Privacy Stories for 2010

Cheap GSM Eavesdropping a Reality 75
One Tip Enough To Put Name On Terrorist Watch List 446
Wired Responds In Manning Chat Log Controversy 222
Mozilla Posts File Containing Registered User Data 154
London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day 280
Old Facebook Apps Still Plunder Your Privacy 101
EFF Offers an Introduction To Traitorware 263
Pirate Bay Defendant Aims For Sweden's Supreme Court 98
Google Declines To Turn Over Harvested Wi-Fi Data 201
Memo Details Gawker Security Strategy 76
A Blue-Sky Idea For the USPS — Postal Trucks As Sensors 252
UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default 642
Privacy Concerns With Android and iPhone Apps 116
Scotland Yard Has Been After Anonymous For Months 278
Learning From Gawker's Failure 236
Fourth Amendment Protects Hosted E-mail 236
Sheriff's Online Database Leaks Info On Informants 185
The Woman Who's Making Your Privacy Her Business 120
Online Tracking Firms To Launch Opt-Out Program 102
'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Proponents Not So Anonymous 390
The First Truly Honest Privacy Policy 119
Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks 464
Microsoft Adds 'Do Not Track' Option For IE9 179
Corporations Hiring Hooky Hunters 610
A Nude Awakening — the TSA and Privacy 728
Sites Guilty of Hijacking History 58
FTC Is In Talks With Adobe About the 'Flash Problem' 179
Web Bugs the New Norm For Businesses? 108
Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity 299
History Sniffing In the Wild 96
Google Loses Street View Suit, Forced To Pay $1 225
The Golden Hour of Phishing Attacks 59
FTC Proposes Do Not Track List For the Web 173
Race On To Fingerprint Phones, PCs 139
Apple's Game Center Shares Your Real Name 182
Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You 273
Apple, Microsoft, Google Attacked For Evil Plugins 293
Satellites Spy On Black Friday Shoppers 171
Deep Packet Inspection Set To Return 125
Once-Secret ACTA Copyright Treaty Approved By EU 255
TSA Saw My Junk, Missed Razor Blades, Says Adam Savage 609
Underwear Invention Protects Privacy At Airport 325
Online Behavior Could Influence Insurance Rates 141
Beta Version of Nevercookie Released 77
Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized 484
Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA 741
Paying With the Wave of a Cellphone 137
Debt Collectors Using Facebook To Embarrass Those Who Owe 266
US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans 712
Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection 313
'Smart' Vending Machines Triple Sales 234
Web-Users Fall For Fake Anti-Virus Scams 272
WSJ Warnings About Cookies Carry Cookies 45
National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches 647
'Hulu For Magazines' Relies On Users' Data 41
Obama May Toughen Internet Privacy Rules 222
Palin E-Mail Snoop Gets Year In Prison 417
Aussie Gov't Says Wiretap Laws Fine, Telcos 'Wrong' 127
FCC Investigating Google Street View Wi-Fi Data Collection 122
Security App For the New German Personal ID Hacked 93
Critics Call For Probe Into Google Government Ties 289
Google Asks Users To Complain Against Facebook 218
Nevercookie Eats Evercookies 91
Sophos Researcher Suggests Password 'Free' to Spur Wi-Fi Encryption 332
Firesheep Countermeasure Tool BlackSheep 122
US Wants Upper Hand In Battling High-Tech Bad Guys 81
Street View On iOS Pierces German Privacy Veil 46
EU Commission Says People Have a 'Right To Be Forgotten' Online 200
Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie 433
Google Settles Buzz Privacy Suit 165
Firesheep Author Reflects On Wild Week 229
NSF Funds Data Anonymization Project 36
Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App 415
Facebook Punishes Devs Who Shared User IDs 71
UK Wants ISPs To Be Responsible For Third Party Content Online 158
USB 'Dead Drops' 322
How Not To Design a Protocol 186
Herding Firesheep In NYC — Do Users Care? 200
Users Sue Google, Facebook, Zynga Over Privacy 66
Facebook Adds Friend Stalker Tool 357
Australia's Privacy Boss Slams Gov't Data-Retention Scheme 82
FTC Ends Probe of Google StreetView Privacy Breach 99
How To Protect Against Firesheep Attacks 208
Amazon Prevails In State Sales Tax Dispute, Thus Far 171
Inside a Full-Body-Scanning X-Ray Van 313
Firefox Extension Makes Social-Network ID Spoofing Trivial 185
Facebook Ads Could 'Out' Gay Users 196
Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords 157
On Several Fronts, US Gov't Prepares To Regulate Online Privacy 123
Why Facebook Won't Stop Invading Your Privacy 219
Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data 136
UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls 286
Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers 361
Un-killable 'Evercookie' Killed ... Sometimes 186
Top Facebook Apps Violate Privacy Terms 95
MS Gives Free Licenses To Oppressed Nonprofits 151
How Cornell Plans To Purge Campus Computers of Personal Data 164
The Intimate Social Graph 21
Data Miners Scraping Away Our Privacy 142
Government Admits Spying Via Facebook 240
Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These 761
Dutch Hotels Must Register As ISPs 152
Lawyer Is Big Winner In Webcamgate Settlement 475
French City To Use CCTV For Parking Fines 297
High-Tech Microphone Picks Voices From a Crowd 221
HTML5 Draws Concern Over Risks To Privacy 163
Reuters Ends Anonymous Comments 159
New Tool Suite Helps Track Privacy Policies 25
UAE Says RIM Played Ball, Will Maintain Service 41
College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It 851
Lighthearted Facebook Friends Could Make You Join NAMBLA Group 178
New Class of Malware Will Steal Behavior Patterns 73
French ISP Refuses To Send Out Infringement Notices 302
New CCTV Site In UK Pays People To Watch 214
GoogleSharing, Now With No Trust Required 152
Comcast Warns Customers Suspected of Bot Infection 196
Privacy Option Proposed To Control Behavioral Ads 81
Many Top iPhone Apps Collect Unique Device ID 194
Blizzard Rolls Out Real ID Privacy Options 145
Many More Android Apps Leaking User Data 299
"Pre-Crime" Comes To the HR Dept. 554
Does A Company Deserve the Same Privacy Rights As You? 379
British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law 121
UK ISPs Profit From Coughing Up Customer Data 59
Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police 485
Obama Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority 646
Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico 265
UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details 315
JPL Scientists Take NASA To the Supreme Court 238
Google Warning Gmail Users On Spying From China 215
In Court? Be Careful What You Post On Facebook 147
DuckDuckGo Search Engine Erects Tor Hidden Service 87
In France, Hadopi Reporting Begins, With (Only) 10,000 IP Addresses Per Day 376
Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie 332
On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking 107
Distinguishing Encrypted Data From Random Data? 467
Security Concerns Paramount After Early Reviews of Diaspora Code 206
Google Engineer Spied On Teen Users 338
Social Media Can Help You Fake Your Own Death 146
PA's Dept. of Homeland Security Shared Oil-Shale Protester Info With Companies 293
Appeals Court Rolls Back Computer Privacy Guidelines 88
US Gov't Makes a Mess of Classifying Sensitive Data 100
Dept. of Homeland Security To Test Iris Scanners 221
Burglary Ring Used Facebook Places To Find Targets 152
Salesforce Uses Chatter To Monitor Employees 82
Judge Allows Subpoenas For Internet Users 338
Rogue Employees Sell World Cup Fans' Passport Data 128
EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party 343
Biometric IDs For Every Indian Citizen 166
Big Brother In the School Cafeteria? 425
Online Ads, Privacy Remain In FTC Crosshairs 95
The Effect of Snake Oil Security 110
NSA Director Says the US Must Secure the Internet 250
NYT Password Security Discussion Overlooks Universal Logins 127
Dubai's Police Chief Calls BlackBerry a Spy Tool 215
Google To Pay $8.5 Million In Buzz Privacy Settlement 58
New Copyright Lawsuits Go After Porn On Bittorrent 209
Anti-Google Video Runs In Times Square 346
UN Telecom Chief Urges Blackberry Data Sharing 196
New German Government ID Hacked By CCC 86
China Demands Real Names From Mobile Phone Users 187
India Now Wants Access To Google and Skype 366
RIM Reaches Temporary Agreement With India 109
Retargeting Ads Stalk You For Weeks After You Shop 344
Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans 312
BlackBerry Battle In India Going Down To the Wire 176
GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal 926
Girls Bugged Teachers' Staff Room 227
Nokia Siemens Sued For Providing Monitoring Equipment To Iran 275
Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling 622
Germany To Roll Out ID Cards With Embedded RFID 235
Is RFID Really That Scary? 338
Court OKs Covert iPhone Audio Recording 215
Minority Report Style Iris Scanners In Mexico 187
Feds Won't File Charges In School Laptop-Spy Case 398
HP CEO's Browsing History Used Against Him 230
75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email 278
Julian Assange To Write For Swedish Tabloid 337
Eben Moglen Calls To Free the Cloud 173
The Hidden Security Risk of Geotags 175
Vodafone Backs Down In Row With Android Users 106
Blackberry Gives India Access To Servers 182
Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks 1088
Loss of Personal Info As Stressful As Losing a Job 119
Browser Private Modes Not So Private After All 198
Schneier's Revised Taxonomy of Social Data 28
Google Secret Privacy Document Leaked 281
MP Wants Official Email Address Kept Private 179
Human Rights Groups Join Criticism of WikiLeaks 578
Google Testing an Airborne Camera Drone 182
Highly Directional Terahertz Laser Demonstrated 125
UK Switches Off £235M Child Database 198
Court Rejects Warrantless GPS Tracking 226
Web-Based Private File Storage? 467
Senate Confirms Elena Kagan's Appointment To SCOTUS 618
Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity 591
Tech Specs Leaked For French Spyware 212
Denials Aside, Feds Storing Body Scan Images 560
Microsoft's Ad Team Trumps IE Developers' Privacy Aims 149
RIM's Encryption 'Too Secure' For Indian Government's Taste 140
Tor Developer Detained At US Border, Pressed On Wikileaks 637
Hacker Builds $1,500 Cell Phone Tapping Device 109
Alternatives To Paypal's Virtual Credit Card Service? 242
China Pushes Real Name System For Online Games 115
'I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!' v2.0 155
Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files? 142
FTC Wants Browsers To Block Online Tracking 205
Lawsuit Hits Companies Using 'Zombie' Flash Cookies 140
Chatroulette To Log IP Addresses, Take Screenshots 194
UK ISP TalkTalk Caught Monitoring Its Customers 139
Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police 878
Facebook Adds Delete Account Option 249
AU Government Censors Document On Planned Web Snooping 169
Safari Privacy Bug May Be Leaking Your Data 152
37 States Join Investigation of Google Street View 269
Digital Act Could Spur Creation of Pirate ISPs In UK 204
Swedish Pirate Party Launches ISP 356
Apple Lays Out Location Collection Policies 281
Leaving a Comment? That'll Be 99 Cents, and Your Name 377
Tokyo Rail Billboards Scan Viewer's Age, Gender 235
UK Royalty Group Wants ISPs To Pay For Pirating Customers 289
Privacy Flaws In Chatroulette Expose Users 101
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Internet 92
FTC Warns Site Not To Sell Personal Data 120
ESRB Exposes Emails of Gamers Who Filed Privacy Complaints 75
Familial DNA Testing Nabs Alleged Serial Killer 258
Long-Term Liability For One-Time Security Breaches? 119
Google Chrome Extension Steals Login Details 155
Google Found Guilty of Australian Privacy Breach 105
Internet Censorship Arms Race Gets New Weapon From Georgia Tech 75
Blizzard Backs Down On Real Names For Forums 432
Cisco Says Vegas Conference Attendees' Information Was Leaked 97
Stanford, U.C. Berkeley Offer Students Genetic Testing 104
Germany Takes Legal Steps Against Facebook 138
Blizzard To Require Real First and Last Names For Official Forums 833
Microsoft's Health-y Patent Appetite 85
Diaspora On Schedule, One Month In 90
Indian Government Threatens RIM, Skype With Ban 281
Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? 403
Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast' 725
Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use 283
Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers 494
New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes 287
FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives 486
Reporters Without Borders Fight Web Censorship 42
White House Unveils Plans For "Trusted Identities In Cyberspace" 202
US Shows Interest In Zombie Quarantine Code 195
Experts Say Wiretap Law Needs Digital Era Update 54
SCOTUS Rules Petiton Signatures Are Public Record 780
Google Remotely Nukes Apps From Android Phones 509

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