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Featured:
2/16: Facebook forges ahead with kids app despite expert criticism
2/15: How to Build a Smart Home That’s Actually Secure
2/14: New IAPP Privacy Engineering Section aims to support growing field
2/14: It’s HTTPS or bust: How to secure your website
2/14: On Valentine’s Day, an Oregon Senator Takes a Swipe at Tinder
2/14: Facebook’s free VPN acts like spyware to iOS users in the U.S.
2/14: A space revolution: Do tiny satellites threaten our privacy? financial times
2/13: VPN services 2018: The ultimate guide to protecting your data on the internet
2/12: Do Not, I Repeat, Do Not Download Onavo, Facebook’s Vampiric VPN Service
2/12: What Happens When You Fill A House With ‘Smart’ Technology
2/12: App lets workers talk about their companies anonymously
2/8: Google-Nest merger raises privacy issues
2/8: With Closed-Circuit TV, Satellites And Phones, Millions Of Cameras Are Watching
2/8: Smart TV’s privacy capabilities placed under the microscope
2/7: The House That Spied on Me
2/7: The IAPP’s new launchpad into data privacy
2/7: Supreme Court Tackles Fourth Amendment Case Involving Cellphone Privacy
2/6: Governments Hate Bitcoin and Cash for the Same Reason: They Protect People’s Privacy.
2/6: Surveillance Valley
2/6: CDT files FOIA request with ICE over ALPR data use
2/6: Law Enforcement Can Use Smart Meter Parking Apps To Spy On Everyone
2/6: Your Mobile Phone Can Give Away Your Location, Even If You Tell It Not To
2/6: Smart cities: better for life or too much information sharing?
2/4: The privacy-first smart speaker taking on the likes of Apple and Amazon
2/2: China’s Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone
2/2: Fitness apps are now one more reason to revisit your smartphone’s privacy settings
2/2: Google Chrome: Beware these malicious extensions that record everything you do
2/2: Amazon secures employee-tracking wristband patents
2/1: Facebook Patents Tech To Bucket Users Into Different Social Classes
2/1: The Legal Consequences Of Sending Disappearing Messages At Work
1/31: ICE Finally Gets The Nationwide License Plate Database It’s Spent Years Asking For
1/31: Privacy questions around DNA tests
1/31: 20-year-old student behind Strava heatmap discovery
1/31: No Warrant Needed For Police Departments To Share Your License Plate Data
1/30: Privacy experts alarmed as Amazon moves into the health care industry
1/30: Car renters beware: Bluetooth use can reveal your private data
1/30: National I.D. By Any Other Name Still Stinks
1/29: Strava lesson: Share fitness data online? Check these privacy settings now
1/29: How Strava’s “anonymized” fitness tracking data spilled government secrets
1/29: Have you signed up for a tracking app by mistake?
1/29: New tool aims to centralize data privacy information
1/28: Facebook: Is it time to quit our unhealthy addiction?
1/26: The impact of public privacy on corporate governance
1/25: Windows 10 privacy guide: How to take control
1/25: Law firm releases handbook for the privacy office
1/25: Disrupting The Fourth Amendment: Half Of Law Enforcement E-Warrants Approved In 10 Minutes Or Less
1/24: DNA sharing leads to privacy concerns
1/22: Congress Quietly Pushing Bill To Require National Biometric ID For “ALL Americans”
1/19: Who Is Selling Hacking Subscriptions to Governments?
1/16: Amazon hiring HIPAA Compliance Lead for “new initiative”
1/14: Online security 101: Tips for protecting your privacy from hackers and spies
Local (PNW):
2/16: The Really Weird World Of Smart Meters
2/12: State Democrats are on the wrong side of open-records fight
2/9: Surveillance system or public-safety tool? Seattle dismantles controversial wireless mesh network
1/27: Meet Kate Garman, Seattle’s smart cities coordinator, tasked with making the city more efficient
1/26: FPF releases assessment of Seattle’s open data program
1/24: Suit alleges Motel 6 discriminated against Latino customers
1/22: Integris raises another $1.5M for data privacy intelligence platform as GDPR deadline looms
1/22: Amazon Go Reviews: Praise for Shopping Speed, Caution Around Privacy
1/21: Hands-on with Amazon Go: We tested the tech giant’s experiment in checkout-free retail
1/21: Amazon Go is finally a go: Sensor-infused store opens to the public Monday, with no checkout lines
Govt (Fed):
2/14: Sens. Flake, Coons Demand New Privacy Measures in Letter to Strava CEO
2/14: First Amendment Case Brought by Immigration Checkpoint Protesters/Monitors Can Go Forward
2/9: Is the Nunes Memo Alleging Surveillance Abuses at Odds with FISA Renewal?
2/7: FTC releases PrivacyCon 2018 agenda
2/2: The Federal Government is Using Tracking Tech to Monitor License Plates Nationwide
2/1: Federal 5G: An authoritarian approach in the name of ‘safety’
1/24: Senator calls out FBI director’s ‘ill-informed’ encryption backdoor views
1/25: Senator Demands FBI Director Explain His Encryption Backdoor Bullshit
1/22: Spending Bill Would Give Administration Direct Control Of Surveillance Spending
Govt (States & Cities):
2/18: Connecticut may limit access to state’s voter database
2/17: Nebraska Law Now Limits ALPR Data, Helps Block National License Plate Tracking Program
2/17: Privacy by Deletion: Five Steps to Reducing Data Risk
2/16: Report: State boards must strike balance with personalized learning, privacy
2/16: Oklahoma Committee Passes Bill to Ban Warrantless Stingray Spying, Hinder Federal Surveillance
2/14: Federal office asked to rule on whether Portland violated patient privacy laws (ME)
2/14: California legislator introduces bill to regulate how Silicon Valley uses your data
2/13: Maryland Bill Would Allow Customers to Opt Out of Smart Meters, Undermine Federal Program
2/13: Massachusetts Committee Approves Bill to Limit ALPR Use, Help Block National License Plate Tracking
2/13: Denise Merrill Calls For Legislation To Protect Voters Privacy, From Identity Theft (CT)
2/12: Bernard Campbell students learn about legal system, rights, privacy from judges
2/12: New Jersey Bills Would Put Limits on Police use of Drones, Help Thwart Federal Surveillance Program
2/12: AGs question Google’s class-action privacy settlement
2/11: Column | Sen. Anderson battled law enforcement over license plate privacy
2/8: IAPP releases third edition of ‘California Privacy Law’
2/8: Boston Police Waste Taxpayer Money Violating Law Through Illegal Surveillance Of Citizenry
2/7: New Mexico lawmakers may seek privacy rules for police video
2/2: EFF urges CA lawmakers to move forward with broadband bill
2/2: Missouri Committee Passes Bill to Ban Warrantless Stingray Spying; Help Hinder Federal Surveillance
1/31: California lawmakers reject license-plate privacy bill
9/26/17: San Jose: Activists push to expand police auditor powers, to cautious officials
9/17/17: Request denied: States try to block access to public records
Policy & Opinion:
2/16; Overuse of privacy law may hamper school safety
2/16: Paranoia will destroy us: Why Chinese tech isn’t spying on Americans
2/15; TLS/SSL security for websites
2/14: Facebook’s latest privacy debacle points to larger problem: Trust
2/13: When privacy becomes public
2/8: Mass Surveillance Is One Chinese Export We Should Ban
2/8: The Guardian view on internet privacy: it’s the psychology, stupid
2/6: Balancing the benefits of location data with privacy protection
2/6: Identity and the smart city
2/5: Op-Ed: ‘Privacy advocates are wrong about connected cars’
2/1: Who owns the data connected cars generate?
1/31: Always on: The new era of continuous privacy compliance
1/31: Could Brexit derail ePrivacy?
1/31: O’Connor: US needs to reform data-privacy legislation
1/31: Identity Policies: The clash between democracy and biometrics
1/28: BBB Tip of the Week: Data privacy depends on vigilance by businesses and customers
1/26; Data Privacy Is Dead. Forget About It.
1/26: Google’s fun ‘match your selfie with art’ app points to the scary future of facial recognition
1/25: The moving target of IoT security
1/23: Is privacy the new security?
1/22: Data privacy, a growing strategic initiative
1/17: Personal Data Representatives: An Idea
1/10: Privacy and metrics of testing and staging environments
Overseas:
2/16: Facebook ordered to stop collecting user data by Belgian court
2/16 Europe’s New Data Privacy Rules Nourish U.S. Privacy Tech Sector
2/16: OPC offers funding to promote privacy research (Canada)
2/15: Government asked to end pursuit of backdoor access to encryption (Oz)
2/14: Critics of India’s ID card project say they have been harassed, put under surveillance
2/14: What comes first – privacy or solving crime? Hamilton council debates tonight (Canada)
2/14: Paradise making changes in wake of privacy commissioner’s reports (Canada)
2/13: Personal surveillance cameras to be allowed in Quebec’s long-term care homes (Canada)
2/12: Facebook personal data use and privacy settings ruled illegal by German court
2/9: Web con: ‘Build Your Privacy Program for the People’ (GDPR related)
2/9: What FISA renewal means for the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield agreement
2/9: Farewell Soapy, but will Australia’s new attorney-general be any better?
2/7; Chinese police are using facial-recognition glasses to scan travelers
2/6: EU data protection law may end up protecting scammers, experts warnFacebook’s latest privacy debacle points to larger problem: Trust
2/1: European cities want new data-sharing rules with rental platforms
2/1: NHS Digital asked to stop data sharing agreement with Home Office (UK)
2/1: Privacy and economic development: India at a crossroads
2/1: Search and Surveillance Act review offers 67 recommendations (NZ)
1/31: Brazilian general Bill on the Protection of Personal Data
1/31: Australian government cannot handle its own data securely, why give it yours?
1/31: Singapore’s PDPC releases data-anonymization guide
1/30: Creepy UK Surveillance Law Ruled Illegal, But Privacy Advocates Still Call Bullshit
1/30: Government mass surveillance powers ruled unlawful (UK)
1/30: Car-sharing company GoGet took seven months to tell customers of data hack (Oz)
1/29: China Denies That It Gifted the African Union an HQ Building Stuffed Full of Surveillance Devices
1/29: Facebook to launch privacy center ahead of EU regulations
1/28: Data privacy officers hard to find in Nova Scotia (Canada)
1/26: Ontario commissioner calls for modernized laws on Data Privacy Day (Canada)
1/24: Estonia’s ID card fiasco: ‘We’ve no intention of letting a good crisis go to waste’
1/23: Facebook to roll out new tools in response to EU privacy laws
1/22: Tunisia’s Plans To Bring In Its Own National ‘Aadhaar’ Biometric ID System Halted — For Now
1/19: How Australia’s government-by-parrot is flying backward on drones
11/29/17: Ottawa jogger who wound up in an ad without her knowledge wins precedent-setting privacy fight
Tech:
2/16: People Will Always Get Lost
2/14: Mycroft Mark II offers something its digital assistant competitors can’t: Privacy and openness
2/14: Israeli tech firm undercuts facial recognition to bolster privacy
2/14: Tech company develops facial recognition ‘firewall’
2/13: Researchers find vulnerabilities in Faraday cages
2/13: Microsoft: We’re developing blockchain ID system starting with our Authenticator app
2/7: Researchers found a way to unmask Strava users’ hidden locations
2/5: Akamai: IoT the new ‘shadow IT’ of the enterprise
2/1: Researchers develop method to trick automatic speech-recognition systems
2/1: Age-verification tool raises privacy concerns
1/31: Mozilla Firefox is testing updates that customers fear pivot from its focus on consumer privacy
1/31: Camera makers resist encryption, despite warnings from photographers
1/30: Report: Verizon Dumps Huawei Phones as US Government Pressure Mounts
1/29: System76 Wants to Offer Full Disk Encryption for Its Ubuntu-Based Pop!_OS Linux
1/26: New privacy tech solution aims to bring data visibility to the CPO
1/26: Lyft investigates privacy abuse claim
1/24: Windows 10: Microsoft rolls out new privacy tools for telemetry data
1/23: Tails 3.5 Anonymous OS Released to Mitigate Spectre Vulnerability for AMD CPUs
1/22: Windows 10: Latest preview builds hint at new privacy tools
Books/Media/Podcasts/Misc:
2/13: Big tech has killed privacy: Steve Hilton
2/12: Salted Hash Ep 18: Mobile security and privacy
2/5: 201. Crypto Wars 2.0: Debating Susan Landau over encryption and law enforcement
2/2: 383: Dangerous data, Libraries and more
2/2: Digital dystopia: taking back control – podcast
1/29: Former Special Ops Agent Discusses How Tech, Fitness Trackers Affect The Military
1/26: Joy Buolamwini: How Does Facial Recognition Software See Skin Color?
1/26: Digital dystopia: democracy in the internet age – podcast