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3/31: How you’re tracked online — and what you can do about it
3/29: Facebook’s limits on using data brokers won’t stop tracking
3/28: Facebook makes its privacy controls simpler as company faces data reckoning
3/26: Americans Less Likely To Trust Facebook than Rivals on Personal Data
3/26; Cops Are Now Opening iPhones With Dead People’s Fingerprints
3/26: What Facebook’s privacy policy allows may surprise you
3/26: Delta using fingerprint scanner for Sky Club admission
3/26: Facebook’s data privacy scandal has stirred an exodus
3/26: Cambridge Analytica again says no Facebook data used in US election
3/26: Android should share the blame with Facebook for tracking calls and texts (GOOG, FB)
3/25: Welcome to Zucktown: Facebook shows off its plans to build a city
3/25: Steve Jobs Tried To Warn Mark Zuckerberg About Privacy In 2010
3/24: Can Facebook restore public trust?
3/24: Fed up with Facebook? Here’s how to break it off
3/23: Covert gun detection looks to prevent mass shootings
3/23: My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data
3/23: Mozilla pulls ads from Facebook after spat over privacy controls
3/23: Apple’s Tim Cook Calls for More Regulations on Data Privacy
3/22: Starbucks wants your email address to get Wi-Fi access
3/22: The Latest: Facebook takes baby steps on privacy
3/22: Facebook privacy settings make you work to stop the data sharing
3/20: Facebook Has a Long History of Resolving Privacy Claims on the Cheap
3/20: Facebook tracks a scary number of details about you — here’s how to find out everything it knows
3/19: 6 ways to delete yourself from the internet
3/19: US cops go all Minority Report: Google told to cough up info on anyone near a crime scene
3/19: BOOM! Cambridge Analytica explodes following extraordinary TV expose
3/19: Here is how Google handles Right To Be Forgotten requests
3/18: Are Google and Facebook Surveilling Their Own Employees?
3/13: Privacy-Busting Bugs Found in Popular VPN Services Hotspot Shield, Zenmate and PureVPN
3/13: Privacy folk raise alarm over schools snooping on kids’ online habits
3/12: Dial P for Privacy: The Phone Booth Is Back
3/7: MoviePass: How to disable location tracking
3/7: Facebook Onavo Protect doesn’t protect against Facebook
3/6: FBI Paid Geek Squad Repair Staff As Informant
3/5: Emirates dinged for slipshod online data privacy practices
3/1: How to turn off Facebook’s new facial recognition feature
2/27: Google Releases Info On 2.4 Million ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Requests
2/27: Amazon acquires Ring in a bid to own your doorway
2/18: 7 ways to use Alexa around the office
2/16: Alexa in Toyland: How Amazon’s assistant is changing playtime
2/14: We already give up our privacy to use phones, why not with cars too?
2/8: Identity Hygiene 101
2/7: Boffins crack smartphone location tracking – even if you’ve turned off the GPS
2/5; How to use guest mode on your Android phone
2/2: You can find me in da club, database full of faces… but this ain’t privacy watchers’ jam
2/1: Facebook’s Future Rests on Knowing You Even Better
2/1: A wristband to track workers’ hand movements? (Amazon has patents for it)
1/30: How to Manage Your Privacy on Fitness Apps
1/29: Facebook publishes privacy principles for the first time
1/27: DuckDuckGo App and Extension Upgrades Offer Privacy ‘Beyond the Search Box’
1/25: Microsoft whips out tool so you can measure Windows 10’s data-slurping creepiness
1/25: Former Employees Say Lyft Staffers Spied On Passengers
1/23: 5 privacy tips for iPhone texting
3/26: Now are you ready to safeguard your personal data?
3/25: Oregon attorney general considers investigating Facebook
3/22: Tougher regulations needed for Facebook
2/12: Seattle to Remove Controversial City Spying Network After Public Backlash
3/30: Trump administration asks Supreme Court to end Microsoft email case
3/26: State Department Seemingly Buys $15,000 iPhone Cracking Tech GrayKey
3/26: You’ll like this: Facebook probed by US watchdog amid privacy storm
3/26: Senate summons Facebook, Google, Twitter CEOs over data privacy
3/26: FTC Confirms Facebook Probe Over Privacy Practices
3/25: Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones
3/23: Lawmakers hope to use Facebook’s ‘oil spill’ privacy mishap to usher in sweeping new laws
3/23: CLOUD Act becomes law, increases government access to online info
3/22: Tech Companies Applaud Measure to Clarify U.S. Access to Data
3/20: The NSA Worked To ‘Track Down’ Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal
3/16: Facial Scanning Now Arriving At US Airports
3/14: New Bill In Congress Would Bypass the Fourth Amendment, Hand Your Data To Police (CLOUD Act)
3/14: ACL-Sue: Rights group takes on TSA over device searches
3/13: US government privacy watchdog stumbles back to its feet with new hires
2/28: US Supremes take a look at Microsoft’s Irish email slurp battle, and yeah, not a great start
2/27: Supreme Court Wrestles With Microsoft Data Privacy Fight
2/16: Two Years After FBI vs Apple, Encryption Debate Remains
2/16: Techno-senator tells Tinder to hook up its app with better security
2/14: Don’t use phones from Huawei or ZTE, FBI director says
2/7: CLOUD Act hits Senate to lube up US access to data stored abroad
1/29: Proposal for Federal Wireless Network Shows Fear of China
1/26: ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US
1/25: Senator Asks FBI Director To Justify His ‘Ill-Informed’ Policy Proposal For Encryption
1/24: NSA Deletes ‘Honesty’ and ‘Openness’ From Core Values
3/26: Some patients’ private info shared by Health Department
3/26: Massachusetts Senate bill aims to protect net neutrality
3/24: Towns scramble to keep sensitive data from online records
3/17: North Carolina Police Obtained Warrants Demanding All Google Users Near Four Crime Scenes
3/14: Roses are red, Facebook is blue. Think private means private? More fool you
3/9: Documents Prove Local Cops Have Bought Cheap iPhone Cracking Tech
2/15: Department of Public Safety launches new drone program
2/12: Lincoln police to encrypt primary police dispatch channels
2/11; Police turn to drones in tough situations
2/8: New Mexico Lawmakers Seek Privacy Rules for Police Video
2/7: Alameda approves $500K for license plate scanners, but looks to beef up privacy
1/30: Police speeding up plan to equip officers with body cameras
1/27: Madison police say drone program has been successful
3/26: Only a tech revolution will restore privacy
3/26: Users Built Facebook’s Empire, and They Can Crumble It
3/25: Protect Your Data. Then Hope for a Tech Revolution.
3/25: Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage
3/24: Tim Berners-Lee Urges Web Users: ‘Care About Your Data’
3/24: How calls for privacy may upend Google and Facebook
3/23: Zuckerberg’s outsize influence must end
3/23: Don’t quit Facebook, but don’t trust it, either
3/23: Go ahead and #DeleteFacebook. But here’s the change we really need.
3/21: Would You Pay Facebook Not to Sell Your Data?
3/21: Under Fire and Losing Trust, Facebook Plays the Victim
3/21: Silicon Valley Has Failed to Protect Our Data. Here’s How to Fix It
3/20: It’s time to quit mommy blogging, for the sake of my children
3/20: Americans’ privacy threatened with bill in Congress
2/26; Voice assistants are always listening. So why won’t they call police if they hear a crime?
2/14: Facebook’s latest privacy debacle points to larger problem: Trust
2/7: 5 little things that would make Alexa a lot better
1/31: Google and Facebook are watching our every move online. It’s time to make them stop
3/26: Researcher alleges Indian leader’s app ships data abroad
3/25: India’s biometric ID program was supposed to end welfare corruption, but neediest may be hit hardest
3/23: Germany Raises Pressure on Facebook on Data Privacy Rules
3/22: Facing Privacy Concerns, India Cites 13-Foot Wall in Database Center
3/22: Israel Opens Probe Into Facebook on Possible Privacy Breach
3/21: Telegram still won’t hand over crypto keys it says it does not store (Russia)
3/21: This Austrian Activist Took on Facebook in Europe. He’s Ready to Do It Again
3/20: Gartner’s top tip to data crunchers on the eve of GDPR? Don’t be creepy (Europe)
3/19: How I went dark in Australia’s surveillance state for 2 years
3/16: Whois? More like WHOWAS: Domain database on verge of collapse over EU privacy
3/15: ProtonMail posts workaround for Turkish government block
3/14: WhatsApp agrees not to share user info with the Zuckerborg… for now (Europe)
3/13: Transport for New South Wales told to stop tracking oldies, students (Oz)
3/10: Chinese Police Begin Tracking Citizens With Face-Recognizing Smart Glasses
3/9: Brit spy wrangler details sign-off process for snooping warrants (UK)
3/9: UK police want you to report crimes to Alexa
3/9: Citizen Lab says Sandvine network gear aids government spyware (Middle East)
2/28: Brit spooks slammed over ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ with telcos to get mass comms data (UK)
2/16: Facebook Must Stop Tracking Belgian Users, Court Rules
2/13: Let’s get to know each other first: Joe Public won’t share their data with just anyone (UK)
2/13: Google’s Guinea-Pig City (Toronto)
2/12: Yorkshire cops have begun using on-the-spot fingerprint scanners (UK)
2/1: Info Commish offers privacy addicts a 12-step GDPR programme (UK)
1/30: UK.gov mass data slurping ruled illegal – AGAIN
1/29: Dodgy parking firms to be denied access to Brit driver database (UK)
1/23: Ecuador is Fighting Crime Using Chinese Surveillance Technology
1/11: Apple hands Chinese iCloud to Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry
3/26: Slap visibility beacons on bikes so they can chat to auto autos, says trade body
3/24: More ad-versarial tech: Mozilla to pop limited ad blocker into Firefox
3/23: The new technology that aspires to #deletefacebook for good
3/22: Vivaldi browser taps privacy-first DuckDuckGo search
3/20: Mozilla’s opt-out Firefox DNS privacy test sparks, er, privacy outcry
3/20: Jeff Bezos takes a robot dog for a walk in California
3/15: VPN tests reveal privacy-leaking bugs
3/13: Mozilla sends more snooping Web APIs to smartphone Siberia
3/9: Your smart camera may have been spying on you
3/8: Ghostery tool for web privacy goes open source
3/2: Knock, knock. Whois there? Get ready for anonymized email addresses after domain privacy shake-up
2/15: Ubuntu Wants To Collect Data About Your System — Starting With 18.04 LTS
2/12: Signal app for private chats gets $50M boost from WhatsApp VIP
2/10: In the global game of hide and seek, the drones are winning
2/9: An AI That Reads Privacy Policies So That You Don’t Have To
2/8: New strife for Strava: Location privacy feature can be made transparent
1/29: The Strava Heat Map and the End of Secrets
1/26: Let’s Talk About Cars
9/2017: Microsoft pitches encrypted Azure to keep cloud data secret
3/21: Facebook Crux Is Intersection Of Privacy And Sharing: Anderson
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2/16: Facebook forges ahead with kids app despite expert criticism
2/15: How to Build a Smart Home That’s Actually Secure
2/14: New IAPP Privacy Engineering Section aims to support growing field
2/14: It’s HTTPS or bust: How to secure your website
2/14: On Valentine’s Day, an Oregon Senator Takes a Swipe at Tinder
2/14: Facebook’s free VPN acts like spyware to iOS users in the U.S.
2/14: A space revolution: Do tiny satellites threaten our privacy? financial times
2/13: VPN services 2018: The ultimate guide to protecting your data on the internet
2/12: Do Not, I Repeat, Do Not Download Onavo, Facebook’s Vampiric VPN Service
2/12: What Happens When You Fill A House With ‘Smart’ Technology
2/12: App lets workers talk about their companies anonymously
2/8: Google-Nest merger raises privacy issues
2/8: With Closed-Circuit TV, Satellites And Phones, Millions Of Cameras Are Watching
2/8: Smart TV’s privacy capabilities placed under the microscope
2/7: The House That Spied on Me
2/7: The IAPP’s new launchpad into data privacy
2/7: Supreme Court Tackles Fourth Amendment Case Involving Cellphone Privacy
2/6: Governments Hate Bitcoin and Cash for the Same Reason: They Protect People’s Privacy.
2/6: Surveillance Valley
2/6: CDT files FOIA request with ICE over ALPR data use
2/6: Law Enforcement Can Use Smart Meter Parking Apps To Spy On Everyone
2/6: Your Mobile Phone Can Give Away Your Location, Even If You Tell It Not To
2/6: Smart cities: better for life or too much information sharing?
2/4: The privacy-first smart speaker taking on the likes of Apple and Amazon
2/2: China’s Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone
2/2: Fitness apps are now one more reason to revisit your smartphone’s privacy settings
2/2: Google Chrome: Beware these malicious extensions that record everything you do
2/2: Amazon secures employee-tracking wristband patents
2/1: Facebook Patents Tech To Bucket Users Into Different Social Classes
2/1: The Legal Consequences Of Sending Disappearing Messages At Work
1/31: ICE Finally Gets The Nationwide License Plate Database It’s Spent Years Asking For
1/31: Privacy questions around DNA tests
1/31: 20-year-old student behind Strava heatmap discovery
1/31: No Warrant Needed For Police Departments To Share Your License Plate Data
1/30: Privacy experts alarmed as Amazon moves into the health care industry
1/30: Car renters beware: Bluetooth use can reveal your private data
1/30: National I.D. By Any Other Name Still Stinks
1/29: Strava lesson: Share fitness data online? Check these privacy settings now
1/29: How Strava’s “anonymized” fitness tracking data spilled government secrets
1/29: Have you signed up for a tracking app by mistake?
1/29: New tool aims to centralize data privacy information
1/28: Facebook: Is it time to quit our unhealthy addiction?
1/26: The impact of public privacy on corporate governance
1/25: Windows 10 privacy guide: How to take control
1/25: Law firm releases handbook for the privacy office
1/25: Disrupting The Fourth Amendment: Half Of Law Enforcement E-Warrants Approved In 10 Minutes Or Less
1/24: DNA sharing leads to privacy concerns
1/22: Congress Quietly Pushing Bill To Require National Biometric ID For “ALL Americans”
1/19: Who Is Selling Hacking Subscriptions to Governments?
1/16: Amazon hiring HIPAA Compliance Lead for “new initiative”
1/14: Online security 101: Tips for protecting your privacy from hackers and spies
2/16: The Really Weird World Of Smart Meters
2/12: State Democrats are on the wrong side of open-records fight
2/9: Surveillance system or public-safety tool? Seattle dismantles controversial wireless mesh network
1/27: Meet Kate Garman, Seattle’s smart cities coordinator, tasked with making the city more efficient
1/26: FPF releases assessment of Seattle’s open data program
1/24: Suit alleges Motel 6 discriminated against Latino customers
1/22: Integris raises another $1.5M for data privacy intelligence platform as GDPR deadline looms
1/22: Amazon Go Reviews: Praise for Shopping Speed, Caution Around Privacy
1/21: Hands-on with Amazon Go: We tested the tech giant’s experiment in checkout-free retail
1/21: Amazon Go is finally a go: Sensor-infused store opens to the public Monday, with no checkout lines
2/14: Sens. Flake, Coons Demand New Privacy Measures in Letter to Strava CEO
2/14: First Amendment Case Brought by Immigration Checkpoint Protesters/Monitors Can Go Forward
2/9: Is the Nunes Memo Alleging Surveillance Abuses at Odds with FISA Renewal?
2/7: FTC releases PrivacyCon 2018 agenda
2/2: The Federal Government is Using Tracking Tech to Monitor License Plates Nationwide
2/1: Federal 5G: An authoritarian approach in the name of ‘safety’
1/24: Senator calls out FBI director’s ‘ill-informed’ encryption backdoor views
1/25: Senator Demands FBI Director Explain His Encryption Backdoor Bullshit
1/22: Spending Bill Would Give Administration Direct Control Of Surveillance Spending
2/18: Connecticut may limit access to state’s voter database
2/17: Nebraska Law Now Limits ALPR Data, Helps Block National License Plate Tracking Program
2/17: Privacy by Deletion: Five Steps to Reducing Data Risk
2/16: Report: State boards must strike balance with personalized learning, privacy
2/16: Oklahoma Committee Passes Bill to Ban Warrantless Stingray Spying, Hinder Federal Surveillance
2/14: Federal office asked to rule on whether Portland violated patient privacy laws (ME)
2/14: California legislator introduces bill to regulate how Silicon Valley uses your data
2/13: Maryland Bill Would Allow Customers to Opt Out of Smart Meters, Undermine Federal Program
2/13: Massachusetts Committee Approves Bill to Limit ALPR Use, Help Block National License Plate Tracking
2/13: Denise Merrill Calls For Legislation To Protect Voters Privacy, From Identity Theft (CT)
2/12: Bernard Campbell students learn about legal system, rights, privacy from judges
2/12: New Jersey Bills Would Put Limits on Police use of Drones, Help Thwart Federal Surveillance Program
2/12: AGs question Google’s class-action privacy settlement
2/11: Column | Sen. Anderson battled law enforcement over license plate privacy
2/8: IAPP releases third edition of ‘California Privacy Law’
2/8: Boston Police Waste Taxpayer Money Violating Law Through Illegal Surveillance Of Citizenry
2/7: New Mexico lawmakers may seek privacy rules for police video
2/2: EFF urges CA lawmakers to move forward with broadband bill
2/2: Missouri Committee Passes Bill to Ban Warrantless Stingray Spying; Help Hinder Federal Surveillance
1/31: California lawmakers reject license-plate privacy bill
9/26/17: San Jose: Activists push to expand police auditor powers, to cautious officials
9/17/17: Request denied: States try to block access to public records
2/16; Overuse of privacy law may hamper school safety
2/16: Paranoia will destroy us: Why Chinese tech isn’t spying on Americans
2/15; TLS/SSL security for websites
2/14: Facebook’s latest privacy debacle points to larger problem: Trust
2/13: When privacy becomes public
2/8: Mass Surveillance Is One Chinese Export We Should Ban
2/8: The Guardian view on internet privacy: it’s the psychology, stupid
2/6: Balancing the benefits of location data with privacy protection
2/6: Identity and the smart city
2/5: Op-Ed: ‘Privacy advocates are wrong about connected cars’
2/1: Who owns the data connected cars generate?
1/31: Always on: The new era of continuous privacy compliance
1/31: Could Brexit derail ePrivacy?
1/31: O’Connor: US needs to reform data-privacy legislation
1/31: Identity Policies: The clash between democracy and biometrics
1/28: BBB Tip of the Week: Data privacy depends on vigilance by businesses and customers
1/26; Data Privacy Is Dead. Forget About It.
1/26: Google’s fun ‘match your selfie with art’ app points to the scary future of facial recognition
1/25: The moving target of IoT security
1/23: Is privacy the new security?
1/22: Data privacy, a growing strategic initiative
1/17: Personal Data Representatives: An Idea
1/10: Privacy and metrics of testing and staging environments
2/16: Facebook ordered to stop collecting user data by Belgian court
2/16 Europe’s New Data Privacy Rules Nourish U.S. Privacy Tech Sector
2/16: OPC offers funding to promote privacy research (Canada)
2/15: Government asked to end pursuit of backdoor access to encryption (Oz)
2/14: Critics of India’s ID card project say they have been harassed, put under surveillance
2/14: What comes first – privacy or solving crime? Hamilton council debates tonight (Canada)
2/14: Paradise making changes in wake of privacy commissioner’s reports (Canada)
2/13: Personal surveillance cameras to be allowed in Quebec’s long-term care homes (Canada)
2/12: Facebook personal data use and privacy settings ruled illegal by German court
2/9: Web con: ‘Build Your Privacy Program for the People’ (GDPR related)
2/9: What FISA renewal means for the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield agreement
2/9: Farewell Soapy, but will Australia’s new attorney-general be any better?
2/7; Chinese police are using facial-recognition glasses to scan travelers
2/6: EU data protection law may end up protecting scammers, experts warnFacebook’s latest privacy debacle points to larger problem: Trust
2/1: European cities want new data-sharing rules with rental platforms
2/1: NHS Digital asked to stop data sharing agreement with Home Office (UK)
2/1: Privacy and economic development: India at a crossroads
2/1: Search and Surveillance Act review offers 67 recommendations (NZ)
1/31: Brazilian general Bill on the Protection of Personal Data
1/31: Australian government cannot handle its own data securely, why give it yours?
1/31: Singapore’s PDPC releases data-anonymization guide
1/30: Creepy UK Surveillance Law Ruled Illegal, But Privacy Advocates Still Call Bullshit
1/30: Government mass surveillance powers ruled unlawful (UK)
1/30: Car-sharing company GoGet took seven months to tell customers of data hack (Oz)
1/29: China Denies That It Gifted the African Union an HQ Building Stuffed Full of Surveillance Devices
1/29: Facebook to launch privacy center ahead of EU regulations
1/28: Data privacy officers hard to find in Nova Scotia (Canada)
1/26: Ontario commissioner calls for modernized laws on Data Privacy Day (Canada)
1/24: Estonia’s ID card fiasco: ‘We’ve no intention of letting a good crisis go to waste’
1/23: Facebook to roll out new tools in response to EU privacy laws
1/22: Tunisia’s Plans To Bring In Its Own National ‘Aadhaar’ Biometric ID System Halted — For Now
1/19: How Australia’s government-by-parrot is flying backward on drones
11/29/17: Ottawa jogger who wound up in an ad without her knowledge wins precedent-setting privacy fight
2/16: People Will Always Get Lost
2/14: Mycroft Mark II offers something its digital assistant competitors can’t: Privacy and openness
2/14: Israeli tech firm undercuts facial recognition to bolster privacy
2/14: Tech company develops facial recognition ‘firewall’
2/13: Researchers find vulnerabilities in Faraday cages
2/13: Microsoft: We’re developing blockchain ID system starting with our Authenticator app
2/7: Researchers found a way to unmask Strava users’ hidden locations
2/5: Akamai: IoT the new ‘shadow IT’ of the enterprise
2/1: Researchers develop method to trick automatic speech-recognition systems
2/1: Age-verification tool raises privacy concerns
1/31: Mozilla Firefox is testing updates that customers fear pivot from its focus on consumer privacy
1/31: Camera makers resist encryption, despite warnings from photographers
1/30: Report: Verizon Dumps Huawei Phones as US Government Pressure Mounts
1/29: System76 Wants to Offer Full Disk Encryption for Its Ubuntu-Based Pop!_OS Linux
1/26: New privacy tech solution aims to bring data visibility to the CPO
1/26: Lyft investigates privacy abuse claim
1/24: Windows 10: Microsoft rolls out new privacy tools for telemetry data
1/23: Tails 3.5 Anonymous OS Released to Mitigate Spectre Vulnerability for AMD CPUs
1/22: Windows 10: Latest preview builds hint at new privacy tools
2/13: Big tech has killed privacy: Steve Hilton
2/12: Salted Hash Ep 18: Mobile security and privacy
2/5: 201. Crypto Wars 2.0: Debating Susan Landau over encryption and law enforcement
2/2: 383: Dangerous data, Libraries and more
2/2: Digital dystopia: taking back control – podcast
1/29: Former Special Ops Agent Discusses How Tech, Fitness Trackers Affect The Military
1/26: Joy Buolamwini: How Does Facial Recognition Software See Skin Color?
1/26: Digital dystopia: democracy in the internet age – podcast
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1/2018: Free Speech, Tech Turmoil, and the New Censorship
1/22: The IAPP’s Privacy List goes live with new web conference series
1/22: Disable Instagram’s new, creepy activity status feature
1/21: Amazon Go is finally a go: Sensor-infused store opens to the public Monday, with no checkout lines
1/19: NSA surveillance programs live on, in case you hadn’t noticed
1/19: Trump Signs Surveillance Extension Into Law
1/19: Tech giants and elected officials back Microsoft in Supreme Court case on international data privacy
1/19: Congress demanded NSA spying reform. Instead, they let you down
1/19: The Consumer DNA Testing Market Is Already Booming, but It’s About to Explode
1/18: Congress Votes to Extend Warrantless-Spying Program Through 2023
1/18: Instagram just added a new feature you might want to turn off — here’s how (FB)
1/18: FTC releases 2017 privacy and security report
1/18: Automakers collecting personal data with regularity
1/18: Google Faces England’s First ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Trial
1/18: Google’s Art Selfie App Offers A Lesson In Biometric Privacy Laws In U.S.
1/17: Google’s face match feature doesn’t work in Illinois and Texas
1/16: Amazon won’t say if it hands your Echo data to the government
1/16: Big businesses band together in urging lawmakers to sell out your privacy
1/16: Companies race to gather a newly prized currency: Our body measurements
1/16: Google app that matches your face to artwork is wildly popular. It’s also raising privacy concerns.
1/16: US senators vow to filibuster FBI, er, NSA’s domestic, errr, foreign mass spying program
1/15: Intel underfoot: Floor sensors rise as retail data source
1/15: Why your car company may know more about you than your spouse
1/12: Chinese Internet Users Start To Rebel Against Lack Of Online Privacy
1/12: Democratic Defections Allow an Assault on Civil Liberties to Pass the House
1/11: Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens
1/11: Microsoft finally injects end-to-end chat crypto into Skype – ish…
1/11: Uber’s tool Ripley lets it remotely disable staff laptops
1/10: Keep Track Of Who Facebook Thinks You Know With This Nifty Tool
1/10: What’s Slack Doing With Your Data?
1/10: Max Schrems: The privacy bubble needs to start ‘getting sh*t done’
1/9: How the Government Hides Secret Surveillance Programs
1/8: Your local public Wi-Fi network may be a whole lot safer soon
1/5: Amazon Alexa is Coming To Headphones, Smart Watches, Bathrooms and More
1/5: Amazon turns over record amount of customer data to US law enforcement
1/5: US border cops told to stop copying people’s files just for the hell of it
1/5: US border agency searched 30,200 phones and computers in 2017
1/4: I Know Where You’ve Been: Digital Spying And Divorce In The Smartphone Age
1/4: All the Ways Your Smartphone and Its Apps Can Track You
1/4: China Plans To Turn Country’s Most Popular App, WeChat, Into An Official ID System
1/3: New facial scans of air travelers trigger controversy
1/3: Curb how Facebook, Google and Amazon use your personal data in a quick privacy clean-up
1/2: New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines
1/2: After calling for surveillance reform, Feinstein casts crucial vote to kill it
1/1: 17 steps to being completely anonymous online
12/31: EFF Applauds ‘Massive Change’ to HTTPS
1/15: WA won’t automatically hand over license info to ICE
1/11: Report: State has been handing driver info to ICE
1/11: Republican U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler joins Democrats in vote against surveillance law
1/3: Washington sues Motel 6, says chain slipped ICE info on guests
1/19: There are other, legal ways to nab Microsoft emails, privacy groups remind Supremes
1/19: Nearly Everyone Backs Microsoft in Landmark Email Privacy Case—Except the DOJ
1/19: Meet the Justice Department’s FISA closer
1/18: Can U.S. border guards search your phone? Yes, and here are some details on how
1/18: 50 senators endorse resolution to restore FCC net neutrality regulations
1/18: Senate passes bill to extend key surveillance program, sending it to Trump’s desk
1/15: Trump’s press secretary outraged at Amazon Echo on Twitter
1/12: The tribe-busting politics of FISA and the surveillance debate
1/12: Spy Bosses Helped Trump Draft Tweet Backing Surveillance Program
1/11: Dipshit President Attacks Surveillance Bill His Own White House Says Must Pass
1/11: What is the Section 702 surveillance program and why should you care?
1/11: House approves spying extension
1/10: Can the ‘Automobile Exception’ Run Over the Fourth Amendment?
1/9: Speculation Rampant as Secretive Zuma Spy Satellite Declared a ‘Total Loss’
1/9: Encryption an ‘urgent public safety issue,’ FBI chief says
1/9: From heroin-laden rental cars to stolen motorcycles, justices find privacy rights
1/9: Federal Agencies May Be Regularly Hiding Surveillance Methods in Criminal Cases
1/9: Fourth Amendment scrutinized before high court
1/8: Supremes asked to mull legality of Silicon Valley privacy ‘slush funds’
1/8: Smart toy maker VTech settles privacy charges with FTC
1/8: SCOTUS to hear case disputing warrantless motorcycle search
1/8: Justice Dept. scrambles to jam prison cellphones, stop drone deliveries to inmates
1/5: U.S. Customs And Border Protection Sets New Rules For Searching Electronic Devices
1/4: DHS Expands License Plate Dragnet, Streams Collections To US Law Enforcement Agencies
1/2: DHS Documents Show Harassment And Intrusive Device Searches Are A Common Occurrence At US Borders
12/19: US senators rail against effort to sneak through creepy mass spying bill
1/19: Fort Collins police using drones in crash investigations
1/15: Shenandoah police begin process to buy automated license plate scanners
1/12: Officials remove medical pot registry from police computers
1/11: Chicago considering equipping police with anti-texting tools
1/10: LAPD takes another step toward deploying drones in controversial yearlong test
1/9: Police union files suit over release of body camera footage
1/7: Bill seeks to stop drone use to spy on people, harass cows
1/6: Police, fire departments find uses for drones
1/5: New York State Appellate Court Says Cell Site Location Records Have No Expectation Of Privacy
1/3: California Supreme Court seems split on DNA collections voters approved
1/21: Roe v. Wade Was About More Than Abortion
1/19: The FDA just approved the first ‘self-tracking’ pill—here’s what it could mean for your privacy
1/17: On the fine line between clothing and health data
1/17: A technician’s view of the GDPR and consent interfaces
1/17: Nahra: Key issues for 2018 privacy and security checkup
1/17: Prosecute Former Spymaster James Clapper for Lying to Congress Now. Time is Running Out.
1/17: Stop Warrantless Snooping on Americans
1/16: ‘Is whistleblowing worth prison or a life in exile?’: Edward Snowden talks to Daniel Ellsberg
1/16: 5 employee awareness predictions for 2018
1/15: Business must tone down its lust for big data
1/15: Facebook’s New Mission May Be Impossible
1/12: Make gadgets great again
1/11: Editorial Put some blinders on the feds’ prying eyes
1/10: Privacy and metrics of testing and staging environments
1/3: Americans should have more control over their data
1/2: No Foreign Spy Program Reauthorization Without Citizen Protections
1/22: Business booms for privacy experts as landmark data law looms (Europe)
1/21: India will install cameras in classrooms amid a rise of surveillance measures in Asia
1/19: Don’t check Facebook before hiring, says privacy commissioner (Canada)
1/19: How Australia’s government-by-parrot is flying backward on drones
1/19: Notes from the iappANZ, 19 January 2018 (Asia)
1/16: Belgium adopts law restructuring Belgian Privacy Commission
1/18: Lebanese Security Agency Turns Smartphone Into Selfie Spycam: Researchers
1/17: Toronto smart city project comes with privacy concerns
1/17: China Uses Facial Recognition to Fence In Villagers in Far West
1/15: India To Add Facial Authentication For Its Aadhaar Card Security
1/13: Will Facial Recognition in China Lead To Total Surveillance?
1/12: Can the Chinese government now get access to your Grindr profile?
1/10: Breach of World’s Largest Database Prompts Overhaul in India
1/10: UK Data Protection Bill tweaked to protect security researchers
1/10: GCHQ sought to ‘better liaise’ with watchdog, court document shows (UK)
1/9: Snowden Joins Outcry Against World’s Biggest Biometric Database
1/8: Privacy Foundation: Trusting government with open data a ‘recipe for pain’ (Oz)
1/8: CCTV commish: Bring all surveillance systems under code of practice (UK)
1/7: In China, facial recognition is sharp end of a drive for total surveillance
1/6: Privacy breaches hit record high in Alberta (Canada)
1/6: Internet users in China expect to be tracked. Now they want privacy
1/4: Ashes spectators in Sydney scanned by facial recognition tech (Oz)
1/3: 16 Things That Are More Valuable Than Your Privacy (India)
1/3: Alexa could be our next crime fighter (UK)
12/29: What is the GDPR? GeekWire’s guide to new European data protection laws that impact the cloud
12/22: Merry Christmas, UK prosecutors: Here’s a special gift… a slap from the privacy watchdog
12/21: Bigmouth ex-coppers who fed media MP pr0nz story face privacy probe (UK)
12/20: Comms-slurping public bodies in UK need crash course in copy ‘n’ paste
12/13: UK.gov told: Your frantic farming of pupils’ data is getting a little creepy
12/12: Welcome To The Surveillance State: China’s AI Cameras See All
1/22: Tech companies receive funding to boost privacy products
1/22: Microsoft Continues to Rethink Windows 10 Privacy and Data Collection Practices – New Tools Expected
1/22: Windows 10: Latest preview builds hint at new privacy tools
1/21: Hands-on with Amazon Go: We tested the tech giant’s experiment in checkout-free retail
1/21: Q&A: Samsung’s Alex Hawkinson on smart-home evolution
1/18: Less Than 1 in 10 Gmail Users Enable Two-Factor Authentication
1/17: Want more privacy online? ProtonMail brings its free VPN to Android
1/17: Purism Says Its Privacy-Focused Linux Phone Will Use Wayland and i.MX8 ARM CPU
1/16: Researchers Uncover Android Malware With Never-Before-Seen Spying Capabilities
1/15: Twitter Says No, Hundreds Of Twitter Employees Are Not Reading Your DMs
1/15: BlackBerry debuts Jarvis software scanning platform at NAIAS
1/15: Bad news: A Spectre-like flaw will probably happen again
1/12: Meet Nextcloud Talk, World’s First Self-Hosted, Encrypted Communication Platform
1/12: Google pulls kids games containing AdultSwine malware
1/9: No tracking, no revenue: Apple’s privacy feature costs ad companies millions
1/5: These video-recording glasses are a privacy nightmare
1/4: Lenovo’s new laptops have clever built-in webcam covers so you can finally ditch the piece of tape
1/3: Anonymous no more: Reusing complex passwords gives your identity away
1/3: 2 Years Later, Security Holes Linger In GPS Services Used By Millions of Devices
1/2: Microsoft predicts 2018 will usher in a new era for tech companies sitting on silos of consumer data
12/23: Fleeing Google’s Apps and iOS, Mandrake Linux Creator Launches ‘eelo’ Project
12/22: Mandrake Linux Founder Announces Android OS Without Google Apps
12/20: Ghostery, uBlock lead the anti-track pack
12/14: IETF protects privacy and helps net neutrality with DNS over HTTPS
1/19: The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Ready, set, GDPR
1/18: Geared Up Podcast: Google’s answer to the Echo Show and an Alexa enabled toilet
#6
From Jean Godden, Westside Seattle:
Sun, 12/24/2017
By Jean Godden
“It is a bright cold day in April, and the clocks are striking thirteen.”
That’s the famous first sentence of “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” George Orwell’s classic 1949 novel. Orwell imagined Oceania, a dystopia with powerful symbols like “Big Brother,” double think (“War is Peace”) and the systematic destruction of the English language.
Evoking double think and the purging of language has echoes in this country. The Washington Post recently reported on a Trump administration directive that bars use of certain words and phrases by divisions within the Department of Health and Human Services. When identified words were used by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), documents were flagged and sent back for “correction.”
The White House directive cited seven words and phrases that must not appear in official budget transmittals: vulnerable, transgender, fetus, diversity, entitlement, science-based and evidence-based.
This is not the first time that the Trump administration has barred commonly-used words and phrases. Earlier “sex education” was banned and a substitute proscribed. That phrase has been replaced by “sexual risk avoidance,” a term limited to abstinence-only education. At the Department of Agriculture, staffers were given a list of replacements for the phrases “climate change” and “reduce greenhouse gases.” A political appointee at the Environmental Protection Agency was seen striking out the words “climate change” from grant applications.
The idea of disallowing words is chilling. In Orwell’s fictional novel, the hero Winston Smith was employed at the Ministry of Truth — known as Minitrue in Newspeak, the language devised to replace Oldspeak or Standard English. Winston’s job was to rewrite articles and documents using approved vocabulary.
The new language was to have far fewer words. Winston’s friend Syme was employed writing a Newspeak dictionary, “cutting the language down to the bone.” Syme tells Winston: “It is a good thing the destruction of words. . . After all, what justification is there for a word which is the opposite of some other words? If you have a word like ‘good,’ what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well.”
Orwell wrote that the object of Newspeak was to narrow the range of thought in Oceania. Without a wide vocabulary, thought would become more difficult. With words eliminated, eventually it would be impossible to commit “Thoughtcrime.” Reduction of language was one horror of Orwell’s totalitarian state.
Oceania, thankfully, is fiction; but now to today’s reality: Early response to the heavy-handed censorship of the Centers for Disease Control has mainly been “surely this is just kidding” or “they can’t be serious.” There have been some attempts at denial. However, the Orwellian move seems to have occurred. In fact, officials have even suggested work arounds. Take the case of the phrase “science-based.” It’s not okay to say that, but you can say something like: “The CDC bases its recommendation on science in consideration with community standards and wishes.”
Not surprisingly there has been a strong backlash. Planned Parenthood vice president Dana Singisler was quoted saying, “This is not just a change in vocabulary. It means that the Trump-Pence Administration is trying to radically change the focus of the entire agency.”
The idea of a directive to stop using certain words not only flies in the face of the First Amendment but into the very concept of American democracy. It is particularly egregious directed at the CDC which uses science to protect us against disease and disaster. If terms like “vulnerable” and “fetus” are abolished, how can you work to combat the devastation of the Zeka virus? If “climate change” is forbidden, how can we save the planet? Where is this language clampdown taking us?
This war of words is not worthy of an open society, either in its Orwellian censorship or in the administration’s flaunting of science and reason. It is high time that people and politicians of good will and constitutional backbone stand up for what is right and insist on an end to would-be thought police.