Privacy Stories for 2022

The LastPass Disclosure of Leaked Password Vaults Is Being Torn Apart By Security Experts 78
For Sale on eBay: A Military Database of Fingerprints and Iris Scans 32
Anker's Eufy Breaks Its Silence on Security Cam Security 37
DraftKings Warns Data of 67,000 People Was Exposed In Account Hacks 20
IRS Accidentally Releases 112,000 Taxpayers' Private Data Again 45
Senator Wyden Urges FTC Probe of Neustar Over Possible Selling of User Data to Government 25
FBI's Vetted Info Sharing Network 'InfraGard' Hacked 21
Xnspy Stalkerware Spied on Thousands of iPhones and Android Devices 3
Apple Sued By Stalking Victims Over Alleged AirTag Tracking 108
Passkey Support Rolls Out To Chrome Stable 19
Stolen Data of Over 5 Million People Sold On Bot Markets 6
Meta's Behavioral Ads Will Finally Face GDPR Privacy Reckoning In January 8
Apple Kills Its Plan To Scan Your Photos for CSAM 41
Telegram is Auctioning Phone Numbers To Let Users Sign Up To the Service Without Any SIM 20
Amazon is Offering Customers $2 Per Month For Letting the Company Monitor the Traffic on Their Phones 64
Graduate Students Analyze, Crack, and Remove Under-Desk Surveillance Devices 86
America's TSA Begins Quietly Testing Facial Recognition Tech at 16 Airports 87
FBI, CISA Say Cuba Ransomware Gang Extorted $60 Million From Victims This Year 12
Florida State Tax Website Bug Exposed Filers' Data 12
Hive Social Turns Off Servers After Researchers Warn Hackers Can Access All Data 73
Telegram Shares Users Data in Copyright Violation Lawsuit 22
Anker's Eufy Cameras Caught Uploading Content To the Cloud Without User Consent 33
Major Canadian Crypto Exchange Coinsquare Says Client Data Breached 19
Meta Fined $277 Million for Leak of Half a Billion Users 22
Small Study Finds Computer Repair Shops Accessed Personal Data - And Sometimes Even Copied It 128
UK Bans Chinese Surveillance Gear From Sensitive State Premises 10
Infura Collecting MetaMask Users' IP, Ethereum Addresses After Privacy Policy Update 14
EU Confirms Multiple Ongoing Investigations Into TikTok Data Practices 7
Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users' Financial Information To Facebook 48
Apple Device Analytics Contain Identifying iCloud User Data, Claim Security Researchers 13
iCloud For Windows Users Report of Corrupted Videos, Photos From Strangers 25
ID.me Lied About Its Facial Recognition Tech, Congress Says 18
Meta Is on the Prowl for 'Suspicious Adults' Messaging Teenagers 31
Amazon Plans To Close Up Shop on Wickr's User-Centric Encrypted Messaging App 8
1Password Embraces a Passwordless Future 40
Meta Employees, Security Guards Fired for Hijacking User Accounts 31
DuckDuckGo's Anti-Tracking Android Tool Could Be 'Even More Powerful' Than iOS 31
Italy Outlaws Facial Recognition Tech, Except To Fight Crime 24
Mysterious Company With Government Ties Plays Key Internet Role 67
Egypt's COP27 Summit App is a Cyber Weapon, Experts Warn 28
Google is Bringing Its VPN To Mac and Windows PCs 35
Spyware Is Running Amok in Europe, EU Lawmaker Warns 40
British Government Is Scanning All Internet Devices Hosted In UK 34
AstraZeneca Password Lapse Exposed Patient Data 16
Soccer Fans, You're Being Watched 50
Big Meat Companies Want To Use Smartwatches To Track Workers' Every Move 66
TikTok Tells European Users Its Staff in China Get Access To Their Data 36
How Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Are Fulfilling Cryptography's Potential 13
Samsung Privacy-Protecting Maintenance Mode Is Coming To Galaxy S22s Worldwide 13
Google Can Now Remove Your Identifying Search Results, If They're the Right Kind 14
Square Sells Access To Your Inbox. No One Seems To Know If the Law Cares. 46
Passkeys Are Finally Here 96
Japan Steps Up Push To Get Public Buy-in To Digital IDs 56
PayPal is Getting More Secure Passkey Logins 25
Australia To Toughen Privacy Laws With Huge Hike in Penalties for Breaches 24
Nym's Plan to Boost Internet Privacy Through 'Mixnets' 22
Forbes Alleges ByteDance Planned to Use TikTok to Monitor Locations of Specific American Citizens 28
Ring Cameras Are Being Used To Control and Surveil Overworked Delivery Workers 75
Parler Accidentally Doxed Elite Members When Announcing Kanye West Takeover 71
France Fines Clearview AI Maximum Possible For GDPR Breaches 38
TikTok Deal Likely To Leave US Data Leaking To China 31
Russian Lawmaker Urges WhatsApp Ban For State Employees 24
Visitors of Qatar World Cup Need To Install Spyware On Their Phone 110
Former WSJ Reporter Says Law Firm Used Indian Hackers To Sabotage His Career 25
World's Second Richest Man Sells Jet So People On Twitter Won't Track Him Anymore 80
Mexico Probes Whether Pegasus Spyware Purchases Were Legal 2
Firefox's New Service Gives You a Burner Phone Number To Cut Down on Spam 31
In the Ultimate Amazon Smart Home, Each Device Collects Your Data 40
How Wi-Fi Spy Drones Snooped On Financial Firm 52
Android Leaks Some Traffic Even When 'Always-On VPN' Is Enabled 30
Google is Bringing Passkey Support To Android and Chrome 63
Google's 'Incognito' Mode Inspires Staff Jokes - and a Big Lawsuit 60
Toyota Discloses Data Leak After Access Key Exposed On GitHub 9
Subjecting Workers To Webcam Monitoring Violates Privacy, Dutch Court Rules 47
Papa John's Sued For 'Wiretap' Spying on Website Mouse Clicks, Keystrokes 60
Facebook Warns 1 Million Users Whose Logins Were Stolen By Scam Mobile Apps 15
Biden Order Brings New Transatlantic Data Pact Ever Closer 22
Game Firm 2K Says Users Info Stolen 2
Google To Pay $85 Million To End Arizona Consumer-Privacy Suit 8
TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don't Use the App 44
Covert CIA Websites Could Have Been Found By an 'Amateur,' Research Finds 22
House Democrats Debut New Bill To Limit US Police Use of Facial Recognition 50
UK Online Safety Bill Threatens Security, WhatsApp Chief Warns 32
Senators Push To Reform Police's Cellphone Tracking Tools 39
Beijing Bus Drivers Have Been Told To Wear Wristbands To Monitor Their Emotions 54
Australia To Overhaul Privacy Laws After Massive Data Breach 32
Cloudflare Launches an eSIM To Secure Mobile Devices 29
Ask Slashdot: What High-End Smartphone Is Best For Privacy? 196
San Francisco Passes Controversial Surveillance Plan 46
New York To Install Surveillance Cameras in Every Subway Car 37
Meta Sued For Skirting Apple Privacy Rules To Snoop On Users 36
Telegram Has a Serious Doxxing Problem 64
Indonesia Parliament Passes Long-Awaited Data Protection Bill 4
Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome Enhanced Spellcheck Feature Exposes Passwords 28
Kiwi Farms Breached; Assume Passwords, Emails, IP Addresses Have Leaked 76
Clearview AI, Used by Police To Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders' Hands 61
LastPass Says Hackers Had Internal Access For Four Days 27
Chrome for Android Gets Fingerprint-Protected Incognito Tabs 13
Record Chinese Cyber Breach Spurs Eruption in Data for Sale 16
Customs Officials Have Copied Americans' Phone Data at Massive Scale 75
TikTok Won't Commit To Stopping US Data Flows To China 61
Breach of Software Maker Used To Backdoor Ecommerce Servers 9
Microsoft Teams Stores Auth Tokens As Cleartext In Windows, Linux, Macs 32
DuckDuckGo, Proton, Mozilla Throw Weight Behind Bill Targeting Big Tech 'Surveillance' 5
What Else Happens When Your Face is Your Passport? 88
Facebook Button is Disappearing From Websites as Consumers Demand Better Privacy 36
Facebook Engineers: We Have No Idea Where We Keep All Your Personal Data 69
ISPs Drop Challenge of Maine's Privacy Law 6
IRS Says It Exposed Some Confidential Taxpayer Data On Website 12
Samsung Says Customer Data Stolen in July Data Breach 7
Major VPN Services Shut Down In India Over Anti-Privacy Law 9
Chrome Extensions With 1.4M Installs Covertly Track Visits and Inject Code 7
Tech Tool Offers Police 'Mass Surveillance On a Budget' 56
Court Orders Telegram To Disclose Personal Details of Pirating Users 30
Dashlane Is Ready To Replace All Your Passwords With Passkeys 37
US Asked British Spy Agency To Stop Guardian Publishing Snowden Revelations 27
Huge Chinese Database of Faces and Vehicle License Plates Spilled Online 15
FTC Sues 'Massive' Data Broker for Selling Location Info on Abortion Clinics 120
Debian Replaces Google with DuckDuckGo as Chromium's Default Search Engine 43
India Railway Firm Scraps Plan To Monetize Customer Data Following Uproar 8
Google Tracks 39 Types of Personal Data, Apple Tracks 12 68
DuckDuckGo Opens Up Its Free Email Privacy Service To Everyone 41
Websites Can Identify If You're Using iPhone's New 'Lockdown' Mode 55
Spyware Scandals Are Ripping Through Europe 7
Plex Breach Exposes Usernames, Emails and Encrypted Passwords 43
Streaming Service Crunchyroll Blocks Privacy-Focused Email Tutanota Because 'Hackers Use It' 43
University Can't Scan Students' Rooms During Remote Tests, Judge Rules 84
Oracle's 'Surveillance Machine' Targeted In US Privacy Class Action 27
Encrypting Facebook Messenger Could Be a 'Grotesque Betrayal', Says Top UK Politician 97
Dad Photographs Son for Doctor. Google Flags Him as Criminal, Notifies Police 241
Erik Prince Wants To Sell You a 'Secure' Smartphone That's Too Good To Be True 86
TikTok's In-App Browser Could Be Keylogging, Privacy Analysis Warns 16
North Korean Hackers Use Signed macOS Malware To Target IT Job Seekers 14
iOS VPNs Have Leaked Traffic For More Than 2 Years, Researcher Claims 45
Microsoft Employees Exposed Own Company's Internal Logins 8
Idaho Company Sues FTC, Claiming Agency Threatened Suit Over Its Tracking Data 49
Oracle Begins Auditing TikTok's Algorithms 32
New US Privacy Law May Give Telecoms Free Pass On $200 Million Fines 17
Police Used a Baby's DNA To Investigate Its Father For a Crime 74
Facing Privacy Concerns, Facebook Begins Testing End-to-End Encrypted Chats, Secure Backups 19
Amazon Studio Plans Lighthearted Show of Ring Surveillance Footage 39
Hospital and Drugmaker Move To Build Vast Database of New Yorkers' DNA 15
Google To Pay Nearly $43M Over Collection of Android Location Data 13
Inside the Apple vs. Facebook Privacy Fight 19
Suspected Developer of Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash Arrested 37
Raspberry Pi-Powered Anti-Tracking Tool Checks If You're Being Followed 79
Meta Injecting Code Into Websites Visited By Its Users To Track Them, Research Says 49
FTC Launches Data-Privacy Proposal for 'Surveillance' Crackdown 9
Amazon Begins Large-Scale Rollout of Palm Print-Based Payments 25
A Phone Carrier That Doesn't Track Your Browsing Or Location 33
Twitter Confirms Vulnerability Exposed Data of Anonymous Account Owners 17
Purism's 'Librem 5 USA' Smartphone Achieves Major New Shipping Milestone 27
DuckDuckGo Browser's Stricter Privacy Protection Will Also Apply To Microsoft Scripts Now 22
Facial Recognition Smartwatches To Be Used To Monitor Foreign Offenders in UK 51
Data Brokers Resist Pressure To Stop Collecting Info on Pregnant People 139
India Withdraws Personal Data Protection Bill That Alarmed Tech Giants 6
WhatsApp Boss Says No To AI Filters Policing Encrypted Chat 38
New Gmail Attack Bypasses Passwords and 2FA To Read All Email 37
Amazon's Ring and Google Can Share Footage With Police Without Warrants (or Your Consent) 70
Twitter Warns of 'Record Highs' In Account Data Requests 7
NJ Police Used Baby DNA To Investigate Crimes, Lawsuit Claims 91
Justice Department Investigating Data Breach of Federal Court System 18
EU Found Evidence Employee Phones Compromised With Spyware 12
Google's Nest Will Provide Data to Police Without a Warrant 81
'Orwellian' Facial Recognition Cameras In UK Stores Challenged By Rights Group 23
Kmart Halts Use of In-Store Facial Recognition Amid Australian Privacy Investigation 26
Uber Avoids Federal Prosecution Over 2016 Breach of Data on 57M Users 16
T-Mobile Announces $350M Settlement Over Data Breach - Plus $150M Security Upgrade 18
Hardcoded Password In Confluence Leaked On Twitter 30
China Fines DiDi $1.2 Billion Over 64 Billion Illegal Acts of Data Collection 69
FCC Orders Top Carriers To Explain How They Use and Share Phone Location Data 17
UK Blocks Chinese Company From Acquiring Knowledge On Vision Sensing Technology 17
Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand's Pro-Democracy Movement 6
Homeland Security Records Show 'Shocking' Use of Phone Data, ACLU Says 47
Report: Facebook has Started Encrypting Links to Counter Browsers' Anti-Tracking Measures 163
Two US Lawmakers Urge Immediate Action Curtailing Deceptive Data Practices in VPN Industry 48
A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users On Any Major Browser 58
Omegle Can Be Sued for Matching Child With Sexual Predator, Says Court 32
Amazon Admits Giving Ring Camera Footage To Police Without a Warrant or Consent 70
TikTok Hits Pause On Its Most Controversial Privacy Update Yet 9
FTC Warns Tech Companies Against Misusing Health Data 32
Hackers Uncover Ways To Unlock and Start Nearly All Modern Honda-Branded Vehicles 40
Myanmar's Junta Rolls Out Chinese Camera Surveillance Systems in More Cities 27
Calls for TikTok Probe Widen, Adding To Pressure on Biden To Weigh In 25
China Police Database Was Left Open Online for Over a Year, Enabling Leak 22
Hacker Claims To Have Stolen Data of 1 Billion Chinese From Police 39
Texts and Web Searches Have Been Used to Prosecute Women for Abortions 391
Google Allowed a Sanctioned Russian Ad Company To Harvest User Data For Months 6
Police Tactic of Sweeping Google Searches To Find Suspects Faces First Legal Challenge 149
Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing 'Geo Tracking Data' To ICE 17
FCC Commissioner Wants Apple, Google To Remove TikTok From App Stores 40
India Delays VPN Rules To Log Customers Data by 3 Months 4
T-Mobile Has Started Selling Your App Data To Advertisers 30
How China's Expanding Surveillance Allows the State to Tighten Its Grip 94
Online Privacy Bill Clears Early Hurdle in House 33
Italy's Data Watchdog Latest To Warn Over Use of Google Analytics 5
Google is Notifying Android Users Targeted By Hermit Government-Grade Spyware 8
Security Flaws in Internet-Connected Hot Tubs Exposed Owners' Personal Data 59
Mullvad VPN Axes Recurring Subscriptions In the Name of Privacy 11
Shadowy Strava Users Spy on Israeli Military With Fake Routes in Bases 24
There Are 24.6 Billion Pairs of Credentials For Sale On Dark Web 57
Cisco Says It Won't Fix Zero-Day RCE In End-of-Life VPN Routers 52
Brave Roasts DuckDuckGo Over Bing Privacy Exception 23
UK Wants To Replace Cookie Pop-Ups With Browser-Based Opt-Outs 41
Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China 54
Police Linked To Hacking Campaign To Frame Indian Activists 61
Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites 92
Warren Proposes Sweeping Ban on Location and Health Data Sales 227
VPN Firms Are Removing Servers in India To Avoid Customers Data Sharing Rule 41
Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default To All Users Worldwide 72
Genetic Paparazzi Are Right Around the Corner 98
Wickr, Amazon's Encrypted Chat App, Has a Child Sex Abuse Problem 150
How One Paper Just Blew Up Bitcoin's Claim To Anonymity 51
US: Chinese Government Hackers Breached Telcos To Snoop On Network Traffic 29
Telegram Surrendered User Data To Authorities Despite Saying To the Contrary, Report Says 55
At Blockchain-Based Privacy Infrastructure Startup Nym, Chelsea Manning Says Crypto = Privacy 57
Lawmakers Reignite Battle for Federal Privacy Law 18
Rejecting Data Demands, ExpressVPN Removes VPN Servers In India 29
Tim Hortons App Violated Laws In Collection of 'Vast Amounts' of Location Data 117
Vodafone Plans Carrier-Level User Tracking For Targeted Ads 44
The Underground Company That Hacks iPhones for Ordinary Consumers 17
Supreme Court Leak Investigation Heats Up as Clerks Are Asked For Phone Records in Unprecedented Move 343
India Withdraws Warning on Biometric ID Sharing Following Online Uproar 47
Remote Learning Apps Tracked Millions of US Children During Pandemic 44
Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tool Coming To Apps, Schools 16
Bing Contract Prohibits DuckDuckGo From Completely Blocking Microsoft Tracking 70
Would You Blur Your House on Every Map App? 128
The Passwords Most Used By CEOs Are Startlingly Dumb 110
India Says VPN Firms Unwilling To Comply With New Rules 'Will Have To Pull Out' of the Country 49
Ad-Tech Firms Grab Email Addresses From Forms Before They're Even Submitted 46
Startup Raises $17 Million To Develop Smart Gun 229
EU Governments, Lawmakers Agree on Tougher Cybersecurity Rules for Key Sectors 14
US Secretly Issued Subpoena To Access Reporter's Phone Records 89
Anonymous Social Media App Yik Yak Exposed Users' Precise Locations 5
US Cities Are Backing Off Banning Facial Recognition as Crime Rises 128
New EU Rules Would Require Chat Apps To Scan Private Messages for Child Abuse 204
ICE 'Now Operates As a Domestic Surveillance Agency,' Think Tank Says 76
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo Back New York Ban on Controversial Search Warrants 23
Facebook To Discontinue 'Nearby Friends' and Other Location-Based Features 11
Clearview AI Agrees To Limit Sales of Facial Recognition Data In the US 14
Heroku Admits That Customer Credentials Were Stolen In Cyberattack 4
VPN Providers Threaten To Quit India Over New Data Law 26
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones To See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders 65
Grindr User Data Was Sold Through Ad Networks 78
Mental Health Apps Have Terrible Privacy Protections, Report Finds 22
'Apple Thinks My Own AirPods are Stalking Me' 48
FBI Searched the Data of Millions of Americans Without Warrants 35
Microsoft Testing Integrated VPN 'Secure Network' in Edge 35
Google May Now Remove Search Results That Dox You 18
Android's App Store Privacy Section Starts Rolling Out Today 14

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