Privacy Stories for 2023

Cyberattack Targets Albanian Parliament's Data System, Halting Its Work 2
Researchers Come Up With Better Idea To Prevent AirTag Stalking 29
Google Agrees To Settle Chrome Incognito Mode Class Action Lawsuit 22
EFF Warns: 'Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays' 28
ChatGPT Exploit Finds 24 Email Addresses, Amid Warnings of 'AI Silo' 67
UK Police To Be Able To Run Face Recognition Searches on 50 Million Driving Licence Holders 24
Rite Aid Banned From Using Facial Recognition Software 60
US Regulators Propose New Online Privacy Safeguards For Children 25
Comcast Discloses Data Breach of Close To 36 Million Xfinity Customers [UPDATE] 40
Does Meta's New Face Camera Herald a New Age of Surveillance? Or Distraction... 74
US Pharmacies Share Medical Data with Police Without a Warrant, Inquiry Finds 23
Why Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime 69
Delta Dental of California Data Breach Exposed Info of 7 Million People 20
Beeper Says Apple is Blocking Some iMessages 111
Google Maps Ditches Cloud-Based Location History 48
Your Smart TV Knows What You're Watching 164
Apple's New iPhone Security Setting Keeps Thieves Out of Your Digital Accounts 19
US Healthcare Giant Norton Says Hackers Stole Millions of Patients' Data During Ransomware Attack 27
Ex-Commissioner For Facial Recognition Tech Joins Facewatch Firm He Approved 12
Republican Presidential Candidates Debate Anonymity on Social Media 174
Verizon Gave Phone Data To Armed Stalker Who Posed As Cop Over Email 27
Nearly Every Windows and Linux Device Vulnerable To New LogoFAIL Firmware Attack 69
Governments Spying on Apple, Google Users Through Push Notifications 33
AI Models May Enable a New Era of Mass Spying, Says Bruce Schneier 37
Amazon 'Cannot Claim Shock' That Bathroom Spycams Were Used as Advertised, Judge Says 136
Automakers' Data Privacy Practices 'Are Unacceptable,' Says US Senator 18
Amazon's Q Has 'Severe Hallucinations' and Leaks Confidential Data in Public Preview, Employees Warn 43
Google Researchers' Attack Prompts ChatGPT To Reveal Its Training Data 73
Dollar Tree Hit By Third-Party Data Breach Impacting 2 Million People 16
Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits To Their Friends and Family 120
CEO Reminds Everyone His Company Collects Customers' Sleep Data 46
Sunbird is Shutting Down Its iMessage App for Android 12
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access To Trillions of US Phone Records 104
Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default 32
Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People In Congo 6
Prison Phone Company Leaked 600,000 Users' Data and Didn't Notify Them 45
Children's Tablet Has Malware and Exposes Kids' Data, Researcher Finds 37
US Privacy Groups Urge Senate Not To Ram Through NSA Spying Powers 35
Healthcare Giant McLaren Reveals Data On 2.2 Million Patients Stolen During Ransomware Attack 12
It's Still Too Easy for Anyone to 'Become You' at Experian 36
WhatsApp Now Lets You Hide Your IP Address During Calls 17
Data Broker's 'Staggering' Sale of Sensitive Info Exposed in Unsealed FTC Filing 30
Tech Groups Fear New Powers Will Allow UK To Block Encryption 40
US Military Members' Personal Data Being Sold By Online Brokers, Report Finds 32
Apple Called Android a 'Massive Tracking Device' In 2013 29
Brave Responds To Bing and ChatGPT With a New 'Anonymous and Secure' AI Chatbot 11
Russia Blocks 167 VPNs, Steps Up OpenVPN and WireGuard Disruption 42
China Removes Anonymity of Bloggers' Accounts With More Than 500,000 Followers 20
Apple Warns Indian Opposition Leaders of State-Sponsored iPhone Attacks 29
Drugmakers Are Set To Pay 23andMe Millions To Access Consumer DNA 106
How the US is Preparing For a Post-Quantum World 45
iPhones Have Been Exposing Your Unique MAC Despite Apple's Promises Otherwise 69
Privacy Advocate Challenges YouTube's Ad Blocking Detection Scripts Under EU Law 85
The UK's Controversial Online Safety Bill Finally Becomes Law 185
Face Search Engine PimEyes Blocks Searches of Children's Faces 25
1Password Discloses Security Incident Linked To Okta Breach 27
Mozilla Launches Annual Digital Privacy 'Creep-o-Meter'. This Year's Status: 'Very Creepy' 60
Telegram is Still Leaking User IP Addresses To Contacts 18
Casio Keyed Up After Data Loss Hits Customers In 149 Countries 27
CFPB Moves To Bar Financial Firms From 'Hoarding' a Consumer's Data 9
Hacker Leaks Millions More 23andMe User Records On Cybercrime Forum 20
Meta Will Now Let You Stop Instagram From Tracking You Across the Web 9
Apple AirTags Triggered 'Explosion' of Stalking Reports Nationwide, Lawsuit Says 89
23andMe Scraping Incident Leaked Data On 1.3 Million Users 25
ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data 61
Google Agrees To Reform Its Data Terms After German Antitrust Intervention 4
New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed By US Political Dark-Money Network 52
UK Passport Images Database Could Be Used To Catch Shoplifters 67
H&R Block, Meta, and Google Slapped With RICO Suit, Allegedly Schemed to Scrape Taxpayer Data 31
A Test of iPhone-to-HDMI Adapter That Demands Location/Browsing Data 29
New York Bans Facial Recognition In Schools 22
Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show 63
GPUs From All Major Suppliers Are Vulnerable To New Pixel-Stealing Attack 26
Getting Data From NSA Takes 'Days' So Federal Counterintelligence Agency Turned To Private Company, Documents Show 33
China's Quest for Human Genetic Data Spurs Fears of a DNA Arms Race 32
Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed Terabytes of Internal Sensitive Data 17
EFF Recognizes Signal, Library Freedom Project for Protecting Privacy 16
California Legislature Passes Delete Act Regulating Data Brokers 18
Google To Pay $155 Million In Settlements Over Location Tracking 10
Password-Stealing Linux Malware Served For 3 Years and No One Noticed 54
Wyze Security Camera Owners Were Briefly Able To See Feeds From Other Users 47
Apple Fixes Zero-Day Bugs Used To Plant Pegasus Spyware 20
Polish Senate Says Use of Government Spyware is Illegal in the Country 4
Google's Cookie Killing Tech Is Now On Almost Every Chrome Browser 68
Internet-Connected Cars Fail Privacy and Security Tests Conducted By Mozilla 26
UK Pulls Back From Clash With Big Tech Over Private Messaging 20
CBP Tells Airports Its New Facial Recognition Target is 75% of Passengers Leaving the US 40
Hacker Gains Admin Control of Sourcegraph and Gives Free Access To the Masses 6
UK Government Seeks Expanded Use of AI-based Facial Recognition By Police 15
Google Removes Fake Signal and Telegram Apps Hosted on Play 12
MTA Website 'Feature' Lets You Track Subway Riders' Locations 23
Hackers Can Silently Grab Your IP Through Skype 56
Taliban Says Huawei to Install Cameras to Locate Militants 71
NSA Orders Employees To Spy on the World 'With Dignity and Respect' 46
College Board Shares Student SAT Scores, GPA with Facebook and TikTok 42
The Feds Asked TikTok For Lots of Domestic Spying Features 48
Cellebrite Asks Cops To Keep Its Phone Hacking Tech 'Hush Hush' 50
Worldcoin Ignored Initial Order To Stop Iris Scans in Kenya, Records Show 11
YouTube Ads May Have Led To Online Tracking of Children, Research Says 8
Microsoft May Store Your Conversations With Bing If You're Not an Enterprise User 13
Cyberattack On Listings Provider Halts US Real Estate Markets 24
Discord.io Temporarily Shuts Down After Breach Affecting 760,000 Members 3
Iraq Lifts Ban On Telegram After Messaging App Complies With Authorities 11
Millions of Americans' Health Data Stolen After MOVEit Hackers Targeted IBM 24
As Privacy Policies Get Harder to Understand, Many Allow Companies to Copy Your Content 26
After Backlash, Zoom Now Says It Won't Train AI Systems On Customer Content 9
Detroit Police Changing Facial-Recognition Policy After Pregnant Woman Says She Was Wrongly Charged 32
Researchers Watched 100 Hours of Hackers Hacking Honeypot Computers 34
Popular Open-Source Project Moq Criticized For Quietly Collecting Data 30
Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer' 44
Millions of UK Voters' Data Accessible In Cyber Attack 14
Zoom Contradicts Its Own Policy About Training AI on Your Data 31
California Will Probe Data-Collecting, Internet-Connected Cars 25
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best (Encrypted) Password Manager? 154
Hackers Could Have Scored Unlimited Airline Miles By Targeting One Platform 5
Microsoft Comes Under Blistering Criticism For 'Grossly Irresponsible' Security 55
Brave Cuts Ties With Bing To Offer Its Own Image and Video Search Results 14
Kenya Suspends Worldcoin Scans Over Security, Privacy, and Financial Concerns 10
Worldcoin Says Will Allow Companies, Governments To Use Its ID System 32
'Tor's Shadowy Reputation Will Only End If We All Use It' 65
MOVEit Hackers Accessed Health Data of 'At Least' 8 Million Individuals 12
US Spies Are Lobbying Congress To Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole' 30
Worldcoin Being Probed by French Privacy Regulator for 'Questionable' Practises 6
Android Phones Can Now Tell You If There's an AirTag Following You 63
Roblox Data Leak Sees 4,000 Developer Profiles Including Identifying Information Made Public 10
Firmware Vulnerabilities In Millions of Computers Could Give Hackers Superuser Status 23
Google Starts the GA Rollout of Its Privacy Sandbox APIs To All Chrome Users 11
Footage From Amazon's In-Van Surveillance Cameras Is Leaking Online 25
Meta Faces a $100,000 Daily Fine If It Doesn't Fix Privacy Issues In Norway 26
Typo Leaks Millions of US Military Emails To Mali Web Operator 52
Massachusetts Considers Ban on Sales of Cellphone Location Data 16
SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on Company, Promising Revenge 28
Democrats Call On DOJ To Investigate Tax Sites For Sharing Financial Information With Meta 29
You Can Say No To a TSA Face Scan. But Even a Senator Had Trouble. 127
TikTok Executive Admits Australian Users' Data Accessed By Employees In China 15
Your Printing Service Might Read Your Documents 21
First US Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might Be Coming 28
EFF Says California Cops Are Illegally Sharing License Plate Data with Anti-Abortion States 240
Bangladesh Government Website Leaks Citizens' Personal Data 3
France Passes New Bill Allowing Police To Remotely Activate Cameras On Citizens' Phones 132
FBI Hired Social Media Surveillance Firm That Labeled Black Lives Matter Organizers 'Threat Actors' 151
Stop Using Google Analytics, Warns Sweden's Privacy Watchdog 18
Police Need a Wiretap To Eavesdrop On Your Facebook Posts, Court Rules 29
US Patent and Trademark Office Notifies Filers of Years-Long Data Leak 9
LetMeSpy, a Phone Tracking App Spying On Thousands, Says It Was Hacked 18
Apple Joins Opposition in UK To Encrypted Message App Scanning 40
3-Year Probe Into Encrypted Phones Led To Seizure of Hundreds of Tons of Drugs, Prosecutors Say 60
Smartwatches Are Being Used To Distribute Malware 17
Congress Sets Limits On Staff ChatGPT Use 15
Turn Your Phone Off Every Night For Five Minutes, Australian PM Tells Residents 126
Russian Coup Aided by Telegram, VPNs as Government Blocks Google News 140
US Vendor Accused of Violating GDPR By Reputation-Scoring EU Citizens 28
SMS Phishers Harvested Phone Numbers, Shipment Data From UPS Tracking Tool 12
Millions of Americans' Personal Data Exposed in Global Hack 17
Hackers Can Steal Cryptographic Keys By Video-Recording Power LEDs 60 Feet Away 26
US Intelligence Confirms It Buys Americans' Personal Data 90
UK Communications Regulator Ofcom Says Hackers Stole Confidential Data 5
Edge Sends Images You View Online To Microsoft 39
Ohio Senate Moves to Criminalize Secretly Tracking People with Apple's AirTags and Similar Devices 38
iOS 17 Automatically Removes Tracking Parameters From Links You Click On 54
10 Years After Snowden's First Leak, What Have We Learned? 139
Microsoft Says Clop Ransomware Gang Is Behind MOVEit Mass-Hacks 12
TSA Expands Controversial Facial Recognition Program 70
Apple Denies Surveillance Claims Made By Russia's FSB 28
Amazon To Pay $30 Million For Alexa, Ring Privacy Violations 16
Ransomware Attack On US Dental Insurance Giant Exposes Data of 9 Million Patients 18
Federal Judge Makes History In Holding That Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant 79
RaidForums User Data Leaked Online a Year After DOJ Takedown 1
PyPi is Reducing Stored IP Address Data 10
Meta Offers To Limit Use of Ad Data To Address UK Competition Concerns 11
A Popular Password Hashing Algorithm Starts Its Long Goodbye 17
NSO Spyware Used in Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict, Report Finds 10
'iRecorder Screen Recorder' App Turns Malicious, Sends Mic Recordings Every 15 Minutes 31
Driver's Licenses, Addresses, Photos: Inside How TikTok Shares User Data 11
FBI Abused Spy Law 280,000 Times In a Year 151
Freenet 2023: a Drop-in Decentralized Replacement for the Web - and More 54
Neeva is Shutting Down Its Privacy-First, Ad-Free $4.95-a-Month Search Engine 24
Google Reaches $39.9 Million Privacy Settlement With Washington State 9
Telly, the 'Free' Smart TV With Ads, Has Privacy Policy Red Flags 46
Re-Victimization From Police-Auctioned Cell Phones 31
Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air 35
Microsoft Is Scanning the Inside of Password-Protected Zip Files For Malware 130
TSA Tests Facial Recognition Technology To Boost Airport Security 38
Discord Discloses Data Breach After Support Agent Got Hacked 7
Microsoft Will Take Nearly a Year To Finish Patching New 0-Day Secure Boot Bug 48
Toyota Japan Exposed Data on Millions of Vehicles For a Decade 15
Clearview Fined Again in France for Failing To Comply With Privacy Orders 20
EU Lawyers Say Plan To Scan Private Messages For Child Abuse May Be Unlawful 68
NextGen Healthcare Says Hackers Accessed Personal Data of More Than 1 Million Patients 15
Journalist Writes About Discovering She'd Been Surveilled By TikTok 37
Ransomware Attack Forces Dallas To Shut Down Courts, Disrupts Some 911 Services 20
Promising Jobs At the US Postal Service, 'US Job Services' Leaks Customer Data 12
Apple and Google Team Up To Stop Unwanted AirTag Tracking 52
The DOJ Detected the SolarWinds Hack 6 Months Earlier Than First Disclosed 19
Washington Passes Law Requiring Consent Before Companies Collect Health Data 13
Many Public Salesforce Sites are Leaking Private Data 7
Microsoft Edge is Leaking the Sites You Visit To Bing 72
WhatsApp Adds Option To Use the Same Account on Multiple Phones 27
'Delete Act' Seeks To Give Californians More Power To Block Data Tracking 62
Mullvad VPN Maker Says Police Tried To Raid Its Offices But Couldn't Find Any User Data 81
Proton Launches an End-to-End Encrypted Password Manager 30
Used Routers Often Come Loaded With Corporate Secrets 33
Meta Encryption 'Blindfolds' Authorities To Child Abuse, Crime Agencies Claim 84
Netflix Password Sharing Crackdown To Expand To US In Q2 2023 111
Two UK Police Forces Unlawfully Recorded Phone Calls Via App, Watchdog Finds 14
Why Is 'Juice Jacking' Suddenly Back In the News? 32
Hackers Claim Vast Access To Western Digital Systems 29
Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman 182
The US Cracked a $3.4 Billion Crypto Heist - and Bitcoin's Anonymity 59
Popular Porn Site Must Delete All Amateur Videos Posted Without Consent 55
Mercenary Spyware Hacked iPhone Victims With Rogue Calendar Invites, Researchers Say 10
FSF Awards 'Respects Your Freedom' Certification to ThinkPenguin's Gigabit Mini VPN Router 6
'The Broad, Vague RESTRICT Act Is a Dangerous Substitute For Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation' 76
Google Will Require That Android Apps Let You Delete Your Account and Data 42
Alcohol Recovery Startups Shared Patients' Private Data With Advertisers 46
Inside the Bitter Campus Privacy Battle Over Smart Building Sensors 50
Labor To Consider Age-Verification 'Roadmap' For Restricting Online Pornography Access 122
Tor Project's New Privacy-Focused Browser Doesn't Use the Tor Network 24
India Hunts For Spyware That Rivals Controversial Pegasus System 3
Meta Wants EU Users To Apply For Permission To Opt Out of Data Collection 27
Instead of Banning TikTok, Should We Regulate It Aggressively? 88
Panera Bread Begins Scanning Its Customers' Palms 123
FSF Honors Emacs Co-Maintainer, 'Replicant' Developer, and Videoconferencing Tool Jami 6
GitHub.com Rotates Its Exposed Private SSH Key 20
France Sets EU Precedent With 2024 Olympics Surveillance Arsenal 31
License Plate Surveillance, Courtesy of Your Homeowners Association 126
Meta Manager Was Hacked With Spyware and Wiretapped in Greece 28
Is Amazon Building a New AI-Powered Web Browser? 31
New Zealand To Ban TikTok On Devices Linked To Parliament 14
The FBI And DOJ Are Investigating ByteDance's Use Of TikTok To Spy On Journalists 35
Amazon Sued For Not Telling New York Store Customers About Facial Recognition 29
Dutch Court Finds Facebook Misused Data in Class Action Suit 11
Discord Promises Outraged Users It Won't Store Call Recordings -- For Now 14
Congressman Confronts FBI Over 'Egregious' Unlawful Search of His Personal Data 110
FBI Admits It Bought US Location Data 35
Telehealth Startup Cerebral Shared Millions of Patients' Data With Advertisers 42
Data Breach Hits 'Hundreds' of Lawmakers And Staff On Capitol Hill 24
AllTrails Data Exposes Precise Movements of Former Top Biden Official 47
Google Expands VPN Access To All Google One Members, Rolls Out New 'Dark Web Report' Feature 12
FBI, Pentagon Helped Research Facial Recognition for Street Cameras, Drones 13
The Privacy Loophole in Your Doorbell 150
San Diego Police Want To Add Surveillance Tech: 500 Streetlight Cameras Plus License Plate Readers 24
BetterHelp Sold Customer Data While Promising It was Private, Says FTC 38
Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times In 2022 14
US Marshals Service Suffers 'Major' Security Breach That Compromises Sensitive Information 29
LastPass Says Home Computer of DevOps Engineer Was Hacked 64
'I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice' 46
EU Officials Ban TikTok From Employees' Phones 18
Data Privacy Labels for Most Top Apps in Google Play Store are False or Misleading, Mozilla Study Finds 17
Supreme Court Snubs Wikipedia Bid To Challenge NSA Surveillance 35

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