Privacy Stories for 2021

Sega Left One of Its European Servers Wide Open 5
Are Apple AirTags Being Used To Track People and Steal Cars? 72
T-Mobile Suffers Another Data Breach 6
DuckDuckGo Search Queries Grew 47% in 2021 48
Google Scans Gmail and Drive For Cartoons of Child Sexual Abuse 146
Personal and Salary Data for 637,138 Albanian Citizens Leaks Online 15
The NCA Shares 585 Million Passwords With 'Have I Been Pwned' 20
Security Flaws Found in a Popular Guest Wi-Fi System Used in Hundreds of Hotels 25
Verizon Tries To Defend Collecting Browsing Data on its Network 32
France Latest To Slap Clearview AI With Order To Delete Data 28
Biometrics Company Clear Is Bringing Its Airport Scanners To Retail Stores 30
Mitto Tells Clients That Co-Founder Departed After Allegations of Phone Spying 2
Apple Removes All References To Controversial CSAM Scanning Feature From Its Child Safety Webpage 36
Presentations Point To Greater Huawei Role In China Surveillance Than Acknowledged 45
Ukraine Arrests 51 For Selling Data of 300 Million People In US, EU 11
Cox Discloses Data Breach After Hacker Impersonates Support Agent 16
EFF Warns Chrome Users: 'Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening' 46
Over 40 Million People Had Health Information Leaked This Year 25
Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass 144
Apple Reaches Quiet Truce Over iPhone Privacy Changes 43
Clearview AI On Track To Win US Patent For Facial Recognition Technology 17
LINE Pay Leaks Around 133,000 Users' Data To GitHub 8
Verizon Once Again Expands Its Snoopvertising Ambitions 14
SolarWinds Hackers Have a Whole Bag of New Tricks For Mass Compromise Attacks 43
Eurostar Tests Facial Recognition System On London Train Station 24
Verizon Might Be Collecting Your Browsing History 36
The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users 32
A Mysterious Threat Actor is Running Hundreds of Malicious Tor Relays 20
Firefox 95 Will Include RLBox Sandboxing for Added Security 35
Executive at Swiss Tech Company Said to Operate Secret Surveillance Operation 10
Israel Halts Disputed Omicron Tracing Through Phone Surveillance 9
A Mysterious Threat Actor Is Running Hundreds of Malicious Tor Relays 44
Apple AirTags Being Used By Thieves To Track High-End Cars To Steal 42
German Coalition Backs Ban on Facial Recognition in Public Places 17
The US Crackdown on Chinese Economic Espionage is a Mess 65
Qualcomm's New Always-On Smartphone Camera Is a Privacy Nightmare 53
The Virtual Phone Farms Scammers Use To Set Up Fake Accounts 22
Biden Administration Makes First Move on Data Privacy 45
Israel Authorizes Use of Phone Tracking Tech To Contain Spread of Omicron Covid Variant 70
Chinese Province Targets Journalists, Foreign Students With Planned New Surveillance System 46
Google Makes Pledges on Browser Cookies To Appease UK Regulator 29
UK Privacy Watchdog Warns Adtech the End of Tracking is Nigh 19
A Third of All Dark Web Domains Are Now V3 Onion Sites 20
Mozilla Is Ending Support For Its Firefox Password Manager Sync App 26
New Windows Zero-Day With Public Exploit Lets You Become An Admin 57
China's New Privacy Law Leaves US Behind 67
Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Maker, Seeking To Block Its Access To iPhones 33
WhatsApp Privacy Policy Tweaked in Europe After Record Fine 9
Facebook Tells LA Police To Stop Spying on Users With Fake Accounts 60
Singapore's Tech-utopia Dream is Turning Into a Surveillance State Nightmare 52
Tor Project Sees Decline in Server Numbers, Will Offer Rewards for New Bridge Operators 33
Thousands of Firefox Users Accidentally Commit Login Cookies On GitHub 52
Advisor To EU's Top Court Suggests German Bulk Data Retention Law Isn't Legal 15
South Korea Is Giving Millions of Photos To Facial Recognition Researchers 17
Robinhood Hack Also Included Thousands of Phone Numbers 6
Portugal Proposed Law Tries To Sneak in Biometric Mass Surveillance 17
Contract Lawyers Face a Growing Invasion of Surveillance Programs that Monitor their Work 59
Infrastructure Bill's Drunk Driving Tech Mandate Leaves Some Privacy Advocates Nervous 138
The US Treasury Is Buying Private App Data to Target and Investigate People 44
Microsoft Will Now Snitch On You At Work Like Never Before 143
Should Police Be Allowed to Demand Your Cellphone's Passcode? 290
Peloton Joins Companies Blaming Lower Earnings on Apple's Tracking Restrictions 74
'The Way My Boss Monitored Me At Home Was Creepy' 91
All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan 75
Facebook Is Backing Away From Facial Recognition. Meta Isn't. 33
Clearview AI Told It Broke Australia's Privacy Law, Ordered To Delete Data 14
Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans To Shut Down Facial Recognition System 36
What Happens When You Use Bluetooth Tags to Track Your Stolen Items? 166
Google Rolls Out Tool To Help Minors Delete Photos From Search 11
Location Data Firm Got GPS Data From Apps Even When People Opted Out 19
A Security Bug in Health App Docket Exposed COVID-19 Vaccine Records 49
Protonmail Celebrates Swiss Court Victory Exempting it From Telco Data Retention Laws 4
Apple's Privacy Rules to Blame For Facebook's Lower Than Expected Quarterly Growth, Says Zuckerberg 46
TikTok Tells US Lawmakers It Does Not Give Info To China 33
'Banning Anonymous Social Media Accounts Would Only Stifle Free Speech and Democracy' 152
Palantir's Peter Thiel Thinks People Should Be More Concerned About 'Surveillance AI' 63
The Man Who Stole and Then Sold Data on 178 Million Facebook Users Gets Sued by Facebook 70
Aggressive US Marketers are Bringing Police Surveillance Tools to the Masses 112
Amazon's Alexa Collects More of Your Data Than Any Other Smart Assistant 32
Internet Service Providers Collect, Sell Horrifying Amount of Sensitive Data, Government Study Concludes 35
Police Can't Demand You Reveal Your Phone Passcode and Then Tell a Jury You Refused 75
China's VPN Market Now Open To Foreign Investment 35
Brave Removes Google as its Default Search Engine 25
Hacker Steals Government ID Database for Argentina's Entire Population 41
Give Us Your Biometric Data To Get Your Lunch In 5 Seconds, UK Schools Tell Children 121
Amazon's Ring Doorbell Can Violate Your Neighbor's Privacy, a UK Judge Rules 55
7-Eleven Breached Customer Privacy By Collecting Facial Imagery Without Consent 23
Moscow Says It is First To Launch Large-scale Metro Facial ID Payment System 19
Neighbor Wins Privacy Row Over Smart Doorbell and Cameras 135
AI Fake-Face Generators Can Be Rewound To Reveal the Real Faces They Trained On 23
Study Reveals Android Phones Constantly Snoop On Their Users 113
Google Pulls 'Stalkerware' Ads That Promoted Phone Spying Apps 9
iPhone Apps No Better For Privacy Than Android, Oxford Study Finds 22
Facebook Bans Developer Behind Unfollow Everything Tool 84
Apple Says Apps Must Offer a Way To Delete Your Account Starting In Early 2022 23
Twitch Source Code and Business Data Leaked 66
Neiman Marcus Discloses a 2020 Data Breach That Impacted 4.6 Million Customers 11
Alliance Including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM Vows to Protect Rights and Privacy With 'Trusted Cloud Principles' 33
Former OnlyFans Employees Could Access Users' and Models' Personal Information 18
FTC Weighs New Online Privacy Rules 12
When the FBI Seizes Your Messages from Big Tech, You May Not Know for Years 91
110,000 Affected by Epik Breach - Including Those Who Trusted Epik to Hide Their Identity 112
Why EFF Flew a Plane Over Apple's Headquarters 29
Google Photos' Nude-Friendly Folders Coming To All Android Phones Soon 61
Are You Ready To Share Your Analprint With Big Tech? 81
Other than Prison, Electronic Monitoring is 'the Most Restrictive Form' of Control, Research Finds 50
Hackers Leak LinkedIn 700 Million Data Scrape 28
A Stalkerware Firm Is Leaking Real-Time Screenshots of People's Phones Online 11
Facebook Warned Over 'Very Small' Indicator LED On Smart Glasses 112
Researchers Defeated Advanced Facial Recognition Tech Using Makeup 23
Google Will Extend Permission Auto-Reset Feature To Older Android Versions 21
FTC Warns Health Apps To Notify Consumers Impacted by Data Breaches 7
Travis CI Flaw Exposed Secrets of Thousands of Open Source Projects 28
DoorDash Sues NYC Over Customer Data Law 65
SEC Charges App Annie With Securities Fraud in $10 Million Settlement 10
China Uses Anti-fraud App To Track Access To Overseas Financial News Sites 25
Senator Wyden Reflects on 9/11's Legacy: Mass Surveillance 26
Security Weaknesses in Mozilla VPN Found and Addressed by Audit 12
Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Joins ProtonMail's Advisory Board 30
After Chiding Apple On Privacy, Germany Says It Uses Pegasus Spyware 38
UK's ICO Calls For Browser-Level Controls To Fix 'Cookie Fatigue' 135
WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages 87
ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist After Order By Swiss Authorities 153
Lawsuits Accuse Siri, Alexa, and Google of Listening When They're Not Supposed To 99
Apple Delays Plans To Roll Out CSAM Detection in iOS 15 61
Seemingly Normal Lightning Cable Will Leak Everything You Type 51
Apple Will Ask Before it Targets You With Its Ads in iOS 15 29
Australian Powers To Spy on Cybercrime Suspects Given Green Light 34
Apple Secures First States To Support Digital Driver's Licenses, But Privacy Questions Linger 100
10 US Government Agencies Plan Expanded Use of Facial Recognition 29
Facebook Has Trackers in 25% of Websites and 61% of the Most Popular Apps 81
T-Mobile CEO Apologizes For Data Breach Affecting Over 53 Million Users 26
EU Agency Advises Against Using Search, Browsing History For Credit Scores 38
Apple Has Been CSAM Scanning Your iCloud Mail Since 2019 52
38 Million Records Were Exposed Online -- Including Contact-Tracing Info 19
Apple's Anti-Fraud Chief Said Company Was 'The Greatest Platform For Distributing Child Porn' 74
Hacker Selling Private Data Allegedly From 70 Million AT&T Customers 12
China Passes Data Protection Law 52
Justice Department Says Facial Recognition Helped End an Almost 15-year Manhunt 53
Senators Challenge TikTok's 'Alarming' Plan To Collect Users' Voice and Face Biometrics 39
Policy Groups Ask Apple To Drop Plans To Inspect iMessages, Scan for Abuse Images 89
'Apple's Device Surveillance Plan Is a Threat To User Privacy -- And Press Freedom' 213
Apple's NeuralHash Algorithm Has Been Reverse-Engineered 86
Afghans Scramble To Delete Digital History, Evade Biometrics 203
Critical Bug Impacting Millions of IoT Devices Lets Hackers Spy On You 42
Stop Using Zoom, Hamburg's DPA Warns State Government 25
A Simple Software Fix Could Limit Location Data Sharing 55
Would You Let Amazon Scan Your Palm For $10? 72
Activist Raided By London Police After Downloading Docs Found On Google Search 139
Apple's Child Protection Features Spark Concern Within Its Own Ranks 99
Amazon To Monitor Customer Service Workers' Keyboard and Mouse Strokes 57
NYPD Secretly Spent $159 Million On Surveillance Tech Since 2007 16
Researchers Create 'Master Faces' To Bypass Facial Recognition 38
Firefox 91 Pushes Privacy With Stronger New Cookie-clearing Option 35
Uber Asked Contractor To Allow Video Surveillance In Employee Homes, Bedrooms 60
Is Big Tech Pressuring Its Call-Center Workers to Install Cameras in Their Homes? 95
PSA: Apple Can't Run CSAM Checks On Devices With iCloud Photos Turned Off 62
Edward Snowden and EFF Slam Apple's Plans To Scan Messages and iCloud Images 55
Apple Confirms It Will Begin Scanning iCloud Photos for Child Abuse Images 135
Google+ Class Action Starts Paying Out $2.15 For G+ Privacy Violations 15
Pegasus Spyware Found On Journalists' Phones, French Intelligence Confirms 50
Amazon Will Pay You $10 in Credit for Your Palm Print Biometrics 96
Banned Chinese Facial Recognition Technology Was Used in Search for US Protesters 156
Zoom Agrees to $85M Settlement in Possible Class Action Over Data-Sharing, Zoombombing 15
Google Play Gets Mandatory App Privacy Labels In April 2022 13
New Android Malware Uses VNC To Spy and Steal Passwords From Victims 15
Estonia Says a Hacker Downloaded 286,000 ID Photos From Government Database 11
Mexico Says Officials Spent $61 Million On Pegasus Spyware 10
48 Advocacy Groups Call On the FTC To Ban Amazon Surveillance 32
EFF Sues US Postal Office For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program 57
Is Your Phone Infected With Pegasus? 75
Google Updates Timeline For Unpopular Privacy Sandbox, Which Will Kill Third-Party Cookies In Chrome By 2023 27
For Million of Americans, Unemployment Benefits Require Facial Recognition Scanning 152
Church Official Exposed Through America's 'Vast and Largely Unregulated Data-Harvesting' 101
Hole Blasted In Guntrader: UK Firearms Sales Website's CRM Database Breached, 111K Users' Info Spilled Online 63
NSO Group CEO Says Law-Abiding Citizens Have 'Nothing To Be Afraid Of' 117
The Inevitable Weaponization of App Data Is Here 77
Pegasus Spyware Seller: Blame Our Customers Not Us For Hacking 104
Judge Forces US Capitol Rioter To Unlock Laptop Seized By FBI 391
Telegram Founder Listed in Leaked Pegasus Project Data 23
Venmo Drops the Global Social Feed That Could Make Your Payments Visible To Strangers 19
France Investigates Report Morocco Had Macron's Phone Hacked 39
China Calls Out Amazon, ByteDance, NetEase for Violating Users' Rights in Latest Crackdown 30
DuckDuckGo Launches New Email Protection Service To Remove Trackers 45
Edward Snowden Calls For Spyware Trade Ban Amid Pegasus Revelations 75
Man Behind LinkedIn Scraping Said He Grabbed 700 Million Profiles 'For Fun' 27
Facebook Engineer Abused Access To User Data To Track Woman That Left Him After a Fight, New Book Says 78
Apple's IDFA Change Has Triggered 15% To 20% Revenue Drops For iOS Developers 120
Amazon Rolls Out Encryption For Ring Doorbells 53
Man Wrongfully Arrested By Facial Recognition Tells Congress His Story 94
Tor Project Hopes to Replace 'Complex', 'Fragile' C Code With Rust 107
After Apple's 'App Tracking Transparency', Advertisers Spent More Money Targeting Android Users 21
Tencent Uses Facial Recognition To Ban Kids Gaming Past Bedtime 66
Samsung Washing Machine App Requires Access To Your Contacts and Location 201
New York City's New Biometrics Privacy Law Takes Effect 13
Advertisers Concerned iCloud Private Relay Could Put An End To Fingerprinting 84
Kaspersky Password Manager Fixes Flaw That Generated Easily Bruteforced Passwords 31
'We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals' 70
Evernote Quietly Disappeared From an Anti-Surveillance Lobbying Group's Website 12
Privacy-Focused Tech Companies Call For Ban On Targeted Advertising 53
Debit Card Apps For Kids Are Collecting a Shocking Amount of Personal Data 51
Is Open Source Audio Editor Audacity 'Spyware'? 203
Why Email Providers Scan Your Emails 98
A Threat to Privacy in the Expanded Use of License Plate-Scanning Cameras? 149
Passwords In Amazon Echo Dots Live On Even After You Factory-Reset the Device 22
Intuit to Share Payroll Data from 1.4M Small Businesses With Equifax 25
An Email Sent by One Medical Exposed Hundreds of Customers' Email Addresses 24
Maine Passes the Strongest State Facial Recognition Ban Yet 46
Microsoft Exec: Targeting of Americans' Records 'Routine' 38
DoubleVPN Servers, Logs, and Account Info Seized By Law Enforcement 69
Inside Neeva, the Ad-Free, Privacy-First Search Engine From ex-Googlers 70
Abu Dhabi Starts Using Facial Covid Scanners at Malls and Airports 51
DuckDuckGo Beats Bing to Become #2 Mobile Search Engine in US, Canada, Australia 91
'Golden Age of Surveillance', as Police Make 112,000 Data Requests in 6 Months 98
Mozilla's Rally Will Share Your Data With Scientists Instead of Advertisers 40
Google Delays Blocking Third-Party Cookies in Chrome Until 2023 16
A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers In India To Yell At Armed Robbers 72
Google Gets a New Rival as Brave Search Opens To the Public 60
Ring Once Gave Free Cameras to 100 Los Angeles Police Officers 31
How a Murderer's Lies Were Exposed by His Cellphone and a Smartwatch 57
Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened 83
Hackers Are Selling Data Stolen From Audi and Volkswagen 22
Amazon is Blocking Google's FLoC 50
Irish Police To Be Given Powers Over Passwords 164
Supreme Court Revives LinkedIn Bid To Shield Personal Data 38
Apple Repair Tech Posted Woman's Explicit iPhone Photos to Facebook 157
4+ Years in Prison for Home Security Worker Who Accessed Security Cameras to Spy on Women 107
McDonald's Hit by Data Breach 43
Volkswagen Says a Vendor's Security Lapse Exposed 3.3 Million Drivers' Details 23
Ring Refuses To Say How Many Users Had Video Footage Obtained By Police 49
Tax Details of US Super-Rich Allegedly Leaked 399
Europe's AI Rules Open Door To Mass Use of Facial Recognition, Critics Warn 14
Apple's New 'Private Relay' Feature Will Not Be Available in China 69
Apple Wallet Will Support IDs and Driver's Licenses In iOS 15 64
Apple Announces iCloud+ With Privacy-focused Features 37
Startup Stealth Data Working To Uncover the Identities of Website Users 111
TikTok Gives Itself Permission To Collect Biometric Data On US Users, Including 'Faceprints and Voiceprints' 31
Using Fake Reviews To Find Dangerous Extensions 13
Apple Bolsters AirTags Privacy Measures, To Offer Android Detector App Later This Year 20
Amazon's Ring Will Ask Police To Publicly Request User Videos 41
Google is Making it Harder for Android Apps To Track You Once You've Opted Out 16
Alibaba's Huge Browser Business Is Harvesting The 'Private' Web Activity Of Millions Of Android And iPhone Users 50
Amazon Devices Will Soon Automatically Share Your Internet With Neighbors 182
NSA Spied on European Politicians Through Danish Telecommunications Hub 40
Amazon's 'Echo Show' Can Now Watch Your House For You 57
WhatsApp Says It Won't Limit Functionality If You Refuse Its Privacy Policy -- For Now 10
Chinese Hackers Posing As the UN Human Rights Council Are Attacking Uyghurs 91
Indonesian Government Blocks Hacking Forum After Data Leak 6
Clearview AI Hit With Sweeping Legal Complaints Over Controversial Face Scraping in Europe 10
Google To Use Patient Data To Develop Healthcare Algorithms for Hospital Chain 46

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