Privacy Stories for 2012

Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default 101
Data Brokers, Gun Owners, and Consumer Privacy 95
Michigan Makes It Illegal To Ask For Employees' Facebook Logins 132
Instagram User Drop Claims Overblown 49
Senate Renews Warrantless Eavesdropping Act 218
Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare 342
Lax SSH Key Management A "Big Problem" 212
New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map 1232
US Congress May Not Have Stomach For Another SOPA 95
NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter 292
UK Government To Spy On Computers of the Jobless 278
ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time 268
UK Cookie Consent Banners Draw Complaints 108
Obama Releases National Strategy For Information Sharing 83
European Data Retention Rule Could Violate Fundamental EU Law 61
FTC Strengthens Children's Privacy Protections Online 45
Newest Gov't Tracking Threat: Cell-Site Data Without a Warrant 107
How Much Are You Worth To an Online Lead-Gen Site? 83
Instagram: We Won't Sell Your Photos 234
Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years 346
TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners 225
Instagram Wants To Sell Users' Photos Without Notice 313
Australian ISP iiNet Walks Out of Piracy Warning System Talks 120
Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany 471
Twitter Enables Archive Option 25
EFF Spinoff Pools Donor Dollars To Prevent WikiLeaks-Style Payment Blockades 95
Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church 1061
When Writing, How Anonymous Can You Be, Really? 184
Google Map App's Version of Anonymity Might Violate EU Privacy Laws 89
Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware? 340
UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move 196
California Sues Delta Air Lines Over Mobile Privacy 100
New "Sanny" Cyber-Espionage Attack Targets Russia 8
Ask Slashdot: Facebook, Twitter For Business, Is It Worth the Privacy Trade-Off? 158
Interviews: Eugene Kaspersky Answers Your Questions 82
NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens 332
Facebook Changes Privacy Policies, Scraps User Voting 119
Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You 249
How Websites Know Your Email Address the First Time You Visit 184
UK Government To Revise Snooping Bill 79
Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me 529
Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns 297
Some UK Councils Barred From Using Gov't Vehicle Database 84
Facebook Sued Over App Center Data Sharing In Germany 55
RMS Speaks Out Against Ubuntu 597
Maker of Hackable Hotel Locks Finally Agrees To Pay For Bug Fix 66
Advertising May Soon Follow You From One Device To the Next 132
Facebook Says EU 'Right To Be Forgotten' Would Harm Privacy 277
Dotcom Drags NZ Spook Agency Into Court 165
EU Resists US Lobbying As Privacy War Looms 131
FTC Bars Ad Firm From Snooping Browser History 21
Verizon Patents Eavesdropping Using Your TV For Ad Targeting 181
Researchers: PATRIOT Act Can 'Obtain' Data In Europe 133
ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection 152
Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages 342
Facebook Users Voting On Privacy, Instagram, Other Issues 80
Who Owns Your Health Data? 99
Julian Assange: "Online Totalitarianism Is Near, Entire Nations Are Intercepted" 325
Senate Committee Approves Stricter Email Privacy 60
Firefox 20 Will Finally Fix Private Browsing Mode 186
FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn 346
Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node 325
Bluetooth Used To Track Traffic Times 133
Amazon and Google Barred From UK Government Cloud 79
Canada Prepares For Crackdown On BitTorrent Movie Pirates 292
Google Found Guilty of Libel For Search Results In Australia 223
Dual Interface Mobile Devices To Address BYOD Issue 116
Hotel Keycard Lock Hack Gets Real In Texas 132
NYC Police Gathering Cellphone Logs 122
Supreme Court Blocks Illinois Law Against Recording Police 225
Confidential Police Documents Found In Confetti At Macy's Parade 180
"Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court 285
Judge Issues Temporary Order Blocking Expulsion For Refusing To Wear RFID Tag 305
Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women 591
Facebook To Eliminate Voting On Privacy Changes 52
UK To Use "Risk-Profiling Software" To Screen All Airline Passengers and Cargo 222
Outrage In India Over Arrests For Facebook Posts 90
Judge Demands Email and Facebook Passwords From Women In Sexual Harassment Case 218
Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order 743
Why Big Data Could Sink Europe's 'Right To Be Forgotten' 128
That Was Fast: Leahy Drops Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill 107
Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants 403
One Musician's Demand From Pandora: Mandatory Analytics 227
How RapidShare Plans To Avoid MegaUpload's Fate 97
Judge Accepts $22.5M Google Fine In Privacy Case 25
NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops 226
Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses 307
Government Surveillance Growing, According To Google 105
Petraeus Case Illustrates FBI Authority To Read Email 228
Meet the Lawyer Suing Anyone Who Uses SSL 347
Homeland Security Mining Social Media For Signs of Bio Attacks 96
Nike+ FuelBand: Possibly a Big Security Hole For Your Life 162
Amazon To Launch Sydney Data Center 63
Google Patents Guilt-By-Association 199
EFF Sues to Block New Internet Sex-Offender Law 305
Google Chrome Introduces Do Not Track 110
The Privacy Illusion 198
A Trail of Clicks, Culminating In Conflict 65
Pull Lever, Don't Snap Shutter: It May Be Illegal To Post Your Ballot 383
Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm 214
Some Smart Meters Broadcast Readings in the Clear 138
New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email 189
Verizon Worker Arrested For Copying Customer's Nude Pictures 282
More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You 277
Presidential Campaigns Leak Supporters' Info To Tracking Firms 67
Seattle's Creepy Cameraman Pushes Public Surveillance Buttons 387
Judge To Newspaper - Reveal Name of Commenter 307
Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance 420
California AG Gives App Developers 30 Days To Post Privacy Notice 108
Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions" 451
EFF Wants Ubuntu To Disable Online Search By Default 124
Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders 344
To Google Friends Or Not To Google, That Is the Question 117
Canadian Police Want New Internet Surveillance Tools 64
Secret Stingray Warrantless Cellphone Tracking 62
Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track" 360
South Carolina Department of Revenue Hacked, 3.6 Million SSNs Taken 112
Anonymous' WikiLeaks-Like Project Tyler To Launch In December 101
UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks 175
Analytics Company Settles Charges For User Tracking 43
The Greatest Battle of the Personal Computing Revolution Lies Ahead 291
Pols Blur Line Between Data Mining, Cyberstalking 115
Zimmermann's Silent Circle Now Live 127
Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets 848
Poor SSL Implementations Leave Many Android Apps Vulnerable 141
Eben Moglen Talks About Free Software in the Second of Two Video Interviews 40
Privacy Advocates Oppose Aussie Data Breach Laws 25
Eben Moglen Explains Freedom and Free Software in Two Video Interviews 78
User Tracking Back On iOS 6 188
Paypal Slips 'No Class Action' Clause Into Policy Update 294
Verizon Draws Fire For Monitoring App Usage, Browsing Habits 136
The Pirate Bay Starts Using Virtualized Servers 186
Teen Suicide Tormentor Outed By Anonymous 550
Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar 540
EU Authorities To Demand Reversal of Google Privacy Policy 177
The UAE Claims To Hold the Worlds Largest Biometric Database 82
How Facebook Can Out Your Most Personal Secrets 467
Proposed Posting of Clients List In Prostitution Case Raises Privacy Concerns 533
Stallman On Unity Dash: Canonical Will Have To Give Users' Data To Governments 187
Seattle Police Want More Drones, Even While Two Sit Unused 144
An Overview of the Do Not Track Debate 108
Interviews: Ask Free Software Legal Giant Eben Moglen 56
Prince of Sealand Dies At 91 218
Facebook Confirms Data Breach 155
Australian Government Censors Draft Snooping Laws 150
US Supreme Court Says Wiretapping Immunity Will Stand 203
US and EU Clash Over Whois Data 67
Expenditure Report Reveals Germany Monitors Skype, Google Mail, Facebook Chat 89
FSF Certifies First Device in "Respects Your Freedom" Program 79
Can Google Base Ads On E-mails Sent To Gmail Accounts? 171
Flaws Allow Every 3G Device To Be Tracked 81
UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook 606
FTC Releases Google Privacy Audit, Blacks Out the Details 57
Facebook Privacy Boosted As Private Message 'Leak' Is Dismissed 44
UK 'Virtual ID Card' Scheme Set For Launch 84
Advertisers Blast Microsoft Over IE Default Privacy Settings 558
Starting Next Year, Brazil Wants To Track All Cars Electronically 178
MPAA Boss Admits SOPA and PIPA Are Dead, Not Coming Back 186
Why Klout's Social Influence Scores Are Nonsense 98
Report Slams DHS Fusion Centers: No Terrorists Nabbed, Civil Rights Violated 178
Scientists Want To Keep Their Research Work Out of Court 288
Supreme Court Won't Hear Body-Scanner Appeal 170
EU Privacy Watchdog To ICANN: Law Enforcement WHOIS Demands "Unlawful" 81
Think Tank's Website Rejects Browser Do-Not-Track Requests 362
UK Ministers' Private Communications Subject To Freedom of Information Act 38
PlaceRaider Builds a Model of Your World With Smartphone Photos 120
Illinois Prof Calls for a Federal Law To Safeguard Digital Afterlives 82
Privacy Watchdogs Want Facebook, Datalogix Deal Probed 8
California Employers Can't Ask For Your Facebook Password 363
Electronic Surveillance By US Law Enforcement Agencies Rising Steeply 105
ASIC Seeks Power To Read Your Emails 114
Facebook Denies Leak of Users' Private Messages 63
Can Foursquare Data Predict Where You Live? 55
SceneTap Patents Using Cameras To Determine Bar Goers' Weight, Height, Gender 76
FTC And PC Rental Companies Settle In Spying On Users Case 80
Creeping Government Surveillance Now Without Warrants 78
Canadian Minister Mined Data To Target Email To Gay Voters 145
Schneier: We Don't Need SHA-3 143
Shuttleworth: Trust Us, We're Trying to Make Shopping Better 255
NZ To Investigate Illegally Intercepted Data In Dotcom Case 53
Advertisers Never Intended To Honor DNT 308
W3C Group Proposed To Safeguard User Agent State Privacy 76
Australian Smart Meter Data Shared Far and Wide 172
Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots 584
Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed 646
Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You 497
Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name 304
Facebook Disables Face Recognition In EU 96
The Case For Targeted Ads 290
Nestle's GPS Tracking Candy Campaign 172
Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security 232
TSA Spending $245 Million On "Second Generation" Body Scanners 335
Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It 188
Judge Preserves Privacy of Climate Scientist's Emails 345
Quantum Key Exchange With an Airplane 44
Chrome To Get 'Do Not Track' 111
Report Hints At Privacy Problem of Drones That Can Recognize Faces 107
Preventing Another Carrier IQ: Introducing the Mobile Device Privacy Act 60
Twitter Hands Over Messages At Heart of Occupy Case 73
Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland 297
House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act 326
Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users 272
MediaFire Restores Virus Researcher's Account But Not Individual Files 72
Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Collecting and Storing User Information? 120
Google Reinvents Micropayments — As Surveywall 107
How Spyware Reaches Oppressive Governments 109
It's Easy To Steal Identities (Of Corporations) 140
White House Circulating Draft of Executive Order On Cybersecurity 94
Apache Patch To Override IE 10's Do Not Track Setting 375
FBI Launches $1 Billion Nationwide Face Recognition System 188
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Accuses UK Government of "Draconian Internet Snooping" 192
Google Patents Profit-Maximizing Dynamic Pricing 294
Dutch Police Ask 8000+ Citizens To Provide Their DNA 374
Jimmy Wales Threatens To Obstruct UK Government Snooping 198
Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim 836
Apple Denies FBI Had Access To UDIDs 104
FBI Denies It Held iPhone UDIDs Stolen By AntiSec 216
Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy 327
Australian Attorney General Pushes Ahead With Gov't Web Snooping 148
Leave Your Cellphone At Home, Says Jacob Appelbaum 306
Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs 282
Calculating the Cost of Full Disk Encryption 242
Google Patents Software To Identify Real-World Objects In Videos 150
Download With Caution: Romney, Obama Campaign Apps Have Privacy Flaws 106
FinSpy Commercial Spyware Abused By Governments 87
New iOS App Sends Users' Web Traffic Through Its Proxy Servers 83
2012 EFF Pioneer Award Winners Revealed 19
Don't Build a Database of Ruin 209
Forensic Test Predicts Eye and Hair Color From DNA 73
Diaspora* Announces It Is Now a "Community Project" 124
UK License Plate Cameras Have "Gaps In Coverage" 283
Hackers Dump Millions of Records From Banks, Politicians 310
Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing 360
Microsoft Denies Windows 8 App Spying Via SmartScreen 198
Location Privacy Act Approved By California Legislature 65
Aussie Tax Office Wants Phone Tapping, Data Retention 46
Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install 489
BitInstant Continues Bitcoin Paycard Plan 152
BBC Criticized For Snooping Under RIPA Powers 183
Ask Slashdot: Best VPN Service For Australia? 138
Australia Passes 'Lite' Data Retention Laws 47
Google Building Privacy Red Team 92
Polish MP Returns iPad Citing Lack of Control 148
"Knitted" Wi-Fi Routers Create Failover Network For First Responders 97
BitCoin Card To Launch In 2 Months, Says BitInstant 216
"SMSZombie" Malware Infects 500,000 Android Users In China 116
Jobs' Burglary Manhunt Yields Kenny the Clown 99
Researchers Find 'Mind-Control' Gaming Headsets Can Leak Users' Secrets 107
Australian Watchdog Frets Over BitCoin, MMOs' Money Laundering Potential 134
The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers 302

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