Privacy Stories for 2013

No Question: Snowden Was 2013's Most Influential Tech Figure 108
Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations 316
USA Today Names Edward Snowden Tech Person of the Year 228
The Startling Array of Hacking Tools In NSA's Armory 215
Former CIA/NSA Head: NSA Is "Infinitely" Weaker As a Result of Snowden's Leaks 572
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Implement Wave Protocol Self Hosted? 112
Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog 259
Snapchat Users' Phone Numbers Exposed To Hackers 69
Ask Slashdot: Getting an Uncooperative Website To Delete One's Account? 171
NSA's Legal Win Introduces a Lot of Online Insecurity 239
US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal 511
NSA Drowns In Useless Data, Impeding Work, Former Employee Claims 120
Houston Expands Downtown Surveillance, Unsure If It Helps 60
Year In Communications: NSA Revelations Overshadow Communications Breakthroughs 61
Could an Erasable Internet Kill Google? 210
E-Books That Read You 120
Snowden Gives Alternative Christmas Message On Channel 4 224
Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? 469
Researchers Connect 91% of Numbers With Names In Metadata Probe 84
Member of President Obama's NSA Panel Recommends Increased Data Collection 349
Privacy Advocate Jacob Appelbaum Reports Break-In Of Berlin Apartment 194
Canadian Spy Agencies Deliberately Misled Courts 62
Verizon and AT&T Join the 'Transparency Report' Club 37
Ask Slashdot: Can Commercial Hardware Routers Be Trusted? 213
Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA 464
Data Broker Medbase200 Sold Lists of Rape & Domestic Violence Victims 168
NSA Metadata Collection Program Has Stopped Zero Attacks 199
It's Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car 201
BitTorrent Unveils Secure Chat To Counter 'NSA Dragnet Surveillance' 111
UN Votes To Protect Privacy In Digital Age 124
Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire 691
Panel Urges Major NSA Spying Overhaul 242
How a MacBook Camera Can Spy Without Lighting Up 371
Academics Should Not Remain Silent On Government Hacking 135
Red Light Camera Use Declined In 2013 For the First Time 348
Google Seeks To Throw Out UK Safari Tracking Suit 70
Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional 345
Facebook Tracks the Status Updates and Messages You Don't Write Too 163
CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying 504
France Broadens Surveillance Powers; Wider Scope Than NSA 169
Indiana State Police Acknowledge Use of Cell Phone Tracking Device 155
NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata 509
Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional 324
Was Julian Assange Involved With Wiretapping Iceland's Parliament? 167
EU Advocate General Says EU Data Retention Directive Unlawful 22
NZ Traveler's Electronics Taken At Airport; Interest in Snowden to Blame? 453
Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn 192
Switzerland Wants To Become the World's Data Vault 131
Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It 208
California Man Arrested for Running 'Revenge Porn' Website 252
Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters 151
NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking 174
High-Frequency Trading For Your Private Data 75
Twitter Will Track Your Browsing To Sell Ads 120
NSA Collect Gamers' Chats and Deploy Real-Life Agents Into WoW and Second Life 293
Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Yahoo Form Alliance Against NSA 293
Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA 841
Insight On FBI Hacking Ops 137
Facebook Patents Inferring Income of Users 129
FTC Drops the Hammer On Maker of Location-Sharing Flashlight App 187
Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In 306
Ask TechFreedom's Berin Szoka About Govt. Policy and Privacy Online 29
NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide 256
Fearing Government Surveillance, US Journalists Are Self-Censoring 376
Swarm Mobile's Offer: Free Wi-Fi In Exchange For Some Privacy 121
Is GWU Econ Prof. Nick Szabo Satoshi Nakamoto? 120
Australian Spy Agency Offered To Share Data About Ordinary Citizens 78
RMS Calls For "Truly Anonymous" Payment Alternative To Bitcoin 287
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy When It's Out of Your Control? 174
No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either 845
Snowden Document Says Dutch Secret Service Hacks Internet Forums 162
Encrypted Social Network Vies For Disgruntled Facebook Users 162
Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself Using Tor 123
Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records 784
Code.org Wants Participating Students' Data For 7 Years 90
Death and the NSA: A Q&A With Bruce Schneier 149
NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits 415
US Working To Kill UN Privacy Resolutions 197
Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing 670
LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers 144
Twitter Implements Forward Secrecy For Connections 38
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy These Days? Or Do You? 319
NSA Infected 50,000 Computer Networks With Malicious Software 264
Tor Now Comes In a Box 150
HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who 203
Glut In Stolen Identities Forces Price Cut 152
Students Tracked In UK College Via RFID For 1-3 Years 64
Vint Cerf Thinks Privacy May Be an Anomaly 145
Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood 783
User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits 286
Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS 409
Google to Pay $17 Million to Settle Privacy Case 109
Supreme Court Refuses To Hear EPIC Challenge To NSA Surveillance 227
US Wary of Allowing Russian Electronic Monitoring Stations Inside US 232
Your Phone Number Is Going To Get a Reputation Score 136
How Big Companies Can Hamper the Surveillance Infrastructure 153
NSA Wants To Reveal Its Secrets To Prevent Snowden From Revealing Them First 216
P2P Data Not Private, But It Could Be 59
US Gov't Circulates Watch List of Buyers of Polygraph Training Materials 303
US Intelligence Wants To Radically Advance Facial Recognition Software 178
Stanford's MetaPhone Project: Crowdsourcing Metadata To Challenge the NSA 96
Facebook Patented Making NSA Data Handoffs Easier 137
Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks 230
How Silicon Valley Helped the NSA 163
GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware 335
Brazil Orders Google To Hand Over Street View Data 130
Google Starts Tracking Retail Store Visits On Android and iOS 157
Seattle PD Mum On Tracking By Its New Wi-Fi Mesh Network 107
Feedly Forces Its Users To Create Google+ Profiles 251
Snowden Used Social Engineering To Get Classified Documents 276
Credit Card Numbers Still Google-able 157
Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic 259
CIA Pays AT&T Millions To Voluntarily Provide Call Data 107
What Apple Does and Doesn't Know About You 214
Mozilla Backtracks On Third-Party Cookie Blocking 173
Apple Issues First Transparency Report 93
Limo Company Hack Exposes Juicy Targets, 850k Credit Card Numbers 43
Brazil Admits To Spying On US Diplomats After Blasting NSA Surveillance 239
Tesco To Use Face Detection Technology For In-Store Advertising 212
Swiss Government Backs Privacy Oriented ISP 109
Snowden Publishes "A Manifesto For the Truth" 398
Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden 504
Mobile Devices Banned From UK Cabinet Meetings Over Surveillance Fears 116
Dutch MEP Petitions To Ban Export of Surveillance Software 81
GCHQ, European Spy Agencies Cooperate On Surveillance 145
Dark Wallet Will Make Bitcoin Accessible For All — Except the Feds 206
Silent Circle, Lavabit Unite For 'Dark Mail' Encrypted Email Project 195
Spy Expert Says Australia Operating As "Listening Post" For US Agencies 165
The Case Against Gmail 435
NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters 394
Facebook Testing Screen-Tracking Software For Users 115
Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth Wins Austria's Big Brother Award 116
Israel Helped the NSA Spy on Former French President According To Documents 215
NSA Chief Keith Alexander Takes His PRISM Pitch To YouTube 165
Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet 375
German Report: Obama Aware of Merkel Spying Since 2010 280
Federal Prosecutors, In a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps As Evidence 321
ACLU: Lavabit Was 'Fatally Undermined' By Demands For Encryption Keys 230
Ten Steps You Can Take Against Internet Surveillance 234
UK Telcos Went Above and Beyond To Cooperate With GCHQ 88
LinkedIn's New Mobile App Called 'a Dream For Attackers' 122
Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call 390
NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders 310
Facebook Faces PRISM Data Investigation In Ireland 86
Online Retailers Cruising Tor To Hunt For Fraudsters 188
The Boss Is Remotely Monitoring Blue-Collar Workers 228
Rental Business Aaron's Admits Role In Spying On Customers 119
Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone 267
ACA Health Exchange Contractors Have History of Security Failures 144
Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required For GPS Trackers 116
To Beat Spam Filters, Look Like A Spammer? 143
Google Wants To Help You Tiptoe Around the NSA & the Great Firewall of China 140
Bell Canada To Collect User Data For Advertising 127
Oregon Extends Push To Track, Tax Drivers Per Mile 658
TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport 437
Simple Bug Exposed Verizon Users' SMS Histories 60
Experian Sold Social Security Numbers To ID Theft Service 390
NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" 330
NSA App Ideas To Popularize Spying and Big Data 78
Building an Opt-In Society 182
Huawei Using NSA Scandal To Turn Tables On Accusations of Spying 183
New EU Rules To Curb Transfer of European Data To the U.S. 60
When Opting Out of Ad Tracking Doesn't Opt You Out 193
Facebook 'Stalker' Tool Uses Graph Search For Data Mining 38
Researchers Show Apple Can Read iMessages 124
NSA Director Keith Alexander Is Reportedly Stepping Down 92
Oakland Is Building a Big Data Center For Police Surveillance 92
Swartz-Designed Whistleblower Tool "SecureDrop" Launched 79
Snapchat Search Warrants Emphasize Data Vulnerability 105
David Cameron Wants the Guardian Investigated Over Snowden Files 279
Ed Felten: Why Email Services Should Be Court-Order Resistant 183
Ask Slashdot: Why Isn't There More Public Outrage About NSA Revelations? 610
The NSA Is Collecting Lots of Spam 159
Silicon Valley Stays Quiet As Washington Implodes 299
Buried In the Healthcare.gov Source: "No Expectation of Privacy" 365
RMS: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? 264
Grocery Store "Smart Shelves" Will Identify Customers, Show Targeted Ads 274
Brazil Announces Secure Email To Counter US Spying 165
Hillary Clinton: "We Need To Talk Sensibly About Spying" 461
Dataland: the Emerging Dystopia 81
Google ToS Change Means Your Photo Could Go In Ads 136
Patriot Act Author Introduces Bill To Limit Use of Patriot Act 189
Would You Secure Personal Data With DRM Tools? 101
Sensor Characteristics Uniquely Identify Individual Phones 69
CPJ Report: the Obama Administration and Press Freedoms 289
What the Surveillance State Does With Your Private Data 81
Guardian Ignores MI5 Warnings, Vows To 'Publish More Snowden Leaks' 301
NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns 241
New York Subpoenaed AirBnb For All NYC User Data 181
Since Snowden Leaks, NSA's FOIA Requests Are Up 1,000 Percent 47
UK Minister: British Cabinet Was Told Nothing About GCHQ/NSA Spying Programs 85
Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video 871
All Your Child's Data Are Belong To InBloom 211
Sorm: Russia Intends To Monitor "All Communications" At Sochi Olympics 193
US Intelligence Chief Defends Attempts To Break Tor 411
Taking Back Control of Your Data, With Fine Grained, Explicit Permissions 55
How The NSA Targets Tor 234
India's Billion User Biometric Odyssey 81
Facebook and Cisco Offer Check-In Service For Free Wifi 67
Lavabit Case Unsealed: FBI Demands Companies Secretly Turn Over Crypto Keys 527
Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee 294
Security After the Death of Trust 162
NSA Abandoned Project To Track Cell Phone Locations 70
California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' 528
Former Microsoft Privacy Chief Doesn't Trust Company, Uses Open Source Software 199
Silent Circle Moving Away From NIST Cipher Suites After NSA Revelations 168
John McAfee's Latest Project: Shielding Against Surveillance 100
LinkedIn Agrees To Block Stalkers 78
NSA Internet Spying Sparks Race To Create Offshore Havens For Data Privacy 166
Google May Face Fine Under EU Privacy Laws 88
How Your Smartphone Can Spy On What You Type 77
RMS On Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before 319
Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats Outdoors 90
Metadata On How You Drive Also Reveals Where You Drive 81
Microsoft: We Offer Up User Data To Law Enforcement 2 Percent of the Time 54
Senators Push To Preserve NSA Phone Surveillance 252
GMail Chat/GTalk Sending Chats To Wrong Recipients 109
LexisNexis and Other Major Data Brokers Hacked By ID Theft Service 99
DEA Argues Oregonians Have No Protected Privacy Interest In Prescription Records 455
President of Brazil Lashes Out At NSA Espionage Programs In Speech To UN 260
Google To Encrypt All Keyword Searches 224
The Internet Society is Unhappy with U.S. Govt's Internet Spying Tactics 107
France Proposes Consideration of Tax On Data Taken Out of EU 103
Schneier: Metadata Equals Surveillance 191
The Dash Is Now Anonymized In Ubuntu 13.10 183
RSA Warns Developers Not To Use RSA Products 128
Letter to "Extended Family" Assures That NSA Will "Weather This Storm" 286
LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts 210
Internet of Things Demands New Social Contract To Protect Privacy 95
Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux 576
Angry Brazilian Whacks NASA To Put a Stop To ... Er, the NSA 90
Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet 285
Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? 491
Belgium Investigates Suspected Cyber Spying By Foreign State 158
German Data Protection Expert Warns Against Using iPhone5S Fingerprint Function 303
NYC Is Tracking RFID Toll Collection Tags All Over the City 314
Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA 524
IETF Floats Draft PRISM-Proof Security Considerations 75
Ask Slashdot: Can We Still Trust FIPS? 138
Former DHS Official Blames Privacy Advocates For TSA's Aggressive Procedures 325
Insider Steals Data of 2 Million Vodafone Germany Customers 40
Snowden Nominated For Freedom of Thought Prize 212
NSA Shares Intel On Americans With Israel 328
Trove of NSA Documents and FISC Opinions Declassified Thanks to EFF Lawsuit 110
Court Declares Google Must Face Wiretap Charges For Wi-Fi Snooping 214
Google's Encryption Plan To Stifle NSA's Dragnet Will Raise the Stakes 216
Device Security: How Border Searches Are Really Used 223
How To Foil NSA Sabotage: Use a Dead Man's Switch 259
Keeping Data Secret, Even From Apps That Use It 59
The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox 452

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