Privacy Stories for 2019

US Retailers Rush To Comply With California Privacy Law 54
Brazil Fines Facebook $1.6 Million for Improper Sharing of User Data 38
French Court Clears Social Media Tracking Plan in Tax Crackdown 37
Security Camera Startup Wyze Leaked Data on Millions of Customers 36
How Tech Companies Could Skirt California's Strict New Privacy Law 33
CNET Releases '2019 Data Breach Hall of Shame' Dishonoring This Year's Biggest Data Breaches 19
How Should Students Respond To Their School's Surveillance Systems? 138
UK Government Accidentally Doxxes Award Winners 27
Amazon, Ring Face Class-Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Security Camera Hacks 35
China Shows Its Dominance in Surveillance Technology 44
Ask Slashdot: What Will the 2020s Bring Us? 207
Worker Fired For Declining a Face Scan Awarded $23,200 59
Ring's Security Woes Cause Some Tech Review Sites To Rethink Glowing Endorsements 38
Colleges Are Turning Students' Phones Into Surveillance Machines, Tracking the Locations of Hundreds of Thousands 148
A Twitter App Bug Was Used To Match 17 Million Phone Numbers To User Accounts 5
Baltimore Police Back Pilot Program for Surveillance Planes, Reviving Controversial Program 31
No, Spotify, You Shouldn't Have Sent Mysterious USB Drives To Journalists 53
Popular Messaging App ToTok Reportedly an Emirati Spy Tool 19
DNS Over HTTPS: Not As Private As Some Think? 83
How Much Are Cars Spying On Their Owners? 101
Brookline Votes To Ban Face Surveillance 32
Wawa Announces Data Breach Potentially Affecting More Than 850 Stores 30
Over 267 Million Facebook Users Reportedly Had Data Exposed Online 17
An Investigation Into the Smartphone Tracking Industry 52
Judge Rules Edward Snowden Can't Profit From His Book 104
Facebook Fails To Convince Lawmakers It Needs To Track Your Location At All Times 25
Researchers Fooled Chinese Facial Recognition Terminals With Just a Mask 24
Someone Stole Facebook Payroll Data For Thousands of Employees 29
Mozilla To Force All Add-on Devs To Use 2FA To Prevent Supply-Chain Attacks 21
Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented 'Geofence' Search 53
Inside the Podcast that Hacks Ring Camera Owners Live on Air 112
Iran Banks Burned, Then Customer Accounts Were Exposed Online 47
Genetic Database That Identified Golden State Killer Acquired By Crime Scene DNA Company 39
Ask Slashdot: Will We Ever Be Able To Make Our Own Computer Hardware At Home? 117
If Logged Into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used For Ads 36
ACLU is Suing ICE For Details on How It Uses Phone Spying Devices 14
India Proposes New Rules To Access Its Citizens' Data 14
Chrome Now Warns You When Your Password Has Been Stolen 49
Google Releases Chrome 79 With New Features Including an Option To Freeze Tabs and Back-Forward Caching 29
Investigation Reveals It's Possible For Anyone To Find Geographic Coordinates of Ring Devices Using Post from Amazon's Neighbors App 66
Apple To Speak At CES Conference For First Time In Decades 16
Apple's Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market 105
NHS Gives Amazon Free Use of Health Data Under Alexa Advice Deal 25
The U.S. Considers Ban on Exporting Surveillance Technology To China 73
Trump Administration Drops Plans For Mandatory Face Scans of Citizens 31
FTC Finds Cambridge Analytica Deceived Facebook Users 11
Most of the Largest US Voting Districts Are Vulnerable To Email Spoofing 19
A Billion Surveillance Cameras Forecast To Be Watching Within Two Years 40
US Shows a 'Concerning Lack of Regard For the Privacy of People's Biometrics' 58
The iPhone 11 Pro's Location Data Puzzler 74
Ring Reportedly Outed Camera Owners To Police With a Heat Map 102
FaceApp and Other Russian Apps Pose Potential Counterintelligence Threats, Says FBI 22
Mozilla Removes Avast and AVG Extensions From Add-on Portal Over Snooping Claims 26
Firefox 71 Arrives With Better Lockwise and Tracker Blocking, Picture-in-Picture on Windows 53
DHS Wants Airport Face Recognition Scans To Include US Citizens 104
Google, Facebook In EU Probe Over User Data 14
All New Cellphone Users In China Must Now Have Their Face Scanned 69
Portland Plans To Propose the Strictest Facial Recognition Ban in the Country 54
Amazon Lets Doctors Record Your Conversations and Put Them in Your Medical Files 66
Millions of SMS Text Messages Exposed In Unencrypted Database 17
The File /var/lib/dbus/machine-id Matters For Your Privacy (and Devuan Fixed It) 147
Democrats Propose Sweeping Online Privacy Laws 118
Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built On Facial Recognition 68
Facebook and Twitter Users' Data Exposed Due To Third-Party SDK Bug 10
The California DMV Is Making $50 Million a Year Selling Drivers' Personal Info 62
Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Launches Plan To 'Fix' the Internet 109
Mozilla's Annual Buyer's Guide Rates Amazon and Google Security Cameras 'Very Creepy' 40
Police Can Keep Ring Camera Video Forever, and Share With Whomever They'd Like 107
EFF Challenges Ring's Spokesperson Shaq To A Discussion About Police Surveillance 64
Defecting Chinese Spy Offers Information Trove To Australian Government 82
Facebook Built a Facial Recognition App That Let Employees Identify People By Pointing a Phone at Them 27
1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server 17
Apple CEO Tim Cook: China Really Hasn't Pressured Us. 79
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Police Can't Force You To Tell Them Your Password 73
T-Mobile Reveals Data Breach Affecting Prepaid Customers 15
Uber Embraces Videotaping Rides, Raising Privacy Concerns 80
This 'Robot Lawyer' Can Take the Mystery Out of License Agreements 36
Senators Press Amazon For Answers On Ring's Sloppy Security Practices 12
Password Data For About 2.2 Million Users of Currency, Gaming Sites Dumped Online 25
Senator Introduces Bill That Would Block US Companies From Storing Data In China 49
Disney+ Fans Without Answers After Thousands Hacked 46
Senators Ask Zuckerberg To Explain Why Facebook Still Tracks Users' Location Even When They Have Asked it Not To 39
Antivirus Vendors and Non-Profits Join To Form 'Coalition Against Stalkerware' 23
Google and Samsung Fix Android Spying Flaw. Other Makers May Still Be Vulnerable 10
Some Fitbit Users Say They're Getting Rid of the Devices Because They Don't Trust Google 64
India Says Law Permits Agencies To Snoop on Citizens' Devices 35
Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data From Cayman National Bank 44
Microsoft Announces Plan To Support DoH In Windows 97
Microsoft: We're Changing All Your Cloud Contracts After Privacy Complaints 14
Facebook, Google Donate Heavily To Privacy Advocacy Groups 30
Most Americans Think They're Being Constantly Tracked, Study Finds 73
Google Almost Made 100,000 Chest X-rays Public -- Until it Realized Personal Data Could Be Exposed 49
The NYPD Kept an Illegal Database of Juvenile Fingerprints For Years 63
Health Websites Are Sharing Sensitive Medical Data with Google, Facebook, and Amazon 22
Unusual New 'PureLocker' Ransomware Is Going After Servers 22
As 5G Rolls Out, Troubling New Security Flaws Emerge 19
Facebook Bug Has Camera Activated While People Are Using the App 92
Microsoft Vows To 'Honor' California's Sweeping Privacy Law Across Entire US 30
Google's Secret 'Project Nightingale' Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans 67
Mysterious Hacker Dumps Database of Infamous IronMarch Neo-Nazi Forum 186
DHS Will Soon Have Biometric Data On Nearly 260 Million People 40
Amazon Ring Doorbells Exposed Home Wi-Fi Passwords To Hackers 25
Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia 32
Trend Micro Security Incident Involving Selling Customer Data Was an Inside Job 16
Fitbit Says Data of Its 28 Million Users Will Not Be Sold Or Used For Google Ads 56
This Is How the US Military's Massive Facial Recognition System Works 51
Leaked Documents Show Facebook Leveraged User Data To Fight Rivals and Help Friends 22
IBM Calls For Regulation To Avoid Facial Recognition Bans 60
'Game-Changer' Warrant Let Detective Search Genetic Database 108
Facebook Says 100 Software Developers May Have Improperly Accessed User Data 17
Little-known Companies Are Amassing Your Data and Selling the Analysis To Clients 45
Warehouses Are Tracking Workers' Every Muscle Movement 54
GitLab Considers Ban On New Hires In China and Russia Due To Espionage Fears 41
Are Amazon's 'Ring' Cameras Exacerbating Societal Inequality? 437
Privacy Concerns Are Jeopardizing Investigations Into Facebook Disinformation 37
Data Breaches Reported at NetworkSolutions, Register.com, and Web.com 17
Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School 57
Senator Introduces Bill Banning Facial Recognition Tech In Public Housing 47
DNA Databases Are a National Security Leak Waiting To Happen 35
NordVPN Users' Passwords Exposed In Mass Credential-Stuffing Attacks 13
Incognito Mode For Google Maps Arrives On Android 22
US Interior Department To Ground Its Drones Over Chinese Spying Risk 33
WhatsApp Hacked To Spy on Top Government Officials at US Allies 42
ACLU Sues FBI, DOJ Over Facial-Recognition Technology, Criticizing 'Unprecedented' Surveillance and Secrecy 28
Google Workers Sidestepping Controversial Chrome Tool Sparks Security Worries 55
Facebook Sues Israel's NSO Group Over Alleged WhatsApp Hack 11
Google Search To Stop Indexing Flash Content in Late 2019 46
Top Linux Developer On Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're Not Going Away.' 87
Australia Wants To Use Face Recognition For Porn Age Verification 89
Comcast Argues 'We've Never Sold Customers' Data' 56
Mozilla: Cloudflare Doesn't Pay Us For Any DoH Traffic 93
BBC News Launches 'Dark Web' Tor Mirror 41
40 Major Music Festivals Have Pledged Not To Use Facial Recognition Technology 22
Open Database Leaked 179GB In Customer, US Government, and Military Records 15
EU Data Watchdog Raises Concerns Over Microsoft Contracts 13
Comcast Is Lobbying Against Encryption That Could Prevent it From Learning Your Browsing History 79
Facebook To Face $35 Billion Class-Action Lawsuit Over Misuse of Facial Recognition Data 23
Japanese Hotel Chain Sorry That Hackers May Have Watched Guests Through Bedside Robots 21
US Senators Want Social Media Users To Be Able To Take Their Data With Them 52
Firefox 70 Arrives With Social Tracking Blocked By Default 40
In a First, FTC Bans Company From Selling 'Stalkerware' 42
US Takes Step To Require DNA Samples From Asylum-Seekers 357
Researchers Tricked Google Home and Alexa Into Eavesdropping and Password Phishing 34
Privacy-Respecting Smart Home System Can Work Offline and Sends Fake Data 40
Mercedes-Benz App Glitch Exposed Car Owners' Information To Other Users 10
'How Andrew Yang Would Fix The Internet' 100
Google Criticized After Voice From 'Nest' Camera Threatens to Steal Baby 125
New Bill Promises an End To Our Privacy Nightmare, Jail Time To CEOs Who Lie 166
Berkeley City Council Unanimously Votes To Ban Face Recognition 48
Google Ejects Open-Source WireGuard From Play Store Over Donation Links 39
The Creators Of Pokemon Go Mapped The World. Now They're Mapping You 21
Huge Child Porn Ring Busted As Authorities Cite Ability To Crack Bitcoin Privacy 179
Some Colleges Are Using Students' Smartphones To Track Their Locations on Campus 54
Google Chief: I'd Disclose Smart Speakers Before Guests Enter My Home 102
Ask Slashdot: What Should I Do About My Landlord Forcing Smart Things Into My Home? 268
Data For 26 Million Stolen Payment Cards Leaked In Hack of Fraud Bazaar 7
Google's Auto-Delete Tools Are Practically Worthless For Privacy 39
Edward Snowden: 'Without Encryption, We Will Lose All Privacy. This is Our New Battleground' 135
China Has Gained the Ability To Spy On More Than 100 Million Citizens Via a Heavily Promoted Official App, Report Suggests 47
Study: Many Popular Medical Apps Send User Info To 3rd Or 4th Parties 18
Smart TVs Are Data-Collecting Machines, New Study Shows 41
'Ignorance is Not an Excuse': California Draft Rules on Data Privacy Released 56
Ask Slashdot: Should People Be Able To Shop Anonymously On the Internet? 125
Computer Historians Crack Passwords of Unix's Early Pioneers 60
Amazon Workers May Be Watching Your Cloud Cam Home Footage 43
Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: US Heading In 'Same Direction As China' With Online Privacy 44
Opera's Desktop Browser Gets Built-In Tracking Protection 30
FBI's Use of Surveillance Database Violated Americans' Privacy Rights: Court 23
Senator Proposes Mandatory Labeling For Products With Mics, Cameras 42
Getting a New Mobile Number in China Will Soon Involve a Facial-Recognition Test 35
The Privacy Trade-Offs of Cheap Android Smartphones 22
Hong Kong Announces Ban On Masks, Face Paint That Helps Protesters Evade Facial Recognition 171
US, UK Sign Pact To Share Electronic Evidence in Criminal Cases 73
Egypt Used Google Play In Spy Campaign Targeting Its Own Citizens 12
EFF Wins Access To License Plate Reader Data To Study Law Enforcement Use 62
Google Contractors Reportedly Targeted Homeless People For Pixel 4 Facial Recognition 55
France Set To Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program 40
Motorola, Known For Cellphones, is Fast Becoming a Major Player in Government Surveillance 51
AMD Ryzen Pro 3000 Series Desktop CPUs Will Offer Full RAM Encryption 53
Google Launches Incognito Mode For Google Maps; Privacy-Focused Features For YouTube and Google Assistant 21
New App Claims It Can Identify Venture Capitalists Using Facial Recognition 70
Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables That Hack You Will Be Mass Produced and Sold 57
US Online Privacy Rules Unlikely This Year, Hurting Big Tech 15
Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations 105
New Federal Rules Limit Police Searches of Family Tree DNA Databases 40
Amazon Is Writing Its Own Facial Recognition Laws To Pitch To Lawmakers 25
Vimeo Sued For Storing Faceprints of People Without Their Consent 6
DoorDash Confirms Data Breach Affected 4.9 Million Customers, Workers, and Merchants 29
Why So Many Apps Are Asking To Use Bluetooth on iOS 13 51
Microsoft Is Still Rattled Over US 'Sneak-and-Peek' Searches 65
Cloudflare Relaunches Its Security-Focused Mobile VPN Warp 19
AI Reads Privacy Policies So You Don't Have To -- and It's Actually Pretty Good 35
Amazon's Ring Wanted To Use 911 Calls To Activate Its Video Doorbells 91
Microsoft's New 'Data Dignity' Team Could Help Users Control Their Personal Data 33
Google Is Reducing How Much Audio It Saves For Human Review 12
Challenging Facebook and Google, Apple's New OS Warns Users When Data Is Collected 97
Researchers Determine the 120 Most Surveilled (CCTV) Cities In the World 47
Home Depot and Lowe's Accused of Scanning Millions of Customers Faces 36
India Is Planning a Huge China-Style Facial Recognition Program 51
iOS 13 Ships With Known Lockscreen Bypass Flaw That Exposes Contacts 19
Facebook Suspends Tens of Thousands of Apps Following Data Investigation 12
Secret FBI Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies 23
Silicon Valley Is Terrified of California's Privacy Law 155
AT&T Says Customers Can't Sue the Company For Selling Location Data To Bounty Hunters 94
The FBI Tried To Plant a Backdoor in an Encrypted Phone Network 29
Smart TVs, Smart-Home Devices Found To Be Leaking Sensitive User Data, Researchers Find 66
Facebook Contractors Have Been Listening To 'Hey Portal' Clips 13
Millions of Americans' Medical Images and Data Are Available On the Internet 22
AI Surveillance is Expanding Worldwide 28
Spouse of Ring Exec Among Lawmakers Trying To Weaken California Privacy Law 45
Database Leaks Data on Most of Ecuador's Citizens, Including 6.7 Million Children 11
Russia Carried Out a 'Stunning' Breach of FBI Communications System, Escalating the Spy Game on US Soil 104
Online Lenders Publicly Shame Debtors in the Philippines Using Their Facebook Contacts 65
Ask Slashdot: Can A Lack of Privacy Be Weaponized? 77
Would Consumers Be Safer With a National Data Broker Registry? 27
Alabama Tracking Students' Locations To Penalize Them For Leaving Games Early 114
T-Mobile Has a Secret Setting To Protect Your Account From Hackers That it Refuses To Talk About 34
New Simjacker Attack Exploited In the Wild To Track Users For At Least Two Years 15
Weakness In Intel Chips Lets Researchers Steal Encrypted SSH Keystrokes 78
Period Tracker Apps Used By Millions Of Women Are Sharing Incredibly Sensitive Data With Facebook 62
51 Tech CEOs Send Open Letter To Congress Asking For a Federal Data Privacy Law 35
Mozilla Launches VPN as Part of Resurrected Firefox Test Pilot Program 11
Web Scraping Doesn't Violate Anti-Hacking Law, Appeal Court Rules 32
Purism Finally Starts Shipping Its Privacy-Focused 'Librem 5' Smartphone 46
Firefox Will Soon Encrypt DNS Requests By Default 147
'Google's Chrome Has My Dead Grandpa's Data and He Never Used the Internet' 229
Hong Kong Protesters Using Mesh Messaging App China Can't Block: Usage Up 3685% 57
South Africa, UK Acknowledge Mass Surveillance By Tapping Undersea Internet Cables 56
Facebook Accused of 'Deliberately Vague' Announcement About Face Recognition 30
Huawei Eyes ProtonMail as It Searches for Gmail Alternative 32
Why Phones That Secretly Listen To Us Are a Myth 219
DMVs Are Selling Your Data to Private Investigators 106
600,000 GPS Trackers Left Exposed Online With a Default Password of '123456' 52
Trusted Face Smart Unlock Method Has Been Removed From Android Devices 11
Apple Change Causes Scramble Among Private Messaging App Makers 40
China Hacked Asian Telcos To Spy on Uighur Travelers 22
Australian Federal Government Adopts 'Nuanced' Position On Data-Sharing Consent 29
Google, Industry Try To Water Down First US Data-Privacy Law 28
A Huge Database of Facebook Users' Phone Numbers Found Online 36
Google Has Secret Webpages That Feed Your Personal Data To Advertisers, Report Says 43
Facebook Brings Face Recognition To All Users, Discontinues 'Tag Suggestions' 26
Chinese Deepfake App Zao Sparks Privacy Row After Going Viral 32
Amazon's Ring May Also Be Working On Facial Recognition 71
Feds Forced Google To Reveal All Google Users Within 100 Feet of a Bank Robbery 141
Amazon Is Telling Police Departments What To Say About Its Ring Surveillance Cameras 79
Is Silicon Valley Building a Chinese-Style Social Credit System? 136
EFF Warns: 'Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox' 52
Google to Pay More Than $150 Million in YouTube Privacy Case 8
The Plan To Use Fitbit Data To Stop Mass Shootings Is One of the Scariest Proposals Yet 244
Ten Years On, Foursquare Is Now Checking In to You 18

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