Your Rights Online Stories for 2023

20% of America's Plants and Animals are At Risk of Extinction 56
Scientists Still Shoot For the Moon With Patent-Free Covid Drug 11
Cyberattack Targets Albanian Parliament's Data System, Halting Its Work 2
Reckless DMCA Deindexing Pushes NASA's Artemis Towards Black Hole 83
New US Immigration Rules Spur More Visa Approvals For STEM Workers 102
Clowns Sue Clowns.com For Wage Theft 42
Researchers Come Up With Better Idea To Prevent AirTag Stalking 29
Google Agrees To Settle Chrome Incognito Mode Class Action Lawsuit 22
New York Times Copyright Suit Wants OpenAI To Delete All GPT Instances 157
India Targets Apple Over Its Phone Hacking Notifications 100
US Engine Maker Will Pay $1.6 Billion To Settle Claims of Emissions Cheating 100
The New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Use of Copyrighted Work 59
Code.org Sues WhiteHat Jr. For $3 Million 8
EFF Warns: 'Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays' 28
ChatGPT Exploit Finds 24 Email Addresses, Amid Warnings of 'AI Silo' 67
'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Streams on Disney+ and the BBC 65
US Water Utilities Hacked After Default Passwords Set to '1111', Cybersecurity Officials Say 84
AI Companies Would Be Required To Disclose Copyrighted Training Data Under New Bill 42
Biden Administration Unveils Hydrogen Tax Credit Plan To Jump-Start Industry 104
Teen GTA VI Hacker Sentenced To Indefinite Hospital Order 77
Massachusetts Lawmakers Mull 'Killer Robot' Bill 14
UK Police To Be Able To Run Face Recognition Searches on 50 Million Driving Licence Holders 24
Rite Aid Banned From Using Facial Recognition Software 60
US Regulators Propose New Online Privacy Safeguards For Children 25
AI Cannot Be Patent 'Inventor,' UK Supreme Court Rules in Landmark Case 29
Meta's News Ban In Canada Remains As Online News Act Goes Into Effect 147
Comcast Discloses Data Breach of Close To 36 Million Xfinity Customers [UPDATE] 40
Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Sentenced To 4 Years For Securities Fraud 34
Apple To Pause Selling New Versions of Its Watch After Losing Patent Dispute 36
Lawmakers Push DOJ To Investigate Apple Following Beeper Shutdowns 55
Does Meta's New Face Camera Herald a New Age of Surveillance? Or Distraction... 74
ProPublica Argues US Police 'Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras' 96
'Copyright Troll' Porn Company 'Makes Millions By Shaming Porn Consumers' 100
US Pharmacies Share Medical Data with Police Without a Warrant, Inquiry Finds 23
Why Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime 69
Is Climate-Friendy Flying Possible? The US Tries Subsidizing Sustainable Aviation Fuels 138
Delta Dental of California Data Breach Exposed Info of 7 Million People 20
TikTok Requires Users To 'Forever Waive' Rights To Sue Over Past Harms 23
Suspects Can Refuse To Provide Phone Passcodes To Police, Court Rules 64
Beeper Says Apple is Blocking Some iMessages 111
Google Maps Ditches Cloud-Based Location History 48
European Union Lawmakers Agree To New Rules That Bolster Gig Worker Rights 43
Your Smart TV Knows What You're Watching 164
Apple's New iPhone Security Setting Keeps Thieves Out of Your Digital Accounts 19
US Climate Bill 'Ignites New Zeal' Around the World for Government Climate Efforts 47
US Expects To Make Multi-Billion Chips Awards Within the Next Year 13
Cloud Engineer Gets 2 Years For Wiping Ex-Employer's Code Repos 121
Italy's 'Piracy Shield' Anti-Piracy System Launches, Applies To All DNS and VPN Providers 39
FTC Wants Microsoft's Relationship With OpenAI Under the Microscope 13
MIT Group Releases White Papers On Governance of AI 46
Google's App Store Ruled an Illegal Monopoly, as a Jury Sides With Epic Games 103
US Healthcare Giant Norton Says Hackers Stole Millions of Patients' Data During Ransomware Attack 27
Ex-Commissioner For Facial Recognition Tech Joins Facewatch Firm He Approved 12
US Diet Committee Debates Whether Potatoes are Vegetables or 'Starchy Grain' 129
Republican Presidential Candidates Debate Anonymity on Social Media 174
US Postal Service Warns Rural Mail Carriers: Don't Publicly Blame Delays on Amazon 119
White House Threatens Patents of High-Priced Drugs 151
Europe Reaches a Deal On the World's First Comprehensive AI Rules 36
Verizon Gave Phone Data To Armed Stalker Who Posed As Cop Over Email 27
FTC Tries Again To Stop Microsoft's Already-Closed Deal For Activision 37
A Massive Repair Lawsuit Against John Deere Clears a Major Hurdle 39
EU Mulls Expansion of Geo-Blocking 'Bans' To Video Streaming Platforms 44
Nearly Every Windows and Linux Device Vulnerable To New LogoFAIL Firmware Attack 69
Governments Spying on Apple, Google Users Through Push Notifications 33
AI Models May Enable a New Era of Mass Spying, Says Bruce Schneier 37
Amazon 'Cannot Claim Shock' That Bathroom Spycams Were Used as Advertised, Judge Says 136
YouTuber Who Deliberately Crashed Plane For Views Is Headed To Federal Prison 122
US Issues Warning To Nvidia, Urging To Stop Redesigning Chips For China 86
Automakers' Data Privacy Practices 'Are Unacceptable,' Says US Senator 18
EFF Proposes Addressing Online Harms with 'Privacy-First' Policies 32
Are Amazon Packages Disrupting Mail Services in Some Small Towns? 164
US Announces AI Hackathons to Strengthen Critical Mineral Supply Chains 16
Amazon's Q Has 'Severe Hallucinations' and Leaks Confidential Data in Public Preview, Employees Warn 43
Brazilian City Enacts an Ordinance That Was Secretly Written By ChatGPT 41
US Judge Blocks Montana From Banning TikTok Use In State 99
Google Researchers' Attack Prompts ChatGPT To Reveal Its Training Data 73
Dollar Tree Hit By Third-Party Data Breach Impacting 2 Million People 16
Canadian Government Reaches Deal With Google On Online News Act 50
Tata Consultancy Services Ordered To Cough Up $210 Million In Code Theft Trial 26
Meta Designed Platforms To Get Children Addicted, Court Documents Allege 64
Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level Crackdown In Nordic Region 37
Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits To Their Friends and Family 120
Startup Suggests Fighting Porch Piracy with AI-Enhanced Shipment Insurance 148
Microsoft, Uber, Dell CEOs Consider Government-Funded Stock Funds for Children 149
US Energy Department Funds Next-Gen Semiconductor Projects to Improve Power Grids 20
What Happened When California's State Government Examined the Risks and Benefits of AI? 80
Meta Knowingly Collected Data on Pre-Teens, Unredacted Evidence From Lawsuit Shows 56
File-Sharing Giant Uloz Bans File-Sharing Citing EU's Digital Services Act 12
Dbrand is Suing Casetify For Ripping Off Its Teardown Designs 22
Lenovo Seeks Halt of Asus Laptop Sales Over Alleged Patent Infringement 20
Robocar Tech Biz Sues Nvidia, Claims Stolen Code Shared In Teams Meeting Blunder 25
Third-Party Data Breach Affecting Canadian Government Could Involve Data From 1999 4
CEO Reminds Everyone His Company Collects Customers' Sleep Data 46
Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Meta 93
North Koreans Use Fake Names, Scripts To Land Remote IT Work For Cash 60
Sunbird is Shutting Down Its iMessage App for Android 12
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access To Trillions of US Phone Records 104
Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default 32
Venmo, Cash App Users Sue Apple Over Peer-To-Peer Payment Fees 24
FCC Tightens Telco Rules To Combat SIM-Swapping 21
Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People In Congo 6
Canada Court Overturns Government Ruling That Some Plastics Are Toxic 35
Prison Phone Company Leaked 600,000 Users' Data and Didn't Notify Them 45
Children's Tablet Has Malware and Exposes Kids' Data, Researcher Finds 37
FCC Can Now Punish Telecom Providers For Charging Customers More For Less 75
Lawmakers Question Apple Over Cancellation of Jon Stewart's Show 98
Disney Pulls TV Channels From Vietnam, Govt 'Concerned' Piracy Will Run Riot 61
Social Media Giants Must Face Child Safety Lawsuits, Judge Rules 53
US Privacy Groups Urge Senate Not To Ram Through NSA Spying Powers 35
Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices To Crush Competition 50
Person Linked To Scam Asks FBI for His Seized Cryptocurrency Back 46
Healthcare Giant McLaren Reveals Data On 2.2 Million Patients Stolen During Ransomware Attack 12
AI-Generated Voice Deepfakes are Being Used in Scams 19
Optus Loses Court Bid To Keep Report Into Cause of 2022 Cyber-Attack a Secret 27
'Provisional Agreement' Reached on eID, a 'Digital Identity for All Europeans' 194
It's Still Too Easy for Anyone to 'Become You' at Experian 36
EFF, Cory Doctorow, Others Speak in Commemoration of Aaron Swartz Day 64
Is India Setting a 'Global Standard' for Online Censorship of Social Media? 63
Apple Will Pay $25 Million In DOJ Discrimination Settlement 19
Court Rules Automakers Can Record and Intercept Owner Text Messages 89
WhatsApp Now Lets You Hide Your IP Address During Calls 17
Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine 37
Data Broker's 'Staggering' Sale of Sensitive Info Exposed in Unsealed FTC Filing 30
Intel To Build 'Secure Enclave' Chip Facilities For Defense Applications 21
Tech Groups Fear New Powers Will Allow UK To Block Encryption 40
'Encryption King' Arrested In Turkey 31
US Military Members' Personal Data Being Sold By Online Brokers, Report Finds 32
Washington DC Gives Residents Free AirTags To Help Track Stolen Cars 110
OpenAI Offers To Pay For ChatGPT Customers' Copyright Lawsuits 27
Huawei and Tencent Spearhead China's Hold on Cybersecurity Patents 28
Epic Games Goes To Court To Challenge Google's App Store Practices 63
Maine Considers Giving the Boot To Corporate Electric Utilities 176
'Stupid' Daylight Saving Time Ritual Continues. But Why? 241
14 Big Landlords Used Software To Collude on Rent Prices, DC Lawsuit Says 52
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty of Fraud 135
US House Panel Seeks Ban On Federal Purchases of China Drones 33
Amazon Made $1 Billion Through Secret Price Raising Algorithm, Says FTC 60
Apple Called Android a 'Massive Tracking Device' In 2013 29
Brave Responds To Bing and ChatGPT With a New 'Anonymous and Secure' AI Chatbot 11
Pennsylvania Court Permanently Blocks Effort To Make Power Plants Pay For Greenhouse Gas Emissions 189
Two Russian Nationals Charged For Hacking Taxi System At JFK Airport 48
Russia Blocks 167 VPNs, Steps Up OpenVPN and WireGuard Disruption 42
China Removes Anonymity of Bloggers' Accounts With More Than 500,000 Followers 20
Apple's App Charges Violate EU Antitrust Law, Dutch Agency Says 50
Nokia Sues Amazon From US To India Over Streaming-Tech Patents 9
Apple Warns Indian Opposition Leaders of State-Sponsored iPhone Attacks 29
SEC Charges SolarWinds CISO With Fraud and Cybersecurity Failures 32
Drugmakers Are Set To Pay 23andMe Millions To Access Consumer DNA 106
Judge Pares Down Artists' AI Copyright Lawsuit Against Midjourney, Stability AI 41
Brazil Regulator Claims '80% of Pirate TV Boxes' Were Blocked Last Week 16
Meta Told To Stop Using Threads Name By Company That Owns UK Trademark 60
Canada Bans WeChat, Kaspersky Apps On Government Devices 33
Biden Signs Executive Order To Oversee and Invest in AI 36
$127 Billion in US Student Loans Now Flagged for Cancellation - About 30% of Planned Amount 234
G7 Nations Will Announce an 'AI Code of Conduct' for Companies Building AI 42
America's Net Neutrality Question: Should the FCC Define the Internet as a 'Common Carrier'? 132
How a Cellphone App Helped a California Man Retrieve His Stolen Car 82
How the US is Preparing For a Post-Quantum World 45
Huawei's Profit Doubles With Made-in-China Chip Breakthrough 148
Apple Backs US Government's Push for a National Right-to-Repair Bill . (But What About Parts Pairing?) 30
It Took Seven Years But Over-40s Fired By HP Win $18 Million Settlement 29
Apple Watch Faces Potential Import Ban In the US 24
Record Labels Shut Down FileWarez, Brazil's Oldest Pirate Forum 12
Sam Bankman-Fried Testifies, Says He 'Skimmed Over' FTX Terms of Service 49
Barcode Leads To Arrest of Texas Litterbug Behind 200 Pounds of Dumped Trash 106
iPhones Have Been Exposing Your Unique MAC Despite Apple's Promises Otherwise 69
Privacy Advocate Challenges YouTube's Ad Blocking Detection Scripts Under EU Law 85
iFixit Now Sells Microsoft Surface Parts For Repair 4
The UK's Controversial Online Safety Bill Finally Becomes Law 185
Network State Conference Announced in Amsterdam for October 30 4
Biden Administration Moves To Ban Solvent Trichloroethylene, Linked To Cancer 85
Face Search Engine PimEyes Blocks Searches of Children's Faces 25
ICE Uses Tool To Find 'Derogatory' Speech Online 63
Apple To Make Tools and Parts To Fix Phones and Computers Available Nationwide, White House Says 32
China Widens Lead Over US in AI Patents After Beijing Tech Drive 33
1Password Discloses Security Incident Linked To Okta Breach 27
California Law Limits Bitcoin ATM Transactions to $1,000 to Thwart Scammers 37
Mozilla Launches Annual Digital Privacy 'Creep-o-Meter'. This Year's Status: 'Very Creepy' 60
Online 'Information War' in Africa Rages on Social Media 46
Inside a $30 Million Cash-for-Bitcoin Laundering Ring In New York 34
Scammers Try Hosting Their Malware on a Binance Network 21
Supreme Court Blocks Restrictions On Biden Administration Efforts To Get Platforms To Remove Social Media Posts 148
Frying Pan Company Sued for Claiming Temperatures That Rival the Sun 124
Telegram is Still Leaking User IP Addresses To Contacts 18
Indian Authorities Raid Fake Tech Support Rings After Tipoff From Amazon and Microsoft 25
SEC Drops Claims Against Two Ripple Labs Execs 4
Casio Keyed Up After Data Loss Hits Customers In 149 Countries 27
CFPB Moves To Bar Financial Firms From 'Hoarding' a Consumer's Data 9
New York Sues Crypto Firms For Losing Over $1 Billion 50
Universal Music Sues AI Startup Anthropic For Scraping Song Lyrics 32
FCC Moves Ahead With Title II Net Neutrality Rules in 3-2 Party-Line Vote 68
Hacker Leaks Millions More 23andMe User Records On Cybercrime Forum 20
Private Torrent Tracker FileList to Shut Down After 16 Years 9
IRS Will Pilot Free, Direct Tax Filing In 2024 88
Meta Will Now Let You Stop Instagram From Tracking You Across the Web 9
Tech CEO Sentenced To 5 Years in IP Address Scheme 58
Google Asks Congress To Not Ban Teens From Social Media 118
Cloudera Hit With $240 Million Patent Verdict Over Cloud-Storage Technology 17
New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check To Buy a 3D Printer 204
Colorado Supreme Court Approves Use of Google Search Data in Murder Case 56
Have Economists Contributed to Inequality? 299
Caltech Ends Its Wi-Fi Lawsuit Against Apple and Broadcom 29
How Two Florida Men Scammed 'Uber Eats' Out of $1 Million 51
US Antitrust Enforcer Continues Fighting Microsoft/Activision Deal, Calls it 'A Threat to Competition' 28
Biden Awards $7 Billion For 7 Hydrogen Hubs In Climate Fight Plan 96
'No Fakes Act' Wants To Protect Actors and Singers From Unauthorized AI Replicas 60
Apple AirTags Triggered 'Explosion' of Stalking Reports Nationwide, Lawsuit Says 89
Google To Defend Generative AI Users From Copyright Claims 16
Right-To-Repair Is Now the Law In California 45
Utah Sues TikTok, Alleging It Lures Children Into Addictive and Destructive Social Media Habits 60
Federal Judge Throws Out $32.5 Million Win For Sonos Against Google; Google Starts Reintroducing Software Features It had Removed 60
Facebook's Sexist, Ageist Ad-Targeting Violates California Law, Court Finds 71
California Governor Signs Ban On Social Media 'Aiding or Abetting' Child Abuse 70
Google Made Billions With Secret Change to Ad-Auction Algorithm, Witness Testifies 46
California Becomes First US State to Ban Four 'Toxic' Food Additives 200
Florida Man Could Get 10 Years For Shooting Down a Police Drone 116
For 'Cybersecurity Awareness Month' America's Cybersecurity Agency Shares Four Online Safety Tips 34
Some US Lawmakers Want to Restrict American Companies From Working on RISC-V Chip Technology 162
US Nutrition Panel's Ties To Top Food Giants Revealed In New Report 41
23andMe Scraping Incident Leaked Data On 1.3 Million Users 25
Man Jailed In UK's First Treason Conviction In 40 Years Was Encouraged By AI Chatbot 21
ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data 61
FTX Employees Discovered Alameda's $65 Billion Backdoor Months Before Collapse 36
Google Agrees To Reform Its Data Terms After German Antitrust Intervention 4
Hundreds of US Schools Hit By Potentially Organized Swatting Hoaxes, Report Says 60
Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes 62
New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed By US Political Dark-Money Network 52
Dish Dealt First-Ever Space-Debris Fine For Misparking Satellite 63
Federal Judge Gives Man 8-Year Sentence For Running Unlicensed Bitcoin Exchange 78
Supreme Court Rejects IT Worker Challenge of OPT Program 43
UK Passport Images Database Could Be Used To Catch Shoplifters 67
YouTuber Jailed For Large-Scale Cable Piracy Scheme 20
US Energy Department Funds 'Energy Earthshots' to Speed Clean-Energy Innovations 77
'Embarrassing' Court Document Google Wanted to Hide Finally Posted Online 44
San Francisco's Empty Offices Might Start Converting Into Housing 147
H&R Block, Meta, and Google Slapped With RICO Suit, Allegedly Schemed to Scrape Taxpayer Data 31
FBI Indicts Goldman Sachs Analyst Who Tried Using Xbox Chat for Insider Trading 38
NSA Is Starting an AI Security Center 13
Six Young People Take 32 Countries To Court Over Climate Change 219
Supreme Court To Decide If State Laws Limiting Social Media Platforms Violate Constitution 42
A Test of iPhone-to-HDMI Adapter That Demands Location/Browsing Data 29
Three Arrows Capital Co-Founder Zhu Apprehended, Liquidator Says 4
New York Bans Facial Recognition In Schools 22
Freelancers Aren't Happy With Japan's New Invoice System 33
Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show 63
Apple Asks Supreme Court To Reverse App Store Ruling Won by Epic 42
US Sues eBay Over Sale of Harmful Products 101
GPUs From All Major Suppliers Are Vulnerable To New Pixel-Stealing Attack 26
FCC To Reintroduce Rules Protecting Net Neutrality 80
Getting Data From NSA Takes 'Days' So Federal Counterintelligence Agency Turned To Private Company, Documents Show 33

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