Privacy Stories for 2018

Several Popular Apps Share Data With Facebook Without User Consent 146
Chinese Schools Are Using 'Smart Uniforms' To Track Their Students' Locations 95
FTC Warns Netflix Users About Email Phishing Scam 37
Hacker Steals Ten Years Worth of Data From San Diego School District 82
India Wants Tech Platforms To Break Encryption And Remove Content The Government Thinks Is 'Unlawful' 108
Should Parents Shun Toys That Track Their Kids? 191
ACLU To Feds: Your 'Hacking Presents a Unique Threat To Individual Privacy' 67
Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree 61
India To Intercept, Monitor, and Decrypt Citizens' Computers 108
Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix For Internet Explorer Zero Day 39
China Hacked HPE, IBM and Then Attacked Clients, Report Finds 59
Amazon Error Allowed Alexa User To Eavesdrop on Another Home 91
Facebook Gave More Than 150 Companies, Including Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify, Amazon and Yahoo, Unprecedented Access To Users' Personal Data: NYT 114
Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn't Stop It From Tracking Your Location 165
UK Police Are Testing Facial Recognition on Christmas Shoppers in London this Week 91
Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence 127
Taylor Swift Used Facial Recognition Tech At Concerts To Spy On Stalkers 147
Porn Sites Collect More User Data Than Netflix Or Hulu 70
Facebook Says A Bug May Have Exposed The Unposted Photos Of Millions Of Users 51
WordPress Plugs Bug that Led to Google Indexing Some User Passwords 32
A Corporate-issued Laptop Stolen From a Lenovo Employee in September Contained Unencrypted Payroll Data on APAC Staff 65
Google Pledges To Hold Off On Selling Facial Recognition Technology 46
Google's CEO Thinks Android Users Know How Much Their Phones Are Tracking Them 131
Border Agents Fail To Delete Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says 89
Android Trojan Steals Money From PayPal Accounts Even With 2FA On 56
Facebook Filed a Patent To Calculate Your Future Location 104
House Panel Issues Scathing Report On 'Entirely Preventable' Equifax Data Breach 75
Malicious Sites Abuse 11-Year-Old Firefox Bug That Mozilla Failed To Fix 91
Google Will Shut Down Google+ Four Months Early After Second Data Leak 53
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret 98
Chinese Mobile App Companies Are a National Security Risk, Says a Top Democrat 76
EU Governments Agree To Tougher Stance On E-evidence 19
Facial Recognition Has To Be Regulated To Protect the Public, Says AI Report 55
Facebook Used Its VPN App To Track Competitors, Documents Reveal 48
Internal Emails Show Facebook Weighing the Privacy Risks of Quietly Collecting Call and Text Records From Its Android Users -- Then Going Ahead Anyway 117
The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House 55
Quora Data Breach Exposes 100 Million Users' Personal Info 40
Marriott's Breach Response Is So Bad, Security Experts Are Filling In the Gaps 78
Prison Inmates Catfished $560,000 Out of Military Service Members in Sextortion Scam, NCIS Says 165
SKY Brasil Exposes 32 Million Customer Records 19
Automakers Give the Chinese Government Access To Location Data of Electric Cars 32
Facebook Discussed Using People's Data As a Bargaining Chip, Emails and Court Filings Suggest 30
Companies 'Can Sack Workers For Refusing To Use Fingerprint Scanners' 145
Marriott Says 500 million Starwood Guest Records Stolen in Massive Data Breach 71
In China, Your Car Could Be Talking To the Government 73
Google Shut Out Privacy, Security Teams From Secret China Project 138
Democrats Demand Info On Law Enforcement's Use of Amazon Facial Recognition Tool 54
Dell Says It Detected A Security Breach Earlier This Month, But Financial Data Was Not Exposed 17
Real Life Ads Are Taking Scary Inspiration From Social Media 73
Customer Service Agents Might Be Able To See What You're Typing In Real Time 135
Urban Massage Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Comments On Its Creepy Clients 38
IBM CEO Joins Apple In Blasting Data use By Silicon Valley Firms 63
Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative 289
Alphabet's Cybersecurity Group Touts Its New Open Source Private VPN 106
India-Based Zapr Has Developed Tech That Listens To Ambient Sounds Around Users To Build Targeted Ad Profiles, Several Popular Local Services Use Its Tech 51
Amazon Has Emailed an Unspecified Number of Customers To Inform Them That Their Names and Addresses Were Disclosed by the Website, Blames 'Technical Error' 31
AWS Rolls Out New Security Feature To Prevent Accidental S3 Data Leaks 32
Apple CEO Explains How a Few Billion Dollars From Google Changes His Views on the Company's 'Unsettling' User Data Mining Activities 112
How I Got Locked Out of the Chip Implanted In My Hand 106
More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands 337
Facebook Filed a Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos 98
Hacker Says They Compromised ProtonMail; ProtonMail Calls BS 55
Dutch Government Report Says Microsoft Office Telemetry Collection Breaks EU GDPR Laws 87
A Leaky Database of SMS Text Messages Exposed Password Resets and Two-Factor Codes 37
Fake Fingerprints Can Imitate Real Ones In Biometric Systems, Research Shows 64
Chinese Telecoms Giant ZTE is Helping Venezuela Build a System That Monitors Citizen Behavior Through a New Identification Card 109
Mozilla's 'Privacy Not Included' Gift Report Highlights Security Concerns 45
Many Free Mobile VPN Apps Are Based In China Or Have Chinese Ownership 67
ProtonVPN Passes 1 Million Users and Launches on iOS 32
Google Accused of 'Trust Demolition' Over Health App 60
What Your Phone is Telling Wall Street 108
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Service Launches on Android and iOS 105
Only 22% of Americans Now Trust Facebook's Handling of Personal Info 75
The DEA and ICE Are Hiding Surveillance Cameras In Streetlights 158
Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data In Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms 32
Vulnerability Could Make DJI Drones a Spy In the Sky 18
Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp Doxes Thousands of Absentee Voters 452
Chinese 'Gait Recognition' Tech IDs People By How They Walk; Police Have Started Using It on Streets of Beijing and Shanghai 135
'Almost All' Pakistani Banks Hacked In Security Breach, Report Says 23
Oracle Says China Telecom Has Misdirected Internet Traffic, Including Out of the US, in Recent Years 58
Tencent Will Soon Require Chinese Users To Present IDs To Play Its Video Games 56
EFF Unveils VR Tool To Help People Spot Surveillance Devices In Their Communities 24
Equifax Extends Free Credit Monitoring -- But Outsources It To Experian 47
A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada 116
Bleedingbit Zero-Day Chip Flaws May Expose Majority of Enterprises To Remote Code Execution Attacks 55
Senator Introduces Bill That Would Send CEOs To Jail For Violating Consumer Privacy 104
CIA Vault7 Leaker To Be Charged For Leaking More Classified Data While in Prison 94
Apple's New T2 Security Chip Will Prevent Hackers From Eavesdropping On Your Microphone 145
US Bans Exports To Chinese DRAM Maker Citing National Security Risk 101
Google's Smart City Dream Is Turning Into a Privacy Nightmare 61
Ex-Facebook Security Chief Calls Out Tim Cook and Apple's Practices in China 91
Cathay Pacific Data Breach Hits 9.4 Million People 20
New Study Claims Data Harvesting Among Android Apps Is 'Out of Control' 97
Thousands of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin 193
Apple Just Killed The 'GrayKey' iPhone Passcode Hack 85
Government Spyware Vendor Left Customer, Victim Data Online for Everyone To See 25
ACLU Demands DHS Disclose Its Use of Facial-Recognition Tech 62
Apple's Tim Cook Makes Blistering Attack on the 'Data Industrial Complex' 185
Yahoo To Pay $50 Million, Offer Credit Monitoring For Massive Security Breach 36
An ISP Left Corporate Passwords, Keys, and All Its Data Exposed On the Internet 53
Almost 9 in 10 Android Apps Are Able To Share Data With Google, Says Study 33
UK ISP Tests SIM Card That Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor 46
AWS CEO Andy Jassy Follows Apple In Calling For Retraction of Chinese Spy Chip Story 111
Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them 118
China Requires Blockchain-Based Information Service Providers To Register Users Using Real Names, Censor Postings and Store User Data 56
Hack On 8 Adult Websites Exposes Oodles of Intimate User Data 68
MPlayer, VLC Media Player Hit By Critical Vulnerability 72
TSA Lays Out Plans To Use Facial Recognition For Domestic Flights 171
HealthCare.gov Portal Suffers Data Breach Exposing 75,000 Customers 70
Smart Home Makers Hoard Your Data, But Won't Say If the Police Come For It 45
Apple Launches Portal For US Users To Download Their Data 35
Seattle Startup Vets Takes on Google with Helm, a New $499 Personal Email Server 170
'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used By Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything 228
Chrome 70 Arrives With Option To Disable Linked Sign-Ins, PWAs On Windows, and AV1 Decoder 53
Amazon Worker Pushes Bezos To Stop Selling Facial Recognition Tech To Police 126
Facebook Plans Camera-Equipped TV Device, Report Says 114
US Voter Records From 19 States Is Being Sold on a Hacking Forum, Threat Intelligence Firms Say 102
Twitter is Being Investigated Over Data Collection In Its Link-Shortening System 60
Facebook Says Russian Firms 'Scraped' Data, Some for Facial Recognition 41
A Future Where Everything Becomes a Computer Is As Creepy As You Feared 144
How To See If Your Personal Data Was Stolen In the Recent Facebook Hack 36
Cops Told 'Don't Look' at New iPhones To Avoid Face ID Lock-Out 84
A Mysterious Grey-Hat Is Patching People's Outdated MikroTik Routers 74
Apple Rebukes Australia's 'Dangerously Ambiguous' Anti-Encryption Bill 87
The FBI Is Now Investigating Facebook's Security Breach Where Attackers Accessed 30 Million Users' Personal Information 31
Senators Demand Google Hand Over Internal Memo Urging Google+ Cover-up 127
Pro-Privacy Search Engine DuckDuckGo Hits 30 Million Daily Searches, Up 50% In a Year 141
Over Nine Million Cameras and DVRs Open To APTs, Botnet Herders, and Voyeurs 34
MindBody-Owned FitMetrix Exposed Millions of User Records -- Thanks To Servers Without Passwords 29
The Breach That Killed Google+ Wasn't a Breach At All 75
WhatsApp Fixes Bug That Let Hackers Take Over App When Answering a Video Call 11
'Why I Bid $700 For a Stolen PSN Account' 102
Google's Human-Sounding Phone Bot Is Coming To the Pixel Next Month 26
At Least Two US Attorneys General Are Investigating Google+ Breach 34
German Art Activists Get Passport Using Digitally Altered Photo of Two Women Merged Together 129
21% of Large Employers Collect Health Information From Employees' Mobile Apps or Wearable Devices, Report Says 76
UK High Court Blocks Billion-Dollar Privacy Lawsuit Against Google 43
Body Camera Maker Will Let Cops Live-Stream Their Encounters 71
Google Exposed Private Data of Hundreds of Thousands of Google+ Users and Then Opted Not To Disclose, Report Says 133
Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For? 174
Facebook Unveils Portal and Portal+ Smart Speakers With Video Calling Feature 83
Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever 201
UK Cyber Security Agency Backs Apple, Amazon China Hack Denials 56
Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally Knows What's Going On With Bloomberg's China Hack Story 176
Years After ProPublica Exposed Vizio For Spying On Users, Lawyers Will Make Millions From Lawsuit 64
Instagram Tests Sharing Your Location History With Facebook 26
China's Tencent Employs Facial Recognition To Detect Minors in Top-Grossing Mobile Game 29
California Bans Default Passwords on Any Internet-Connected Device 240
Seven Russian Hackers Charged With Hacking Anti-Doping Organizations 115
BlackBerry Races Ahead of Security Curve With Quantum-Resistant Solution 39
Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Giving Up Your Data For Better Services is 'a Bunch of Bunk' 118
Police Use Fitbit Data To Charge 90-Year-Old Man In Stepdaughter's Killing 108
Alphabet's Intra App Encrypts DNS Queries To Help Users Bypass Online Censorship 65
Google's First Urban Development Raises Data Concerns 30
Hackers Are Selling Facebook Credentials on the Dark Web For $3 43
The US Government Is Using Road Signs Showing Drivers How Fast They're Going To Capture License Plate Data 218
Google Updates Chrome Web Store Review Process and Sets New Extension Code Requirements 26
Cafe in Providence, Rhode Island Serves Free Coffee To Students Who Provide Personal Data; Participants May Receive Info From Cafe's Corporate Sponsors 113
New Zealand Travelers Refusing Digital Search Now Face $5000 Customs Fine 247
FBI Forced Suspect To Unlock His iPhone X Through Face ID 238
Cloudflare Launches a Low-Cost Domain Registrar, Which Will Also Offer Free Privacy To Customers 122
FBI Solves Mystery Surrounding 15-Year-Old Fruitfly Mac Malware Which Was Used By a Man To Watch Victims Via their Webcams, and Listen in On Conversations 111
Can DuckDuckGo Become the Anti-Google? 163
Facebook Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Massive New Hack 24
iPhone XS Passcode Bypass Hack Exposes Contacts, Photos 23
Delta's Fully Biometric Terminal Is the First In the US 53
Face Scanning In US Airports Is Rife With Technical Problems 62
Alphabet Launches VirusTotal Enterprise 36
Mobile Websites Can Tap Into Your Phone's Sensors Without Asking 48
Mozilla Rolls Out Recovery Key Option For Firefox Accounts 36
Ex-Google Employee Warns of 'Disturbing' China Plans 92
Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information 130
In Senate Hearing, Tech Giants Push Lawmakers For Federal Privacy Rules 36
India's Top Court Refuses To Scrap Aadhaar, the World's Largest Biometric ID Database 36
Password Managers Can Be Tricked Into Believing That Malicious Android Apps Are Legitimate 73
Google Promises Chrome Changes After Privacy Complaints 82
Ex-NSA Employee Gets 5 Years In Prison For Taking Home Top Secret Files 174
Millennials More Likely To Fall For Scams Than Baby Boomers 293
Trump Administration Asks For Public Input on Data Privacy 117
Apple Releases macOS Mojave Featuring Dark Mode and Other Features; Earlier Today a Security Researcher Published 0Day Bypass For a Privacy Bug in the new OS 72
Google Secretly Logs Users Into Chrome Whenever They Log Into a Google Site 179
Judge Orders Cloudflare To Turn Over Identifying Data In Copyright Case 56
Wendy's Faces Lawsuit For Unlawfully Collecting Employee Fingerprints 127
Huge Trove of Employee Records Discovered At Abandoned Toys 'R' Us 112
Twitter Notifies Developers About API Bug That Shared DMs With Wrong Developers 12
Apple Will Judge Call, Email Activity To Assign Users a 'Trust Score' 106
Google Defends Gmail Data Sharing, Gives Few Details on Violations 26
Equifax Slapped With UK's Maximum Penalty Over 2017 Data Breach 66
Cloudflare Ends CAPTCHAs For Tor Users 50
California May Ban Terrible Default Passwords On Connected Devices 155
'WaitList.dat' Windows File May Be Secretly Hoarding Your Passwords, Emails 40
'I'm Admin. You're Admin. Everyone is Admin.' Remote Access Bug Turns Western Digital My Cloud Into Everyone's Cloud 74
Cloudflare Wants Internet Route Leaks To Be a Thing of the Past 24
Hackers Stole Customer Credit Cards in Newegg Data Breach 149
Facebook Wanted Banks To Fork Over Customer Data Passing Through Messenger 71
Cyber Sleuths Find Traces of Infamous iPhone and Android Spyware 'Pegasus' in 45 Countries 24
Altaba To Settle Lawsuits Relating To Yahoo Data Breach For $47 Million 18
Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email? 257
Do Data Breaches Affect Stock Performance in the Long Run? 32
UK's GCHQ Intelligence Agency Violated Human Rights With Its Mass Surveillance Tactics, Top European Court Rules 45
Trump To Target Foreign Meddling In US Elections With Sanctions Order 187
Free Municipal Wi-Fi May Be the Next Front In the War Against Privacy 76
Popular VPNs Contained Code Execution Security Flaws, Despite Patches 47
Apple Is Building An Online Portal For Police To Make Data Requests 75
Two Lawmakers Urge FTC, CFPB To Keep Pressure On Equifax 48
Vizio May Soon Inform Customers When Its Smart TVs Are Spying On Them 77
380,000 Card Payments Compromised In British Airways Breach 50
Blockchains Are Not Safe For Voting, Concludes NAP Report 106
Tor Browser Gets a Redesign, Switches To New Firefox Quantum Engine 49
Researchers Used Sonar Signal From a Smartphone Speaker To Steal Unlock Passwords 45
Mobile Spyware Maker mSpy Leaks Millions of Sensitive Records 18
MikroTik Routers Are Forwarding Owners' Traffic To Unknown Attackers 31
Google Has Notified At Least Dozens of People Targeted by Secret FBI Investigation 103
US Health Insurer Premera Blue Cross Accused of Destroying Evidence in Data Breach Lawsuit 72
Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance Argues 'Privacy is Not Absolute' in Push For Encryption Backdoors 421
Murder Suspect Jailed Over Refusing To Reveal Password In the UK 165
Some Baltimore Residents Are Lobbying To Bring Back Aerial Surveillance 145
Google Bought Mastercard Data To Link Online Ads To Store Purchases, Says Report 137
Android Bug Allows Geolocation Tracking of Users 46
Senator Orrin Hatch Asks FTC To Investigate Competitive Effects of Google's Conduct in Search and Digital Advertising 110
Air Canada Mobile App Breach Affects 20,000 People 15
OCR Software Dev Abbyy Exposes 200,000 Customer Documents 25
US Court of Appeals: An IP Address Isn't Enough To Identify a Pirate 168
Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data To Sell Advertisers 88
Data of 130 Million Chinese Hotel Chain Guests Sold on Dark Web Forum 28
Rights Groups Are Demanding That Google Doesn't Release A Censored Search Engine In China 105
Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law, on Its Own Terms 49
India's Biometric Database Is Creating A Perfect Surveillance State -- And U.S. Tech Companies Are On Board 82
Airbnb Sues New York City To Block User-Data Bill Over Privacy 64
Woman Sues US Border Agents Over Seized iPhone 277
Hackers Stole Personal Data of 2 Million T-Mobile Customers 56
Millions of Texas Voter Records Exposed Online 79
Venmo Considers Making it Harder to See What Other People Are Buying, Report Says 32
China Sees Surge in Personal Information Up For Sale 19
Spyware Company Leaves 'Terabytes' of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data 58
Apple Removes Facebook's Onavo Security App From the App Store 98
Google's Data Collection is Hard To Escape, Study Claims 100
Man Sues Over Google's 'Location History' Fiasco, Case Could Affect Millions 84
Saint Louis University Is Outfitting Student Living Spaces With Thousands of Echo Dots 174
Does Gmail's 'Confidential Mode' Go Far Enough? 160
US Government Seeks Facebook Help To Wiretap Messenger, Report Says 51
This Company Embeds Microchips in Its Employees, and They Love It 250
Mozilla Removes 23 Firefox Add-Ons That Snooped On Users 79
To Catch A Robber, The FBI Attempted An Unprecedented Grab For Google Location Data 140
Police Bodycams Can Be Hacked To Doctor Footage, Install Malware 104
California Officials Admit To Using License Plate Readers To Monitor Welfare Recipients 170
Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap 54
Hackers Who Attended Black Hat and DefCon Conferences Say Hotel Security Personnel Demanded Access To Their Rooms 441
Many Google Services on Android Devices and iPhones Store Location Data, Even if Location Sharing is Disabled From Privacy Settings: AP 122
11-Year-Old Changes Election Results On Florida's Website: Defcon 2018 202

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