Privacy News Update, April-May 2018

4/13: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/04/13/1442249/google-chrome-to-boost-user-privacy-by-improving-cookies-handling-procedure4/13: Google Chrome To Boost User Privacy by Improving Cookies Handling Procedure

4/12: Boffins find new ways to slurp private info from Facebook addicts using precision-targeted ads

4/11: Steam Spy Announces It’s Shutting Down, Blames Valve’s New Privacy Settings

4/3: One solution to wreck privacy-hating websites: Flood them with bogus info using browser tools

4/3: Tor ‘sunsets’ secure Messenger that never exited beta

3/29: Facebook Will No Longer Allow Third-Party Data For Targeting Ads

3/27: Adobe: New Unified Customer Profile will personalise ads as never before

Books/Media/Podcasts/Misc:

5/25: Edward Snowden on Privacy in the Age of Trump and Facebook

5/8: How a suspected gang member’s traffic stop led to a crucial privacy case

5/4: Netflix’s Anon is an augmented reality neo-noir nightmare

5/3: Gattaca director Andrew Niccol on conformity, technology, and his new Netflix film Anon

4/10: The Revelation of Cardi B

Privacy News Update, 2-15-16

Featured:

2/12: How to keep your Facebook account secure and private

2/10: IoT Could Be Used To Spy, Admits James Clapper

1/30: ACLU Sues Anaheim Police For Public Records On Cell Phone Surveillance

1/29: Warrantless stingray case finally arrives before federal appellate judges

1/29: Privacy-Centric Linux Distro Tails Hits 2.0 Release

1/28: Congressional Hearings on Surveillance Programs to Kick Off — in Secret

1/27: How to Make Your Own NSA Bulk Surveillance System

1/27: Businesses are invading your privacy

1/27: IoT Security Turned Into An ‘I Spy’ Educational Book For Kids

1/27: Those silly Facebook ‘IQ tests, quizzes’ could be stealing your credit card info

1/27: Ban internet anonymity – says US Homeland Security official

1/27: Protecting Personal Information From Virtual Assistants

1/26: NSA Wants To Dump the Phone Records It Gathered Over 14 Years

1/25: How a Small Company in Switzerland Is Fighting a Surveillance Law — And Winning

1/24: S.F. transit agency seeks face-detecting cameras to check streets

1/21: The Tor Project Raised Over $200,000 From Its First Crowdfunding Campaign

1/21: The NSA Can Spy on You With or Without Encryption

1/20: European human rights court rules mass surveillance illegal

1/20: New privacy bills to hinder data collection could affect 100M Americans

1/15: Factum Non Verba: The heavily redacted world of the FBI’s Tracking Technology Unit

1/14: Investor to AT&T – give us a peek at your NSA data dealings

1/14: Media-tracking app spies on opt-in users to learn how much Netflix we watch

1/13: Another US ag-gag law outlawing data collection is challenged in court

1/12: Supreme Court won’t force DHS to reveal secret plan to cut cell service

1/11: Chicago police must finally produce stingray records, judge orders

1/10: Two months after FBI debacle, Tor Project still can’t get an answer from CMU

1/8: New Discovery Around Juniper Backdoor Raises More Questions About the Company

Local:

2/11: ACLU chapter sues Tacoma police for surveillance records

1/11: ATF Puts Up Surveillance Cameras Around Seattle … To Catch Illegal Grease Dump

Govt:

2/15: Think Target and Home Depot invade your privacy? Political campaigns might be worse

2/1: Harvard Report Debunks Claim Surveillance Is “Going Dark”

1/29: NSA, GCHQ used open source software to spy on Israeli, Syrian drones

1/29: Cal professors fear UC bosses will snoop on them

1/28: GAO Report: DHS Needs to Enhance Capabilities, Improve Planning, and Support Greater Adoption of Its National Cybersecurity Protection System

1/28: NSA’s top hacking boss explains how to protect your network from his attack squads

1/28: Disneyland’s Local Police Force Caught Secretly Using Powerful Phone Spying Tools

1/27: Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves it when you use PGP

1/24: Drone Lobbying Heats Up on Capitol Hill

1/28: The surveillance business model goes to war against the FTC

1/26: Committee OKs bill expanding library powers (WI)

1/24: Some police departments pass on body cameras over policy

1/22: Cellphone encryption bill pits police against tech industry and privacy advocates (California)

1/20: State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws

1/20: Groups want U.S. to adopt strong broadband privacy rules

1/20: DC Council bill would protect students’ digital privacy

1/20: Legislator joins national movement on privacy bills (AK)

1/20: Minnesota lawmakers take on data privacy in classrooms

1/19: FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds

1/18: Dem candidate O‘Malley: Regardless of backdoors, warrant always needed

1/17: Hillary Clinton Suggests Silicon Valley Could Be Bending on Encryption

1/14: Growing List Of Privacy Advocates Condemns TSA’s New Body Scan Policy

1/13: NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand

1/13: Apple CEO Tim Cook demands Obama White House formally defend Americans’ right to strong encryption

1/1: Marco Rubio: We Need To Add To US Surveillance Programs

Policy:

2/12: Encryption Debate: The Issue Isn’t Strong Crypto; It’s Easy Crypto

2/11: Final version: ‘Executing Warrants for Digital Evidence: The Case for Use Restrictions on Nonresponsive Data’

2/5: Don’t Sleep On New Data Privacy Regulations

1/31: Curing cancer requires easier access to genetic data: Bloomberg View

1/31: If You Go Near the Super Bowl, You Will Be Surveilled Hard

1/28: Security And Privacy Standards Are Critical To The Success Of Connected Cars

1/27: Proposed State Bans on Phone Encryption Make Zero Sense

1/27: In this Facebook and Google-owned world, it’s time to rethink privacy

1/27: When Your Neighbor’s Drone Pays an Unwelcome Visit

1/23: The Repeat Political Madness Of Never-Ending Crypto Wars

1/23: Why Do We Expose Ourselves?

1/21: 5 Things Congress Should Learn From New State Privacy Bills

1/18: Privacy and Drone Spying

1/15: How to Stop Peeping Drones

1/14: Is It Open Season on Drones?

1/10: Drone Regulations Should Focus on Safety and Privacy

1/6: The Father of Online Anonymity Has a Plan to End the Crypto War

1/1: The Biggest Security Threats We’ll Face in 2016

12/29: Google Glass Is Still a Bad Idea

12/28: Security’s Biggest Winners and Losers in 2015

Overseas:

2/11: Third Committee Report Critical Of UK’s “Sloppy” Draft Surveillance Bill

2/9: Facebook Ordered To Stop Tracking Non-Users In France

2/4: Poland increases government surveillance powers despite protests

1/31: How Europe Protects Your Online Data Differently Than the U.S.

1/29: Facebook tells Belgian government its use of English invalidates privacy case

1/28: Watchdog: Canada’s electronic spy agency broke privacy laws by sharing info with US, others

1/28: There’s no guidance for Scottish police use of UK facial recog database

1/28: Canada Cuts Off Some Intelligence Sharing With U.S. Out of Fear for Canadians’ Privacy

1/27: UK Home Sec wants Minority Report-style policing – using your slurped data

1/25: 3D Cameras Will Help Tokyo Cops Take Futuristic Mugshots in Scary Detail

1/25: Swiss pro-privacy email provider forces a referendum on mass surveillance

1/20: Rotterdam OKs security cameras to fight crime

1/20: Phone crypto scheme “facilitates undetectable mass surveillance”

1/24: Europe’s Top Digital-Privacy Watchdog Zeros In on U.S. Tech Giants

1/21: Big Brother Is Coming To UK Universities

1/21: Microsoft legal eagle explains why the Irish Warrant Fight covers your back

1/17: Zuck slapped down for privacy breaches in Germany again

1/17: European Antitrust Chief Takes Swipe at Privacy Issue

1/14: UK Home Secretary auditions for a Python sketch: “UK does not undertake mass surveillance”

1/13: We know this isn’t about PRISM, Matt Warman MP. But do you?

1/12: Bosses Can Snoop on E-Mails to Girlfriend, Court Rules

1/12: Brazil’s Digital Backlash

1/12: UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO

12/29: China’s new anti-terror law: No backdoors, but decryption on demand

Tech:

1/30: WhatsApp Will Get Indicators To Highlight Encrypted Chats

1/27: How to stay safe online: CNET’s security checklist

1/22: Skype Finally Hides Your IP Address

1/21: Is the ad-blocking Brave browser too good to be true?

1/20: Zcash, an Untraceable Bitcoin Alternative, Launches in Alpha

1/19: Tracking Protection In Wi-Fi Networks Coming Soon To Linux

1/15: Feds Prod Automakers to Play Nice With Hackers

1/12: Yahoo settles e-mail privacy class-action: $4M for lawyers, $0 for users

1/8: Uber to encrypt rider geo-location data, pay $20,000 to settle NY privacy flap

1/8: GM Asks Friendly Hackers to Report Its Cars’ Security Flaws

12/31: Your Smartwatch’s Motion Sensors Can Reveal Everything You Type (Including Passwords)

7/10: After Monumental Breach, Banks and Even Farmers Are Buying NSA-Fueled Surveillance Gear

Misc/Media/Books:

1/24: Power Wars: How Obama justified, expanded Bush-era surveillance (book review)

1/20: Privacy VS. Cyber Security With Silent Circle’s Javier Aguera (video)

12/15: Hearing entitled “Examining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Mass Data Collection Program” (video)

Privacy News Update, 1-17-16

So it’s been too long, apologies – but here you go for the new year!

Featured:

1/15: As New York looks to ban encrypted smartphones, here’s what you can do

1/10: The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’

1/9: Now that they know the NSA is spying on them, Congress is really worried about domestic surveillance

1/8: Apple, Google, Microsoft attack government hacking plans

1/8: Facial recognition tool screens travellers for border officers (Canada)

1/8: Washington raises pressure on Silicon Valley in fight against terrorism

1/8: Why Amazon’s Data Centers Are Hidden in Spy Country

1/7: Parents Monitoring Teenagers Online, and Mostly, Getting It Right

1/7: U.S. Tech Giants Join Forces Against U.K. Spying Plans

1/7: Apple Buys Startup That Sees What’s Behind Your Smile

1/7: Repeal authority to expand Real ID: Opposing view

1/6: Severe Silent Circle Blackphone vulnerability lets hackers take over

1/6: Work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Hacker, lawyer, activist geeks

1/6: Under Gun Rules, F.B.I. Will Receive Health Data

1/6: The Extortionist in the Fridge

1/4: A Redaction Re-Visited: NSA Targeted “The Two Leading” Encryption Chips

1/4: How ‘Do Not Track’ Ended Up Going Nowhere

12/31: In 2015, promising surveillance cases ran into legal brick walls

12/31: Gadgets smarter, but are they safe?

12/31: Why Are Digital-Privacy Apps So Hard to Use?

12/31: It’s an Unobtrusive Assistant Whispering in Your Ear (Not Little Brother)

12/30: UK government wants to send tech execs to jail for disclosing surveillance

12/29: A Wake-Up Call To Fight Government Surveillance

12/29: Microsoft may have your encryption key; here’s how to take it back

12/24: Just Before Passing Surveillance Expansion, Lawmakers Partied With How ‘Do Not Track’ Ended Up Going NowherePro-CISA Lobbyists

12/23: NSA Helped British Spies Find Security Holes In Juniper Firewalls

12/21: What Your Fitbit Doesn’t Want You to Know

12/15: The Government Wants Access to Smartphones. What You Should Know

12/14: EFF and Human Rights Watch force DEA to destroy its mass surveillance database

12/13: Why social media profiles of visa applicants, job seekers and borrowers are being scanned

12/13: Otay Mesa border crossing launches testing of facial recognition technology

12/9: Crowdfunding ORG’s campaign to fight the UK government’s mass surveillance

11/26: What mobile phone data can reveal about you, in Rwanda or right here at home

11/12: How Edward Snowden Changed Everything

Local to PNW:

1/6: Washington state to review personal data under new cybersecurity office

12/1: Audit sheds light on body camera program as more police officers outfitted

11/17: Steve Duin: The coolest maps of Portland you’ve ever seen

Govt:

1/9: Bill would protect student social media privacy (Wyo.)

1/8: U.S. Gives States 2 More Years to Meet Driver’s License Standards

1/7: FTC warns companies that ‘big data’ comes with the potential for big problems

1/6: After neighbor shot down his drone, Kentucky man files federal lawsuit

1/6: How Drones Are Adapting to New U.S. Rules

1/6: More Than 180,000 Drone Users Registered in F.A.A. Database

12/28: T.S.A. Moves Closer to Rejecting Some State Driver’s Licenses for Travel

12/27: F.A.A. Drone Laws Start to Clash With Stricter Local Rules

12/26: Secrecy Shuts Down a National-Security Debate

12/22: The Logo That Took Down a DARPA Surveillance Project

12/21: Hillary Clinton wants “Manhattan-like project” to break encryption

12/18: Erroneous Claims Made About Basic Classification Data in The Intercept’s Spy Gear Documents

12/16: Six Embarrassing Things Republicans Said About Cybersecurity Last Night

12/3: Congress Wants to Protect Your Emails From Warrantless Searches

12/1: IRS: Won’t use phone-tracking technology without warrant

11/28: America’s super-secret court names five lawyers as public advocates

Policy:

1/15: Smartphone encryption ban? It’s a boon for criminals and terrorists

1/13: The Long and Winding History of Encryption

1/9: Drone Regulations Should Focus on Safety and Privacy

1/8: Learning the wrong lesson on privacy from Henrietta Lacks

1/5: Column: Drivers need to get from A to B safely — not feed their digital addictions

12/31: Lessig on how the economics of data-retention will drive privacy tech

12/30: Your Cells. Their Research. Your Permission?

12/29: Digital privacy about to feel real-world shock to its system

12/27: Contra Costa Times editorial: Spending bill slips in erosion of privacy rights for cybersecurity

12/22: Restoring the Right to Be Let Alone

12/19: Technology And The Deep State

12/18: Wolverton: Snowden moment may be passing with new fears, pushback

12/14: Opinion: Rise of the Drones

12/13: Why protecting customers’ data should trump profits every time

12/11: ‘I want to join the NSA. What do you think of that?’

12/11: The Moral Failure of Computer Scientists

12/5: This War On Math Is Bullshit

12/4: Master of the house: why we should fight for truly private spaces

11/28: Could the Third Amendment be used to fight the surveillance state?

10/1: Americans Love Technology—but They Want Their Privacy Back

Overseas:

1/9: Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law

1/8: UN experts warn of ‘chilling effect’ on freedoms over UK surveillance bill

1/8: Australia ‘may do dumb things’ with crypto in 2016: EFF

1/8: Why tech firms hate new UK surveillance law

1/5: Police to deploy drones to catch thieves, help break sieges

12/27: U.K. Home Secretary Defends Controversial Surveillance Bill, Says It Will Stop Cyber Bullies

12/27: China’s New Big Brother Law Is A Clone Of The West’s Bad Ideas

12/25: Hyde Park visitors covertly tracked via mobile phone data

12/16: IXmaps: a tool to figure out when the NSA can see Canadians’ data

12/22: Europe and U.S. have different approaches to protecting privacy of personal data

12/16: EU passes strict new data collection regulations

12/10: European plan for blanket collection of air passengers’ data clears key hurdle

12/10: Costs And Risks Of UK’s Draft Surveillance Powers Probed

12/8: German Carmakers Gobbled Up Nokia Maps So No One Else Would Take It

12/8: Kazakhstan’s New Encryption Law Could Be a Preview of U.S. Policy

Tech:

1/9: Car Accessories Gone Wild at CES 2016

1/9: Google patents a wearable that tells you to take your medications when you eat

1/6: Dojo-Labs aims to tap into Internet of Things device security

12/29: Looks like Google Glass is back

12/23: If You’re Launching A Tech Startup In 2016, Focus On Privacy And Fast Data

12/18: Apple CEO Tim Cook Keeps Support for Unbreakable Encryption

12/18: Blackberry CEO Chen: We Don’t Keep Data (video)

12/14: Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-focused Librem 13 laptop

12/7: Windows 10 Settings menu: The Privacy tab

12/2: Google: No, We’re Not Snooping on Students With Our Chromebooks, Apps

11/10: Ted Cruz’s App Rewards Users for Turning Over Their Friends’ Contact Info

Misc Media/Books/Etc.:

1/3: In a new era of surveillance and doublethink, ‘1984’ takes to the stage

Privacy News Update, 11-3-15

Featured:

11/2015: If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy

10/27: The Senate just passed a bill that could force tech companies to share your private messages with the government

10/26: Apple is refusing to unlock an iPhone 5s for US law enforcement

10/25: Where there is no police accountability, justice is tenuous….

10/24: Federal judge dismisses Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA mass surveillance program

10/20: ‘Your Genome Isn’t Really Secret,’ Says Google Ventures’s Bill Maris

10/19: How one Austrian student took on American tech companies over privacy — and won

10/19: License Plate Reader Companies Lose Case Seeking To Have Anti-ALPR Law Declared Unconstitutional

10/15: How the NSA can break trillions of encrypted Web and VPN connections

10/14: Entrepreneur donates $1 million to fight anti-terror law C-51

10/13: Verizon Is Watching: Company Expands Data-Tracking Program

10/13: No, Hillary, Edward Snowden Didn’t Have Whistleblower Protections

10/13: DARPA wants vanishing drones

10/11: Tech Firms Laud Obama’s Retreat on Encrypted-Data Law

10/9: California Approves A Sweeping Digital Privacy Law

10/8: Pittsburgh City Council seeks to ban drones from city parks

10/7: Private database lets police skirt license plate data limits

10/7: The Suit You Will Need to Avoid Surveillance in the Future

10/7: Jimmy Wales and Former NSA Chief Ridicule Government Plans To Ban Encryption

10/7: Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Find “Nuts and Bolts” Info On Cookies & Tracking Mechanisms?

10/6: Google defends Android Auto’s data collection after critical Motor Trend report

10/5: Snowden: I’d go to prison to return to US

10/2: Homeland Security seizes Stockton mayor’s electronics at SFO

10/1: Hidden GPS devices to track suspects raise legal concerns

10/1: RFID chips in driver’s licenses. What could go wrong?

10/1: Chip And PIN Meets Facial Recognition: Chipping Away At Privacy, Pinning You Down In A Database

9/30: Microsoft ‘Addresses’ Windows 10 Privacy Concerns By Simply Not Mentioning Most Of Them

9/29: FBI and DEA Under Review For Misuse of NSA Mass Surveillance Data

9/29: How the FBI Hacks Around Encryption

9/29: Edward Snowden joins Twitter, immediately gets more followers than NSA

9/28: Covert Electronic Surveillance Prompts Calls for Australian ISPs Not Ready For Mandatory Data Retention Transparency

9/26: America’s most secretive court invites its first outsider

9/24: Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes

9/24: Postal Service Failed to Protect Personal Data in Mail Surveillance, Report Says

9/24: Snowden Treaty Launched: Effort To Get Countries To End Mass Surveillance

9/21: The Other Big Brother

9/17: Committee vote on police heat sensors signals cooperation between police, privacy activists

9/16: Library’s Tor relay—which had been pulled after feds noticed—now restored

9/11: Citi analysts have an idea they call ‘the Feed,’ and it could revolutionize the insurance industry

9/11: How the Government Surveils Cellphones: A Primer

9/11: Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over ‘Deep Cynicism’ of American Public

9/9: Siri is always listening. Are you OK with that?

9/8: Apple, Microsoft tussle with feds over access to user data

8/31: Are your apps acting creepy? New approach to phone security could tip you off

Local:

10/14: Microsoft looks to stop bike crashes before they happen, testing Minority Report-style predictive intelligence

10/12: City of Seattle unveils new privacy program to ‘build public trust’ about use of personal information

10/7: Inside the Seattle Police Department’s new real-time crime center

10/7: Researchers build extra brainy smart homes to monitor aging adults

10/2: Boeing drone helps fight Washington state wildfires in latest demonstration of UAV technology

9/21: Seattle to Get $600K Cut of Obama Administration’s Body Cam Program

9/18: Seattle using drivers’ cellphones to track traffic flow

9/18: Wyden, Bonamici draft legislation to guard student privacy after University of Oregon records leak

9/11: Police body cameras show more than just the facts

9/9: ‘Smart bus’ system gives Spokane riders real-time information

9/8: Law Professor: Tech Companies Are Our Best Hope At Resisting Surveillance

Govt:

10/29: Warrant to search phone did not allow opening folder unlikely to contain evidence sought, court rules

10/29: Fourth Circuit grants rehearing, eliminates split, on cell-site surveillance

10/29: Second Circuit declines to reach Fourth Amendment issues in bulk metadata program

10/28: In Congress, Drones Represent Money, Freedom — And A Security Threat

10/22: FBI director: Planes not for mass spying

10/21: Helicopter (and drone?) surveillance and the Fourth Amendment

10/21: 23andMe releases transparency report, revealing how often cops ask for customers’ DNA

10/20: Body Cameras Are Everywhere, But Recordings Remain Locked Up Tight

10/20: Apple CEO Defends Encryption, Opposes Government Back Door

10/16: Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA

10/16: You don’t need to tear up your boarding pass and eat it after you fly

10/10: New Jersey judge warns police videos will be kept secret

10/9: Brown rejects driver’s licenses to ease border crossings

10/9: California’s Paparazzi Have Had Their Wings Clipped A Bit

10/9: US boosts privacy protection on health insurance website

10/8: Obama administration opts not to force firms to decrypt data — for now

10/6: Thanks to the NSA, Data Sharing With Europe Just Got a Little Harder

10/6: Carson says he’s glad for Snowden revelations but questions methods

9/28: Police bid to keep most body camera footage private rejected

9/25: Lawmakers consider student social media privacy bill

9/25: In fascinating legal case, judge rules defendants can’t be forced to unlock their smartphones

9/22: Legislation Requiring Tech Industry To Report Terrorist Activity Dropped

9/22: Feds award $1 million grant to help purchase SAPD body cameras

9/21: George W. Bush Tried To Retroactively Declare Illegal, Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance Legal, Because He Said So

9/15: Minnesota cities press for body-camera footage restrictions

9/12: Austin officials approve funding for police body cameras

9/9: Director of national intelligence: Snowden forced “needed transparency”

9/9: City Of Boston Left License Plate Data Unprotected And Unencrypted

9/2: Indiana State Police won’t give up stingray records due to “terrorism” risk

8/27: City of San Jose Looking To Attach Automatic License Plate Readers To Garbage Trucks

8/24: Police Regularly Use Stingrays Without A Warrant To Find Petty Criminals, Then Try To Hide That Fact

Policy:

10/16: In 2016, if California cops get hacked, lose your license plate data, you can sue

10/14: Q.&A.: Guarding Personal Data From Abuse by Insiders

10/14: Living with Technology: Keeping an eye on digital security

10/13: Digital Privacy, in the U.S. and Europe

10/12: A Law That Hides Police Misconduct From the Public

10/9: European Ruling is Merely a Symbolic Victory for Privacy

10/7: The government and privacy advocates can’t agree on what ‘strong’ encryption even means

10/6: Verizon’s Sneaky Zombie Cookies Now Being Used Across The Entire AOL Ad Empire

9/25: A Q&A with Edward Snowden

9/16: Tech that hangs on your every word raises privacy questions

9/15: An elegy for privacy, common sense and John Gibson: Leonard Pitts

9/14: N.H. Public Library Reconsiders Support For Anonymous Internet Network Tor

Overseas:

11/1: Theresa May says ‘contentious’ parts of web surveillance plan dropped

10/20: Ireland’s privacy regulator is going to investigate Facebook after a landmark ruling by Europe’s highest court

10/18: U.K.’s Mounting, Controversial Video Surveillance

10/16: UK Politicians To Hold ‘Emergency Debate’ After Spy Tribunal Says GCHQ Is Permitted To Put Them Under Surveillance

10/15: Despite exposure, new nations joining cyberespionage game

10/15: Medical record privacy breaches an ‘epidemic’ in Alberta,’ says commissioner (CA)

10/12: Australian ISPs Not Ready For Mandatory Data Retention

10/12: Turnbull’s mutual respect campaign to kick off with taking away privacy (AU)

10/6: Critics raise data privacy concerns in Trans-Pacific Partnership deal (CA)

10/6: EU Privacy Ruling May Disrupt U.S. Tech Firms, Spy Programs

9/24: Thailand aims to build its own Great Firewall of Internet censorship

9/23: Russia’s Plan To Crack Tor Crumbles

9/22: Government-Mandated Parental Spyware Found To Be Leaking Personal Data At An Alarming Rate (SK)

9/14: Telco Giant Vodafone Looked At Journalist’s Phone Records To See Who Was Leaking Info To Her (AU)

9/13: Ask Slashdot: Best Country To Avoid Government Surveillance?

9/1: Turkey Arrests Journalists For Using Encryption

8/25: UK surveillance “worse than 1984,” says new UN privacy chief

8/25: Malaysia To Introduce RFID Tracking For Every Vehicle

Tech:

11/2: Dreading those drones

11/2: Barbie is back, but can she be trusted?

11/2015: Playing Defense Against the Drones

10/26: How to make sure no one can search through your old Facebook posts

10/23: Your anonymous cell phone data might be used to break up traffic jams

10/23: NFL wins federal approval to film with drones

10/19: Apple Suspends Hundreds of Apps For Stealing Personal Data From a Million Users

10/15: To boost privacy, Yahoo Mail eliminates need for passwords

10/14: Hotspot Shield Creator Is on a Mission to Outflank the Censors

10/13: The GranitePhone Thinks Your Privacy Is Worth $850

10/13: How To Find and Delete Everything You’ve Ever Said to Google Now

10/8: DuckDuckGo CEO calls out Google and says it’s ‘a myth you need to track people to make money’

10/7: FAA seeks $1.9M fine against drone photography company

10/4: 7 Questions To Ask Your Boss About Wellness Privacy

9/29: BlackBerry releases first photos of Android-powered Priv phone

9/29: Apple: Here’s how we try to protect your privacy

9/29: Phone makers aren’t doing enough to protect your privacy, says CEO of security-conscious GranitePhone

9/28: Microsoft reaffirms privacy commitment, but Windows will keep collecting data

9/27: Silent Circle Blackphone 2 review

9/24: IBM’s Watson Is Now Analyzing Your Vacation Photos

9/22: Lenovo Collects Usage Data On ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs

9/14: Fresh from Google Glass partnership, VSP eyes high-tech wearables

9/14: Invizbox Go aims to make mobile privacy painless over any Wi-Fi

9/14: Live-In Laboratory May Help Older Adults Live Independently Longer

9/8: This Fake Baby Car Seat Is Designed to Help Governments Spy on People

9/7: Apple’s Privacy Policies Are Keeping Data Scientists Away

8/31: Microsoft accused of adding spy features to Windows 7, 8

8/31: Google OnHub review—Google’s smart home Trojan horse is a $200 leap of faith

Misc/Media/Books:

10/19: Here’s how to keep your information private on the internet (video)

10/10: You Think the NSA Is Bad? Meet Former CIA Director Allen Dulles.

10/8: Part Exhibitionism, Part Surveillance

9/29: This Art Installation Tests How Much You Value Your Personal Data

9/20: Art that shows us what mass surveillance actually looks like

Privacy News Update, 4-25-15, part deux

Featured:

4-24: Why Senator Ron Wyden Has It Wrong About the Open Internet

4-24: Personalizing the In-Store Experience — Will Consumers Give Up Their Privacy?

4-23: A New Bill Could Extend the Patriot Act to 2020

4-23: Silicon Valley’s privacy efforts must be working, because our governments are freaking out

4-23: Creepy but legal phone-tracking company gets wrist slap for empty privacy promise

4-22: Privacy Groups Declare War On McConnell’s Patriot Act Bill

4-22: Counterterrorism Conference Kicks Out Intercept Journalist

4-22: Right to privacy ‘could be meaningless in 10 years under Tory and Labour plans’

4-21: Supreme Court to Justice Department: No, the Fourth Amendment Is Not a ‘Useless Piece of Paper’

4-21: Citing privacy concerns, Airbnb slams bill on short-term rentals

4-21: Federal data-breach bill would replace dozens of stronger state laws

4-20: This machine catches stingrays: Pwnie Express demos cellular threat detector

4-20: Google now lets you download your search history

4-17: How to blur out personal details on Google Maps

4-17: Boston Marathon Surveillance Raises Privacy Concerns Long After Bombing

4-16: Hackers Could Commandeer New Planes Through Passenger Wi-Fi

4-14: Police officers have no constitutional ‘right of privacy’ in records of their official misconduct

4-13: Even if the Patriot Act expires, the worst surveillance will carry on

4-9: How can I protect my passwords and personal data without TrueCrypt?

4-9: Has Google Indexed Your Backup Drive?

4-9: Securing the web once and for all: The Let’s Encrypt Project

4-9: Lobbyists for Spies Appointed To Oversee Spying

4-8: Greenwald Criticizes Universities’ Funding-Driven Collaboration With NSA

4-8: Phone App That Watches Your Driving Habits Leads To Privacy Concerns

4-8: How to manage your online reputation for free

4-6: HBO’s John Oliver hits Snowden hard on NSA leaks

4-3: Feds won’t build license plate database—they just want access to one

3-30: No drone surveillance of crime scene (even from 150 feet above), police say

3-30: Why the House information-sharing bill could actually deter information sharing

Local:

4-22: Cops hire pesky programmer who bugged Seattle for more transparency

4-20: Oregon bill would prohibit charges for filming police

4-15: Seattle Police Body Camera Program Highlights Unexpected Issues

4-14: Jared Friend’s cool job as director of technology and liberty

4-14: Oregon House unanimously passes bill to protect confidentiality of sexual-assault survivors

4-8: UO quietly diminishes privacy protections at student counseling center, despite promises

4-3: Supreme Court rules against Spokane teachers on records requests

3-15: Data privacy: Does anyone know where this train’s heading?

Govt:

4-24: The DHS brings its infantile, cyber-fantasy world to RSA 2015

4-24: Florida could soon limit access to police camera videos

4-23: Republican Lawmakers Are Coming Around to the Idea of Police Body Cameras

4-23: Surveillance reform bill returns with concessions to NSA on data collection

4-23: Rand Paul Is Suddenly Quiet About His Favorite Topics

4-23: Congressional Battle Brews Over Bill To Extend NSA Data Collection

4-23: House Lawmakers Float Bill to End NSA Mass Surveillance

4-22: How to Detect Sneaky NSA ‘Quantum Insert’ Attacks

4-22: San Francisco County jail deputies to be fitted with body cameras

4-22: Companies Sharing Hacking Data Get Legal Shield in U.S. Bill

4-22: House Passes Major Cybersecurity Bill Despite Fears It Will Bolster NSA Spying

4-22: McConnell’s Patriot Act Bill Unleashes Long-Simmering Debate Over NSA Spying

4-22: Some officers looking to body cameras on their own

4-22: Department of Homeland Security opening Silicon Valley office

4-21: Homeland Security Secretary Begs Silicon Valley to Stop the Encryption

4-21: White House Seeks Silicon Valley Help on Strong Yet Breakable Encryption

4-21: Lawyers’ Group Seeks Overhaul of a Postal Service Surveillance Program

4-21: Key Republican Is Not on Board With NSA Reform

4-21: Texas aims to limit controversial “stingray” phone-tracking tech

4-21: ‘Aaron’s Law’ Reintroduced as Lawmakers Wrestle Over Hacking Penalties

4-21: Senate intelligence chief defends his plan to curb cyberattacks

4-21: Jeb Bush: Best part of Obama administration is NSA

4-21: Lawyer: Cops dropped robbery case rather than detail FBI’s StingRay phone snoop gizmo

4-20: Anonymous unleashes online petition against US info-sharing bills

4-20: Baltimore judge allows police use of Stingray phone tracking in murder case

4-19: Twitter-joking security expert barred from another United flight, lawyer says

4-19: Lawmaker wants to restrict access to birth certificate data

4-18: Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA

4-18: A push to shield body cam footage

4-17: Weakened surveillance reform bill is ‘yesterday’s news’, civil libertarians say

4-17: Congress to Introduce Last-Ditch Bill to Reform NSA Spying

4-17: Security experts urge Congress to reject cyber-threat sharing bills

4-16: TSA Trained Disney, SeaWorld to SPOT Terrorists

4-16: Booz Allen Wolves Offer Advice on Protecting NSA Henhouse

4-16: California bill aims to protect ride-sharing passengers’ privacy

4-16: SEC Reveals It Doesn’t Use Email Snooping Power It Defends

4-16: New California bill would require local approval for stingray use

4-15: The DEA Is Buying Off-the-Shelf Spyware From a Sketchy Company

4-15: Election 2016: The big data trail to our next president

4-15: How Your Future Leader Is Tracking You – Ranking Presidential Candidate Website Privacy

4-14: US to tell certain travelers if on no-fly list

4-13: For art’s sake! Photoing neighbors with zoom lens not a privacy invasion

4-13: Yee speaks on plan to put GPS in SF city vehicles

4-12: Law enforcement worries over beefed-up phone encryption

4-11: Deleted forever? Government text messages vanish within days

4-10: Microsoft: Feds Are ‘Rewriting’ the Law To Obtain Emails Overseas

4-9: Portola Valley: Town Council says no to license-plate readers

4-9: Civilians Can Record Police Encounters, But When Is It Interference?

4-9: Could the South Carolina Police Shooting Be the Last Push for Body Cameras?

4-9: Baltimore Police used secret technology to track cellphones in thousands of cases

4-8: US Started Keeping Secret Records of International Telephone Calls In 1992

4-8: Chicago man sues Facebook over facial recognition use in “Tag Suggestions”

4-8: The FBI Lets Criminals Walk in Order to Keep This Device a Secret

4-8: How Edward Snowden Unwittingly Killed a Mass-Surveillance Program

4-7: Rand Paul Pledges to ‘Immediately’ End NSA Mass Surveillance If Elected President

4-6: White House Privacy Protection Proposal Sets An Ominous Tone For Future Action

4-6: The NSA may not be listening to your private phone calls, but it has been watching your private parts

3-28: As Santa Clara County procures ‘stingray’ cell tracker, increased scrutiny surrounds potentially invasive device

Policy:

4-24: Cameras are everywhere, and they’re changing our lives

4-24: Op-Ed: In defense of Tor routers

4-21: Millennials’ view of Snowden could spur surveillance relief, ACLU says

4-19: The Upsides of a Surveillance Society

4-18: Op-ed: Why the entire premise of Tor-enabled routers is ridiculous

4-15: When Keeping A Secret Trumps The Need For Care

4-15: To dream the impossible dream: Privacy on the net

4-14: How to protect privacy in the digital age: a constitutional amendment
4-14: Police body cams and the lost language of privacy

4-14: In the future, your insurance company will know when you’re having sex

4-9: Weighing Privacy Vs. Rewards Of Letting Insurers Track Your Fitness

4-9: Edward Snowden’s impact

4-8: With Discounts For Healthy Behavior, John Hancock Courts Privacy Concerns

4-7: How can privacy survive in the era of the internet of things?

4-3: Study: Millennials indifferent about about digital privacy

Overseas:

4-22: UK Police Chief: Some Tech Companies Are ‘Friendly To Terrorists’

4-19: Gandhi Returns to India to Lead Fight Against Modi Land Bill

4-18: New Zealand Plotted Hack on China With NSA

4-15: Vidal-Hall v Google: A new dawn for data protection claims

4-14: Back to the Drawing Board: Bell Drops Opt-Out Targeted Ad Program

4-13: France’s govt wants emergency surveillance powers

4-13: Lib Dems wheel out Digital Rights Bill pledge as election sweetener

4-12: Tech firms threaten exodus over French mass surveillance plans

4-10: Mass surveillance case against UK government heads to Europe’s highest court

4-9: Data protection concerns 72% of Britons in post-Snowden world, research shows

4-8: Facebook and privacy: On the defensive against class-action suit, research report in Europe

4-8: Google Loses Most of Challenge to German Data-Privacy Order

4-7: France accused of tabling ‘Patriot Act’ style surveillance law

4-6: Data privacy: the tide is turning in Europe – but is it too little, too late?

3-29: You can hide an awful lot behind a curtain of privacy

3-25: Malcolm Turnbull explains how people can avoid having metadata collected

Tech:

4-2015: How to Buy Things in the Future

4-25: As Health Apps Hop On The Apple Watch, Privacy Will Be Key

4-24: New version of Google Glass coming soon, says Luxottica CEO

4-24: Good: Companies Care About Data Privacy Bad: No Idea How To Protect It

4-24: Apple security features can be easily bypassed, says researcher

4-24: Is That an FM Radio In Your Pocket

4-23: Facebook says it doesn’t save your unpublished posts

4-23: Biometrics May Ditch The Password, But Not The Hackers

4-22: Microsoft unveils plans for stronger encryption and tighter controls over Office 365 data

4-22: Pro/Con: Why Google’s Fi Could Be Awesome and Terrible

4-22: Homes Try to Reach Smart Switch

4-21: Uncovering sexual preferences by data-mining sex-toy sales [NSFW]

4-21: Google engineers on Android ecosystem facts and myths

4-20: Encryption: More and more companies use it, despite nasty tech headaches

4-16: The $25 Million Fine Isn’t The Real AT&T-FCC Story

4-16: GE Spotlights New Smart Street Lamps

4-14: Want fancy Firefox features? Secure your website

4-9: Amazon listens to MORE of your private stuff

4-8: AT&T to Pay $25 Million for Failing to Stop Theft of Personal Information

4-7: Find Out Who An Email Address Belongs To With Clearbit

4-8: Disclosing Companies’ Algorithms Does Not Increase Privacy

3-30: Watch this drone shepherd round up its flock on an Irish farm

Books/Movies/etc:

4-23: New interactive NFB documentary watches the watchers online

4-21: The Conversation looked ahead to a world without privacy

4-15: The FBI Informant Who Mounted a Sting Operation Against the FBI

4-14: Do not Track: an online, interactive documentary about who’s watching you

yeah, ‘awesome’ isn’t the word i’d use…

but then again, this is sarcasm 🙂

This Modern World

Number Six

Not…quite.

jason forgot one – ‘the black eye’…..

foxtrot 8-3

Number Six

Eric Schmidt….still Full Of S***

It’s amazing how much power and money can remove someone from reality, but Eric Schmidt is a regular example…..yet another step in his quest to become the next Scott McNealy…

I’m personally hoping people will simply ‘adapt’ by banning GG from civilized society, and/or just spray painting the glasses when you see them on someone’s face – why is it OK for overpaid techies to peer into everyone else’s business? – Oh right, it’s NOT.

Schmidt: Google Glass Critics “Afraid of Change,” Society Will Adapt

Number Six

Tag: Google Glass

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yeah, ‘awesome’ isn’t the word i’d use…

Not…quite.

Eric Schmidt….still Full Of S***