Microsoft, Google, Apple, and IBM Will Help the US Improve Its Cybersecurity 19
T-Mobile CEO Apologizes For Data Breach Affecting Over 53 Million Users 26
EU Agency Advises Against Using Search, Browsing History For Credit Scores 38
After 18 Years, SCO's IBM Litigation May Be Settled for $14.5 Million 151
Parents of Teens Who Stole $1 Million In Bitcoin Sued By Alleged Victim 48
US Intelligence Agencies Split On COVID-19 Origins, Offer No High-Confidence Conclusions In New Report 228
Tech's Lobbying Push Follows Market Consolidation, Study Shows 17
California Expands Lawsuit Against Activision Blizzard 15
Google Says Staff Have No Right To Protest Its Choice of Clients 358
Apple Wins Patent For Dual-Display MacBook With Virtual Keyboard, Wireless Charging Capabilities 69
Disney Fires Back Against Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow Lawsuit 153
Apple Has Been CSAM Scanning Your iCloud Mail Since 2019 52
38 Million Records Were Exposed Online -- Including Contact-Tracing Info 19
The Fierce Legal Battle at the Heart of the Fight Over Reclining Airline Seats 471
Court Rules Govt Officials' Internet Browsing Histories Are Not Public Records 67
Smartphone Company Alleged To Be a Scam Defrauding 300 Investors of $10 Million 23
AI-Powered Tech Put a 65-Year-Old in Jail For Almost a Year Despite 'Insufficient Evidence' 98
$97 Million Stolen From Japanese Crypto Exchange 44
Court Rules California's 'Gig Worker' Initiative is Unconstitutional 205
Google Says Geofence Warrants Make Up One-Quarter Of All US Demands 55
Apple's Anti-Fraud Chief Said Company Was 'The Greatest Platform For Distributing Child Porn' 74
Hacker Selling Private Data Allegedly From 70 Million AT&T Customers 12
China Passes Data Protection Law 52
Justice Department Says Facial Recognition Helped End an Almost 15-year Manhunt 53
Senators Challenge TikTok's 'Alarming' Plan To Collect Users' Voice and Face Biometrics 39
Policy Groups Ask Apple To Drop Plans To Inspect iMessages, Scan for Abuse Images 89
'Apple's Device Surveillance Plan Is a Threat To User Privacy -- And Press Freedom' 213
Three Former Netflix Software Engineers Charged With Insider Trading By SEC 33
Apple Censors Engraving Service, Report Claims 49
Apple's NeuralHash Algorithm Has Been Reverse-Engineered 86
Afghans Scramble To Delete Digital History, Evade Biometrics 203
Microsoft Envisions a Blockchain-Based Bounty System to Catch Pirates 59
Critical Bug Impacting Millions of IoT Devices Lets Hackers Spy On You 42
Stop Using Zoom, Hamburg's DPA Warns State Government 25
Sonos Gets Early Patent Victory Against Google Smart Speakers 60
A Simple Software Fix Could Limit Location Data Sharing 55
Russian Intelligence Services are Working with Ransomware Gangs, Report Says 80
Fight Piracy With a Blockchain-Based Bounty System, Suggest Microsoft Researchers 53
A CyberSecurity CEO Used Apple's AirTags to Locate His Stolen Scooter 92
Would You Let Amazon Scan Your Palm For $10? 72
Deflecting Criticism, Russia Tries Insinuating 2018 Hole on Space Station Was US Sabotage 83
Samsung's Leader Is Out of Jail, Allowing US Factory Plans To Move Forward 14
'The Way the Senate Melted Down Over Crypto Is Very Revealing' 112
Speaker Pioneer Sonos Fighting Google in 'Golden Age of Audio' 86
Activist Raided By London Police After Downloading Docs Found On Google Search 139
Bill Gates Wants In On Congress' Big Climate Infrastructure Push 80
Apple's Child Protection Features Spark Concern Within Its Own Ranks 99
Pirated-Entertainment Sites Are Making Billions From Ads 63
Amazon To Monitor Customer Service Workers' Keyboard and Mouse Strokes 57
Netflix Intensifies 'VPN Ban' and Targets Residential IP-Addresses Too 119
No EV Tax Credit If You Earn More Than $100,000 Says US Senate 202
NYPD Secretly Spent $159 Million On Surveillance Tech Since 2007 16
US Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Rein In Apple, Google App Stores 48
Now Microsoft is Protesting After Amazon Won a $10 Billion NSA Cloud Contract 38
Researchers Create 'Master Faces' To Bypass Facial Recognition 38
US Prisons Mull AI To Analyze Inmate Phone Calls 69
The McFlurry Machine Company Just Got Hit With a McRestraining Order 87
Oregon Law Allows Students To Graduate Without Proving They Can Write Or Do Math 337
Firefox 91 Pushes Privacy With Stronger New Cookie-clearing Option 35
Samsung Leader Jay Y. Lee Granted Parole, To Leave Prison On Friday 26
Uber Asked Contractor To Allow Video Surveillance In Employee Homes, Bedrooms 60
Apple Says It Will Reject Government Demands To Use New Child Abuse Image Detection System for Surveillance 96
Is Big Tech Pressuring Its Call-Center Workers to Install Cameras in Their Homes? 95
US Lawmakers Propose a $2.5 Billion Pilot Guaranteed Income Program 250
Will a New Gig Worker Exception Proposed in Massachusetts Change the Future of Work? 136
Russia May Be Spreading Vaccine Misinformation to Undermine Efforts to Immunize People 277
Are the Ultra-Wealthy Renouncing US Citizenship to Avoid Taxes? 168
US Developer's Workstation Exposed State Department's Network Data, Researchers Find 16
The Future of Cryptocurrency Is Being Decided in Biden's Infrastructure Bill 110
PSA: Apple Can't Run CSAM Checks On Devices With iCloud Photos Turned Off 62
Edward Snowden and EFF Slam Apple's Plans To Scan Messages and iCloud Images 55
Infrastructure Bill Could Enable Government To Track Drivers' Travel Data 238
Apple Confirms It Will Begin Scanning iCloud Photos for Child Abuse Images 135
The State Department and 3 Other US Agencies Earn a D For Cybersecurity 43
Senate Democrats To Introduce Legislation That Would Tax Energy Companies Responsible For Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions 207
The IRS Has Seized $1.2 Billion Worth of Cryptocurrency This Fiscal Year 76
Google+ Class Action Starts Paying Out $2.15 For G+ Privacy Violations 15
SEC Chair Calls On Congress To Help Rein In Crypto 'Wild West' 63
Pegasus Spyware Found On Journalists' Phones, French Intelligence Confirms 50
Australian Court Rules An AI Can Be Considered An Inventor On Patent Filings 75
The Push For a 'PBS For the Internet' 169
Amazon Will Pay You $10 in Credit for Your Palm Print Biometrics 96
Banned Chinese Facial Recognition Technology Was Used in Search for US Protesters 156
To Fight Vaccine Misinformation, US Recruits an 'Influencer Army' 314
The Case for Another Antitrust Action Against Microsoft 209
Zoom Agrees to $85M Settlement in Possible Class Action Over Data-Sharing, Zoombombing 15
Russia's 'Nonsensical, Impossible Quest' to Create Its Own Domestic Internet 61
UK Pharmaceutical Firm Fined For Hiking Drug Price 6,000% 182
US Justice Department Says Russians Hacked Its Federal Prosecutors 45
After YouTube-dl Incident, GitHub's DMCA Process Now Includes Free Legal Help 30
Google Play Gets Mandatory App Privacy Labels In April 2022 13
Government Denies Blue Origin's Challenge To NASA's Lunar Lander Program 67
New Android Malware Uses VNC To Spy and Steal Passwords From Victims 15
Estonia Says a Hacker Downloaded 286,000 ID Photos From Government Database 11
Mexico Says Officials Spent $61 Million On Pegasus Spyware 10
48 Advocacy Groups Call On the FTC To Ban Amazon Surveillance 32
Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over 'Black Widow' Streaming Release 159
Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Indicted on Three Counts of Fraud 34
UK Government Backs Scheme For Motorway Cables To Power Lorries 124
EFF Sues US Postal Office For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program 57
Activision Blizzard Employees To Walk Out Following Sexual Harassment Lawsuit 91
'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli's One-of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Clan Album Sold By US Government 46
Former eBay Supervisor Sentenced To 18 Months in Prison For Cyberstalking Case Targeting Natick Couple 14
A Grandfather Died in 'Swatting' Over His Twitter Handle, Officials Say 141
Is Your Phone Infected With Pegasus? 75
Tether Executives Said To Face Criminal Probe Into Bank Fraud 22
Google Updates Timeline For Unpopular Privacy Sandbox, Which Will Kill Third-Party Cookies In Chrome By 2023 27
Japan Pitches 'Society 5.0' To Keep Its Edge In Tech and Science 21
Police Are Telling ShotSpotter To Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI 147
Citizen is Now Paying New Yorkers To Livestream Crimes 56
'Disinformation for Hire' is Becoming a Booming Industry 148

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