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Featured:
7/31: The way you swipe your phone could be used to track you
7/31: How one senator wants the US to crack down on Big Tech
7/29: For Sale: Survey Data on Millions of High School Students
7/29: Air marshals secretly monitored US passengers for years
7/28: Calgary malls caught secretly using facial recognition to characterise shoppers’ age and gender
7/28: Amazon facial recognition mistakenly confused 28 Congressmen with known criminals
7/25: Venmo Is the Best Place to Stalk Your Children
7/25: Private messaging apps increasingly used for public business
7/24: How to stop friends from seeing when you last used Instagram
7/22: How to Secure Your Accounts With Better Two-Factor Authentication
7/20: Facebook Confirms It’s Working on a New Internet Satellite
7/18: Welcome to the airport of the future, where your face is your passport
7/17: RealNetworks gives away facial recognition software to make schools safer
7/16: How a ‘Sentiment Meter’ Helps Cops Understand Their Precincts
7/13: Walmart gains patent to eavesdrop on shoppers and employees in stores
7/13: Microsoft asks Congress to regulate facial recognition before it’s too late
7/12: Tim? Larry? We need to talk about smartphones and privacy
7/12: What Walmart’s patent for audio surveillance could mean for its workers
7/11: How a Startup Is Using the Blockchain to Protect Your Privacy
7/10: Beer label uses facial recognition to talk with consumers
7/9: Fitness app Polar even better at revealing secrets than Strava
7/5: Taser-maker Axon partners with DJI on police drone program
7/5: How to See Everything Your Apps Are Allowed to Do
7/4: ‘Plane Hacker’ Roberts: I put a network sniffer on my truck to see what it was sharing. Holy crap!
7/3: Google’s Gmail controversy is everything people hate about Silicon Valley
7/3: Google explains Gmail privacy after controversy
7/2: Samsung’s texting app apparently sent pictures to people’s contacts without permission
7/2: How facial recognition ID’d the Capital Gazette shooter
7/1: Facebook acknowledges it shared user data with dozens of companies
6/30: Security News This Week: Mapping the NSA’s Secret Spy Hubs
6/29: The ACLU’s Biggest Roadblock to Fighting Mass Surveillance
6/29: Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR
6/28: California Unanimously Passes Historic Privacy Bill
6/28: Facebook, Google, Microsoft use ‘dark patterns’ to trick people to give up data, report says
6/27: How Tech Workers Are Fighting Back Against Collusion With ICE and the Department of Defense
6/27: Secret NSA spying network alleged in San Francisco skyscraper, Seattle, other U.S. cities
6/25: AT&T lets NSA hide and surveil in plain sight, The Intercept reports
6/24: China launches high-tech bird drones to watch over its citizens
6/23: Smart-home technology becomes the newest tool of domestic abusers
6/22: Amazon staffers protest giant’s ‘support of the surveillance state’
6/22: Facebook app analytics mistakenly leaked to outsiders
6/22: In huge privacy win, US Supreme Court rules warrant needed to slurp folks’ location data
6/21: Google’s update makes privacy easier
6/21: ACLU wants to keep your phone safe from sneaky government malware
6/19: Verizon promises to stop selling its subscribers’ location data… for now
6/19: Verizon, AT&T, Sprint cut off location-data sharing contracts
6/18: ACLU wants Amazon to stop offering surveillance technology
6/13: Apple to close iPhone security hole used by police, criminals
6/12: Apple can’t protect you from data trackers forever. No one can
6/11: Facebook releases 500 pages of damage control in response to senators’ questions
6/9: Some Signal messages aren’t disappearing, due to a bug, says a report
6/8: 6 ways to make your iPhone more secure
6/7: How to increase your privacy online
6/6: RoboCop-ter: Boffins build drone to pinpoint brutal thugs in crowds
6/5: A New Privacy Problem Could Deepen Facebook’s Legal Trouble
6/5: New Homeland Security system will bring facial recognition to land borders this summer
6/5: Amazon will stop selling connected toy filled with security issues
6/4: Clock blocker: Woman sues bosses over fingerprint clock-in tech
6/4: All Apple WWDC’s privacy features in one place
6/4: Facebook accused of giving over 60 device makers inappropriate access to user data
6/2: Hands off my data! 15 default privacy settings you should change right now
6/2: Researchers Use Ridesharing Cars to Sniff Out a Secret Spying Tool
Local (PNW):
7/16: Safety over privacy? RealNetworks to offer free facial recognition technology to K-12 schools
7/5: Startup Spotlight: LifeID uses blockchain technology to build secure digital identities
6/27: City Light’s ‘smart meters’ are $17.4M over budget
6/19: Data privacy startup Prifender raises $5M to help companies stay compliant
Govt (Fed):
7/31: New EPA rule would force people to choose between privacy and health
7/30: Amazon quietly invited Congress to ‘weigh in’ on facial recognition
7/27: Congressmen demand answers after Amazon facial recognition matches them to mugshots
7/27: Trump admin reportedly meeting with Facebook, Google to craft web privacy rights
7/13: Senators call on FTC to investigate smart TVs tracking viewers’ data
7/11: The Cybersecurity 202: Privacy advocates blast Kavanaugh for government surveillance support
7/11: Google’s Gmail privacy policy has Congress asking questions
7/9: Congress presses Apple, Alphabet on privacy issues
7/5: Senators demand answers from Zuckerberg over Facebook data access
7/3: Four US govt agencies poke probe in Facebook following more ‘oops, we spilled your data’ shocks
6/28: Congress Grills Cambridge Analytica Alum on New Firm’s Data Use
6/26: Senator asks FCC if police phone tracking devices disrupt 911 calls
6/25: What the Supreme Court’s landmark phone privacy ruling means for you (The 3:59, Ep. 419)
6/25: The Supreme Court decided on a major win for privacy
6/22: Supreme Court cracks down on government snooping through cellphone location records
6/22: Supreme Court says warrant necessary for phone location data in win for privacy
6/21: Project Maven wasn’t alone: Googlers reportedly boycotted another military tool
6/14: Senators Demand Answers From Amazon on Echo’s Snooping Habits
6/8: Hmmm, we can already seize your stuff, so why can’t we shoot down your drone, officials mull
6/8: Why Facebook’s secret data-sharing deal with Huawei has the US concerned
6/7: Google pledges not to develop AI weapons, but says it will still work with the military
6/6: The FBI wants you to factory reset your router. Here’s how to do it
Govt (States & Cities):
7/22: Malloy’s $10 million toll study facing opposition, concerns
7/18: Sioux Falls police prepare to launch 30 body cameras
7/10: Amazon, Orlando Police Department reinitiate facial recognition pilot
6/26: Orlando stops using Amazon’s controversial facial recognition tech
6/12: Forget probable cause: New bill could let cops pull your prescription history without a warrant
Policy & Opinion:
7/30: Real ID will divide us all into documented and undocumented
7/27: Commentary: When government hits ‘zone of privacy’
7/26: Lawmakers Can’t Ignore Facial Recognition’s Bias Anymore
7/19: Facial recognition and travel: Moving too fast?
7/19: To Earn Customer Trust on Data Privacy, You Need to Change the Narrative
7/18: Regulate facial recognition
7/17: Schools Can Now Get Facial Recognition Tech for Free. Should They?
7/14: The #PlaneBae furor proves privacy and the Golden Rule are in short supply
7/14: Is your private online content really private? Not if you do something stupid
7/2: Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags
6/29: Can Sacrificing Privacy Stomp Out Disinformation Online?
6/14: Encrypted Messaging Isn’t Magic
Overseas:
7/31: India mulls ban on probes into anonymized data use – with GDPR-style privacy laws
7/31: Fiat Chief’s Death Raises Privacy Questions
7/31: Think tank calls for post-Brexit national ID cards: The kids have phones so what’s the difference?
7/31: UK Group Threatens to Sue Facebook Over Cambridge Analytica
7/26: Facebook, Twitter Say Europe’s Privacy Law Causing User Drop
7/23: UK spies broke law for 15 years, but what can you do? shrugs judge
7/19: Facial recognition helped identify suspects in Novichok poisoning case
7/18: Don’t Expect Big Changes From Europe’s Record Google Fine
7/11: Brit privacy watchdog reports on political data harvests: We’ve read the lot so you don’t have to
7/6: ICANN’t get no respect: Europe throws Whois privacy plan in the trash
7/5: United States, you have 2 months to sort Privacy Shield … or data deal is for the bin – Eurocrats
7/5: Facial recognition trial takes off at Sydney Airport
7/5: London police commissioner: Don’t expect lots of arrests from facial recognition tech
7/4: Euro privacy watchdog raises eyebrows at mulled EU copyright law
6/19: Wasn’t too hard, was it? UK has made ‘significant progress’ in spy control
6/28: No more slurping of kids’ nationalities, Brit schools told
6/26: Venezuela blocks Tor browser
6/26: Japan’s AI-powered CCTV cameras catch shoplifters in the act
6/13: Cardiff chap chucks challenge at chops*-checking cops
6/11: A Single Drone Helped Mexican Police Drop Crime 10 Percent
6/7: Australia will force tech companies to help cops view encrypted data
6/4: ‘Tesco probably knows more about me than GCHQ’: Infosec boffins on surveillance capitalism
Tech:
7/31: BurnBox Makes Hidden Files Look Like You’ve Deleted Them
7/25: Google Glass Is Back—Now with Artificial Intelligence
7/24: Chrome’s HTTP warning seeks to cut web surveillance, tampering
7/20: Today I learned: Duck.com redirects to Google, much to DuckDuckGo’s annoyance
7/18: Microsoft to pay new bounties for identity services holes
7/11: Put WhatsApp, Slack, admin privileges in a blender and what do you get? Wickr
7/8: All the Ways iOS 12 Will Make Your iPhone More Secure
7/1: Mozilla’s Firefox tries closing more privacy holes with new network tech
6/30: Best laptops for maintaining your privacy
6/28: IEEE joins the ranks of non-backdoored strong cryptography defenders
6/22: Don’t panic, but your baby monitor can be hacked into a spycam
6/18: Google to patch Home and Chromecast bug that leaked your location
6/15: Meet the Frenchman masterminding a Google-free Android
6/14: Here’s how to get your data from Apple
6/13: MIT’s AI can now ‘see’ and track people through walls using wireless signals
6/6: NetMotion launches an IT platform to keep tabs on corporate smartphones
6/4: Apple Just Made Safari the Good Privacy Browser
Books/Media/Podcasts/Misc:
7/24: Google Chrome pushes the web toward HTTPS (3:59 podcast)
7/21: Week In Geek Podcast: Facial recognition enters grade schools and Bird scooters landing in Seattle
6/29: Talk to the Bot (WIRED Gadget Lab podcast)