Privacy Stories for 2015

Feds: Your Employer Can't Stop You From Recording Conversations At Work 139
Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying 152
NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated 267
Lessig: Future Tech Will Help Privacy Catch Up With the Internet 35
1st Circuit Injunction Re: TSA's New Mandatory AIT Search Rule Fully Briefed 122
Coding Styles Survive Binary Compilation, Could Lead Investigators Back To Programmers 164
Drone Registration Is FAA's Way of Getting You To Read Their "EULA" 131
European Payment Card Protocols Wide Open To Fraud 38
TSA Moves Closer To Rejecting Some State Driver's Licenses For Airline Travel 428
Database of 191 Million US Voters Exposed On Internet 77
Reluctance To Go Mobile Inhibiting Innovation In Financial Services 104
China Passes Law Requiring Tech Firms To Hand Over Encryption Keys 170
Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It 440
Australian Government Tells Citizens To Turn Off Two-factor Authentication 146
Motion Filed In 1st Circuit To Enjoin TSA's New Mandatory "AIT" Screening 129
Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities 82
German Court Orders Man To Destroy Naked Images of Ex-Partner 263
HIV Dating Company Accuses Researchers of Hacking Database 71
Database Leak Exposes 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Fans 92
FAA Admits Names & Addresses In Drone Registry Will Be Publicly Available 300
Israeli Firm Creates a Device That Can Hack Any Nearby Phone 143
US Budget Bill Passes With CISA Surveillance Intact 153
EFF Launches Panopticlick 2.0 63
LifeLock Agrees To Pay $100 Million Fine In Settlement With FTC 50
Catalogue of Government Gear For Cellphone Spying 69
Ask Slashdot: Keeping My Data Mine? (2015 Edition) 132
Ubuntu 16.04 Will Not Send Local Searches Over the Web By Default 102
PRESTON: The UK's "Big Brother" Comprehensive National Database System 57
Facebook Tweaks Its "Real Names" Policy 114
CISA Surveillance Bill Hidden Inside Last Night's Budget Bill 166
EU Rules Would Ban Kids Under 16 From Social Media 161
MacKeeper Discloses 13 Million Mac Users' Details With Poor Hash Protection 72
'Do Not Track' Bill Aims To Let Consumers Reject Online Tracking 75
MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data 115
FBI Admits It Uses Stingrays, Zero-Day Exploits 79
Ex-US State Dept. Worker Pleads Guilty To Extensive Sextortion Case 60
Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption 556
French Legislation Would Block Tor and Restrict Free Wi-Fi 115
New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands 238
Canadian Cable Company Shames Non-Paying Customers Publicly On Facebook 149
Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror 138
IT Worker Fired After Massive Georgia Data Breach Speaks Out 113
Google Calls Out EFF Over Claims That It Snoops On Students With Chromebooks 100
Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta 135
Wih Messenger Revamp, Yahoo Joins the 'Unsend' Trend 49
Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To 131
IRS: We Used Stingray Devices To Track 37 Phones 63
Revealed: What Info the FBI Can Collect With a National Security Letter 93
HTTP/2.0 Opens Every New Connection It Makes With the Word 'PRISM' 200
VTech Hack Gets Worse: Chat Logs, Kids' Photos Taken In Breach 69
It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City 100
BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns 71
Pwned Barbies Spying On Children? Toytalk CEO Downplays Hacking Reports 90
NSA To End Bulk Phone Surveillance By Sunday 139
Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks 298
Google Scours 1.2 Million URLs To Conform With EU's "Right To Be Forgotten" Law 67
Green Light Or No, Nest Cam Never Stops Watching 199
Dell Accused of Installing 'Superfish-Like' Rogue Certificates On Laptops 92
New IBM Tech Lets Apps Authenticate You Without Personal Data 27
Whistleblowers: How NSA Created the 'Largest Failure' In Its History 119
Blackberry Offers 'Lawful Device Interception Capabilities' 137
Comcast Xfinity Wi-Fi Discloses Customer Names and Addresses 49
Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims 608
Judge: Stingrays Are 'Simply Too Powerful' Without Adequate Oversight 111
File Says NSA Found Way To Replace Email Program 93
Nation-backed Hackers Using Evercookie and Web Analytics To Profile Targets 47
Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets 200
Georgia Gives Personal Data of 6 Million Voters To Georgia GunOwner Magazine 110
Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid For Tor-Breaking Research 79
How Cisco Is Trying To Prove It Can Keep NSA Spies Out of Its Gear 130
Terrorism Case Challenges FISA Spying 108
Snowden Says It's Your Duty To Use an Ad Blocker (for Security) 342
UK PM Wants To Speed Up Controversial Internet Bill After Paris Attacks 167
Ad Networks Using Inaudible Sound To Link Phones, Tablets and Other Devices 223
Self-Encrypting Drives Hardly Any Better Than Software-Based Encryption 73
Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? 400
Google's New About Me Tool Is the Anti-Google+ 54
Prison Hack Shows Attorney-Client Privilege Violation 190
Tor Project Claims FBI Paid University Researchers $1m To Unmask Tor Users 108
Broadband Bills Will Have To Increase To Pay For Snooper's Charter, MPs Warned 77
Justice Officials Fear Nation's Biggest Wiretap Operation May Not Be Legal 118
Webmail Services Struggling Against DDoS Attacks 90
Viewing Data Harvested From Smart TVs Used To Push Ads To Other Screens? 148
UK Gov't Can Demand Backdoors, Give Prison Sentences For Disclosing Them 187
US Judge Rules Against NSA In Phone Spying Case 93
Comcast Resets Nearly 200,000 Passwords After Customer List Goes On Sale 43
The FCC Says It Can't Force Google and Facebook To Stop Tracking Their Users 127
NSA Uses Vulnerabilities Before It Discloses Them, Keeps Some To Itself 121
TalkTalk Hack: 4% of Customers' Data Accessed In Cyber Security Breach 25
MI5 'Secretly Collected Phone Data' For Decade 38
Senators Attempting To Remove Robocall Loophole 108
Canada Reinstates Mandatory Census, To Delight of Social Scientists 284
Sprint Faces Backlash For Adding MDM Software To Devices 123
Controversial New UK Internet Powers Bill Makes No Mention of VPNs 115
Nine Out of Ten of the Internet's Top Websites Are Leaking Your Data 133
How California Police Are Tracking Your Biometric Data In the Field 46
Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators 134
What Your Photos Know About You 109
Stanford Identifies Potential Security Hole In Genomic Data-Sharing Network 23
Internet Firms To Be Banned From Offering Unbreakable Encryption Under New UK Laws 418
Tor Releases Messenger Beta For Secure Chat 16
Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online 546
The Rise of Political Doxing 176
EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance 53
UK Police Make Third Arrest Over TalkTalk Cyber Attack 61
Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? 324
UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History 136
Non-Binding Resolution: EU States Should Protect Snowden 210
Hackers, Activists, Journos: How To Build a Secure Burner Laptop 139
UK Government Says App Developers Won't Be Forced To Implement Backdoors 86
Carriers Selling Your Data: a $24 Billion Business 125
Univ. of New Haven Cyber Lab: WhatsApp Collects Phone Numbers, Call Duration, and More 67
Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone 620
The IRS Has Stingray Devices 83
Judge Tosses Wikimedia's Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia Isn't Big Enough 213
Dutch Researchers Show Connected Cars Can Be Cheaply Tracked 25
Reactions Split On What Canada's Liberal Majority Means For Tech Policy Future 220
Self-Encrypting Western Digital Hard Drives Easy To Crack 74
The NYPD's X-Ray Vans 190
Irish Data Protection Commissioner Ordered To Investigate Facebook Data 18
UK's Largest Online Pharmacy Sold Patients' Personal Data To Fraudsters 58
Replacing Humans With CGI Animations To Protect Anonymity In Video Footage 44
Americans Show 'Surprising Willingness' To Accept Internet Surveillance 223
Beware: FBI, Other Agencies Might Go After Your Voluntary DNA Records 132
House of Representatives Proposal Aims To Regulate Car Privacy 58
UK MPs Hold Emergency Debate After Court Makes It Legal For GCHQ To Spy On Them 140
German Police Warn Parents To Stop Posting Photos of Kids On Facebook 143
If You're Not Paranoid About Your Privacy, You're Crazy 373
Court: Lawsuit Over NYPD Surveillance of Muslims Can Proceed 253
Australian ISPs Not Ready For Mandatory Data Retention 85
British Police Stop 24/7 Monitoring of Julian Assange At Ecuadorian Embassy 336
Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against CISA 211
The Payments World Really Wants To Know Who You Are 73
Cryptome Accidentally Leaks Its Own Visitor IP Addresses 40
Apple Approves, Then Removes In-App Ad Blocker 85
SIgn Of the Times: Calif. Privacy Protections Signed Into Law 41
IP Address May Associate Lyft CTO With Uber Data Breach 103
Rookie Dongle Warns Parents When Their Kids Are Driving Too Fast 153
Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Find "Nuts and Bolts" Info On Cookies & Tracking Mechanisms? 84
Wealth of Personal Data Found On Used Electronics Purchased Online 70
Boarding Pass Barcodes Can Reveal Personal Data, Future Flights 64
Verizon Is Merging Its Cellphone Tracking Supercookie with AOL's Ad Tracking Network 100
Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data 423
EU Court of Justice Declares US-EU Data Transfer Pact Invalid 205
EFF Joins Nameless Coalition and Demands Facebook Kills Its Real Names Policy 232
Google Lets Advertisers Target By (Anonymized) Customer Data 58
Ask Slashdot: Best Country For Secure Online Hosting? 113
Stolen Patreon User Data Dumped On Internet 161
DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords 399
Experian Breached, 15 Million T-Mobile Customer's Data Exposed 161
Patreon Hacked, Personal Data Accessed 79
Yelp For People To Launch In November 447
South Korean Citizen IDs Vulnerable, Based On US Model 57
Apple, Microsoft Tout Their Privacy Policies To Get Positive PR 103
Snowden Joins Twitter, Follows NSA 206
Newly Found TrueCrypt Flaw Allows Full System Compromise 106
FBI and DEA Under Review For Misuse of NSA Mass Surveillance Data 86
How the FBI Hacks Around Encryption 91
Edward Snowden Promotes Global Treaty To Curtail Surveillance 110
Chrome For Android's Incognito Mode Saves Some of the Sites You Visit 69
'RipSec' Goes To Hollywood: How the iCloud Celeb Hack Happened 28
EU May Forbid the Transfer of Personal Data To the US 202
Obama Administration Explored Ways To Bypass Smartphone Encryption 142
Phone Passwords Protected By 5th Amendment, Says Federal Court 178
IBM's Watson Is Now Analyzing Your Vacation Photos 117
Does IoT Data Need Special Regulation? 99
Russia's Plan To Crack Tor Crumbles 122
OPM Says 5.6 million Fingerprints Stolen In Cyberattack 93
Researchers Push For Access To Confidential Government Records of the Public 14
Morgan Stanley Employee Pleads Guilty In Data Breach Case 43
Lenovo Collects Usage Data On ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs 134
Chinese Researchers Propose Tor-Inspired Overhaul of Bitcoin 46
Under Public Pressure, India Withdraws Draft Encryption Policy 35
France Tells Google To Remove "Right To Be Forgotten" Search Results Worldwide 381
George W Bush Made Retroactive NSA 'Fix' After Hospital Room Showdown 258
India's Worrying Draft Encryption Policy 114
Private Medical Data of Over 1.5 Million People Exposed Through Amazon 106
AVG Proudly Announces It Will Sell Your Browsing History To Online Advertisers 229
Followup: Library Board Unanimously Supports TOR Relay 95
Twitter Sued For Scanning Direct Messages 80
What Congress' New Email-privacy Bill Means For Your Inbox 90
How To Find Out If GCHQ and the NSA Spied On You, and How To Complain 79
Sen. Ron Wyden Says CISA Data Collection Could Put Americans At Risk 58
Vodafone Australia Employee Searched Journalist's Phone Records To Find Source 65
Ask Slashdot: Best Country To Avoid Government Surveillance? 381
Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public 403
First Library To Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Halts Project After DHS Email 130
Microsoft Continues To Resist US Warrant For Irish Data 195
Boston Tracks Vehicles, Lies About It, Leaves Data Exposed 88
Law Professor: Tech Companies Are Our Best Hope At Resisting Surveillance 115
Apple's Privacy Policies Are Keeping Data Scientists Away 117
Windows Telemetry Rolls Out 527
Concern Over India PM's Silicon Valley Visit 80
Some Uber Ride Data Publicly Accessible Through Google 28
New Cellphone Surveillance Safeguards Imposed On Federal Law Enforcement 46
The Speakularity, Where Everything You Say Is Transcribed and Searchable 74
UK Health Clinic Accidentally Publishes HIV Status of 800 Patients 65
Despite Reports of Hacking, Baby Monitors Remain Woefully Insecure 109
Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men 311
Turkey Arrests Journalists For Using Encryption 145
Microsoft's Telemetry Additions To Windows 7 and 8 Raise Privacy Concerns 240
Smartphone Malware Planted In Popular Apps Pre-sale 42
FBI: Burning Man Testing Ground For Free Speech, Drugs ... and New Spy Gear 189
Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages 576
Ashley Madison CEO Steps Down, Reporter Finds Clues To Hacker's Identity 215
Federal Court Overturns Ruling That NSA Metadata Collection Was Illegal 151
German Intelligence Traded Citizen Data For NSA Surveillance Software 68
Docs: Responding To Katrina, FBI Made Cell Phone Surveillance Its Priority 84
Tech Nightmares That Keep Turing Award Winners Up At Night 82
How To Keep Microsoft's Nose Out of Your Personal Data In Windows 10 426
Court: FTC Can Punish Companies With Sloppy Cybersecurity 86
A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy 318
Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims 706
In Baltimore and Elsewhere, Police Use Stingrays For Petty Crimes 213
Underground Piracy Sites Want To Block Windows 10 Users 394
Yet Another Compromising Preinstalled "Glitch" In Lenovo Laptops 89
Extortionists Begin Targeting AshleyMadison Users, Demand Bitcoin 286
San Jose May Put License Plate Scanners On Garbage Trucks 258
More Ashley Madison Files Published 301
Engaging Newbies In Email Encryption and Network Privacy 83
Hackers Publish Cheating Site's Stolen Data 319
How an Obscure Acronym Helped Link AT&T To NSA Spying 54
The Network Is Hostile 124
Mozilla Tests Improved Privacy Mode For Firefox 125
AT&T Helped the NSA Spy On Internet Traffic 82
Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings 316
The UK's War On Porn: Turning ISPs Into Parents 231
Facebook Intern Gets Preemptive Ax For Exposing Security Flaw 103
Fitbit Wants To Help Corporations Track Employee Health 206
Tech Firms, Retailers Propose Security and Privacy Rules For Internet of Things 57
'Privacy Visor' Can Fool Face-Recognition Cameras 110
The NSA's Philosopher 95
Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice 392
Finnish Politician Suggests Embedding Chips In Citizens To Protect the Welfare State 312
Stingray-Like Device Enables Blackmail In S. Africa 50
Many Australians Forced To Pay For "Unbreakable" Cryptolocker Ransomware 148
Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? 515
EFF Releases Privacy Badger, an Addon That Algorithmically Blocks Online Trackers 136
4th Circuit Holds That Obtaining Extended Cell-Site Records Requires a Warrant 37
TPP Copyright Chapter Leaks: Website Blocking, New Criminal Rules On the Way 258
Spyware Demo Shows How Spooks Hack Mobile Phones 35
How Boing Boing Handled an FBI Subpoena Over Its Tor Exit Node 104
EFF and MuckRock Need Your Help Tracking Biometric Surveillance 19
Privacy Alert: Your Laptop Or Phone Battery Could Track You Online 95
EFF Coalition Announces New 'Do Not Track' Standard For Web Browsing 75
New Telemetry Suggests Shot-Down Drone Was Higher Than Alleged 528
One In Four Indiana Residents' E-Record Data Exposed in Hack 60
Ask Slashdot: Can You Disable Windows 10's Privacy-Invading Features? 492
GasBuddy Has a New Privacy Policy (Spoiler: Not As Customer Friendly) 113
Questioning the Dispute Over Key Escrow 82

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