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Privacy News Update, 7-22-17
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Featured:
7/14: Travelers just won back a bit of their privacy at the border
7/13: Securing Elections Remains Surprisingly Controversial
7/13: Face scans for US citizens flying abroad stir privacy issues
7/13: Exclusive: U.S. Asks Nations to Provide More Traveler Data or Face Sanctions
7/12: FBI didn’t need warrant for stingray in attempted murder case, DOJ says
7/12: Six major US airports now scan Americans’ faces when they leave country
7/12: Amazon may give developers your private Alexa transcripts
7/11: EFF’s Latest Privacy Report Criticizes Amazon and WhatsApp Over Policies That ‘Fall Short’
7/11: Did an Echo Call 911 During a Domestic Assault? Amazon Says No.
7/10: Digital Privacy to Come Under Supreme Court’s Scrutiny
7/10: How tech giants rank at protecting your privacy
7/6: Civil rights warriors file US lawsuit: Let us see Five Eyes agreement
7/7: How to delete your Snapchat account
7/5: Facebook’s left hand is fighting for Americans’ right to privacy
7/3: How to See What the Internet Knows About You (And How to Stop It)
7/3: Facebook Can Track Your Browsing Even After You’ve Logged Out, Judge Says
7/2; What Amazon wants from Whole Foods: Data on shopping habits
July: There’s A Fight Brewing Between The NYPD And Silicon Valley’s Palantir
6/30: With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened In on 3.3 Million Phone Calls
6/30: Master These Privacy Tips for Your Facebook Account
6/30: Is Snapchat’s new map dangerous for kids?
6/28: The All-Seeing Eye in the Sky(video)
6/27: The Top Five Tech Rivals Join Forces to Shape Policy—and Fight the Government
6/27: Spy agencies seek permanent authority for contested surveillance program
6/27: What Do You Tell Your Kids About Online Privacy?
6/26: Are Your Password Security Habits Improving? (Infographic)
6/26: Medical records will no longer appear in Google search results
6/26: Gmail will no longer scan your emails for advertising purposes
6/25: 90 Cities Install A Covert Technology That Listens For Gunshots
6/23: A Prototype for an Encrypted Uber That Can’t Track You
6/22: Is it safer to use an app or a browser for banking?
6/22: NSA’s use of ‘traffic shaping’ allows unrestrained spying on Americans
6/22: Older people trust smart gadgets less than kids, survey says
6/20: Mozilla Launches Privacy-Minded ‘Firefox Focus’ Browser For Android
6/17: A Tech Company Actually Tried to Resist Participating in the NSA’s PRISM Surveillance Program
6/13: TSA tests fingerprint screening for flight check-in
Local (PNW):
7/18: Alexa: The roommate I need, but am not quite sure I want
7/17: Mayor Ed Murray Issues Executive Order to Equip Police Officers With Body Cameras
7/17: Rebuffing union, Mayor Murray orders Seattle police to begin wearing body cameras
7/8: How I learned to stop worrying (mostly) and love my threat model
7/6: Share private voter data? No way is the right call
6/26: US does not need warrant to subpoena Oregon drug data
6/22: Mayoral candidate Jenny Durkan seeks to keep her home address under wraps
6/21: SPD body cameras are stalled over contract talks
6/20: Oregon House votes to expand privacy for undocumented immigrants
Govt (Fed):
7/13: Border Patrol Says It’s Barred From Searching Cloud Data On Phones
7/12: If FCC gets its way, we’ll lose a lot more than net neutrality
7/6: WikiLeaks Unveils CIA Implants That Steal SSH Credentials From Windows, Linux PCs
7/6: Reach of search warrant for emails at issue in appeals case
7/5: Trump Administration Says Election Panel Is No Threat to Voter Privacy
7/5: Privacy Watchdog Sues Trump’s Election Committee Over Voter Data
7/3: Facebook wins dismissal of U.S. user-privacy suit
6/28: WikiLeaks Dump Reveals a Creepy CIA Location-Tracking Trick
Govt (States & Cities):
7/12: Police body camera law signed by Michigan governor
7/12: California bill would require cops to release body cam video
7/12: Study: GPS rules send California juveniles into jail cycle
7/11: Miami-Dade to install high-tech traffic lights to ease congestion
7/11: The Latest: Panel advances body cam video transparency bill(CA)
7/6: States may shackle AT&T, Comcast on web data after US retreat
7/8: Glance: How states are handling voter information request
7/2: The US Considers A Remote Identification System For Drones
7/1: Glance: How states are handling voter information request
6/30: State Senate to consider highway surveillance system bill(Rhode Island)
6/29: It’s the thought that counts: Illinois emits ‘no location stalking’ law
6/21: Deportation Is Going High-Tech Under Trump
6/21: California May Restore Broadband Privacy Rules Killed By Congress and Trump
6/20: California Joins Fray on Internet Service Provider Privacy
Policy & Opinion:
7/14: We Have Police Videos. Now What?
6/30: Privacy, consent laws under ‘unprecedented strain’. We need a data-watcher watcher
6/29: Experts lay out their concerns about the ethics of brain implants and ‘brainjacking’
6/30: The Encryption Debate Should End Right Now
6/27: Privacy in the Information Age Is Not a Lost Cause
Overseas:
7/14: Beware, sheep rustlers of the South West of England! Police drone spy unit gets to work (UK)
7/14: Australia To Compel Technology Firms To Provide Access To Encrypted Missives(Oz)
7/13: Dutch Senate votes to grant intel agencies new surveillance powers
7/1: To tackle Google’s power, regulators have to go after its ownership of data
6/30: Civil rights warriors get green light to challenge UK mass surveillance (UK)
6/28: Macau’s ATMs Are Using Facial Recognition to Help Follow the Money
6/27: China’s All-Seeing Surveillance State Is Reading Its Citizens’ Faces
6/26: Queensland Police want access to locked devices(Oz)
6/26: Australian govt promises to push Five Eyes nations to break encryption(Oz)
6/23: Google begins removing private medical records from search results (UK)
6/19: Backdoor backlash: European Parliament wants better privacy
6/15: Look who’s joined the anti-encryption posse: Germany, come on down
6/15: Indian rape victim sues Uber for privacy violations
6/8: EU planning legislation to give police faster access to tech data
Tech:
7/17: IBM’s Plan To Encrypt Unthinkable Amounts of Sensitive Data
7/14: Using a drone to market your home? Be sure to follow the rules
7/14: Alitheon’s ID system and Sleepbox’s nap pods make a splash in Airport Shark Tank
7/10: Amazon hires gadget experts for door-to-door smart home installs, taking on Best Buy’s Geek Squad
7/8: The EFF’s ‘Let’s Encrypt’ Plans Wildcard Certificates For Subdomains
7/3: Apple Tests 3-D Face Scanning To Unlock Next iPhone: Bloomberg
6/29: The Tiny Satellites Ushering in the New Space Revolution
6/22: Amazon’s new Echo will let you see who’s at your front door
6/22: Google’s Elite Hacker SWAT Team vs. Everyone
6/21: Mozilla’s new Android browser blocks ads and trackers
6/20: Cisco wants to balance privacy with security
6/20: Got a drone for Dad’s Day? There’s an angry buzz about where to fly them
Books/Media/Misc:
7/6: Bloomberg’s Shields, Yatskowitz: States Seek Web Data Privacy (audio)
Privacy News Update, 6-19-17
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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
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Privacy News Update: Oct 2016
Featured:
10/31: Silently Tracking Users With Ultrasonic Beacons
10/31: The paranoid user’s guide to Windows 10 privacy
10/31: 17 essential tools to protect your online identity, privacy
10/30: Sneaky ultrasonic adware makes homes vulnerable to ultrasonic hacking
10/29: License plate readers a great tool for cops; concern for privacy advocates
10/28: Security apps you need on your new Pixel
10/28: The limits of encryption
10/27: How hackable are your smart home gadgets?
10/25: Does privacy exist anymore? Just barely.
10/25: ‘AT&T is Spying’ report gets social media up in arms
10/24: Cell-site simulator policy approved by Oakland Privacy Commission
10/24: 5 apps for encrypting and shredding files
10/21: Anonymous’ Most Notorious Hacker Is Back, and He’s Gone Legit
10/20: NSA, GCHQ and even Donald Trump are all after your data
10/20: 6 ways to delete yourself from the internet
10/19: ACLU takes on Fisa court over secret decisions on surveillance laws
10/19: Digital Defenders: a free open-licensed booklet for kids about privacy and crypto
10/19: Imagine if Donald Trump Controlled the NSA
10/15: Police Searches Of Social Media Face Privacy Pushback
10/15: Eye in the sky: the billionaires funding a surveillance project above Baltimore
10/15: The best privacy and security iPhone apps
10/13: Top Verizon lawyer says it’s too easy to give your location information to cops
10/12: Amazon Wants to Scan Your License Plate
10/12: Signal Adds Expiring Messages to Encrypted Chats
10/11: Encrypted communications could have an undetectable backdoor
10/11: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram sent feeds that helped police track minority protesters, report says
10/11: Twitter yanks data feeding tube out of police surveillance biz
10/10: Massive report details the surveillance powers of 12 Central and South American nations
10/7: Yahoo didn’t install an NSA email scanner, it was a “buggy” NSA “rootkit”
10/6: Former NSA employee: This hack gains access to your Mac’s webcam
10/4: Open Whisper Systems Makes the Case Against Data Retention
10/4: Google’s AI Plans Are A Privacy Nightmare
10/4: Signal chat app’s creator: US government demanded our user data
10/4: FBI demands Signal user data, but there’s not much to hand over
10/4: You Can All Finally Encrypt Facebook Messenger, So Do It
Local:
10/20: Lawyers concerned about collection of mental health data
10/20: Portland police collection of mental health data raises privacy concerns, lawyers say
10/12: Defense rights trump privacy rights in rape case, appeals court rules
10/6: Police pulling packages from mail fails ‘sniff test’ of Oregon Supreme Court
Govt:
10/31: The FCC’s new privacy rules are toothless
10/27: Internet providers must now get your OK to share your personal data
10/26: La Cañada considers advanced licence plate cameras but question of privacy arises
10/25: US transport agency guidance on vehicle cybersecurity irks lawmakers
10/25: Say goodbye to the fingerprint. It’s your digital footprint the FBI wants.
10/20: Incessant Consumer Surveillance Is Leaking Into Physical Stores
10/19: Yahoo to US government: Clarify email surveillance reports
10/19: Half of American Adults Are in Police Facial-Recognition Databases
10/17: The FBI demands a key to your backdoor
10/16: Feds Claim They Can Enter a House and Demand Fingerprints to Unlock Everyone’s Phones
10/14: US lawmakers want answers on Yahoo email surveillance
10/6: FCC’s internet privacy proposal just got a little weaker
10/4: Yahoo scanned all of its users’ incoming emails on behalf of US Intelligence officials
Policy:
10/30: The IoT security doomsday is lurking, but we cannot talk about it properly
10/28: Do Parents Invade Children’s Privacy When They Post Photos Online?
10/28: Amy Goodman: AT&T/Time Warner merger means death of privacy
10/26: Data ethics in IoT? Pff, you and your silly notions of privacy
10/26: Cyber after Snowden
10/25: Can anyone keep us safe from a weaponized ‘Internet of Things?’
10/24: The Short Dumb Life Of the Internet of Things
10/24: Op-Ed Lawmakers need to curb face recognition searches by police
10/23: Privacy is creating a new digital divide between the rich and poor
10/23: THOMAS TASCHINGER: WikiLeaks smashes concept of email privacy
10/21: Duck Google’s data grab
10/18: There’s still time to stop the surveillance society
10/18: Personal data, privacy and the totalitarian state
10/16: The Guardian view on data sharing: the privacy of citizens is being eroded
10/13: Are you worried about your online privacy?
10/11: The privacy perils of rocks and hard places
10/6: Security vs. privacy: The endless fiery debate continues
10/5: Editorial Make a deal to bring Edward Snowden home
10/5: Money, Safety and Privacy Keep Us Awake at Night
10/3: Don’t Pardon Snowden
Overseas:
10/27: Privacy group shoots legal arrow at Privacy Shield (Ireland)
10/25: Surveillance by consent: Commissioner launches CCTV strategy for England and Wales
10/24: French surveillance law is unconstitutional after all, highest court says
10/20: Greens are fighting for civil liberties too (UK)
10/18: Labour peers under fire for backing expansion of surveillance powers (UK)
10/17: London cops strap on new body cams
10/17: UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal says GHCQ illegally spied for 17 years
10/14: US renews fight for the right to seize content from the world’s servers
10/13: Euro politicians are hyping the terror threat to steal your privacy
10/13: Oz gummint’s de-anonymisation crime is as mind-bendingly stupid as we feared
10/10: Massive report details the surveillance powers of 12 Central and South American nations
10/10: Confirmed: UK police forces own IMSI grabbers, but keeping schtum on use
10/10: Controversial snooping technology ‘used by at least seven police forces’ (UK)
10/7: Facebook wins ‘Big Brother’ award in Belgium
10/5: Lawful Access is Back: How the Government Quietly Revived Canada’s Most Controversial Privacy Issue
Tech:
10/27: No need to shoot down drones! Many of them can now be hijacked
10/26: ACLU takes social giants to task over Geofeedia privacy gaffe
10/26: Rise of the photon clones: New method could lead to ‘impenetrable’ comms
10/25: BlackBerry DTEK60: An elegant flagship for grown-ups
10/25: It Ain’t Me, Babe: Researchers Find Flaws In Police Facial Recognition Technology
10/19: Your robot doctor overlords will see you now
10/17: Yelp reviews, privacy laws hamstring doctors
10/13: On the Wire Podcast: Cindy Cohn
10/13: 5 privacy settings to change in Windows 10
10/3: Medical scribes track doctors’ examinations from thousands of miles away
Books/Media/Misc:
Privacy News Update, 6-25 (1 of 2)
looong overdue, thanks for your patience …..
Featured:
5/20: Incensing critics, Google engineer ends push for crypto-only setting in Allo
5/20: New Surveillance System May Let Cops Use All Of The Cameras
5/19: Facebook scanned private messages to boost ‘likes,’ lawsuit claims
5/19: Google Is A Serial Tracker
5/19: American Military Technology Has Come Home—to Your Local Police Force
5/18: Developer Of Anonymous Tor Software Dodges FBI, Leaves US
5/16: Rule change may expand government surveillance powers, privacy advocates say
5/16: The Intercept Is Broadening Access to the Snowden Archive. Here’s Why
5/15: Everything We Know About How the FBI Hacks People
5/14: Privacy Fears Deterring Almost Half of American Households From Online Shopping
5/13: FBI bugged public spaces for years hoping to overhear a few illegal things
5/11: The FBI Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny Wiretapping Your Amazon Echo
5/10: The Fight Over NSA Internet Surveillance Is Heating Up Again
5/9: This App Can Tell You If Your iPhone Has Been Secretly Hacked
5/7: Spy agencies are pushed to reveal extent of U.S. surveillance
5/6: Facebook’s newest privacy problem: ‘Faceprint’ data
5/5: Mobile advertisers want to know exactly where you are. This company tells them.
5/2: How to Search the Deep Web Safely
4/29: You Can’t Escape Data Surveillance In America
4/29: Waze comes up with a fix for hack that let researchers track users’ movements
4/26: Two Tips to Keep Your Phone’s Encrypted Messages Encrypted
4/20: How To Preserve Your Privacy When Making Mobile Payments
4/17: Here’s a Truly Comprehensive Takedown of Mass Surveillance
4/15: An App That Tracks the Police to Keep Them in Check
4/1: Edward Snowden’s guide to internet privacy
3/20: Think you’re not being tracked? Now websites turn to audio fingerprinting to follow you
3/19: Senators seek to block expansion of FBI’s mass hacking powers
Local:
5/5: Judge allows most but not all evidence Portland police gathered from cameras on power poles
5/2: Seattle’s sanitation workers can no longer pry through trash without a warrant
4/30: Police cameras on power poles: Illegal ‘unblinking eyes’ or smart tricks of the trade?
4/19 Washington: the “Wild West” for surveillance drones
4/12: ‘Shameful and dangerous’: Civil rights group rips Black Lives Matter surveillance
4/5: How a spy probe wound up as a child porn prosecution
Govt:
5/20: FBI Plots Its Next Move in the Encryption Battle
5/20: Students may qualify for FOIA fee reductions, court rules
5/16: NSA Closely Involved in Guantánamo Interrogations, Documents Show
5/19: Giant wave of government data could be unleashed by proposed law
5/16: What It’s Like to Read the NSA’s Newspaper for Spies
5/12: FBI Director Is Upset You Can Communicate Securely on WhatsApp
5/12: Philadelphia Police Now Investigating Its Own Fake Google Maps Car
5/12: FBI expects more legal actions over encrypted devices
5/10: License plate reader proposal fails amid privacy concerns
5/10: Senate panel debates federal surveillance law set to expire in 2017
5/9: Twitter Blocks Feds From Data Mining Service
5/8: Illinois residents can sue Facebook for photo tagging, judge says
5/6: Hacker Lexicon: Stingrays, the Spy Tool the Government Tried, and Failed, to Hide
5/5: FBI Told Cops to Recreate Evidence From Secret Cell-Phone Trackers
5/4: Legal quirk enabling surveillance state expansion absent Congressional vote
5/3: NSA and CIA Double Their Warrantless Searches on Americans in Two Years
4/30: Security News This Week: The FBI Gets Creative to Avoid Disclosing Its $1M iPhone Hack
4/29: The Supreme Court Just Gave FBI the Power to Hack Innocent People
4/28: US Border Patrol Doesn’t Want a Wall—They Want Drones and Sensors
4/25: Congress demands to know how many citizens are being spied on
4/23: US authorities drop another iPhone fight after being given passcode
4/21: The FBI Spent More Than $1 Million to Hack One Potentially Useless Phone
4/20: Missouri lawmakers worry police technology invades privacy
4/20: Court to hear arguments over Indiana lawmaker email privacy
4/19: US congressman calls for investigation into vulnerability that lets hackers spy on every phone
4/14: Microsoft sues Justice Department over secret searches of customer data
4/14: Ron Wyden vows to filibuster anti-cryptography bill
4/14: An Attack on Privacy From the Senators Charged With Protecting It
4/14: This Very Common Cellphone Surveillance Still Doesn’t Require a Warrant
4/13: Line by line, how the US anti-encryption bill will kill our privacy, security
4/10: High-speed license plate cameras spark privacy concerns as they help solve crimes
3/29: FBI iPhone solution may not necessarily crack other cases
3/18: US government demands for vendors’ source code are nothing new – Whether you think the push to get source code is overreach or not, governments around the world have done it for years. Often, they just have to ask — or steal it.
3/16: Soon, feds will snoop on your social networks before granting security clearance
3/1: AG Lynch defends surveillance to tech industry gathering
Policy:
6/16: Eighth Circuit holds that accessing credit card magnetic stripe is not a ‘search’
6/7: The Fifth Amendment limits on forced decryption and applying the ‘foregone conclusion’ doctrine
5/23: Knock-knock. Who’s there? Everyone
5/21: Why people like Edward Snowden say they will boycott Google’s newest messaging app
5/20: High School Debaters Bring Surveillance, Encryption Arguments to Capitol Hill
5/20: New institute aspires to protect First Amendment in digital era
5/19: A look at digital habits of 13 year olds shows desire for privacy, face-to-face time
5/16: The Most Intriguing Spy Stories From 166 Internal NSA Reports
5/15: Needed: More Snowdens – Ex-intel analyst
5/13: Magid: Live video can go too far
5/7: Can Facebook Store Your Facial Biometrics? Lawsuit Says No
5/6: Mercury News editorial: FISA court lets feds snoop with free rein
5/6: Diana Diamond: City should be watching all those surveillance tools out there
5/2: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: Why the U.S. needs better laws to balance privacy and national security
4/22: Blind deserve privacy, too
Overseas:
5/22: Press privacy finds its last redoubt on their lordships’ island of injunctions
5/20: Google Should Not Be Allowed to Secretly Collect Private Medical Data
5/19: Building a National Fortress in the Cloud: Stressing Germanness to reassure clients about security.
5/19: Google Fights Right-to-Be-Forgotten Fine at French Top Court
5/17: Face Recognition App Taking Russia By Storm May Bring End To Public Anonymity
5/16: Spies Like Us – GCHQ, Britain’s equivalent of the NSA, has joined Twitter.
5/16: Why China Doesn’t Care About Privacy
5/13: Runkeeper background tracking leads to complaint from privacy watchdog
5/12: Spying on you using fake social media profiles: One Scots council could
5/11: Facebook tells Thai users their data not given to government
5/10: British Hacker Wins Court Battle Over Encryption Keys
5/10: Privacy warriors take legal action over UK gov’s right to hack
5/10: Investigatory Powers Bill: As supported by world’s most controlling men
5/9: India claims to have tool to defeat iPhone encryption
5/9: This privacy-focused messenger saw a 500% increase in downloads when Brazil banned WhatsApp
5/6: DeepMind has best privacy infrastructure for handling NHS data, says co-founder
5/3: UK.gov refuses to give surveillance commish enforcement powers
4/28: Paris Police Want to Fly Drones Over Crowds to Make Everyone Safer
4/25: Remain in the EU and help me snoop on the world, says Theresa May
4/22: Turnbull should force Australia to be open about data breaches
4/22: UK spy agencies store sensitive data on millions of innocent people, with no safeguards from abuse
4/22: British citizens to their government: the spies are among us
4/20: UK spy agencies have collected bulk personal data since 1990s, files show
4/15: Australia’s attacks on journalists’ sources are about politics, not national security
4/14: European parliament approves tougher data privacy rules
3/20: Internet usage monitoring becomes the norm in Brazil
Tech:
5/30: Gay Dating Apps Promise Privacy, But Leak Your Exact Location
5/21: Privacy fears: Panel has advice for drone operators
5/21: Oculus responds to Sen. Al Franken’s VR privacy questions
5/20: Drones hit home as some agents use sky-high views to market properties
5/20: Newly-released FAA data shows that Houstonians really love their drones
5/18: These people know the minute you get their emails. It’s creepy, but brilliant.
5/18: Google Home crashes Amazon Echo’s party
5/5: New Scanner Uniquely Identifies Gadgets Just From the Noise They Emit
5/4: How to evade the NSA: OpSec guide for journalists also used by terrorists
5/4: Disturbing Twitch recording may trigger site’s proactive police-report policy
4/26: Waze is an awesome driving app that also lets hackers stalk you
4/20: Google’s Waze says, ‘Nope, hackers can’t stalk you on our app’
Privacy News Update, 7-11-15
Featured:
7/10: The rise of the new Crypto War
7/10: Wolverton: New, smarter light bulbs do more than just turn on
7/10: Carmakers to Tech Partners: Keep Your Hands Off Our Data
7/10: UK Privacy Advocate Caspar Bowden Dies
7/8: Manhattan DA: iPhone Crypto Locked Out Cops 74 Times
7/8: FBI, Justice Dept. Take Encryption Concerns to Congress
7/7: A list of the well-known politicians who have defended Edward Snowden
7/7: Security Experts Oppose Government Access to Encrypted Communication
7/7: Is the Obama administration softening on Edward Snowden?
7/7: Eric Holder Says DoJ Could Strike Deal With Snowden; Current AG Takes Hard Line
7/7: Senate Advances Plan To Make Email and Social Sites Report Terror Activity
7/5: Coming soon to your St. Paul library: Data tracking
7/5: Encryption’s holy grail is getting closer, one way or another
7/5: Steer clear of low-tech hacks: How to keep your information safe
7/3: Student sues Fordham over demand for mental health records
7/2: WikiLeaks drops new set of secret TISA docs: Yep, no one agrees
7/2: Marketers’ Next Trick: Reading Buyers’ Minds
7/1: NSA’s spying on UN and others detailed in newly published documents
7/1: This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address
6/30: 7 Technologies to Track People
6/30: Why I Walked Out of Facial Recognition Negotiations
6/30: MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data
6/30: Surveillance Court: NSA Can Resume Bulk Surveillance
6/30: Stanford Starts the ‘Secure Internet of Things Project’
6/29: Lincoln Chafee Adds a Proposal to the 2016 Debate: ‘Let’s Bring Edward Snowden Home’
6/29: Want to shoot down a drone? It’ll cost you, Modesto man learns
6/29: When a Company Gets Sold, Your Data May Be Sold, Too
6/26: Cisco Security Appliances Found To Have Default SSH Keys
6/26: MAC address privacy inches towards standardisation
6/25: Snapchat Still May Not Be as Safe as You Think
6/23: Low-tech ways you can protect your privacy online
6/23: Why Jeb Bush Wants the United States to Be More Like Estonia
6/23: Google cures Chrome security flaws in fresh update
6/23: Cars that can read your mind — through the steering wheel
6/23: New Snowden Leaks Show NSA Attacked Anti-Virus Software
6/22: Allstate Patents Physiological Data Collection
6/22: U.S. Supreme Court sides with innkeepers on right to privacy
6/17: FBI aerial surveillance revelations prompt backlash from US lawmakers
6/12: Government’s Secret Surveillance Court May Be About to Get a Little Less Secret
6/8: June 8, 1949: George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Is Published
6/1: NSA Reform? No Way! Scott Walker Wants ‘Something Closer to the Patriot Act’
Local:
6/23: The future of police video: Inside the Seattle PD’s workshop on wearable cameras
Govt:
7/9: Privacy campaigners question credibility of NHS ‘endorsed’ apps
7/8: Amtrak Is Urged to Install Cameras to Monitor Engineers
7/8: Sheriff’s office wants funds for body cams(Houston, TX)
7/7: Utah lawmakers look at passing statewide body camera rules
7/7: Pennsylvania court rules police videos can be public records
7/6: New Mexico lawmakers discuss drone regulations
7/4: Gov. Walker and Wisconsin GOP Retreat on Open Records Limits
7/3: Bill would allow cameras in Illinois nursing homes
7/1: Federal wiretaps down slightly, encryption impact decreases
6/25: We need to know about the Internet of Things, say US Senators
6/22: Privacy group asks FTC to investigate Uber
6/12: The FCC will now take your net neutrality complaints
6/4: Newly revealed NSA surveillance program draws support, ire
Policy:
7/10: Should Google be forced to bring the right to be forgotten to the U.S.?
7/7: Encryption debate shows Silicon Valley takes power back from feds
7/7: Automakers need to make security ‘part of the conversation’
7/5: Forget Bitcoin — What Is the Blockchain and Why Should You Care?
7/4: Readers React – Why can’t we watch the police?
7/2: Do Privacy Concerns Really Change With The Internet Of Things?
7/2015: ICYMI: June’s #maketechhuman Debate Tackled Google, NSA, and Cyberwarfare
6/30: Data Policy 101: What Businesses And Consumers Need to Know About Privacy
6/25: There’s no law to prevent intelligence agencies using private data. That has to change
6/23: ‘Fear of One Company Knowing Too Much About Us’ and Other Privacy Concerns
6/22: Privacy is awesome, in theory: Column
6/20: Google’s backward step on Android app privacy
6/11: Policing Privacy in the Age of Surveillance
6/10: Bridging Policy Silos in Digital Field
6/2: Internet privacy lawsuits, once all the rage, fizzle out
Overseas:
7/8: China Mulls Privacy Protection, Further Curbs on Internet
7/8: EU ombudsman slams Commish handling of German ePrivacy laws
7/5: Theresa May Named UK’s Internet Villain of the Year
7/3: Germany Wants Quick Clarification of New NSA Spy Allegations
7/3: Russian Parliament Approves Internet Privacy Bill
7/3: Angry Austrian takes a hit in David and Goliath Facebook battle
7/2: French privacy cops snarl at websites over crap EU cookie warnings
7/2: CNIL Enforces Cookies Rules in France
7/2: Privacy watchdog ICO slashes its fines in half
7/1: UK Gets Ironic by Spying on Amnesty International
6/26: US tech companies still not doing enough to help police and spies, claims UK
6/25: U.K. MPs Debate Judicial Authorization For Intercept Warrants
6/25: France, Up In Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law
6/24: Privacy advocates descend on proposed domain name change
6/24: Three-way EU Big Data privacy wrestling match kicks off
6/23: GCHQ: Security software? We’ll soon see about THAT
6/22: Oi, UK.gov, your Verify system looks like a MASS SPY NETWORK
6/22: GCHQ didn’t illegally spy on Brit NGOs, tribunal rules
6/19: Australia seeks rules for ‘peacetime norms’ in cyberspace
6/11: ‘Big Parenting’: How data and technology are changing our families
Tech:
7/11: Like gym memberships, enthusiasm for fitness trackers drops
7/10: Would you pay $5 for an ad-free Internet?
7/9: How to see the photos your friends are hiding on Facebook
7/6: Hacking Team Breach Shows a Global Spying Firm Run Amok
7/6: Farm Use of Drones to Take Off as Feds Loosen Restrictions
7/3: PureVPN calls pure BS on VPN insecurity study
7/1: Script-blocker NoScript lets in ANYTHING from googleapis.com
7/1: Amazon’s New SSL/TLS Implementation In 6,000 Lines of Code
6/29: Athletes adjusting to cameras all over arenas, stadiums
6/28: Where Are The Invisible Apps?
6/23: Parrot’s New MiniDrones Conquer Air, Land…and Sea
6/23: Google eavesdropping tool installed on computers without permission
6/23: Seven tips for securing your Facebook account
6/19: The Arlo and Flir FX security cameras: plug-and-play, mobile ready omnipresence
6/18: Your smartphone could have serious security flaws
6/17: Nest Cam keeps a high-def eye and ear on your home: First Look
6/8: Apple to require 6-digit passcodes on newer iPhones, iPads under iOS 9
5/15: Freightliner wants to know if we’re ready for autonomous trucks
Books/Media/Misc:
Privacy News Update, 6-12
Featured:
6/6: Divining the capabilities of the FBI’s ubiquitous spy aircraft
6/6: Librarians As the First Line of Privacy Defense
6/6: How the country’s top privacy cop is trying to protect consumers in the digital age
6/6: The Online Privacy Lie Is Unraveling
6/5: What an NYPD Spy Copter Reveals About the FBI’s Spy Planes
6/4: After Partial NSA Reform, Expanded Internet Surveillance Of Americans Emerges
6/4: Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border
6/4: New Snowden documents reveal secret memos expanding spying
6/4: Study shows consumers lament being monitored online for marketing
6/4: Leaked TISA Documents Reveal Privacy Threat
6/4: Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance
6/4: Report: NSA Sifts Americans’ International Internet Traffic to Hunt Hackers
6/3: USA Freedom Act: the good, the bad, and what’s next
6/3: WikiLeaks releases secret TISA docs: The more evil sibling of TTIP and TPP
6/3: Analysis: NSA bill barely touches the agency’s vast powers
6/1: Nosy Brit cops demand access to comms data EVERY TWO MINUTES
5/30: As Patriot Act Debated, Privacy Tools More Accessible
5/30: Unmasking hidden Tor service users is too easy, say infosec bods
5/29: Tech companies aren’t so transparent when it comes to politics
5/28: How metadata compromises you
5/27: The Key to Ending Mass Surveillance? Math.
5/26: Boffins silently track train commuters without tripping Android checks
5/25: Lessons from a Sydney cryptoparty
5/25: How one mayor struggles with balancing privacy and surveillance (Oakland, CA)
5/22: FBI admits it didn’t crack any major cases with Patriot Act powers
5/15: New Iris Recognition Tech Could Make It Easier To Catch Criminals — Or Find Protesters
Local:
6/2: Ron Wyden: USA Freedom Act passage is ‘biggest win for privacy rights in a decade’
Govt:
6/5: Why did Snowden swipe 900k+ US DoD files? (Or so Uncle Sam claims)
6/5: County sheriff warrantlessly used stingray 500+ times, claims to have no records (Sacramento)
6/5: Edward Snowden Celebrates NSA Reform as the “Power of an Informed Public”
6/4: House easily passes further anti-surveillance amendments
6/4: US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice
6/4: New Jersey seeks to make ‘upskirting’ a crime
6/4: Oklahoma governor signs police body camera footage measure
6/4: Body camera bill on its way to South Carolina governor
6/4: US lawmaker: Next, we stop the NSA from weakening encryption
6/3: Governor vetoes bills involving photo traffic enforcement (CO)
6/3: The NSA will stop collecting U.S. phone data. Now what?
6/3: California Senate OKs requiring warrants to search smartphones, tablets
6/3: US Senate passes USA Freedom Act – a long lip service to NSA reforms
6/3: Congressman Warns of Encrypted “Dark Spaces”; Another Says: “Ooooh It Sounds Really Scary”
6/3: State high court limits right to warrantless home searches (AZ)
6/3: Get Your NSA Reform Hot Takes Here
6/2: How Mitch McConnell Tried—and Failed—to Weaken NSA Reform
6/2: US Airport Screeners Missed 95% of Weapons, Explosives In Undercover Tests
6/1: Privacy Advocates Hope Sunset Of Section 215 Marks Dawn Of Surveillance Reform
5/31: Oakland council to vote on surveillance camera limits
5/28: Court weighs S.F. policy on who reviews police files
5/28: NSA chief: Encryption isn’t bad, it’s the future
5/28: Reality Checks in Debate Over Surveillance Laws
5/28: Inside NSA, Officials Privately Criticize “Collect It All” Surveillance
5/27: Obama Asks Congress To Renew ‘Patriot Act’ Snooping
5/27: On Patriot Act Renewal and USA Freedom Act: Glenn Greenwald Talks With ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer
5/26: Privacy and Security Innovation: The Cautionary Tale of Nomi Technologies And The FTC
Policy:
6/6: Why Is Apple’s Tim Cook Taking Shots At Google And Facebook?
6/5: Ed Snowden should be pardoned, thunders Amnesty Int’l
6/4: Snowden deserves credit for NSA reform — and to stand trial
6/4: Welcome to the Age of Digital Imperialism
6/4: Mad John McAfee: ‘Can you live in a society that is more paranoid than I’m supposed to be?’
6/3: Privacy Protection and Security: We Can Have Both
6/3: In Pushing for Revised Surveillance Program, Obama Strikes His Own Balance
6/3: Tim Cook just sent a powerful warning to the US government
6/3: Privacy In The Competency Marketplace: Who Owns Your Profile Metadata?
6/2: Fusion’s Alicia Menendez: Millennials Have A Complicated Relationship With Privacy
6/2: How Edward Snowden Sparked a Librarians’ Quarrel
6/2: Suspended Surveillance: Two Years of Heretical Thinking
6/1: Not a false choice between ideals and security
6/1: Debate on NSA surveillance looks phony on both sides
5/30: Not To Be A Buzzkill, But An Apple Car Will Kill Privacy
5/30: Security News This Week: If the Patriot Act Expires It Won’t Spell Doom
5/29: Choosing between Big Brother and the Bill of Rights
5/29: Five myths about body cameras
5/28: Mercury News editorial: Californians deserve digital data privacy protection
5/28: Let Patriot Act Provisions Expire
5/27: 5 Ways to Take Back Tech
5/26: Stop logging our phone calls
5/22: Rewrite body camera bill or put it aside (California)
5/19: In defense of ad-blockers, a vital tool for the privacy conscious
5/2015: Privacy Behaviors After Snowden
Overseas:
6/4: Passions run high in EU parliament debate over air passengers’ privacy
6/4: U.K. State Surveillance Powers Challenged Under Human Rights Law
6/4: 2 UK Lawmakers Challenge Government on Surveillance Powers
6/4: Less than a day left to kill Paraguay’s mass surveillance bill
6/4: There was a David Cameron who swallowed a fly..
6/3: Cop cams hit London: 20,000 police to wear video cameras
6/2: GCHQ gros fromage stays schtum on Snowden and snooping
5/30: When a government spies on its citizens: lessons from Chile
5/30: German Court Turns Down Drone Lawsuit but Leaves Door Open to Others
5/29: Germany licks lips, eyes new data gulp with revised retention law
5/28: UN says encryption “necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom”
5/27: UK surveillance commish asks CCTV operators to please be good
5/26: Skype hauled into court after refusing to hand call records to cops
5/22: Which Colombian ISPs keep your data private?
5/20: Gov’t to spy upon South Korean minors through smartphone apps
Tech:
6/5: Here’s new evidence that Google Glass is moving forward
6/5: Would You Be Willing to Pay for Facebook or Google in Exchange for Your Privacy?
6/5: Look, Ma, No Hands!
6/4: Turn It On: How to enable two-factor authentication for over 100 websites
6/4: Microsoft Gives Details About Its Controversial Disk Encryption
6/2: Did Little Caesars Just Start The Privacy War?
6/1: Facebook Now Supports PGP To Send You Encrypted Emails
5/29: Hola: A free VPN with a side of botnet
5/27: Make Adama proud: Connect your Things wisely, cadet
5/27: Need a simple, instant warrant canary? Now there’s an app for that
5/27: For iPhone, iPad privacy, here’s how to turn on encryption in just one minute
5/26: Bluetooth privacy is mostly ignored, so you’re beaming yourself to the world
5/26: In New York City, “freelance spies” are recording your conversations
5/25: Encryption for Everyone: The free service that will change how you think about security
Privacy News Update, 5-24 part 1
Featured:
5/8: Airport Security Advances Clash With Privacy Issues
5/8: Useful data, from L.A. County? There must be some mistake
5/8: Get ready for Android M, for “more privacy”
5/7: The philosophy of privacy: why surveillance reduces us to objects
5/7: Of Snowden and the NSA, only one has acted unlawfully – and it’s not Snowden
5/7: What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them
5/6: Drummond: How valuable a policing tool is ShotSpotter?
5/6: LinkedIn serves up resumes of 27,000 US intelligence personnel
5/6: Here’s What’s Wrong With the USA Freedom Act
5/6: Police union sues over cellphone searches after rowdy party
5/6: Librarians Versus the NSA
5/4: US Gov’t Will Reveal More About Its Secret Cellphone Tracking Devices
5/4: Privacy and the Profit Motive
5/3: It’s Your Right to Film the Police. These Apps Can Help
5/1: WikiLeaks Finally Brings Back Its Submission System for Your Secrets
5/1: ‘Just follow the damn Constitution!’ FBI, DoJ skewered over demands for crypto backdoors
5/1: Protecting Users’ Location Data From An Unconstitutional Search
5/1: The NSA’s greatest hiring strength is students, but resistance is growing
4/30: Smartphone app from ACLU of California aims to preserve videos of police
4/28: Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection Knows Exactly Who’s in Your Car
4/26: Declassified Report From 2009 Questions Effectiveness of NSA Spying
Local:
5/7: Editorial: Public work on private devices must remain public
5/5: Oregon House approves bills clarifying filming of police
4/30: Oregon House passes bill targeting insurance confidentiality
4/30: Alex Alben appointed to Washington state privacy office
Govt:
5/11: Court: Border search of businessman’s laptop ‘unreasonable’
5/10: GOP candidates divided over renewing USA Patriot Act
5/10: 5 things to know about the NSA court ruling
5/8: New US attorney general refuses to drop Microsoft foreign data warrant
5/8: Did judge who ruled NSA phone dragnet illegal call Snowden a whistleblower?
5/8: James Comey: the Man Who Wants To Outlaw Encryption
5/8: Deadline May Force Compromise on U.S. Surveillance Law
5/8: Bowser: Vote on police-camera funds would likely precede one on rules (DC)
5/8: Legislature approves employee privacy bill (CT)
5.8: Wilmington mayor orders study on police body cameras (Del)
5/8: Republicans Make Dubious Claims in Defense of NSA Surveillance
5/7: NSA surveillance ruled illegal
5/7: Senate passes first Minnesota rules on police body cameras
5/7: Nevada lawmakers continue reviewing drone privacy bill
5/7: FBI admits providing air support to Baltimore Police during Freddie Gray unrest
5/7: Bill Would Let Companies Secretly Record Some Phone Calls (California)
5/7: Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Was Never Authorized By Congress
5/7: Santa Clara County Opts Against Buying Stingray Due To Excessive Secrecy
5/7: Santa Clara County drive to acquire cellphone tracker derailed
5/7: Cost for Cleveland police body camera program could rise
5/6: Walnut Creek police: Body cameras, yes; drones, no
5/6: Virginia Man Sues Police Over License Plate Database
5/6: Supreme Court: Warrantless drug-sniffing dogs OK in condos
5/6: CNN and FAA Team Up to Test Drones
5/6: Stamford considers surveillance cameras downtown, in parks (CT)
5/5: Colorado effort to limit drone surveillance fails
5/5: Creeps Embrace a New Tool: Peeping Drones
5/5: Court: warrantless cellphone tracking not illegal search
5/5: Gov. Baker: Police body cameras raise privacy concerns (MA)
5/5: Court’s Reversal Leaves Phones Open to Warrantless Tracking
5/5: New Louisiana public school student ID system developed
5/3: State is trying police cameras but still needs to build trust
5/3: Regulators ordered to reopen dispute over smart meters
5/1: Mayor eclipses sheriff’s plan for body cameras (SF, CA)
5/1: The Pentagon Could Soon Share Americans’ Data With Foreign Militaries
5/1: Senate approves social media password bill (NH)
5/1: Unrest in Baltimore means big business for Taser
5/1: NSA-restraining US law edges closer to reality, leaves just 6.81 billion under mass surveillance
5/1: Secret law is a ‘direct threat’ to Americans’ privacy, says NSA whistleblower
4/30: NSA is so overwhelmed with data, it’s no longer effective, says whistleblower
4/30: The FBI is fighting a losing battle over phone snooping
4/30: Mayor Ed Lee says SF cops will be wearing body cameras
4/30: Public-safety reform package includes body cams for SF cops, but no date announced
4/29: Why the US government reckons it should keep phone network kill-switches a secret
4/29: Paranoid about the NSA? The case for dumping cloud’s Big 3
4/28: LAPD board OKs body camera policy despite opposition
4/28: Assembly bill seeks ban on smart TVs becoming ‘Big Brother’ (California)
4/28: San Jose: Police auditor wants more sunshine on internal misconduct probes
4/28: Why Crypto Backdoors Wouldn’t Work
4/28: WHY can’t Silicon Valley create breakable non-breakable encryption, cry US politicians
4/27: Quoted: Privacy concerns over police body cameras
4/27: Divided Police Commission approves rules for LAPD body cameras
4/24: Looking for laxatives, miss? Shoppers stalked via smartphone Wi-Fi
4/20: New York City Just Outlawed Running Credit Checks on Job Applicants
Policy:
5/8: Government Arrogance on Surveillance
5/8: Intelligence Gathering, Secrecy and the Congress Problem
5/7: Contra Costa Times editorial: Court is right Congress must fix NSA spying
5/7: Why the NSA decision matters
5/7: The Illegal Phone-Data Sweeps
5/7: Snowden vindicated in court’s ruling against secret laws: Bloomberg View
5/6: Urging police to wear cameras is just the first step: Our view
5/6: Balance privacy with public good: Another view (Florida)
5/6: The USA Freedom Act: A smaller Big Brother
5/5: Eleventh Circuit rules for the feds on cell-site records — but then overreaches
5/4: Justice Dept. review of cell-phone tracking needs to go further
5/2: How fear and self-preservation are driving a cyber arms race
4/26: Internet Privacy Is The Wrong Conversation
Overseas:
5/8: Privacy Breach Blowin’ in the Wind (Canada)
5/7: Red-faced Germans halt NSA cooperation after Euro spying revealed
5/6: Pressure Mounts on Merkel to Explain German Role in N.S.A. Espionage
5/6: Familiar Swing to Security Over Privacy After Attacks in France
5/6: French Version of ‘Patriot Act’ Becomes Law
5/4: Telstra breached privacy law by refusing to give customer his metadata
5/4: Framework aims to embed privacy culture in Australian organisations
5/1: Encryption backdoors are like TSA luggage-locks for the Internet
4/30: France wants to make les citoyens’ health data available to world+dog
4/29: Your new car will dob you in to the cops if you crash, decrees EU
4/29: Stop the war between privacy and security – EU data watchdog
4/29: Facebook says EU’s privacy investigations hurt innovation, economy
4/6: The mere idea of regaining privacy sends law enforcement into a tizzy
Tech:
5/8: Web Served: How to make your site all-HTTPS, all the time, for everyone
5/8: Dropbox Moves Accounts Outside North America To Ireland
5/8: How to permanently delete your dating profiles on Tinder, Hinge and Match
5/7: Choc Factory finds 84,000 ad injectors targeting Chrome
5/7: Business Travelers Want to Be Left to Their Own Devices
5/7: Flier beware: Airlines aren’t clear about their photography policies
5/7: Drone use poised to expand to newsrooms despite FAA limits
5/7: Fake privacy gadgets, from Anonabox to Sever: Fighting a strange and profitable epidemic
5/6: Scared of Self-Driving Cars? They’re a Lot Closer Than You Think
5/6: Encrypted Chat App Wickr Creates New Non-Profit Arm, Nico Sell Steps Down As CEO To Lead It
5/6: High-tech sensors help kids keep eye on aging parents
5/6: We’re Closer to an Encrypted Internet than You Think
5/5: Android tool catches apps silently pumping hundreds of ad, tracking servers red-handed
5/4: Would You Like to Ride in a Car That Drives Itself?
5/4: Facebook Opens Up Internet.org Platform, Tramples All Over User Privacy
5/4: Free Android apps quietly connect to thousands of user tracking, ad sites
5/1: Mozilla Begins To Move Towards HTTPS-Only Web
4/30: Telescreen watch: Vizio adds spyware to its TVs
4/30: Smart devices have confusing policies, may be tracking you
4/30: Once a Forgotten Child, OpenSSL’s Future Now Looks Bright
4/28: Your smartphone may be tracking your every move
4/28: Facebook is breaking some apps, but it’s a good thing for privacy
4/27: Bodyprint could let you unlock your phone with your ear print
4/25: As Health Apps Hop On The Apple Watch, Privacy Will Be Key
Books/Misc:
5/8: ‘Deep Web’ director Alex Winter on the mystery of Ross Ulbricht
5/3: Bruce Schneier’s Data and Goliath – solution or part of the problem?
4/30: 1970s Researchers Predicted Debit Cards Would Be Great For Surveillance