Privacy Stories

Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type 70
How GM Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On 58
Two Major ISPs Threaten They'll Stop Complying With US FISA Orders 34
Dutch Privacy Watchdog Recommends Government Organizations Stop Using Facebook 18
Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules 146
Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data 15
Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist 30
House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties 54
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages 49
Apple's iOS 18 AI Will Be On-Device Preserving Privacy, and Not Server-Side 59
US Senate To Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like' 55
Roku Makes 2FA Mandatory For All After Nearly 600K Accounts Pwned 26
House Votes To Extend -- and Expand -- a Major US Spy Program 85
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Info With Meta, Google, Data Brokers 21
Your Anonymous OpenTable Reviews Will Soon Display Your First Name 34
Google Is Killing Its VPN Service 30
Hackable Intel and Lenovo Hardware That Went Undetected For 5 Years Won't Ever Be Fixed 62
DuckDuckGo Launches Privacy Pro: A 3-in-1 Service That Includes a VPN 34
Microsoft Employees Exposed Internal Passwords In Security Lapse 24
Proton Acquires Standard Notes 10
A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress 27
Insurers Are Spying on Your Home From the Sky 104
Four Baseball Teams Now Let Ticket-Holders Enter Using AI-Powered 'Facial Authentication' 42
Is The US About To Pass a Landmark Online Privacy Bill? 35
Academics Probe Apple's Privacy Settings and Get Lost and Confused 24
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia Names and Shames Customers Over Bank Glitch Money 26
Feds Finally Decide To Do Something About Years-Old SS7 Spy Holes In Phone Networks 32
Missouri County Declares State of Emergency Amid Suspected Ransomware Attack 41
New XZ Backdoor Scanner Detects Implants In Any Linux Binary 33
Google Pledges To Destroy Browsing Data To Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit 35
AT&T Says Data From 73 Million Customers Has Leaked Onto the Dark Web 21
America's DHS Is Expected to Stop Buying Access to Your Phone Movements 49
Cloud Server Host Vultr Rips User Data Ownership Clause From ToS After Web Outage 28
Portugal Orders Altman's Worldcoin To Halt Data Collection 24
Telegram's Peer-to-Peer Login System is a Risky Way To Save $5 a Month 32
Judge Orders YouTube to Reveal Everyone Who Viewed A Video 169
Steve Wozniak Decries Tracking's Effect on Privacy, Calls Out 'Hypocrisy' of Only Banning TikTok 137
Database For UK Nurse Registration 'Completely Unacceptable' 42
General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers 34
DOT Wants To Know How Big Airlines Use Passenger Data 11
Hackers Found a Way To Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks In Seconds 33
Users Ditch Glassdoor, Stunned By Site Adding Real Names Without Consent 101
'Disabling Cyberattacks' Are Hitting Critical US Water Systems, White House Warns 77
AT&T Says Leaked Data of 70 Million People Is Not From Its Systems 25
Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data 125
Record Breach of French Government Exposes Up To 43 Million People's Data 11
Stanford University Failed To Detect Ransomware Intruders For 4 Months 22
Over 15,000 Roku Accounts Sold To Buy Streaming Subscriptions, Devices 25
EU's Use of Microsoft 365 Found To Breach Data Protection Rules 46
Worldcoin Fails To Get Injunction Against Spain's Privacy Suspension 9
Airbnb is Banning Indoor Security Cameras 103
Signal's New Usernames Help Keep Cops Out of Your Data 39
A Leaky Database Spilled 2FA Codes For the World's Tech Giants 11
How the Pentagon Learned To Use Targeted Ads To Find Its Targets 55
Cheap Doorbell Cameras Can Be Easily Hijacked, Says Consumer Reports 23
White House Looks To Curb Foreign Powers' Ability To Buy Americans' Sensitive Personal Data With Executive Order 117
Hackers Backed By Russia and China Are Infecting SOHO Routers Like Yours, FBI Warns 36
Meta Will Start Collecting 'Anonymized' Data About Quest Headset Usage 31
Tumblr and Wordpress Are Preparing To Sell User Data To OpenAI and Midjourney, Report Says 42
License Plate-Scanning Company Violates Privacy of Millions of California Drivers, Argues Class Action 49
Vending Machine Error Reveals Secret Face Image Database of College Students 100
Leisure Firm in UK Told Scanning Staff Faces is Illegal 17
Leaked Hacking Files Show Chinese Spying On Citizens and Foreigners Alike 18
Vietnam To Collect Biometrics For New ID Cards 33
Wyze Says Camera Breach Let 13,000 Customers Briefly See Into Other People's Homes 26
New 'Gold Pickaxe' Android, iOS Malware Steals Your Face For Fraud 13
Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show 135
US Military Notifies 20,000 of Data Breach After Cloud Email Leak 11
'World's Biggest Casino' App Exposed Customers' Personal Data 10
Security Flaw In a Popular Smart Helmet Allowed Silent Location Tracking 3
London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools To Spot Crime 31
The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real 52
Mozilla Monitor Plus Scrubs Your Leaked Personal Information From the Web, For a Fee 26
You'll Have To Visit an Apple Store If You Forget Your Vision Pro Passcode 49
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Stop Security Firms From Harvesting My Data? 82
OpenAI's ChatGPT Breaches Privacy Rules, Says Italian Watchdog 6
ChatGPT is Leaking Passwords From Private Conversations of Its Users - Report 62
Mistakenly Published Password Exposes Mercedes-Benz Source Code 29
NSA Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says 96
Inside a Global Phone Spy Tool Monitoring Billions 40
Amazon's Ring To Stop Letting Police Request Doorbell Video From Users 64
EFF Adds Street Surveillance Hub So Americans Can Check Who's Checking On Them 56
Could Apostrophy OS Be the Future of Cellphone Privacy? 100
Microsoft Executive Emails Hacked By Russian Intelligence Group, Company Says 25
Have I Been Pwned Adds 71 Million Emails From Naz.API Stolen Account List 17
Mobile Device Ambient Light Sensors Can Be Used To Spy On Users 11
Chrome Updates Incognito Warning To Admit Google Tracks Users In 'Private' Mode 40
Apple Knew AirDrop Users Could Be Identified and Tracked as Early as 2019 27
AirDrop 'Cracked' By Chinese Authorities To Identify Senders 25
FTC Bans X-Mode From Selling Phone Location Data 10
Russian Hackers Were Inside Ukraine Telecoms Giant For Months 26
Google Contractor Pays Parents $50 To Scan Their Childrens' Faces 46
23andMe Tells Victims It's Their Fault Data Was Breached 95
Meet 'Link History,' Facebook's New Way To Track the Websites You Visit 17
Cyberattack Targets Albanian Parliament's Data System, Halting Its Work 2
Researchers Come Up With Better Idea To Prevent AirTag Stalking 29
Google Agrees To Settle Chrome Incognito Mode Class Action Lawsuit 22
EFF Warns: 'Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays' 28
ChatGPT Exploit Finds 24 Email Addresses, Amid Warnings of 'AI Silo' 67
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
Comcast Discloses Data Breach of Close To 36 Million Xfinity Customers [UPDATE] 40
Does Meta's New Face Camera Herald a New Age of Surveillance? Or Distraction... 74
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
Delta Dental of California Data Breach Exposed Info of 7 Million People 20
Beeper Says Apple is Blocking Some iMessages 111
Google Maps Ditches Cloud-Based Location History 48
Your Smart TV Knows What You're Watching 164
Apple's New iPhone Security Setting Keeps Thieves Out of Your Digital Accounts 19
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
Republican Presidential Candidates Debate Anonymity on Social Media 174
Verizon Gave Phone Data To Armed Stalker Who Posed As Cop Over Email 27
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
Automakers' Data Privacy Practices 'Are Unacceptable,' Says US Senator 18
Amazon's Q Has 'Severe Hallucinations' and Leaks Confidential Data in Public Preview, Employees Warn 43
Google Researchers' Attack Prompts ChatGPT To Reveal Its Training Data 73
Dollar Tree Hit By Third-Party Data Breach Impacting 2 Million People 16
Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits To Their Friends and Family 120
CEO Reminds Everyone His Company Collects Customers' Sleep Data 46
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
Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People In Congo 6
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
US Privacy Groups Urge Senate Not To Ram Through NSA Spying Powers 35
Healthcare Giant McLaren Reveals Data On 2.2 Million Patients Stolen During Ransomware Attack 12
It's Still Too Easy for Anyone to 'Become You' at Experian 36
WhatsApp Now Lets You Hide Your IP Address During Calls 17
Data Broker's 'Staggering' Sale of Sensitive Info Exposed in Unsealed FTC Filing 30
Tech Groups Fear New Powers Will Allow UK To Block Encryption 40
US Military Members' Personal Data Being Sold By Online Brokers, Report Finds 32
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
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 Warns Indian Opposition Leaders of State-Sponsored iPhone Attacks 29
Drugmakers Are Set To Pay 23andMe Millions To Access Consumer DNA 106
How the US is Preparing For a Post-Quantum World 45
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
The UK's Controversial Online Safety Bill Finally Becomes Law 185
Face Search Engine PimEyes Blocks Searches of Children's Faces 25
1Password Discloses Security Incident Linked To Okta Breach 27
Mozilla Launches Annual Digital Privacy 'Creep-o-Meter'. This Year's Status: 'Very Creepy' 60
Telegram is Still Leaking User IP Addresses To Contacts 18
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
Hacker Leaks Millions More 23andMe User Records On Cybercrime Forum 20
Meta Will Now Let You Stop Instagram From Tracking You Across the Web 9
Apple AirTags Triggered 'Explosion' of Stalking Reports Nationwide, Lawsuit Says 89
23andMe Scraping Incident Leaked Data On 1.3 Million Users 25
ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data 61
Google Agrees To Reform Its Data Terms After German Antitrust Intervention 4
New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed By US Political Dark-Money Network 52
UK Passport Images Database Could Be Used To Catch Shoplifters 67
H&R Block, Meta, and Google Slapped With RICO Suit, Allegedly Schemed to Scrape Taxpayer Data 31
A Test of iPhone-to-HDMI Adapter That Demands Location/Browsing Data 29
New York Bans Facial Recognition In Schools 22
Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show 63
GPUs From All Major Suppliers Are Vulnerable To New Pixel-Stealing Attack 26
Getting Data From NSA Takes 'Days' So Federal Counterintelligence Agency Turned To Private Company, Documents Show 33
China's Quest for Human Genetic Data Spurs Fears of a DNA Arms Race 32
Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed Terabytes of Internal Sensitive Data 17
EFF Recognizes Signal, Library Freedom Project for Protecting Privacy 16
California Legislature Passes Delete Act Regulating Data Brokers 18
Google To Pay $155 Million In Settlements Over Location Tracking 10
Password-Stealing Linux Malware Served For 3 Years and No One Noticed 54
Wyze Security Camera Owners Were Briefly Able To See Feeds From Other Users 47
Apple Fixes Zero-Day Bugs Used To Plant Pegasus Spyware 20
Polish Senate Says Use of Government Spyware is Illegal in the Country 4
Google's Cookie Killing Tech Is Now On Almost Every Chrome Browser 68
Internet-Connected Cars Fail Privacy and Security Tests Conducted By Mozilla 26
UK Pulls Back From Clash With Big Tech Over Private Messaging 20
CBP Tells Airports Its New Facial Recognition Target is 75% of Passengers Leaving the US 40
Hacker Gains Admin Control of Sourcegraph and Gives Free Access To the Masses 6
UK Government Seeks Expanded Use of AI-based Facial Recognition By Police 15
Google Removes Fake Signal and Telegram Apps Hosted on Play 12
MTA Website 'Feature' Lets You Track Subway Riders' Locations 23
Hackers Can Silently Grab Your IP Through Skype 56
Taliban Says Huawei to Install Cameras to Locate Militants 71
NSA Orders Employees To Spy on the World 'With Dignity and Respect' 46
College Board Shares Student SAT Scores, GPA with Facebook and TikTok 42
The Feds Asked TikTok For Lots of Domestic Spying Features 48
Cellebrite Asks Cops To Keep Its Phone Hacking Tech 'Hush Hush' 50
Worldcoin Ignored Initial Order To Stop Iris Scans in Kenya, Records Show 11
YouTube Ads May Have Led To Online Tracking of Children, Research Says 8
Microsoft May Store Your Conversations With Bing If You're Not an Enterprise User 13
Cyberattack On Listings Provider Halts US Real Estate Markets 24
Discord.io Temporarily Shuts Down After Breach Affecting 760,000 Members 3
Iraq Lifts Ban On Telegram After Messaging App Complies With Authorities 11
Millions of Americans' Health Data Stolen After MOVEit Hackers Targeted IBM 24
As Privacy Policies Get Harder to Understand, Many Allow Companies to Copy Your Content 26
After Backlash, Zoom Now Says It Won't Train AI Systems On Customer Content 9
Detroit Police Changing Facial-Recognition Policy After Pregnant Woman Says She Was Wrongly Charged 32
Researchers Watched 100 Hours of Hackers Hacking Honeypot Computers 34
Popular Open-Source Project Moq Criticized For Quietly Collecting Data 30
Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer' 44
Millions of UK Voters' Data Accessible In Cyber Attack 14
Zoom Contradicts Its Own Policy About Training AI on Your Data 31
California Will Probe Data-Collecting, Internet-Connected Cars 25
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best (Encrypted) Password Manager? 154
Hackers Could Have Scored Unlimited Airline Miles By Targeting One Platform 5
Microsoft Comes Under Blistering Criticism For 'Grossly Irresponsible' Security 55
Brave Cuts Ties With Bing To Offer Its Own Image and Video Search Results 14
Kenya Suspends Worldcoin Scans Over Security, Privacy, and Financial Concerns 10
Worldcoin Says Will Allow Companies, Governments To Use Its ID System 32
'Tor's Shadowy Reputation Will Only End If We All Use It' 65
MOVEit Hackers Accessed Health Data of 'At Least' 8 Million Individuals 12
US Spies Are Lobbying Congress To Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole' 30
Worldcoin Being Probed by French Privacy Regulator for 'Questionable' Practises 6
Android Phones Can Now Tell You If There's an AirTag Following You 63
Roblox Data Leak Sees 4,000 Developer Profiles Including Identifying Information Made Public 10
Firmware Vulnerabilities In Millions of Computers Could Give Hackers Superuser Status 23
Google Starts the GA Rollout of Its Privacy Sandbox APIs To All Chrome Users 11
Footage From Amazon's In-Van Surveillance Cameras Is Leaking Online 25
Meta Faces a $100,000 Daily Fine If It Doesn't Fix Privacy Issues In Norway 26
Typo Leaks Millions of US Military Emails To Mali Web Operator 52
Massachusetts Considers Ban on Sales of Cellphone Location Data 16
SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on Company, Promising Revenge 28
Democrats Call On DOJ To Investigate Tax Sites For Sharing Financial Information With Meta 29
You Can Say No To a TSA Face Scan. But Even a Senator Had Trouble. 127
TikTok Executive Admits Australian Users' Data Accessed By Employees In China 15
Your Printing Service Might Read Your Documents 21
First US Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might Be Coming 28
EFF Says California Cops Are Illegally Sharing License Plate Data with Anti-Abortion States 240
Bangladesh Government Website Leaks Citizens' Personal Data 3
France Passes New Bill Allowing Police To Remotely Activate Cameras On Citizens' Phones 132
FBI Hired Social Media Surveillance Firm That Labeled Black Lives Matter Organizers 'Threat Actors' 151
Stop Using Google Analytics, Warns Sweden's Privacy Watchdog 18
Police Need a Wiretap To Eavesdrop On Your Facebook Posts, Court Rules 29
US Patent and Trademark Office Notifies Filers of Years-Long Data Leak 9
LetMeSpy, a Phone Tracking App Spying On Thousands, Says It Was Hacked 18
Apple Joins Opposition in UK To Encrypted Message App Scanning 40
3-Year Probe Into Encrypted Phones Led To Seizure of Hundreds of Tons of Drugs, Prosecutors Say 60
Smartwatches Are Being Used To Distribute Malware 17
Congress Sets Limits On Staff ChatGPT Use 15
Turn Your Phone Off Every Night For Five Minutes, Australian PM Tells Residents 126
Russian Coup Aided by Telegram, VPNs as Government Blocks Google News 140
US Vendor Accused of Violating GDPR By Reputation-Scoring EU Citizens 28
SMS Phishers Harvested Phone Numbers, Shipment Data From UPS Tracking Tool 12
Millions of Americans' Personal Data Exposed in Global Hack 17
Hackers Can Steal Cryptographic Keys By Video-Recording Power LEDs 60 Feet Away 26
US Intelligence Confirms It Buys Americans' Personal Data 90

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