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Featured:
SPECIAL: US Supreme Ct reviewing cell phone tracking:
Supreme Court to hear case on tracking phone location data
Supreme Court agrees to hear ‘Carpenter v. United States,’ the Fourth Amendment historical cell-site case
Supreme Court Agrees To Decide Major Privacy Case On Cellphone Data
Supreme Court agrees to rule if cops need warrant for cell-site data
Mobile-Phone Privacy Case Draws U.S. Supreme Court Scrutiny
Supreme Court will decide whether police can use cellphone data to track suspects
Do cops need a warrant to stalk you using your cellphone records? US Supremes to mull it over
How should an originalist rule in the Fourth Amendment cell-site case?
Third party rights and the Carpenter cell-site case
July/Aug 2017: The Smartphone Psychiatrist
6/19: How Hidden Sensors Are Becoming the New Office Decor
6/18: Google, not GCHQ, is the truly chilling spy network
6/16: How Sanctuary Cities Can Protect Undocumented Immigrants From ICE Data Mining
6/16: Amazon has a patent to keep you from comparison-shopping while you’re in its stores
6/15: Indian rape victim sues Uber for privacy violations
6/13 I Bought A Report On Everything That’s Known About Me Online
6/13: Bank of America pays nearly $2M to settle lawsuit
6/13: San Jose approves program to try streetlamp cameras in select areas
6/13: What a Murder in Arkansas Means for Your Digital Privacy
6/14 98 Percent of College Students Gave Up Their Best Friend’s Email for Free Pizza
6/7: Apple’s HomePod Looks Beautiful But Doesn’t Think Different
6/7: Facial Recognition Will Soon End Your Anonymity in Public
6/6: Privacy advocates decry proposal for surveillance cameras on San Jose streetlamps
6/5: Apple will keep conversations with Siri and HomePod a secret
6/2: Researchers Use Ridesharing Cars to Sniff Out a Secret Spying Tool
6/2: Your next JetBlue boarding pass might be your face
6/1: Man Sentenced To 180 Days In Jail For Refusing To Give Police His iPhone Passcode
6/1: Your Face or Fingerprint Could Soon Replace Your Plane Ticket
6/1: OneLogin Says Breach Exposed Ability To Decrypt Customer Data
5/31: EFF sues FBI for records of alleged informants at Best Buy
5/30: Essential Home is an Amazon Echo Competitor That ‘Puts Privacy First’
5/31 Nest’s newest home-security camera will use facial recognition to identify those it records
5/30: Defend yourself against ISP tracking in an Trump-era free-for-all
5/29: Amazon Echo, Google Home devices raise privacy rights questions
5/29: Wikipedia’s Switch To HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship
5/29: Internet of snitches: anyone who can sniff ‘Thing’ traffic knows what you’re doing
5/28: Walt Mossberg’s Last Column Calls For Privacy and Security Laws
5/28: How to Spring Clean Your Digital Clutter to Protect Yourself
5/28: Security Analyst Concludes Windows 10 Enterprise ‘Tracks Too Much’
5/27: Before you install the Amazon Video app on Android, read this
5/25: A Clever New Way to Protect Your Data at the Border Could Also Add Risk
5/25: Google plan to link online behavior to offline shopping is creepy, even with privacy protections
5/24: Google wants to track your phone and credit card through meatspace
5/23: Ask Slashdot: ISPs That Respect Your Online Privacy?
5/23: Apple: We just got blitzed by US national security requests
5/20: Delta Airlines Tests Facial Recognition To Speed Up Baggage Check-In
5/20: This $60 security camera can recognize your ugly mug (video)
5/19: Federal Agents Used a Stingray To Track an Immigrant’s Phone
5/16: Glympse location sharing comes to Samsung TVs, lets users track friends, family, pizza from couch
5/14: Breathalyzer for texting in works as road deaths on rise
5/9: Beginners Guide to Threat Intelligence
5/9: How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful
5/5: More Android phones than ever are covertly listening for inaudible sounds in ads
5/4: Why Your Rights Protect Your Password But Not Iris Scan (video)
5/3: NSA Reportedly Collected Americans’ Phone Records Even After Law Change
5/2017: Analysis: Amazon’s Alexa vs. Google’s Assistant: Same Questions, Different Answers
Local (PNW):
6/5: Snapchat parent Snap acquires location analytics startup Placed for more than $200M
6/5: Snooping on snoopers: UW researchers create new system to identify cellular surveillance devices
5/26: ACLU Asks City Council to Beef Up Privacy Protections on Smart Meters
5/12: Portland’s unconstitutional campaign against Uber (Guest opinion)
5/10: City Light’s Smart Meters Are Hitting the Grid This Summer. Is There Anything to Fear?
5/8: Rep. Suzan DelBene on Trump budget cuts, virtual reality, and internet privacy
4/28: Portland may subpoena Uber over regulator-dodging ‘Greyball’ software
Govt (Fed):
6/16: How to write a meaningful FCC comment supporting net neutrality
6/15: What Do Spy Agencies Tell Foreign Governments About Americans?
6/15 Now the FTC wants a word with Uber
6/9: Rep. Blackburn Wants Internet Privacy Rules Simplified(video)
6/7: NSA leaker bust gets weirder: Senator claims hacking is wider than leak revealed
6/7: Senator blows a fuse as US spies continue lying over spying program
6/7: Former US spy chief calls for ‘filtering’ of social media
6/6: NSA’s alleged leaker got tripped up by a secret printer feature
6/2: Pai guy not too privacy shy, says your caller ID can’t block IP, so anons go bye
6/1: Trump Administration Approves Tougher Visa Vetting, Including Social Media Checks
5/27: Investigation Demanded Over Fake FCC Comments Submitted By Dead People
5/26: Major US Tech Firms Press Congress For Internet Surveillance Reforms
5/24: A new privacy bill in Congress has some companies preparing for a long political fight
5/24: The Trump Administration Wants To Be Able To Track and Hack Your Drone
5/24: Google and Facebook lobbyists try to stop new online privacy protections
5/23: NSA takes one-two punch to the face
5/22: House GOP takes crack at ISP privacy bill
5/19: Hobbyist defeats FAA in battle over drone registration, but says the fight’s not over
5/19: GOP lawmaker who helped kill ISP privacy rules proposes new privacy rules
5/11: How Trump’s N.S.A. Came to End a Disputed Type of Surveillance
Govt (States & Cities):
6/19: Internet privacy: California bill would protect users from being secretly tracked
6/6: Police In Oklahoma Have Cracked Hundreds of People’s Cell Phones
5/22: Class-action lawsuit alleges BART secretly collected passengers’ private information
5/19: Privacy, security among priorities for high-rise living (TX)
5/18: Nevada likely to become second state to require police body cameras
5/18: Alaska lawmakers approve REAL ID measure
5/17: House approves electronic data protection resolution (MI)
5/17: Southern Indiana Police Department to Resume Body Camera Use
5/12: Missouri passes bill to offer Real ID compliant licenses
5/8: California cop union opposes new bill that would thwart license plate readers
Policy & Opinion:
6/15: Editorial: Should police be able to buy spying equipment without telling anyone? No way
6/14: What’s Wrong With Letting Tech Run Our Schools
6/7: Editorial: Update the 4th Amendment for a new communications age
6/6: Rather Than Russia, America Should Fear Itself
6/6: Enigma: Why the fight to break Nazi encryption still matters
6/1: Information security policy on IoT – the Internet of Things
5/28: Publishers call for rethink of proposed changes to online privacy laws
5/19: Corporate Surveillance Is Turning Human Workers Into Fungible Cogs
5/15: The Thinning Line Between Commercial and Government Surveillance
5/13: How Google Took Over the Classroom
5/12: I Want to Surrender to Cambridge Analytica
5/8: I Side With the ‘Bad Guys’ on Encryption
5/5: You Cannot Encrypt Your Face
5/1: Ebooks undermine your freedom and privacy
Overseas:
6/19: EU seeks to outlaw ‘backdoors’ in new data privacy proposals
6/19: Europe plans to have drone rules in place by 2019
6/19: Mexican journalists, activists targeted with spyware, report says
6/14: Abe Passes Controversial Bill Boosting Japan Surveillance Powers
6/13: Watchdog questions need for new counter-terrorism powers (UK)
6/9: India’s Top Court Delays Modi’s Plan to Link Taxes, Biometric ID
6/8: Spy commissioners: Did we audit our bulk data sharing with industry? Err… not exactly (UK)
6/7: Rustle up a privacy research project and ICO queen Liz will see you handsomely rewarded (UK)
6/7: Australia to float ‘not backdoors’ that behave just like backdoors to Five-Eyes meeting
6/5: Apple Helped U.K. Investigate Terrorist Attacks, CEO Says
6/2: Snapchat brings its hip round Spectacles to Europe
6/1: China’s Cybersecurity Law Takes Effect: What to Expect
5/31: UK surveillance law raises concerns security researchers could be ‘deputised’ by the state
5/23: No one’s noticed, but the Tories are quietly killing off the smart meter revolution (UK)
5/23: Microsoft Announces ‘Windows 10 China Government Edition’, Lets Country Use Its Own Encryption
5/17: Austrian Parliament Bans Full Facial Veils in Public
5/16: European Privacy Regulators Take Coordinated Action Against Facebook
5/15: DeepMind’s Access to U.K. Health Data Deemed `Inappropriate’
5/15: Never mind custody decisions, let’s AI up our police cars
5/15: Lib Dems promise to scrap mass snooping powers if elected (UK)
5/2: India’s controversial national ID scheme leaks fraud-friendly data for 130,000,000 people
5/2017: China Expected to Expand DNA Collection in Xinjiang
4/27: Champions League Final Police to Scan Soccer Fans’ Faces (UK)
Tech:
6/16: How self-driving cars could determine the future of policing
6/13: Exclusive: GE begins testing drones to inspect refineries, factories – executive
6/12: Google’s New Product Puts Peer Pressure to a Sunny Use
6/10: Oculus co-founder now focused on surveillance tech
6/8: The Next Security Risk May Be Your Vibrator
6/7: The New Chrome and Safari Will Reshape the Web
6/7: Andy Rubin Has a Plan to Smarten Up the Connected Home
6/6: Siri Finally Got Its Coming Out Party
6/5: Wowee, it’s Samsung’s next me-too AI gizmo: The Apple HomePod
6/5: How Apple Sees the Near Future
6/5: Apple HomePod speaker favors sound over Siri
6/3: Even If the Siri Speaker Sucks You’ll Want It
6/3: Network Time Protocol Hardened To Protect Users From Spying, Increase Privacy
5/30: Android creator Andy Rubin is back with Amazon Echo competitor and new Essential smartphone
5/30: Much-hyped Ara Blackphone LeEco Essential handset introduced
5/28: New Privacy Vulnerability In IOT Devices: Traffic Rate Metadata
5/25: T-Mobile goes Apple/Google route by separating phone numbers and devices
5/24: DEFCON Conference To Target Voting Machines
5/24: A smart camera that can ID your car in less than a second
5/22: Privacy-Focused Debian-Based Tails 3.0 Reaches RC Status
5/13: How to escape the online spies
5/10: Study lays out privacy concerns that kids and parents have about toys that listen
5/8: Your Password Is Terrible and Everyone Wants to Fix That
5/6: Survey: nearly half think it may be legal to install spyware on a family member’s devices
5/4: 235 apps attempt to secretly track users with ultrasonic audio
Books/Media/Misc:
6/13: Could Amazon’s Alexa Solve This Man’s Murder? (podcast)
6/1: Invent privacy & security adventures with Cryptomancer & Mozilla