Your Rights Online Stories for 2022

Insurance Policy Does Not Cover Ransomware Attack on Software, Ohio Supreme Court Says 51
Tim Wu, Architect of Biden Antitrust Push, To Leave White House 20
Software Engineer Charged For Theft Inspired By the Movie 'Office Space' 99
NYC Could Lose 10,000 Airbnb Listings Because of New Short-Term Rental Law 114
Suit Accusing YouTube of Tracking Children Is Back On After Appeal 11
Intel Settles To Escape $4 Billion Patent Suit with VLSI 11
FTX Diverted $200 Million of Customer Money For Two Venture Deals, SEC Says 26
The LastPass Disclosure of Leaked Password Vaults Is Being Torn Apart By Security Experts 78
US To Require COVID Tests For Travelers Coming From China 85
US Charges Fraud in Mango Crypto Manipulation Case 6
FTX Customers File Class Action To Lay Claim To Dwindling Assets 44
No More TikTok On House of Representatives' Smartphones 78
Lawyer Fees Mount in Crypto Bankruptcies 36
For Sale on eBay: A Military Database of Fingerprints and Iris Scans 32
US Copyright Office Finds 'Deep Disagreement' on Anti-Piracy Measures 63
Americans Duped Into Losing $10 Billion By Illegal Indian Call Centres in 2022 159
America's FTC Demands End to Mastercard's 'Illegal' Blocking of Competing Debit Card Payment Networks 16
Six Arrested After Manipulating Gas Station Pumps To Steal 30,000 Gallons of Gas 72
23 Years Ago, Amazon Gave Barnes & Noble a 1-Click Patent Lawsuit For Xmas 54
No Free PACER as US Lawmakers Exclude Proposal from Spending Bill 27
Video Gamers Sue Microsoft In US Court To Stop Activision Takeover 49
Zimbabwe Has Banned the Export of Raw Lithium 147
A Modest Robot Levy Could Help Combat Effects of Automation On Income Inequality In US, Study Suggests 187
Alameda's Caroline Ellison, FTX's Gary Wang Plead Guilty To DOJ Fraud Charges 21
Even the FBI Says You Should Use An Ad Blocker 87
FTX Founder Bankman-Fried To Be Released on a $250 Million Bond Package While He Awaits Trial 46
Chris Inglis, Biden's Top Cyber Adviser, Plans To Leave Government 27
Sam Bankman-Fried's Extradition Approved by Judge 27
Anker's Eufy Breaks Its Silence on Security Cam Security 37
OneCoin Co-Founder Pleads Guilty To $4 Billion Fraud 31
DraftKings Warns Data of 67,000 People Was Exposed In Account Hacks 20
Swatters Used Ring Cameras To Livestream Attacks, Taunt Police, Prosecutors Say 98
UK Govt: Netflix Password Sharing Is Illegal and Potentially Criminal Fraud 70
Sam Bankman-Fried Agrees To US Extradition 37
Lobbyists Have Held Up Nation's First Right-To-Repair Bill In New York 32
IRS Accidentally Releases 112,000 Taxpayers' Private Data Again 45
US Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Says 'Maybe' to Banning Cryptocurrency 88
America's Workplace Safety Agency Announces Ongoing Investigations at Six Amazon Warehouses 26
How Scammers Took a Winnipeg Town For $430K Using Bitcoin 37
How an Unlikely Subpoena to Google Helped Solve a Complex International Missing Person Case 46
America Now Requires Drone Manufacturers to Include 'Remote ID' Transmitting 186
Senator Wyden Urges FTC Probe of Neustar Over Possible Selling of User Data to Government 25
Pentagon Has Received 'Several Hundreds' of New UFO Reports 53
Democrats Plan To Return Over $1 Million From FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried 69
Oregon City Drops Fight To Keep Google Water Use Private 74
Lawsuits Suggest Some Video Game Cheating Could Be Illegal 80
Rules On Liquids and Laptops To Be Eased At UK Airports From June 2024 80
US Senators Introduce Digital Assets Anti-Money Laundering Bill 33
Apple Satellite Plans May Extend Beyond Emergencies, Suggests New Patent 28
US Authorities Charge 8 Social Media Influencers In Securities Fraud Scheme 25
Secret Software Change Allowed FTX To Use Client Money 62
Supreme Court Asks for Biden Administration's Views in Google Copyright Case 30
FBI's Vetted Info Sharing Network 'InfraGard' Hacked 21
Forbes Publishes Transcript of SBF's Planned Testimony 84
China Readying $143 Billion Package For Its Chip Firms In Face of US Curbs 26
New Zealand Passes World-First Tobacco Law To Ban Smoking For Next Generation 241
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested 171
UK Arrests Five For Selling 'Dodgy' Point of Sale Software 23
Xnspy Stalkerware Spied on Thousands of iPhones and Android Devices 3
WSJ: Europe, US Need Grand Bargain on Chips and EVs to Counter China 61
Will USB-C Charging Standard Bring Fewer Other Proprietary Parts and Less e-Waste? 116
After US Sanctions, Huawei Seeks New Revenue By Licensing Its 5G Patents to Rival 15
Swiss Data Protection Commissioner Orders Government To Publicly Release Surveillance Tech Export Licenses 5
Apple Sued By Stalking Victims Over Alleged AirTag Tracking 108
Passkey Support Rolls Out To Chrome Stable 19
FCC Orders Telecoms To Block Scammers Targeting Student Loan Forgiveness Seekers 20
Stolen Data of Over 5 Million People Sold On Bot Markets 6
Class-Action Alleging Fortnite Is Addictive Will Go Ahead, Judge Rules 144
FBI Calls Apple's Expansion of End-To-End Encryption 'Deeply Concerning' 138
Former Theranos COO Sunny Balwani Sentenced To Nearly 13 Years In Prison 73
Pentagon Splits $9 Billion Cloud Contract Between 4 Firms 49
A New Global Plastics Treaty Is Coming For Your Bags and Bottles 166
Amazon Joins Open Invention Network 4
Meta's Behavioral Ads Will Finally Face GDPR Privacy Reckoning In January 8
GOP-Led States Ban TikTok On Government Devices 84
Apple Kills Its Plan To Scan Your Photos for CSAM 41
Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars 34
Telegram is Auctioning Phone Numbers To Let Users Sign Up To the Service Without Any SIM 20
Real-ID Requirement Pushed Back To 2025 145
FTC Probes 'Possible Misconduct' In Cryptocurrency Advertising 12
Amazon is Offering Customers $2 Per Month For Letting the Company Monitor the Traffic on Their Phones 64
Apple Expands Self Service Repair To iPhone and MacBook Users in Europe 32
Sam Bankman-Fried Says He Will Testify Before Congress On FTX Collapse 39
Judge Orders US Lawyer In Russian Botnet Case To Pay Google 15
Risky Online Behaviour Such as Piracy 'Almost Normalized' Among Young People, Says Study 156
Chinese Hackers Stole Millions Worth of US COVID Relief Money, Secret Service Says 28
Graduate Students Analyze, Crack, and Remove Under-Desk Surveillance Devices 86
What Happened After Matt Taibbi Revealed Twitter's Deliberations on Hunter Biden Tweets? 377
America's TSA Begins Quietly Testing Facial Recognition Tech at 16 Airports 87
Chess' $100 Million Showdown: Carlsen Moves To Dismiss Niemann Lawsuit Over Cheating Allegations 88
Australia Says Law Making Facebook and Google Pay For News Has Worked 13
FBI, CISA Say Cuba Ransomware Gang Extorted $60 Million From Victims This Year 12
Florida State Tax Website Bug Exposed Filers' Data 12
Hive Social Turns Off Servers After Researchers Warn Hackers Can Access All Data 73
Australia Will Now Fine Firms Up To $33.4 Million for Data Breaches 19
Judge Approves Apple's Massive MacBook Keyboard Lawsuit Payout 21
Telegram Shares Users Data in Copyright Violation Lawsuit 22
Torrent Site User Who Transferred 120TB of Pirated Content Avoids Prison 45
Anker's Eufy Cameras Caught Uploading Content To the Cloud Without User Consent 33
BlockFi Sues FTX's Bankman-Fried Over Shares In Robinhood 42
UK Ditches Ban On 'Legal But Harmful' Online Content In Favor of Free Speech 80
Major Canadian Crypto Exchange Coinsquare Says Client Data Breached 19
Meta Fined $277 Million for Leak of Half a Billion Users 22
US Goverment Investigating Real-Estate Tech Company Accused of Helping Landlords Collude 132
Small Study Finds Computer Repair Shops Accessed Personal Data - And Sometimes Even Copied It 128
Protests Erupting Across China 172
'How Washington Chased Huawei Out of Europe' 102
Meta Claims US Military Linked to Online Propaganda Campaign 74
The US Bans Huawei, ZTE Telecommunications Equipment Sales Over Chinese Spying Fears 74
Indian Actor Wins Court Order for His Personality Rights 38
UK Bans Chinese Surveillance Gear From Sensitive State Premises 10
Infura Collecting MetaMask Users' IP, Ethereum Addresses After Privacy Policy Update 14
Feds Likely To Challenge Microsoft's $69 Billion Activision Takeover 26
US Navy Forced To Pay Software Company For Piracy 87
iFixit Put Up a Right To Repair Billboard Along New York Governor's Drive To Work 32
China Announces New Social Credit Law 172
FTX Lawyer Calls the Case 'Different Sort of Animal' in First Bankruptcy Hearing 38
EU Confirms Multiple Ongoing Investigations Into TikTok Data Practices 7
IBM Sues Micro Focus, Claims It Copied Big Blue Mainframe Software 43
Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users' Financial Information To Facebook 48
Nintendo Goes After Fan-Made Custom Steam 'Icons' With DMCA Takedowns 41
US Grants $1.1 Billion To Keep Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Open 133
Apple Device Analytics Contain Identifying iCloud User Data, Claim Security Researchers 13
Z-Library Responds to US Crackdown, Asks Authors for Forgiveness 24
iCloud For Windows Users Report of Corrupted Videos, Photos From Strangers 25
Police Tracked Traffic of All National ISPs To Catch Pirate IPTV Users 68
ID.me Lied About Its Facial Recognition Tech, Congress Says 18
Meta Is on the Prowl for 'Suspicious Adults' Messaging Teenagers 31
Amazon Plans To Close Up Shop on Wickr's User-Centric Encrypted Messaging App 8
Chinese Takeover of UK's Largest Chip Plant Blocked on National Security Grounds 45
As US Investigates Ticketmaster, Botched Sale of Taylor Swift Tickets Fuels Monopoly Criticisms 94
FBI, Air Force Agents Mysteriously Raid House of Guy Who Runs Area 51 Blog 107
Epic Says Google Paid Activision Millions Not To Launch Rival App Store 16
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced To More Than 11 Years In Prison 158
Police Dismantle Pirated TV Streaming Network With 500,000 Users 19
1Password Embraces a Passwordless Future 40
Feds Arrest Russians Accused of Running the Largest Pirated E-Book Library 73
Nvidia Hit With Class Action Suit Over Melting RTX 4090 GPU Adapters 45
Meta Employees, Security Guards Fired for Hijacking User Accounts 31
DuckDuckGo's Anti-Tracking Android Tool Could Be 'Even More Powerful' Than iOS 31
Iranian Hackers Breached Federal Agency Using Log4Shell Exploit 27
Dell Reaches $1 Billion Settlement Over Disputed 2018 Stock Swap 6
Everyone Is Bullying the UK Government In Its Own Discord Server 46
Epic Strikes Back At Apple's iOS 'Security' Defense In Appeals Court 98
FTX's Failure Is Sparking a Massive Regulatory Response 66
Italy Outlaws Facial Recognition Tech, Except To Fight Crime 24
The Climate Issue Government Leaders Aren't Addressing: Livestock Farming 445
Why California's EV-Rebate Proposition Lost 122
Aaron Swartz Day Commemorated With International Hackathon 27
Prosecutors Seek 15-Year Prison Sentence for Theranos' Elizabeth Homes, $800M Restitution 112
How Close Was America's FBI to Deploying Pegasus Spyware? 47
Apple Sued for Allegedly Deceiving Users With Privacy Settings 34
After Ransomware Gang Releases Sensitive Medical Data, Australia Vows Consequences 58
FTX Crypto Wallets See Mysterious Late-Night Outflows Totalling More than $380M 59
Italy's Biggest TV Piracy Network Dismantled 17
NSA Urges Organizations To Shift To Memory Safe Programming Languages 196
Police Use DNA Phenotyping To Limit Pool of Suspects To 15,000 50
Mysterious Company With Government Ties Plays Key Internet Role 67
Egypt's COP27 Summit App is a Cyber Weapon, Experts Warn 28
US Launches Carbon Offset Program To Help Developing Countries Speed Clean Energy Transition 59
Court Upholds Piracy Blocking Order Against Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver 101
Antitrust Lawsuit Says Apple and Amazon Colluded To Raise iPhone, iPad Prices 32
Google is Bringing Its VPN To Mac and Windows PCs 35
America's Slow-Moving, Confused Crypto Regulation Is Driving Industry Out of US 74
Spyware Is Running Amok in Europe, EU Lawmaker Warns 40
Court Sides With LinkedIn in Data Scraping Lawsuit vs. hiQ Labs 12
US Attorney Announces $3.36 Billion Crypto Seizure And Conviction In Connection With Silk Road Dark Web Fraud 58
New York City Finally Proposes Strict New Regulations for Airbnb Rentals 137
'The Disturbing Rise of Amateur Predator-Hunting Stings' 228
Why Hasn't the US Ended Daylight Saving Time? 290
Domains for Z-Library eBook Site Apparently Seized By US Department of Justice 63
US May Soon Push Ambitious Antitrust Crackdown on Big Tech in Congress 44
Is Iran Tracking and Controlling Its Protesters' Phones? 67
Microsoft's GitHub Copilot Sued Over 'Software Piracy on an Unprecedented Scale' 97
British Government Is Scanning All Internet Devices Hosted In UK 34
The Execs Behind the MoviePass Debacle Are Now Facing Criminal Charges 19
AstraZeneca Password Lapse Exposed Patient Data 16
US Govt Employees Exposed To Mobile Attacks From Outdated Android, iOS 18
Soccer Fans, You're Being Watched 50
US Authorities Seize Z-Library Domain Names 83
The NYPD Joins Amazon's Ring Neighbors Surveillance Network 26
'The Babylon Bee' Joins 'The Onion' In Decrying Law That Makes Parody a Felony 198
Big Meat Companies Want To Use Smartwatches To Track Workers' Every Move 66
TikTok Tells European Users Its Staff in China Get Access To Their Data 36
New EU Law Could Force Apple To Allow Other App Stores, Sideloading, and iMessage Interoperability 209
Leaked Documents Outline DHS's Plans To Police Disinformation 329
White House Invites Dozens of Nations For Ransomware Summit 19
New York Could Become First State With a 'Right To Repair' Law for Electronic Devices 24
How Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Are Fulfilling Cryptography's Potential 13
Could Data Destruction + Exfiltration Replace Ransomware? 40
Samsung Privacy-Protecting Maintenance Mode Is Coming To Galaxy S22s Worldwide 13
Google Can Now Remove Your Identifying Search Results, If They're the Right Kind 14
Square Sells Access To Your Inbox. No One Seems To Know If the Law Cares. 46
New Zealand Uber Drivers Win Landmark Case Declaring Them Employees 136
Rishi Sunak Is the First Crypto Enthusiast To Serve In UK's Top Office 37
Passkeys Are Finally Here 96
Japan Steps Up Push To Get Public Buy-in To Digital IDs 56
Google's Eric Schmidt Helped Write AI Laws Without Disclosing Investments In AI Startups 25
Huawei Investigation Was Targeted by Chinese Spies, US Alleges 27
PayPal is Getting More Secure Passkey Logins 25
Australia To Toughen Privacy Laws With Huge Hike in Penalties for Breaches 24
Facebook Warns It Could Block News in Canada Over Proposed Legislation 93
Report that Indian Official Tampers With Instagram Posts Retracted By 'The Wire' 9
Nym's Plan to Boost Internet Privacy Through 'Mixnets' 22
Forbes Alleges ByteDance Planned to Use TikTok to Monitor Locations of Specific American Citizens 28
Plans to Ban Solar Energy on England's Farmland Criticized by Landowners 193
US Judge: Passengers in Fatal Boeing 737 MAX Crashes are 'Crime Victims' 83
France Becomes Latest Country To Leave Controversial Energy Charter Treaty 50
Interpol Launches 'First-Ever Metaverse' Designed For Global Law Enforcement 19
Hacker Jailed For Stealing Ed Sheeran's Unreleased Music 28
UK Regulator Proposes Easing Net Neutrality Rules Following Brexit 54
Ring Cameras Are Being Used To Control and Surveil Overworked Delivery Workers 75
RIAA Flags 'Artificial Intelligence' Music Mixer As Emerging Copyright Threat 45
US To Launch 'Labeling' Rating Program For Internet-Connected Devices In 2023 36
Chess Grandmaster Hans Niemann Sues Champion Magnus Carlsen, Others For $100 Million Over Cheating Claim 108
Parler Accidentally Doxed Elite Members When Announcing Kanye West Takeover 71
France Fines Clearview AI Maximum Possible For GDPR Breaches 38
TikTok Deal Likely To Leave US Data Leaking To China 31
Intel Sued Over Historic DEC Chip Site's Future 43
How GitHub Copilot Could Steer Microsoft Into a Copyright Storm 83
Russian Lawmaker Urges WhatsApp Ban For State Employees 24
Visitors of Qatar World Cup Need To Install Spyware On Their Phone 110
Fintech Giant 'The Clearing House' Joins Open-Source Patent Protection Powerhouse OIN 6
Former WSJ Reporter Says Law Firm Used Indian Hackers To Sabotage His Career 25
World's Second Richest Man Sells Jet So People On Twitter Won't Track Him Anymore 80
Mexico Probes Whether Pegasus Spyware Purchases Were Legal 2
96 File Legal Action Demanding Coinbase Reimburse $21M Lost to Crypto Scammers 30
US Officials are Discussing How to Regulate Cryptocurrencies and Stablecoins 57
$3 Billion In Cryptocurrency Stolen This Year. So Far. 59
New 'Council for Responsible Social Media' Seeks Bipartisan Reforms 30
Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Found Guilty of Fraud 23
Prison Inmate Accused of Orchestrating $11 Million Fraud Using Cell Cellphone 75
Firefox's New Service Gives You a Burner Phone Number To Cut Down on Spam 31
In the Ultimate Amazon Smart Home, Each Device Collects Your Data 40
Signal To Phase Out SMS Support From the Android App 54
How Wi-Fi Spy Drones Snooped On Financial Firm 52
Android Leaks Some Traffic Even When 'Always-On VPN' Is Enabled 30
Google is Bringing Passkey Support To Android and Chrome 63
Google's 'Incognito' Mode Inspires Staff Jokes - and a Big Lawsuit 60
Hollywood and Netflix Report Top Piracy Threats To US Government 103
Toyota Discloses Data Leak After Access Key Exposed On GitHub 9
Subjecting Workers To Webcam Monitoring Violates Privacy, Dutch Court Rules 47
Protestors Hack Iran's State-Run TV 53
FBI Warns About Counterfeit Batteries 63
'How California's Bullet Train Went Off the Rails' 289
Pro-Russian 'Hacktivists' Temporarily Disrupted Some US State Government Web Sites 20
Ransomware Attack Delays Patient Care at Several Hospitals Across the US 30
VPN, Tor Use Increases in Iran After Internet 'Curfews' 22
How 'MythBusters' Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence 127
Are Single-Use Plastics Also Contributing to Climate Change? 143

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