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Privacy News Update, October 2018
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Featured:
10/27: Your DNA Is Out There. Do You Want Law Enforcement Using It?
10/26: Apple Face ID: Everything you need to know
10/26: New Documents Show Amazon’s Face-Scanning Tech for Cops Was a Headache From the Start
10/26: Hate lines? You could speed through the stadium or airport (in return for your personal data)
10/26: California Will Pause Net Neutrality Law for Federal Suit
10/25: How a 19th-Century Teenager Sparked a Battle Over Who Owns Our Faces
10/25: A former Facebook executive called out Apple CEO Tim Cook’s hypocrisy over privacy
10/24: Apple boss decries ‘data industrial complex’ while pocketing, er, billions to hook Google into iOS
10/24: Tim Cook Takes Aim at Companies That Stockpile Private Data
10/24: Alibaba Used Shoppers’ Data to Invent a Spicy Snickers Bar
10/24: CNET Asks: Do you trust ancestry sites to keep your DNA safe?
10/24: ACLU demands DHS disclose its use of facial-recognition tech
10/24: Google Is Putting More Privacy Controls Directly in Search
10/24: Sidewalk Toronto project loses privacy expert over data anonymization policy
10/24: Google Made It Less of a Pain in the Ass to Clear Your Search History
10/23: This Thermometer Tells Your Temperature, Then Tells Firms Where to Advertise
10/23: Stepping Into an Amazon Store Helps It Get Inside Your Head
10/22: Alexa, I Feel Sick … Can Big Tech Solve the Growing Crisis in Healthcare?
10/22: Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them
10/19: You like HTTPS. We like HTTPS. Except when a quirk of TLS can smash someone’s web privacy
10/19: Anonymous Amazonian demands withdrawal of face-recog kit from sale
10/18: Facebook’s Portal Gets Even Creepier. 3 Things to Know Today.
10/18: How consumer technology is driving smart cities
10/17: Most people don’t want to access government services with their mobile devices
10/17: This Startup Wants You to Control Your Own Data Again
10/17: Here’s how to find out how much data Apple has about you
10/17: Apple’s privacy portal now lets US customers download their data
10/16: TSA outlines plans to expand facial recognition use on domestic flights
10/16: Facebook Finally Admits That Its New Spy Equipment Can Spy on You
10/16: Facebook has admitted that data collected by its Portal devices could be used in targeted ads
10/15: Is it legal to use surveillance equipment in a house that’s on the market?
10/15: Small privacy change for Google leads to big disruptions for startups
10/15: The Employer-Surveillance State
10/12: DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches as more people flock toward privacy
10/10: How to delete Facebook and Instagram from your life forever
10/8: Google’s Privacy Whiplash Shows Big Tech’s Inherent Contradictions
10/8: Radar speed road signs might be saving your license plate for later
10/8: Facebook Made You a Smart-Home Device, and There’s a Camera on It
10/8: IATA study reveals travelers want more automation, control and privacy
10/4: AT&T Claims It Wants Meaningful Privacy Rules…After Just Lobbying To Kill Meaningful Privacy Rules
10/2: Why you shouldn’t use Facebook to log in to other sites and apps
10/1: Why Cops Can Force You to Unlock Your Phone With Your Face
10/1: A web where the user has complete control of their data? Sounds Solid, Tim Berners-Lee
10/1: Location, location, location… technologies under the microscope
Local (PNW):
10/23: Spokane bans warrantless ICE and Border Patrol searches in private areas of city-owned property
10/17: Seattle startup vets take on Google with Helm, a new $499 personal email server
10/8: Rep. Suzan DelBene and colleagues push for U.S. data privacy regulation
10/5: Seattle invites public to comment on its surveillance technologies
10/4: Washington is now deemed fully compliant with REAL ID protocol
Govt (Fed):
10/25: Sen. Wyden Urges DHS to Adopt New Encryption Tech to Protect .Gov Websites Visitors
10/24: Ex spy bosses: Cyber-warfare needs rules of engagement for nations to promptly ignore
10/23: Amazon met with ICE officials over facial-recognition system that could identify immigrants
10/22: Amazon Lobbying Reaches Company Record Amid Pentagon Competition
10/17: Democrats Eye ‘Internet Bill of Rights’ If They Win the House
10/15: Elizabeth Warren and the Death of Genetic Privacy
10/15: Facial Recognition Is Coming to an Airport Security Lane Near You
10/10: Microsoft CEO Backs Federal Privacy Law Over State Efforts
10/10: Privacy advocates tell senators what they want in a data protection law
10/7: Bitter fight over Kavanaugh shadows a conservative court
10/5: A congressman pushes for an Internet Bill of Rights
10/1: FBI unlocked an iPhone X by forcing suspect to use Face ID
10/1: The Lie Generator: Inside the Black Mirror World of Polygraph Job Screenings
Govt (States & Cities):
10/27: Florida man won’t be compelled to reveal iPhone passcode, yet
10/27: Judge orders Memphis police to bolster surveillance policies
10/26: Ruling: Search warrant with wrong address can still be valid
10/25: ‘Autonomous Illinois’ promises economic benefit, public goods
10/24: Why does one California county sheriff have the highest rate of stingray use?
10/19: Orlando extends facial recognition pilot program
10/12: New Pennsylvania law fines people for using drones to spy
10/8: Editorial: Red light cameras should get green light, yellow should be the approach (CT)
10/8: Vote ‘no’ on San Francisco Prop. B — it weakens transparency, does little to protect privacy
10/7: Savannah police preparing to put drones on duty
10/5: How Fremont police have quietly accumulated expansive surveillance tools
10/2: Missouri gets more time to comply with REAL ID Act
Policy & Opinion:
10/26: Commentary: Online privacy protection crucial
10/18: Tech Founders’ Absolute Power Is Destroying Company Culture
10/17: In the future, not even your DNA will be sacred
10/13: With genetic-identity registries, it’s the end of anonymity as we know it
10/12: Opinion: If we’re going to regulate data, start with politicians
10/3: Tech industry is suddenly pushing for federal privacy legislation. Watch out.
Overseas:
10/24: Hong Kong Privacy Commission Expresses Serious Concern Over Cathay Data Leak
10/23: Tech Guru Bets Drones Will be `Gold Rush in the Air’ For Japan
10/23: Indie UK mobile carrier announces a Tor-only SIM that blocks unencrypted data
10/22: China’s Spy-Tech Star Needs Some Covert Help
10/19: The Cybersecurity 202: US tech firms slam Australian bill that could weaken encryption
10/19: Europe’s privacy laws are now so tough, they are taking names off doorbells in Vienna.
10/18: Police in South Korea Want People to Put Stickers on Their Phones to Curb Spycam Porn
10/18: Australia lawyers’ group: Draft cyber laws would curb rights
10/18: Exiled Vietnamese blogger: I’m not alone advocating freedom
10/17: Shanghai airport automates check-in with facial recognition
10/16: Google is trying to build a censored Chinese search engine, its CEO confirms
10/14: It looks like China just laid out how it wants Google to help it persecute its Muslim minority
10/11: Bahraini Arab spring dissidents sue UK spyware maker
10/8: Google Wins Dismissal of Privacy Case Filed by IPhone Users
10/3: New Zealand can now fine you $3,200 if you don’t hand over your phone password at the border
10/3: UK.gov asks biz for ideas on how to ‘overcome’ data privacy concerns in NHS
10/2: Google’s plans for first wired urban community raise data-privacy concerns
10/2: New Zealand’s ‘digital strip searches’: Give border agents your passwords or risk a $5,000 fine
10/2: Civil rights group Liberty walks out on British cops’ database consultation
10/1: Let’s Make Tech Companies Earn People’s Trust: Editorial
Tech:
10/24: With 5G, you won’t just be watching video. It’ll be watching you, too
10/23: Apps are using “silent notifications” to track you after you uninstall them
10/21: BP Uses Borrowed Tech to Drive Billions in Savings
10/18: Biohackers Are Implanting Everything From Magnets to Sex Toys
10/14: Apple says ‘dangerous’ Australian encryption laws put ‘everyone at risk’
10/8: Facebook Wants New Video Chatting Device to Be Un-Creepy
10/8: Facebook Taps Growing Smart Speaker Market
10/8: Facebook Launches Video Device, Says Privacy is ‘Very, Very, Very Important’
10/7: Apple, Amazon deny report that Chinese spy chips infiltrated their hardware
10/7: Salmon Farmers Are Scanning Fish Faces to Fight Killer Lice
10/1: Location, location, location… technologies under the microscope
Books/Media/Podcasts/Misc:
10/24: Apple, Facebook support more privacy laws
10/13: More and More Movies Are Reflecting Our Fear of the Internet
10/2: EFF and McSweeney’s collaborated on a publication: “The End of Trust”
Privacy News Update, Sept 2018
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Featured:
9/28: Study Shows Facebook’s Still Miles Away From Taking Privacy, Transparency Seriously
9/28: Over 25,000 Americans sign petition seeking change in Venmo’s privacy settings
9/27: Mass Surveillance Begins at the Local Level. So Does the Resistance to It.
9/27: Facebook targets ads using phone numbers submitted for security purposes
9/26: Mobile Websites Can Tap Into Your Phone’s Sensors Without Asking
9/26: Google grilled over ‘Project Dragonfly’ at Senate hearing on data privacy
9/25: ICE Leads The Nation In Encryption-Cracking Expenditures
9/25: An insurance company wants you to hand over your Fitbit data so it can make more money. Should you?
9/25: Google promises Chrome changes after privacy complaints
9/25: Cookie clutter: Chrome saves Google cookies from cookie jar purges
9/24: The Privacy Concerns Surrounding Google’s Chrome Update
9/23: Wendy’s Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Collection of Staff Fingerprint Data
9/21: Amazon’s New Microwave Has Your Number
9/20: Everything Is an Alexa Device Now
9/20: Google Says It Continues to Allow Apps to Scan Data From Gmail Accounts
9/20: Amazon Wants Alexa to Hear Your Whispers and Frustration
9/19: They put microchips in their employees. Now this company is helping parents track their children.
9/16: Glowing wrists and less privacy: Technology is changing corporate events
9/14: AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile & Sprint Want Even Broader Access To Your Personal Data
9/10: Facial Recognition Tech Is Ready for Its Post-Phone Future
9/8: Privacy Concerns of “Mission Creep” with New Airport Facial Recognition Programs
9/7: Skripal Case Shows the Limits of Surveillance
9/7: 23andMe Cuts Off the DNA App Ecosystem It Created
9/7: One of Most Popular Mac Apps Acts Like Spyware
9/6: Why a Dead Kennedys Punk Isn’t Buying Google’s Privacy Deals
9/6: IBM secretly used New York’s CCTV cameras to train its surveillance software
9/5: Uber is going to turn your smartphone into an automatic crash detector
9/4: Spy app for parents leaked messages from targets’ phones, report says
9/3: The Modern Surveillance State (Documentary)
9/2: Google and MasterCard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales
9/1: A Pennsylvania AMI Smart Meter Survey Reports Horror Stories
Local (PNW):
9/30: Facial recognition technology at schools fuels privacy debate
9/5: Why Seattle’s plan to bring Intersection WiFi kiosks and bus stop makeovers stalled
9/4: The region’s toughest red-light camera busted drivers 24,000 times last year
Govt (Fed):
9/27: Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wild West
9/27: US attorneys general discuss social media privacy concerns
9/26: A US privacy law could be good for Google – but bad for you
9/26: Amazon warns onerous privacy regulations could hinder innovation in Senate hearing
9/26: Tech companies really don’t want a US version of Europe’s privacy law
9/26: US privacy law is on the horizon. Here’s how tech companies want to shape it
9/26: The Big Takeaways From Tech’s Privacy Hearing on Capitol Hill
9/26: Amazon Joins Tech Giants in Backing Federal Privacy Safeguards
9/26: Amazon, AT&T, Google and other companies say they’d support privacy laws, but there’s a catch
9/25: Congress wants to hear from everyone but consumers in a hearing on consumer privacy
9/25: Sessions Hears From States on Privacy Threat From Tech Firms
9/21: Congressmen question Google over kids’ privacy on YouTube
9/19: Congress Fails To Include A Single Consumer Advocate In Upcoming Privacy Hearing
9/14: Another Batch Of FISA Court Docs Confirms The NSA Frequently Abuses Its Collection Powers
9/13: Congress Is Likely to Support New Regulations on Social Media, Senator Says
9/9: Facebook Users Still Fear for Privacy
9/6: Google’s bad day in Congress came at the worst possible time
9/6: Congress is getting better at questioning social media executives
9/6: Wannabe Supreme Brett Kavanaugh red-faced after leaked emails contradict spy testimony
9/4: FCC chairman says Twitter, Facebook, Google may need transparency law
9/3: US and intelligence allies take aim at tech companies over encryption
Govt (States & Cities):
9/27: Santa Fe edits out public comment from school board meeting videos
9/19: Long Beach police suspend use of app that deletes communications amid concerns about hiding evidence
9/18: L.A. County officials move to stop audio recordings in courthouse lockups
9/17: ‘Smart’ streetlights could be used for widespread public surveillance, ACLU warns
9/13: Bay Area Rapid Transit passes ordinance requiring public review of surveillance technology projects
9/12: New Mexico sues mobile app makers over kid privacy concerns
9/12: Three state-level cases are primed to mold the future of mobile privacy (MA)
9/6: Chamber Proposes Curbs on Consumer Lawsuits Over Data Privacy
Policy & Opinion:
9/28: The Tech Giants Get Rich Using Your Data. What do You Get in Return?
9/28: Privacy at an inflection point: Why the time has come for meaningful U.S. regulation
9/28: Protecting privacy online
9/25: Editorial: An internet bill of rights
9/9: As Google turns 20, questions over whether it’s too powerful
9/6: If Privacy Is Dead, Some Argue People Should Sell Their Own Data
Overseas:
9/26: India’s Supreme Court upholds legality of world’s largest biometric database, but with limits
9/26: Sneaky phone apps just about obey the law, still have no trouble guzzling your data, says Which?
9/25: MI5: Gosh, awkward. We looked down the sofa and, yeah, we *do* have intel on privacy bods (UK)
9/19: Oz government rushes its anti-crypto legislation into parliament
9/14: Google’s China search project reportedly spurs concern from US lawmakers
9/13: U.K. Surveillance Violated Privacy Rights, Europe Court Says
9/12: First it was hashtags – now Amber Rudd gives us Brits knowledge on national ID cards
9/11: Google Blasts French Bid to Globalize Right to Be Forgotten
9/3: US, UK, and other governments asks tech companies to build backdoors into encrypted devices
9/3: London show explores hidden world of facial recognition
Tech:
9/28: Sync your teeth into power browser Vivaldi’s largest update so far
9/27: Overhauled Brave browser beta gets max privacy with Tor-powered private tabs
9/24: Google started quietly logging you into Chrome with latest update, reports say
9/18: QAnon Is Trying to Trick Facebook’s Meme-Reading AI
9/14: Mozilla’s Firefox & Apple’s Safari browsers add anti-Facebook and Google privacy protections
9/13: So Brave: Browser biz sics Brit watchdogs on Google’s info slurpage
9/12: Privacy takes a backseat during Apple product reveal
9/7: Apple removed popular app that was secretly stealing your browser history
9/5: AnchorFree, maker of top online privacy app, raises $295 million
9/4: Inside the race to create smart shoes, custom razors and high-tech devices for the over-65 crowd
9/2: To earn trust for autonomous vehicles, Jaguar gives them ‘virtual eyes’
Books/Media/Podcasts/Misc:
9/25: Techdirt Podcast Episode 184: Life Insurance, Life Surveillance
Privacy News Update, August 2018
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Featured:
8/31: Apple to require privacy policy on all apps
8/31: Spies still super upset they can’t get at your encrypted comms data
8/31: U.S. Government Claims China Using LinkedIn to Recruit Spies in America
8/31: TSA + CBP test new facial recognition tech & computed tomography scanners at LAX
8/31: Siri will show you your passwords if you ask
8/31: Apple will soon require all App Store apps to have a privacy policy
8/31: Are targeted ads stalking you? Here’s how to make them stop.
8/30: Mozilla changes Firefox policy from ‘do not track’ to ‘will not track’
8/30: Google reportedly bought Mastercard data to link online ads with offline purchases
8/30: Firefox’s New Browser Will Keep Brands From Stalking You
8/30: Firefox to block some technology that tracks you on the web
8/29: WSJ: Yahoo plans to scan users’ messages for data to sell to advertisers
8/28: Judge tosses suit against Southwest Airlines on fingerprints
8/28: How to opt out of Yahoo Mail’s invasive data scanning
8/28: Yahoo Mail scans your inbox for receipts, but its competitors don’t
8/28: Yahoo Mail is still scanning your emails for data to sell to advertisers
8/28: Cities Across The Country Are Installing “Free” Spying Smart City Kiosks
8/27: Chicago’s Electronic Surveillance of Food Trucks Is Ridiculous—and Probably Unconstitutional
8/27: Legal Circular Logic Prevails Regarding Utility Smart Meters In-home Searches
8/24: Android data slurping measured and monitored
8/24: Welcome To The Minority Report: Thousands Of Stores Plan Facial Recognition Use For Anti-Theft
8/23: Venmo Considers Making It Harder to See What Other People Are Buying
8/22: Android ‘Triout’ spyware records calls, sends photos and text messages to attackers
8/22: Facebook will pull its data-collecting VPN app from the App Store over privacy concerns
8/22: Smart meters could let government peek into your home, court warns
8/21: Big Tech turns saboteur to cripple new California privacy law in private
8/20: Comfortably numb: Americans are less worried about online security
8/20: 32,000 smart homes can be easily hacked due to misconfigured MQTT servers
8/20: Google sued over tracking user location amid privacy concerns
8/20: Skype’s promised end-to-end encryption finally arrives. Here’s how to use it
8/20: Before Using Birth Control Apps, Consider Your Privacy
8/20: LinkedIn Will Allow Economics Researchers to Mine Its Data
8/20: How’s that encryption coming, buddy? DNS requests routinely spied on, boffins claim
8/17: Most staffers expect bosses to snoop on them, say unions
8/17: I’ll be watching you
8/17: Schools Are Mining Students’ Social Media Posts for Signs of Trouble
8/16: Pokemon Go boosts child privacy with new Niantic Kids login
8/16: APNewsBreak: Google clarifies location-tracking policy
8/15: Vegas hotel room checks raise privacy, safety concerns at Def Con, Black Hat
8/15: Saint Louis University is placing 2,300 Echo Dots in student living spaces
8/14: Your smart air conditioner could help bring down the power grid
8/13: Google Tracks You Even If Location History’s Off. Here’s How to Stop It
8/13: How to find and delete Google’s tracking of your devices
8/13: Google Tracks Location Data Even When Users Turn Service Off, AP Report Finds
8/12: The Creative Ways Your Boss Is Spying on You
8/12: Hackers Found a (Not-So-Easy) Way to Make the Amazon Echo a Spy Bug
8/12: Hacking pacemakers, insulin pumps and patients’ vital signs in real time
8/11: Police Bodycams Can Be Hacked to Doctor Footage
8/9: Hey, roomie, I’m Alexa: Saint Louis University putting 2,300 Amazon Echo Dots in student housing
8/9: America’s top maker of cop body cameras says facial-recog AI isn’t safe
8/8: Smart Meters Raise Health, Privacy and Constitutional Concerns
8/8: Axon CEO Says Face Recognition Isn’t Accurate Enough for Body Cams Yet
8/7: Facebook: Hey Can We Pretty Please Maybe Have Lots of Your Banking Information Too?
8/6: Is Apple Really Your Privacy Hero?
8/6: Facebook to banks: give us our users’ financial data and we’ll let them bank with Facebook
8/5: Simple Steps to Protect Yourself on Public Wi-Fi
8/3: Cashing in on DNA: race on to unlock value in genetic data
8/3: 23andMe’s Pharma Deals Have Been the Plan All Along
8/2: ‘Glaring Gap’ Seen in DNA Privacy Pledges by 23andMe, Ancestry
8/1: Sennheiser wants you to slap a giant wireless mic on your kids to record precious moments
8/1: Lawsuit: Sweeping Biometric Data Collection Keeps Immigrant Children Locked Up Longer
7/31: Facebook Shuts Off Access To User Data For Hundreds of Thousands of Apps
7/26: Track-suits: Tommy Hilfiger’s creepy new clothes know how much you wear them
7/26: The Ordinary License Plate’s Days May Be Numbered
7/17: Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates
Local (PNW):
8/6: Seattle City Council adopts nation’s strongest law to protect utility customer personal data
8/3: Property Tax Levy for Law Enforcement Fingerprinting System Could Lead to Facial Recognition
8/2: Concerns over facial recognition endanger a boring old levy
Govt (Fed):
8/24: Muslim American says US border agents seized her iPhone without explanation
8/24: Woman Sues Border Agents to Make Them Return Data They Seized From Her Phone
8/24: New facial recognition tech at US airport leads to first arrest
8/23: State Background Checks for Daycare Providers Part of Growing Federal Biometric Surveillance System
8/21: FBI Tried To Get Google To Turn Over Identifying Info On Hundreds Of Phone Owners
8/17: US reportedly pressuring Facebook to break Messenger’s encryption over MS-13 investigation
8/17: Privacy group tells FTC Google tracking violated 2011 order
8/16: Ajit Pai Knew FCC Cyberattack Was Fake for Seven Months but Kept Quiet
8/15: Omarosa-Trump Tapes Could Mean ‘Open Season on Privacy Rights’ in the Workplace, Attorneys Say (paywall)
8/9: Apple responds to Congress’ letter on data security and privacy
8/6: Battle lines drawn over US mass surveillance as senators probe NSA’s bonfire of phone records
8/1: Inspector General Says NSA Still Hasn’t Implemented Its Post-Snowden Internal Security Measures
7/31: U.S. Lawmakers Call for Investigation Into Use and Abuse of Face Recognition Tech
7/20: Senate Democrat Floats First Serious Proposals For Regulating Big Tech
7/28: Secret Quiet Skies surveillance program tracks citizens not suspected of wrongdoing
6/29: NSA: Sorry, Sorry, Trying to Delete
Govt (States & Cities):
8/31: Why California’s Privacy Law Won’t Hurt Facebook or Google
8/29: The Fight Over California’s Privacy Bill Has Only Just Begun
8/27: Here’s How California Became The Most Secretive State on Police Misconduct
8/24: Despite California privacy law, marketers are still scheming to snatch personal data
8/24: Airbnb Sues New York City to Block User-Data Bill Over Privacy
8/22: California Committee Kills Bill to Help End Unchecked Police Surveillance
8/14: Security flaws in police body cameras open the devices to attack
8/3: How San Jose Airport uses facial recognition to speed lines
7/26: Police Are Seeking More Digital Evidence From Tech Companies
Policy & Opinion:
8/31: Full Body Searches shouldn’t be the price to ride Metro
8/29: How should we regulate facial recognition?
8/27: The Reach—and Limits—of Surveillance Capitalism
8/27: Responding to the “Nothing to Hide” Argument in Support of Mass Surveillance
8/26: Sunday in the Park with George Orwell
8/23: Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism
8/21: Dear Conservatives, Police are Part of the Government Too
8/14: Why you need a better handle on the WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram apps
8/13: Taking on a Supporter of the Surveillance State
8/6: On the cruelty of ankle-monitors
8/6: Facebook Not Trustworthy: Om Malik
Overseas:
8/31: How Israel Spies on US Citizens
8/28: Philippines Plans ID System to Get Its Poorest Residents on the Map
8/24: Wickr may have a workaround for Russia’s crackdown on encrypted chat
8/22: Scot.gov wins pals with pledge not to keep hold of innocents’ mugshots and biometric data
8/15: London fuzz to get 600 more mobile fingerprint scanners
8/15: Here’s what Toronto’s smart neighborhood might actually look like
8/14: When’s a backdoor not a backdoor? When the Oz government says it isn’t
8/3: Probe Brit police phone-peeking plans, privacy peeps plead
8/2: China launches high-tech bird drones to watch over its citizens
8/2: UK.gov ploughs cash into creaky police technology
8/1: Oz government offers privacy concessions on MyHealth Record
7/30: Court allows police to reveal acquittals during record checks (UK)
7/27: Canadian Malls Secretly Tracked Shoppers’ Age, Gender Using Facial Recognition Technology
7/27: Canada using DNA, ancestry websites to investigate migrants
7/24: WhatsApp Balks at India’s Demand To Break Encryption
7/24: GCHQ Spy Agency Given Illegal Access To Citizens’ Data
Tech:
8/29: This Startup Is Building a Market to Help You Sell Your DNA Data
8/15: Mozilla-endorsed security plug-in accused of tracking users
8/12: Companies use seat sensors, infrared cameras to design new office space
8/10: Hackable Touchscreens Could Spy on Hotel Rooms and Meetings
8/9: The Sensors That Power Smart Cities Are a Hacker’s Dream
8/6: Consumer Reports now evaluates products’ security and privacy
Books/Media/Podcasts/Misc:
8/28: Tenther Tuesday Episode 41: News from the Nullification Movement
8/14: Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and your privacy (The 3:59, Ep. 442)
8/10: Talking the hard questions of privacy and freedom with the Yale Privacy Lab podcast
8/9: Lions of Liberty Interview: Battling the Surveillance State
8/1: Interview: Defying the Surveillance State, Locally
7/31: Tenther Tuesday Episode 39: The Stalker Surveillance State is Getting More Aggressive
Privacy News Update, June-July 2018
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Featured:
7/31: The way you swipe your phone could be used to track you
7/31: How one senator wants the US to crack down on Big Tech
7/29: For Sale: Survey Data on Millions of High School Students
7/29: Air marshals secretly monitored US passengers for years
7/28: Calgary malls caught secretly using facial recognition to characterise shoppers’ age and gender
7/28: Amazon facial recognition mistakenly confused 28 Congressmen with known criminals
7/25: Venmo Is the Best Place to Stalk Your Children
7/25: Private messaging apps increasingly used for public business
7/24: How to stop friends from seeing when you last used Instagram
7/22: How to Secure Your Accounts With Better Two-Factor Authentication
7/20: Facebook Confirms It’s Working on a New Internet Satellite
7/18: Welcome to the airport of the future, where your face is your passport
7/17: RealNetworks gives away facial recognition software to make schools safer
7/16: How a ‘Sentiment Meter’ Helps Cops Understand Their Precincts
7/13: Walmart gains patent to eavesdrop on shoppers and employees in stores
7/13: Microsoft asks Congress to regulate facial recognition before it’s too late
7/12: Tim? Larry? We need to talk about smartphones and privacy
7/12: What Walmart’s patent for audio surveillance could mean for its workers
7/11: How a Startup Is Using the Blockchain to Protect Your Privacy
7/10: Beer label uses facial recognition to talk with consumers
7/9: Fitness app Polar even better at revealing secrets than Strava
7/5: Taser-maker Axon partners with DJI on police drone program
7/5: How to See Everything Your Apps Are Allowed to Do
7/4: ‘Plane Hacker’ Roberts: I put a network sniffer on my truck to see what it was sharing. Holy crap!
7/3: Google’s Gmail controversy is everything people hate about Silicon Valley
7/3: Google explains Gmail privacy after controversy
7/2: Samsung’s texting app apparently sent pictures to people’s contacts without permission
7/2: How facial recognition ID’d the Capital Gazette shooter
7/1: Facebook acknowledges it shared user data with dozens of companies
6/30: Security News This Week: Mapping the NSA’s Secret Spy Hubs
6/29: The ACLU’s Biggest Roadblock to Fighting Mass Surveillance
6/29: Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR
6/28: California Unanimously Passes Historic Privacy Bill
6/28: Facebook, Google, Microsoft use ‘dark patterns’ to trick people to give up data, report says
6/27: How Tech Workers Are Fighting Back Against Collusion With ICE and the Department of Defense
6/27: Secret NSA spying network alleged in San Francisco skyscraper, Seattle, other U.S. cities
6/25: AT&T lets NSA hide and surveil in plain sight, The Intercept reports
6/24: China launches high-tech bird drones to watch over its citizens
6/23: Smart-home technology becomes the newest tool of domestic abusers
6/22: Amazon staffers protest giant’s ‘support of the surveillance state’
6/22: Facebook app analytics mistakenly leaked to outsiders
6/22: In huge privacy win, US Supreme Court rules warrant needed to slurp folks’ location data
6/21: Google’s update makes privacy easier
6/21: ACLU wants to keep your phone safe from sneaky government malware
6/19: Verizon promises to stop selling its subscribers’ location data… for now
6/19: Verizon, AT&T, Sprint cut off location-data sharing contracts
6/18: ACLU wants Amazon to stop offering surveillance technology
6/13: Apple to close iPhone security hole used by police, criminals
6/12: Apple can’t protect you from data trackers forever. No one can
6/11: Facebook releases 500 pages of damage control in response to senators’ questions
6/9: Some Signal messages aren’t disappearing, due to a bug, says a report
6/8: 6 ways to make your iPhone more secure
6/7: How to increase your privacy online
6/6: RoboCop-ter: Boffins build drone to pinpoint brutal thugs in crowds
6/5: A New Privacy Problem Could Deepen Facebook’s Legal Trouble
6/5: New Homeland Security system will bring facial recognition to land borders this summer
6/5: Amazon will stop selling connected toy filled with security issues
6/4: Clock blocker: Woman sues bosses over fingerprint clock-in tech
6/4: All Apple WWDC’s privacy features in one place
6/4: Facebook accused of giving over 60 device makers inappropriate access to user data
6/2: Hands off my data! 15 default privacy settings you should change right now
6/2: Researchers Use Ridesharing Cars to Sniff Out a Secret Spying Tool
Local (PNW):
7/16: Safety over privacy? RealNetworks to offer free facial recognition technology to K-12 schools
7/5: Startup Spotlight: LifeID uses blockchain technology to build secure digital identities
6/27: City Light’s ‘smart meters’ are $17.4M over budget
6/19: Data privacy startup Prifender raises $5M to help companies stay compliant
Govt (Fed):
7/31: New EPA rule would force people to choose between privacy and health
7/30: Amazon quietly invited Congress to ‘weigh in’ on facial recognition
7/27: Congressmen demand answers after Amazon facial recognition matches them to mugshots
7/27: Trump admin reportedly meeting with Facebook, Google to craft web privacy rights
7/13: Senators call on FTC to investigate smart TVs tracking viewers’ data
7/11: The Cybersecurity 202: Privacy advocates blast Kavanaugh for government surveillance support
7/11: Google’s Gmail privacy policy has Congress asking questions
7/9: Congress presses Apple, Alphabet on privacy issues
7/5: Senators demand answers from Zuckerberg over Facebook data access
7/3: Four US govt agencies poke probe in Facebook following more ‘oops, we spilled your data’ shocks
6/28: Congress Grills Cambridge Analytica Alum on New Firm’s Data Use
6/26: Senator asks FCC if police phone tracking devices disrupt 911 calls
6/25: What the Supreme Court’s landmark phone privacy ruling means for you (The 3:59, Ep. 419)
6/25: The Supreme Court decided on a major win for privacy
6/22: Supreme Court cracks down on government snooping through cellphone location records
6/22: Supreme Court says warrant necessary for phone location data in win for privacy
6/21: Project Maven wasn’t alone: Googlers reportedly boycotted another military tool
6/14: Senators Demand Answers From Amazon on Echo’s Snooping Habits
6/8: Hmmm, we can already seize your stuff, so why can’t we shoot down your drone, officials mull
6/8: Why Facebook’s secret data-sharing deal with Huawei has the US concerned
6/7: Google pledges not to develop AI weapons, but says it will still work with the military
6/6: The FBI wants you to factory reset your router. Here’s how to do it
Govt (States & Cities):
7/22: Malloy’s $10 million toll study facing opposition, concerns
7/18: Sioux Falls police prepare to launch 30 body cameras
7/10: Amazon, Orlando Police Department reinitiate facial recognition pilot
6/26: Orlando stops using Amazon’s controversial facial recognition tech
6/12: Forget probable cause: New bill could let cops pull your prescription history without a warrant
Policy & Opinion:
7/30: Real ID will divide us all into documented and undocumented
7/27: Commentary: When government hits ‘zone of privacy’
7/26: Lawmakers Can’t Ignore Facial Recognition’s Bias Anymore
7/19: Facial recognition and travel: Moving too fast?
7/19: To Earn Customer Trust on Data Privacy, You Need to Change the Narrative
7/18: Regulate facial recognition
7/17: Schools Can Now Get Facial Recognition Tech for Free. Should They?
7/14: The #PlaneBae furor proves privacy and the Golden Rule are in short supply
7/14: Is your private online content really private? Not if you do something stupid
7/2: Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags
6/29: Can Sacrificing Privacy Stomp Out Disinformation Online?
6/14: Encrypted Messaging Isn’t Magic
Overseas:
7/31: India mulls ban on probes into anonymized data use – with GDPR-style privacy laws
7/31: Fiat Chief’s Death Raises Privacy Questions
7/31: Think tank calls for post-Brexit national ID cards: The kids have phones so what’s the difference?
7/31: UK Group Threatens to Sue Facebook Over Cambridge Analytica
7/26: Facebook, Twitter Say Europe’s Privacy Law Causing User Drop
7/23: UK spies broke law for 15 years, but what can you do? shrugs judge
7/19: Facial recognition helped identify suspects in Novichok poisoning case
7/18: Don’t Expect Big Changes From Europe’s Record Google Fine
7/11: Brit privacy watchdog reports on political data harvests: We’ve read the lot so you don’t have to
7/6: ICANN’t get no respect: Europe throws Whois privacy plan in the trash
7/5: United States, you have 2 months to sort Privacy Shield … or data deal is for the bin – Eurocrats
7/5: Facial recognition trial takes off at Sydney Airport
7/5: London police commissioner: Don’t expect lots of arrests from facial recognition tech
7/4: Euro privacy watchdog raises eyebrows at mulled EU copyright law
6/19: Wasn’t too hard, was it? UK has made ‘significant progress’ in spy control
6/28: No more slurping of kids’ nationalities, Brit schools told
6/26: Venezuela blocks Tor browser
6/26: Japan’s AI-powered CCTV cameras catch shoplifters in the act
6/13: Cardiff chap chucks challenge at chops*-checking cops
6/11: A Single Drone Helped Mexican Police Drop Crime 10 Percent
6/7: Australia will force tech companies to help cops view encrypted data
6/4: ‘Tesco probably knows more about me than GCHQ’: Infosec boffins on surveillance capitalism
Tech:
7/31: BurnBox Makes Hidden Files Look Like You’ve Deleted Them
7/25: Google Glass Is Back—Now with Artificial Intelligence
7/24: Chrome’s HTTP warning seeks to cut web surveillance, tampering
7/20: Today I learned: Duck.com redirects to Google, much to DuckDuckGo’s annoyance
7/18: Microsoft to pay new bounties for identity services holes
7/11: Put WhatsApp, Slack, admin privileges in a blender and what do you get? Wickr
7/8: All the Ways iOS 12 Will Make Your iPhone More Secure
7/1: Mozilla’s Firefox tries closing more privacy holes with new network tech
6/30: Best laptops for maintaining your privacy
6/28: IEEE joins the ranks of non-backdoored strong cryptography defenders
6/22: Don’t panic, but your baby monitor can be hacked into a spycam
6/18: Google to patch Home and Chromecast bug that leaked your location
6/15: Meet the Frenchman masterminding a Google-free Android
6/14: Here’s how to get your data from Apple
6/13: MIT’s AI can now ‘see’ and track people through walls using wireless signals
6/6: NetMotion launches an IT platform to keep tabs on corporate smartphones
6/4: Apple Just Made Safari the Good Privacy Browser
Books/Media/Podcasts/Misc:
7/24: Google Chrome pushes the web toward HTTPS (3:59 podcast)
7/21: Week In Geek Podcast: Facial recognition enters grade schools and Bird scooters landing in Seattle
6/29: Talk to the Bot (WIRED Gadget Lab podcast)
Privacy News Update, 10-17-17
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10/15: Telcos “selling realtime ability to associate web browsing with name & address”
10/12: Google admits its new smart speaker was eavesdropping on users
10/11: Man asks Alexa if he is being detained
10/11: Google Home Mini bug could make it record audio 24/7
10/7: Co-Parenting With Alexa
10/6: ‘Kids should not be guinea pigs’: Mattel pulls AI babysitter
10/6: Factions forming as Congress attempts to curb US spy power
10/5: How bad can the new spying legislation be? Exhibit 1: it’s called the USA Liberty Act
10/5: Uber’s iOS app could have recorded your screen
10/4: Bipartisan group of lawmakers seek to impose new limit on NSA spy power
10/4: Google dials up the creepy factor and targets families
10/3: Terror risks make tight security routine for world’s hotels
10/3: Facebook’s Privacy Feud With Austrian Heads to EU’s Top Court
10/3: Your Yahoo account info was definitely hacked — here’s what to do
9/29: How The Intercept Preserves Your Privacy
9/29: Mattel Gadget Listens to Babies, Setting Off Privacy Alarms
9/28: Q&A: How Apple’s Face ID facial recognition works
9/28: Google reports all-time high of government data requests
9/28: Apple reports most national security orders ever this year
9/27: Apple is opening up amid privacy questions about Face ID, personal data collection
9/27: Amazon Wants You to Wake Up With Alexa, and That’s Just the Start
9/26: Boffins take biometric logins to heart, literally: Cardiac radar IDs users to unlock their PCs
9/26: Tinder stores a scary amount of information about what you do, including your Facebook history
9/26: Signal Has a Fix for Apps’ Contact-Leaking Problem
9/25: Equifax’s breach is not its first brush with concerns over handling of personal data
9/21: Face ID can protect iPhone X from thieves, but not the law
9/21: Police need warrant to track cellphones, appeals court says
9/20: Apple Face ID: Is it Creepy or Cool?
9/18: Biometrics like Face ID are coming to your smartphone whether you like it or not
9/15: Verizon gives away cool freebies, as long as you give away your privacy
9/15: Google and Verizon are suddenly allies on California privacy bill
9/15: How One of Apple’s Key Privacy Safeguards Falls Short
9/15: Face ID and the Fifth Amendment: Can Cops Make You Open the New iPhone?
9/14: Microsoft Adds Cloud Security to Keep Out Hackers — and Government Snoops
9/14: Sen. Al Franken wants Apple to answer Face ID privacy concerns
9/13: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update shaking up privacy settings some more
9/13: Homeland Security hit with lawsuit over phone, laptop searches
9/13: Hey, Turn Bluetooth Off When You’re Not Using It
9/12: Sept. 12 Letters: Equifax proves need for privacy protections
9/12: How Secure Is the iPhone X’s FaceID? Here’s What We Know
9/12: Edward Snowden offers mixed review on Apple’s Face ID
9/8: Google tailors its privacy control tool for your phone, too
9/7: Smart cities? Tell it like it is, they’re surveillance cities
9/7: Wonder why Congress doesn’t clamp down on its gung-ho spies? Well, wonder no more
9/7: Street art project puts a price on your personal data
Local (PNW):
10/12: After massive email leak, the city scrambles
10/5: Supreme Court rules random urinalysis is unconstitutional
10/4: A Look at the Eastside Race that Abortion Coverage, Taxes, and Internet Privacy Hinges On
9/26: Why your ‘personal’ data is anything but: Q&A with Washington state’s first chief privacy officer
9/19: Glenn Greenwald in Portland: Q&A on privacy, the law and journalism
Govt (Fed):
10/16: Supreme Court will take up Microsoft email warrant fight
10/14: Intel leaders urge Congress to reauthorize NSA surveillance program
10/10: DOJ grows frustrated with tech firms over encryption
10/5: Bipartisan bill seeks to limit use of foreign surveillance
10/4: DOJ’s Rosenstein takes aim at Silicon Valley encryption
10/4: Senators: Tech firms didn’t take election meddling ‘seriously’
10/3: White House official: Let’s replace Social Security numbers
10/1: FBI doesn’t have to reveal iPhone hack details, judge rules
9/29: Feds asking Facebook for info on anti-Trump activists
9/28: US Homeland Security Says Tracking Social Media of Immigrants is Nothing New
9/26: Homeland Security plans to collect immigrants’ social media info
9/25: Brit broke anti-terror law by refusing to cough up passwords to cops
9/25: Government wants foreign surveillance authority renewed
9/21: Police use of ‘Stingray’ cellphone tracker requires search warrant, appeals court rules
9/17; Shadows of secrecy begin to spread across federal government
9/15: DoJ: Look! Google is giving up overseas data for warrants outside Second Circuit
9/13: Trump Administration Sued Over Phone Searches at U.S. Border
9/13: Intelligence director pulls national security BS on spying question
8/31: NSA enters stage two of its spying revival plan: Getting Trump onboard
8/25: NSA ramps up PR campaign to keep its mass spying powers
Govt (States & Cities):
10/17: LAPD wins OK to test drones despite privacy concerns
10/17: Commission approves controversial yearlong test of drones by LAPD
10/5: Commissioner: Raid violated Oakland sanctuary city policy
10/5: Wisconsin Assembly committee to consider body camera limits
10/5: The Latest: Police support bill setting body camera policy
10/3: Civilian oversight panel hears guidelines for LAPD use of drones
9/29: Port Authority Must Face Officers’ Cellphone Search Lawsuit: NY Ruling
9/28: New Texas law criminalizes drone use near animal farms
9/28: Missouri officials push to expand address secrecy program
9/26: San Jose: Activists push to expand police auditor powers, to cautious officials
9/26: In North Carolina, police wear body cameras, but laws prevent the public from seeing footage
9/25: Loud talkers beware: Reno buses will be listening
9/22: Illinois governor vetoes data privacy measure
9/21; Wary of employee microchips, state senator proposes regulation
9/20: St. Louis police to get body cameras
9/19: Border agents want to search a traveler’s laptop and phone? Get a warrant
9/18: Nebraska city on the verge of regulating drone flights
9/18: Rhode Island lawmakers to vote on highway surveillance bill
9/18: California Democrats sell out online privacy in the dead of night
9/16: Closely watched California Internet privacy bill dies in final minutes of legislative session
9/15: California Internet privacy bill could have nationwide sway — if it passes
9/13: New driver’s license requirements are coming to U.S. airports
9/1: US cops can’t keep license plate data scans secret without reason
Policy & Opinion:
10/17: Who can access your e-mails after you die?
10/5: The End of Privacy
10/5: Hey, IoT vendors. When a paediatric nurse tells you to fix security, you definitely screwed up
10/5: The Equifax Hack Started the Wrong Conversation
9/29: Here’s a way to make companies with large databases keep our info safe
9/27: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says companies need to take stances on controversial issues
9/26: How to Kill Fake Facebook Accounts and Preserve Privacy
9/24: A petition to demand accountability from the NSA
9/21; Driverless cars: safer perhaps, but professor warns of privacy risks
9/16: The phone that every stalker will want
9/14: Editorial: Privacy risk in self-driving cars? Senate has to fix that loophole in federal bill
9/14: Face fracas: We’re all worked up about the iPhone X’s Face ID
9/14: Apple’s FaceID Could Be a Powerful Tool for Mass Spying
Overseas:
10/18: EU says data privacy deal with US can be improved
10/17: UK spy agencies may be circumventing data-sharing law, tribunal told
10/6: Kuwait’s Constitutional Court: Mandatory DNA collection law is no good
10/6: Privacy concerns voiced over photo database link to real-time surveillance (OZ)
10/5: Australia approves national database of everyone’s mugshots
10/5: Turnbull denies new facial recognition measures amount to ‘mass surveillance’ (Oz)
10/5: Australia to use drivers license photos to create facial recognition database
10/4: Australia Wants All Citizens’ Driver’s License Photos, Citing Terror Fight
10/3: Australia to get in your face with facial recognition system
10/3: UK Says WhatsApp Lets Paedophiles and Gangsters Operate Beyond the Law
10/2: Spanish tech activists publish a “how-to guide for preserving fundamental rights on the Internet”
10’2: The London Underground thinks it can sell travelers’ attention and wifi data for £322m
9/28: Moscow Deploys Facial Recognition to Spy on Citizens in Streets
9/21; EU Official Says Privacy Shield Is Trust & Check Exercise
9/15: Spy-Camera Allegation Sure to Heat Up Ecuador Presidents’ Feud
9/14: Canada’s Mounties use a 6-year-old “interim policy” to justify warrantless mass surveillance
9/13: Cops’ use of biometric images ‘gone far beyond custody purposes’
9/11: Fitness Tracking Startups Are Sweating Due to EU Privacy Regulators
9/8: EU court must rule on legality of UK’s mass surveillance – tribunal
9/5: Spying on Worker Emails Gets New Hurdle in EU Court Ruling
9/3: This Chinese KFC lets you put your money where your mouth is
8/28: China to identify commentards with real‑name policy
8/25: India’s Aadhaar national biometric ID scheme at risk after Supreme Court rules privacy is a right
8/24: Biometrics watchdog breaks cover, slams UK cops over facial recog
Tech:
10/18: What the future holds for fitness technology
10/17: Self-driving Chevy Bolts will roam New York City streets next year
10/12: How to transform your home into a smart home
10/12: New sensor pill like a “Fitbit” you can swallow to monitor your stomach
10/6: Mattel’s Internet-of-kiddies’-Things Aristotle canned before release
10/2: Protect your home with Ring’s DIY security system
9/29: Qualcomm teams with Benchmark Electronics on wearable patches to monitor vital signs
9/28: Microsoft CEO Urges Tech to Focus on Self-Policing Not Regulation Fears
9/28: iOS apps can read metadata revealing users’ location histories
9/27: Is Face ID secure? Apple takes on lingering questions
9/26: Alexa and her kind let the disabled or illiterate make the web work
9/25: Levi’s, Google unveil $350 denim jacket that connects to smartphones
9/25: Here’s how to keep up with Nest’s growing smart home
9/22: As smart homes become smarter, tech companies rush to get in the door
9/21; Global privacy management software firm expanding in Atlanta
9/21: Apple makes it harder to track you online, ad industry has an aneurysm
9/21: Crime-fighting robot can detect weapons in a crowd
9/20: Nest Hello doorbell camera can recognize your face
9/20: Nest’s next product? The Nest Cam IQ Outdoor
9/15: Microsoft adds cloud security to keep out hackers — and government snoops
9/14: Windows 10 Creators Update will add app-level privacy controls
9/12: Want to unlock the iPhone X? Just stare at it
8/31: Privacy-focused search engine DeepSearch slinks out of hiding
Books/Media/Misc:
9/30: The troubling surveillance state of Jeremy Piven’s tech visionary in ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’
Privacy News Update, 6-19-17
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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
If only…..!
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Privacy News Update: 4-30-17
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Featured:
4/30: How To Delete Your Data From Google’s ‘My Activity’
4/30: Taser Will Use Police Body Camera Videos “to Anticipate Criminal Activity”
4/29: Stray WiFi Signals Could Let Spies See Inside Closed Rooms
4/28: Community comes out for immigration and privacy forum (Pasadena, CA)
4/28: Those ’10 concerts’ lists on Facebook are fun and/or annoying — but are they a privacy threat
4/28: N.S.A. Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets
4/28: NSA halts controversial email collection practice to preserve larger surveillance program
4/27: Why people get arrested for flying drones
4/27: Living With Technology: Listening and seeing everywhere
4/27: The Worst Lies From Yesterday’s Anti-Net Neutrality Speech
4/26: Your smart electricity meter could be a security risk
4/26: WikiLeaks Reveals the ‘Snowden Stopper’: CIA Tool To Track Whistleblowers
4/26: Speaking in Tech: Google vs your privacy… part 73(4)iii(b)
4/26: Amazon Wants To Put a Camera and Microphone in Your Bedroom
4/24: How to protect your privacy at a protest
4/24: FBI allays some critics with first use of new mass-hacking warrant
4/23: How your selfie could affect your life insurance
4/22: EFF Says Google Chromebooks Are Still Spying On Students
4/21: Microsoft Improves Gmail Experience For Windows 10 Insiders, But There Are Privacy Concerns
4/21: Ambient Light Sensors Can Be Used To Steal Browser Data
4/20: Is Google is tracking you? Find out here
4/20: Mastercard is Building Fingerprint Scanners Directly Into Its Cards
4/19: We’re spying on you for your own protection, says NSA, FBI
4/18: From Stone Age to Drone Age: Debt Collection Goes High-Tech
4/16: What you need to know about that latest NSA data dump
4/15: The apps to use if you want to keep your messages private
4/13: Free health apps laugh in the face of privacy, sell your wheezing data
4/11: An Algorithm That Hides Your Online Tracks With Random Footsteps
4/10: The Upcoming Privacy Battle Over Wearables in the NBA
4/8: Hacker Group Leaks ‘NSA’s Top Secret Arsenal of Digital Weapons’
4/7: Internet Privacy Explained For People Who Have Never Thought About Internet Privacy Before
4/7: Taser’s Latest Body Cams Push Is Unregulated, Unprecedented, and Disturbing
4/7: WikiLeaks Reveals Grasshopper, the CIA’s Windows Hacking Tool
4/7: 23andMe Wins FDA Approval to Sell Genetic Tests
4/6: Vast majority of Americans reject mass surveillance to thwart terrorist attacks
4/6: Facebook Messenger Now Analyzes Your Chats To Give You Recommendations
4/5: Microsoft Finally Reveals What Data Windows 10 Really Collects
4/5: Phony VPN Services Are Cashing In On America’s War On Privacy
4/3: Police Arrested This Cop Watch Activist—But Then Recorded Themselves by Accident
4/1: Wolverton: No perfect way to protect privacy
4/1: How To Protect Your Privacy Online
3/30: Verizon mandates pre-installed spyware for all its Android customers
3/29: Analysis: What loosened internet privacy rules mean for you
2/28: After 3 Years, Why Gmail’s End-to-End Encryption Is Still Vapor
Local (PNW):
4/24: What evaluation or report was ever released on the effectiveness of the photo-enforcement program instituted a few years ago at a number of Seattle intersections? (scroll to middle of article)
4/24: Lawmakers’ Special Session To-Do List Is More Than McCleary
4/14: Washington state House committee approves internet privacy protections
4/14: Washington state passes bill to prevent sale of biometric data without consent
4/12: Washington state debates new privacy bills after Trump clears way for ISPs to sell personal data
4/9: State moves to protect online privacy in the Trump era
4/5: Washington fights for internet privacy that Congress took away
4/4: State lawmakers stand with the people on privacy protection
3/29: Alexa and the Dawn of So-What Surveillance
3/29: Here’s what the new internet privacy bill could mean for consumers and the Seattle region
Govt (Fed):
4/27: FCC Chief Opens Door to ‘Fast Lanes’ in Rollback of Web Rules
4/26: Trump’s first 100 days are not promising if you’re concerned about personal privacy
4/26: Trump’s FCC Has Begun Its Attack on Net Neutrality
4/24: NSA Blimp Spied in the United States
4/22: At Border Security Expo, Officials Dismiss Trump’s Wall: “I’ve Got 200-Foot Bluffs on My Border”
4/21: In Secret Court Hearing, Lawyer Objected to FBI Sifting Through NSA Data Like It Was Google
4/21: US surveillance court declined less than 2 per cent of applications
4/20: Border Officials Float Big Ideas for Mining Social Media
4/20: Nuh-uh, Google, you WILL hand over emails stored on foreign servers, says US judge
4/18: Stop asking people for their passwords, rights warriors yell at US Homeland Security
4/17: Trump’s FCC chairman Ajit Pai is ‘one of the worst picks possible,’ Rep. Ro Khanna says
4/17: Congress is poking holes in a key Trump talking point about Obama-era surveillance
4/15: GOP Congressman Defending Privacy Vote: ‘Nobody’s Got To Use The Internet’
4/12: Suing to See the Feds’ Encrypted Messages? Good Luck
4/6: Activists vow to make ISP privacy sellout a “major issue” in the 2018 elections
4/6; You Are Now Paying Internet Companies to Sell Your Browsing History to Advertisers
4/5: FCC’s Ajit Pai Says Broadband Market Too Competitive For Strict Privacy Rules
4/5: A Fight to Restore the Constitution at Customs Checkpoints
4/4: Even Some Republicans Think Border Agents Shouldn’t Be Checking Your Phone Without a Warrant
4/4: As Trump signs away Americans’ digital privacy, it’s time to bring out the BS detector
4/4: Bill Would Stop Warrantless Border Device Searches of US Citizens
4/4: ‘Extreme Vetting’ Would Require Visitors To US To Share Contacts, Passwords
Govt (States & Cities):
4/30: Connecticut court takes up doctor-patient confidentiality
4/28: AGs to privacy pros: It’s okay to come see us
4/26: Bill would let victims, witnesses block body camera releases (WI)
4/26: ACLU opposes Grand Rapids’ plans for license plate scanners
4/25: Sheriff’s office sets its eye on the sky(MI)
4/20: California Today: Weighing a Response on Internet Privacy
4/19: Rep. Gary Glenn makes smart choice on Smart Meters
4/18: Lawmakers signal a possible deal on Real ID bill(Minn)
4/15: Norwalk Police Department takes to social media(CT)
4/13: Legislation allowing warrantless student phone searches dies for now(CA)
4/13: UT police officers begin wearing body cameras
4/13: Video cameras coming to all schools(CT)
4/12: Sheriff’s department to launch drones in June (IL)
Policy & Opinion:
4/28: A Big Change in NSA Spying Marks a Win for American Privacy
4/21: Fearmongering at Homeland Security
4/17: Weirdly, Trump’s Right on Privacy
4/12: Mossberg: A plan to preserve the internet
4/2: Tech underestimates future demand for privacy: Bloomberg View analysis
4/1: Internet privacy furor previews coming war over net neutrality
3/28: Trump’s FCC Continues To Redefine The Public Interest As Business Interests
Overseas:
4/29: Encrypted WhatsApp Message Recovered From Westminster Terrorist’s Phone (UK)
4/27: Australian police: We illegally accessed journalist metadata
4/26: UK drops in World Press Freedom Index following surveillance and anti-espionage threats
4/26: British Cops Will Scan Every Fan’s Face At the Champions League Final
4/24: Japan secretly funneled hundreds of millions to the NSA, breaking its own laws
4/20: Trump’s lips sealed on surveillance, complains EU privacy chief
4/20: Google wants better international rules for data requests
4/19: Finland Aims to Fast-Track New Intelligence Laws to Avert Terrorism
4/11: China emerges as digital rights champion with new info privacy law
4/11: MyHealthRecord slammed in privacy uproar (Oz)
4/5: Canada’s RCMP National Police Force Reveals Use of Secretive Cellphone Surveillance Technology
3/16: How Kenyan spies and cops use electronic surveillance for illegal murder and torture squads
Tech:
4/27: Listen up, coaches: Watch out for hidden recording devices
4/26: Hyundai patches Blue Link app to remove vulnerabilities
4/24: Just a Pair of These $11 Radio Gadgets Can Steal a Car
4/24: Uber Gets Sued Over Alleged ‘Hell’ Program To Track Lyft Drivers
4/24: Unroll.me ‘heartbroken’ after being caught selling user data to Uber
4/23: Uber Tried To Hide Its Secret IPhone Fingerprinting From Apple
4/23: Apple CEO Tim Cook once personally threatened to kick Uber out of the App Store
4/22: Google Maps finally introduces real-time location sharing, with time limits
4/21: Which Galaxy S8 unlock option is the most secure?
4/19: Bose Headphones Secretly Collected User Data, Lawsuit Reveals
4/18: Facebook wants you to stare even more at the real world through your phone camera
4/13: Roku-Enabled TVs Will Soon ‘Listen’ To Programs You’re Watching To Suggest Streaming Content
4/12: Securing Driverless Cars From Hackers Is Hard. Ask the Ex-Uber Guy Who Protects Them
4/5: Lawyers win again in latest privacy class-action settlement
3/31: Verizon, AT&T, Comcast Say They Will Not Sell Customer Browsing Histories
3/30: DJI proposing “electronic license plates” for drones
3/15: WhatsApp Hack Shows That Even Encryption Apps Are Vulnerable in a Browser
Books/Media/Misc:
May/June issue: If You’re Reading About “The Circle” on Facebook, It’s Already Too Late
4/27: Review: Big Brother turns into a bit of a bore in ‘The Circle,’ and there’s not an app for that
4/27: Movie review: It’s not Big Brother who’s watching
4/26: An interview with Cory Doctorow on beating death, post-scarcity, and everything
4/23: Full transcript: Too Embarrassed to Ask tackles trust and privacy during the Trump administration (podcast)
4/15: 6 lessons ‘Ghost in the Shell’ can teach you about cybersecurity
4/3: VPN explained: A privacy primer — with robots and race cars (video)
Privacy News Update, 4-29-17
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Featured:
4/6: Your Hair Now Reveals These Intimate Personal Details
3/17: This mortgage company aims to put user privacy first
3/17; Samsung S8 will use facial recognition for payments
3/16; Here are all the deals that Google’s AI lab DeepMind has made with the NHS
3/16: Once Again, Senator Wyden Wants To Know How Many Americans Are Being Surveilled By The NSA
3/14: IAPP members get new cookie compliance tool
3/14: The NSA’s foreign surveillance: 5 things to know
3/14: Google Assistant in Allo App Can Reveal Your Search History to Friends
3/13: Study: 90 percent of consumers have privacy concerns, but seek personalization
3/13: 7 Easy Ways to Stop Your Gadgets From Spying on You
3/13: Here’s what US Customs and Border Protection agents can and can’t do with your devices
3/13: ACLU: Facebook, Instagram publicly prohibit surveillance of users
3/13: You probably shouldn’t use public Wi-Fi — here’s what you should use instead
3/13: Berners-Lee cites privacy, fake news as biggest web concerns
3/10: EFF releases guide to help travelers protect privacy at the US border
3/9: Meet the sensors that could be watching while you work
3/8: With C.I.A. Hacking Revelations, How to Protect Your Devices
3/7: 8 tips to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
3/7: Here are 7 password tips to help improve your online security
3/7: Consumers are wary of smart homes that know too much
3/7: Amazon hands over Echo ‘murder’ data
3/7: If You Have A Smart TV, Take A Closer Look At Your Privacy Settings
3/6: Consumer Reports to consider cyber security in product reviews
3/6: Trumpocracy: Tracking the Creeping Authoritarianism of the 45th President
3/6: Design Jam to focus on privacy solutions
3/3: EFF: Data Collected From Utility Smart Meters Should Be Protected By The Fourth Amendment
3/3: ‘Smart billboards’ may be coming to a highway near you
3/2: Medical Devices Are the Next Security Nightmare
2/27: How The Media Are Using Encryption Tools To Collect Anonymous Tips
2/23: How to scrub your private data from ‘people finder’ sites
2/14: Biometric tracking in the enterprise
1/20: Here’s How To Protect Your Privacy In Trump’s America
1/18: So You Want to Protest: A Beginner’s Guide
Local (PNW):
3/17: Ron Wyden Says Americans Deserve to Know How Many Citizens Are Being Watched by Big Brother
3/16: How smart cities are leading the charge for transportation and tech infrastructure
3/7: Washington CPO releases open-source privacy-law app
2/27: Council OKs Police Body Cams Despite Concerns
1/25: Sawant Blasts Secret Federal Surveillance Cameras on Seattle Utility Poles
Govt (Fed):
3/18: Privacy rights at border draw scrutiny under Trump immigration crackdown
3/17: Popped Pimp May Uncork Warrant Protection for Cellphone Location
3/16: U.S. judge rejects Google email scanning settlement
3/16: House bill would circumvent genetic privacy protections
3/16: Sen. Wyden, Rep. Lieu write to DHS over SS7 concerns
3/16: Markey, Welch propose legislation to regulate drone data collection
3/16: Spy Agency Requests Aren’t in Trump Budget Proposal
3/15: Advertising trade groups tell Congress to dump FCC privacy rules
3/14: FTC releases video on its alignment with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
3/10: Senator Asks DNI Nominee Coats for Answers on Section 702 Use
3/10: The House GOP is pushing a bill that would let employers demand workers’ genetic test results
3/9: U.S. Congress may overturn Obama internet privacy rules
3/9: Bloomberg wins privacy case under section 32 of the Data Protection Act
3/9: Florida senator demands answers from Spiral Toys after cloud hack
3/9: ACLU challenges Facebook search warrant
3/9: CIA leaks bolster case for privacy treaty: UN expert
3/8: FBI Director Comey: “There Is No Such Thing As Absolute Privacy In America”
3/8: Comey: Strong encryption “shatters” privacy-security bargain
3/8: Republicans Starting to Think the NSA Has Too Much Surveillance Power
3/6: PCLOB’s future may be in serious jeopardy
3/6: Trump Administration Wants A Clean Reauthorization For NSA Surveillance
3/3: The data tool helping enforce Trump’s new immigration policies
3/3: US Congress Says NSA Still Hasn’t Revealed How Many Americans It Spied On
3/2: House Judiciary Committee considers reauthorizing Section 702 — cautiously
3/1: U.S. FCC blocks stricter broadband privacy rules from taking effect
3/1: White House supports renewal of spy law without reforms: official
2/27: New FCC Chairman Plans To Block Privacy Regulations
2/22: Federal Bill Introduced To Add A Warrant Requirement To Stingray Deployment
2/16: US legislation revived to curb warrantless geolocation tracking
Govt (States & Cities):
3/17: Maine senators ask Trump to repeal REAL ID elements
3/15: Kentucky Supreme Court to weigh privacy concerns with license plate readers
3/10: Survey rates states with best online privacy protections
3/9: Mass. lawmakers push for restrictions on use of sensitive driver data
3/8: Court Tells Cops They Can’t Use GPS Data Gathered After Suspect They Were Tracking Sold The Vehicle
3/3: New Orleans’ Police Use Of Body Cameras Brings Benefits And New Burdens
3/1: Judge allows facial recognition suit against Google to proceed
2/28: The shifting definition of personal information
Policy & Opinion:
4/11: REASONABLE DATA SECURITY? I GOT YOUR REASONABLE DATA SECURITY RIGHT HERE
4/4: There’s Nowhere to Hide on the Internet
3/18: Transparency is for government, privacy is for people
3/16; Tech in the Trump Era: Regulating Privacy, Immigration, Ethics
3/16: 10 Reasons You Should Still Worry About NSA Surveillance
3/16: Reining In Warrantless Wiretapping of Americans (research report)
3/6: ‘On Tyranny’ Explores New Threats Facing American Political System
3/6: Privacy pros and the ethics of big data tech
3/3: What privacy pros can take away from Uber’s Greyball
2/21: True privacy online is not viable
2/15 Voice Privacy Experts: Careful, We’re Bugging Ourselves
Overseas:
4/11: Yahoo U.S. Email Surveillance Bothers EU Privacy Chiefs
4/10: U.K. Privacy Office Seeks Feedback on European Profiling Rules
3/17: ICO close to concluding investigation into DeepMind-NHS partnership (UK)
3/17: Agency monitors social media of citizens making large financial transactions
3/17: Albrecht: ePrivacy Regulation a step in right direction, but more work needed
3/17: House of Commons passes Genetic Non-Discrimination Act
3/16: New Zealand privacy commissioner proposes Privacy Act updates
3/16: Singapore PDPC newsletter talks enforcement issues, annual report
3/16: UK surveillance camera commissioner warns of big data, surveillance merging
3/16: Germany approves amendments placing greater emphasis on surveillance
3/15: Privacy commissioner investigating Canada Border Services Agency over electronic media searches
3/14: Mexico’s new public-sector privacy law
3/10: CIA surveillance dump could reveal Canadian snooping secrets
3/10: Germany surveillance: Security trumps privacy as video bill passed
3/10: APEC’s Cross-Border Privacy Rules set to ‘take off’(Asia-Pac)
3/10: EU reassured on U.S. privacy directive – source
3/9: Op-ed: Privacy needs to be priority with Aadhaar system(India)
3/9: PCPD releases compliance guide for privacy ordinance as an e-book(Hong Kong)
3/7: Google reported by Danish watchdog for unlimited data storage
3/3: The drones tracking wealthy officials (Ukraine)
3/3: Canadian airports to begin using facial recognition technology
3/3: When is data ‘about’ an individual?(Oz)
3/2: Government denies additional census privacy suggestions (Oz)
2/27: China Orders Every Vehicle In Region Troubled By Ethnic Unrest To Be Fitted With Satnav Tracker
2/10: UK Police Spy On Journalists At Small Town Paper, Gather One Million Minutes Worth Of Call Data
Tech:
4/3: Future Teens Will Probably Have Better Fake IDs Than We Did
3/16: Why GM invites ethical hackers to try and hack its cars
3/16: Samsung just accidentally confirmed a huge Galaxy S8 feature
3/16: Swatch to launch Swiss smartwatch operating system by 2018
3/15: Can a sex toy spy on you?
3/15: Intel bets on selling Mobileye data, with maps a first test
3/14: Facebook bars developers from using data for surveillance
3/13: Zix wins 5-vendor email encryption shootout
3/10: Newer car tech opens doors to CIA attacks
3/10: Cadillac’s new sedan will be the first V2V car on the market
3/9: IBM technology moves even closer to human speech recognition parity
3/9: Your Hot Hands Can Give Away Your Smartphone PIN
3/8: Biometric monitors bring fresh privacy concerns to pro sports
3/7: Nest Adds Two-Step Verification for Users
3/3: This app uses machine learning to help users find the best privacy settings
3/1: Carnegie Mellon seeks orgs to sponsor privacy engineering projects
2/28: There’s one big problem with voice assistants — Amazon and Google are racing to fix it
2/28: AT&T and GE are planning to deploy smart streetlights
2/9: Google Has Sent Android App Developers A Privacy Ultimatum
Books/Media/Misc:
3/16: On the Wire Podcast: Chris Camacho
3/15: Opposing Views on What to Do About the Data We Create
3/14: Turow discusses new book on surveillance and shopping
3/9: Web con: ‘Introduction to US Privacy Law’ (webinar)
3/8: ‘The Privacy Paradox’ challenges listeners to take control (podcast)
3/7: Digital Natives or Digital Exiles? (BBC Panel Discussion)
3/3: Howard Schmidt: Defender of security and privacy
3/3: Harvard researchers release ‘Open Data Privacy Playbook’
3/1: On the Wire Podcast: Gary McGraw
2/27: Privacy Paradox: How To Gain More Control Over Your Data (podcast)