Privacy Stories for 2024

$5.6 Million in Refunds Sent to Ring Customers, Settling Unauthorized Access and Privacy Violations 8
EyeEm Will License Users' Photos To Train AI If They Don't Delete Them 21
Ring Customers Get $5.6 Million In Refunds In Privacy Settlement 9
Android TVs Can Expose User Email Inboxes 26
Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type 78
How GM Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On 58
Two Major ISPs Threaten They'll Stop Complying With US FISA Orders 34
Dutch Privacy Watchdog Recommends Government Organizations Stop Using Facebook 18
Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules 146
Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data 15
Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist 30
House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties 54
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages 49
Apple's iOS 18 AI Will Be On-Device Preserving Privacy, and Not Server-Side 59
US Senate To Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like' 55
Roku Makes 2FA Mandatory For All After Nearly 600K Accounts Pwned 26
House Votes To Extend -- and Expand -- a Major US Spy Program 85
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Info With Meta, Google, Data Brokers 21
Your Anonymous OpenTable Reviews Will Soon Display Your First Name 34
Google Is Killing Its VPN Service 30
Hackable Intel and Lenovo Hardware That Went Undetected For 5 Years Won't Ever Be Fixed 62
DuckDuckGo Launches Privacy Pro: A 3-in-1 Service That Includes a VPN 34
Microsoft Employees Exposed Internal Passwords In Security Lapse 24
Proton Acquires Standard Notes 10
A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress 27
Insurers Are Spying on Your Home From the Sky 104
Four Baseball Teams Now Let Ticket-Holders Enter Using AI-Powered 'Facial Authentication' 42
Is The US About To Pass a Landmark Online Privacy Bill? 35
Academics Probe Apple's Privacy Settings and Get Lost and Confused 24
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia Names and Shames Customers Over Bank Glitch Money 26
Feds Finally Decide To Do Something About Years-Old SS7 Spy Holes In Phone Networks 32
Missouri County Declares State of Emergency Amid Suspected Ransomware Attack 41
New XZ Backdoor Scanner Detects Implants In Any Linux Binary 33
Google Pledges To Destroy Browsing Data To Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit 35
AT&T Says Data From 73 Million Customers Has Leaked Onto the Dark Web 21
America's DHS Is Expected to Stop Buying Access to Your Phone Movements 49
Cloud Server Host Vultr Rips User Data Ownership Clause From ToS After Web Outage 28
Portugal Orders Altman's Worldcoin To Halt Data Collection 24
Telegram's Peer-to-Peer Login System is a Risky Way To Save $5 a Month 32
Judge Orders YouTube to Reveal Everyone Who Viewed A Video 169
Steve Wozniak Decries Tracking's Effect on Privacy, Calls Out 'Hypocrisy' of Only Banning TikTok 137
Database For UK Nurse Registration 'Completely Unacceptable' 42
General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers 34
DOT Wants To Know How Big Airlines Use Passenger Data 11
Hackers Found a Way To Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks In Seconds 33
Users Ditch Glassdoor, Stunned By Site Adding Real Names Without Consent 101
'Disabling Cyberattacks' Are Hitting Critical US Water Systems, White House Warns 77
AT&T Says Leaked Data of 70 Million People Is Not From Its Systems 25
Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data 125
Record Breach of French Government Exposes Up To 43 Million People's Data 11
Stanford University Failed To Detect Ransomware Intruders For 4 Months 22
Over 15,000 Roku Accounts Sold To Buy Streaming Subscriptions, Devices 25
EU's Use of Microsoft 365 Found To Breach Data Protection Rules 46
Worldcoin Fails To Get Injunction Against Spain's Privacy Suspension 9
Airbnb is Banning Indoor Security Cameras 103
Signal's New Usernames Help Keep Cops Out of Your Data 39
A Leaky Database Spilled 2FA Codes For the World's Tech Giants 11
How the Pentagon Learned To Use Targeted Ads To Find Its Targets 55
Cheap Doorbell Cameras Can Be Easily Hijacked, Says Consumer Reports 23
White House Looks To Curb Foreign Powers' Ability To Buy Americans' Sensitive Personal Data With Executive Order 117
Hackers Backed By Russia and China Are Infecting SOHO Routers Like Yours, FBI Warns 36
Meta Will Start Collecting 'Anonymized' Data About Quest Headset Usage 31
Tumblr and Wordpress Are Preparing To Sell User Data To OpenAI and Midjourney, Report Says 42
License Plate-Scanning Company Violates Privacy of Millions of California Drivers, Argues Class Action 49
Vending Machine Error Reveals Secret Face Image Database of College Students 100
Leisure Firm in UK Told Scanning Staff Faces is Illegal 17
Leaked Hacking Files Show Chinese Spying On Citizens and Foreigners Alike 18
Vietnam To Collect Biometrics For New ID Cards 33
Wyze Says Camera Breach Let 13,000 Customers Briefly See Into Other People's Homes 26
New 'Gold Pickaxe' Android, iOS Malware Steals Your Face For Fraud 13
Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show 135
US Military Notifies 20,000 of Data Breach After Cloud Email Leak 11
'World's Biggest Casino' App Exposed Customers' Personal Data 10
Security Flaw In a Popular Smart Helmet Allowed Silent Location Tracking 3
London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools To Spot Crime 31
The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real 52
Mozilla Monitor Plus Scrubs Your Leaked Personal Information From the Web, For a Fee 26
You'll Have To Visit an Apple Store If You Forget Your Vision Pro Passcode 49
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Stop Security Firms From Harvesting My Data? 82
OpenAI's ChatGPT Breaches Privacy Rules, Says Italian Watchdog 6
ChatGPT is Leaking Passwords From Private Conversations of Its Users - Report 62
Mistakenly Published Password Exposes Mercedes-Benz Source Code 29
NSA Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says 96
Inside a Global Phone Spy Tool Monitoring Billions 40
Amazon's Ring To Stop Letting Police Request Doorbell Video From Users 64
EFF Adds Street Surveillance Hub So Americans Can Check Who's Checking On Them 56
Could Apostrophy OS Be the Future of Cellphone Privacy? 100
Microsoft Executive Emails Hacked By Russian Intelligence Group, Company Says 25
Have I Been Pwned Adds 71 Million Emails From Naz.API Stolen Account List 17
Mobile Device Ambient Light Sensors Can Be Used To Spy On Users 11
Chrome Updates Incognito Warning To Admit Google Tracks Users In 'Private' Mode 40
Apple Knew AirDrop Users Could Be Identified and Tracked as Early as 2019 27
AirDrop 'Cracked' By Chinese Authorities To Identify Senders 25
FTC Bans X-Mode From Selling Phone Location Data 10
Russian Hackers Were Inside Ukraine Telecoms Giant For Months 26
Google Contractor Pays Parents $50 To Scan Their Childrens' Faces 46
23andMe Tells Victims It's Their Fault Data Was Breached 95
Meet 'Link History,' Facebook's New Way To Track the Websites You Visit 17