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Featured:
11/30: Sidewalk Labs claims its Toronto ‘smart neighborhood’ will create more than 9,000 jobs
11/30: Google internal revolt grows as search-engine Spartacuses prepare strike over China
11/30: Facebook used people’s data as a bargaining chip, emails and court filings suggest
11/28: Secret Facebook-FBI ruling must be made public, ACLU and EFF say
11/27: Employees say Google must drop China search project Dragonfly
11/27: Be Warned: Customer Service Agents Can See What You’re Typing in Real Time
11/26: Dystopia Now: Insurance Company Secretly Spying On Sleep Apnea Patients
11/25: Who owns your medical data? Most likely not you
11/24: Camera traps designed for animals are now invading human privacy
11/23: Privacy search engines take on Google
11/21: MuckRock Release ALPR Dataset Covering 200 Gov’t Agencies And 2.5 Billion License Plate Records
11/21: The City of the Future Is a Data-Collection Machine
11/21: Creepy or Not, Face Scans Are Speeding up Airport Security
11/21: Assessing Snowden’s legacy, five years on
11/20: The data firms hired by ICE to hunt people down raise alarm about a hidden surveillance industry
11/18: You Know What? Go Ahead and Use the Hotel Wi-Fi
11/17: The Next Data Mine Is Your Bedroom
11/16: Facebook Filed A Patent To Predict Your Household’s Demographics Based On Family Photos
11/16: Your Drone Can Give Cops a Surprising Amount of Your Data
11/15: Google’s Past Data Use Could Impede Health Care Push
11/14: Microsoft covertly collects personal data from enterprise Office ProPlus users
11/14: Most Free VPN Mobile Apps Offer Little-to-No Privacy, Might Spy on Their Users
11/10: Scan your fingerprint, get a beer: Testing CLEAR’s biometric tech at a Seahawks game
11/5: Silicon Valley Doesn’t Want the U.S. to Get Too Hasty About Regulation
11/3: AT&T CEO: State net neutrality and privacy laws are a “total disaster”{READ: ASSHOLE!}
11/15: Sick of Facebook stalking you? This startup wants to reinvent personalization
11/15: Google: Our DeepMind health slurp is completely kosher
11/15: Creepy or super creepy? That is the question Mozilla’s throwing at IoT Christmas pressies
11/14: Alexa, cough up those always-on Echo audio recordings, says double-murder trial judge
11/14: Google swallows up DeepMind Health and abolishes ‘independent board’
11/9: Bruce Schneier: You want real IoT security? Have Uncle Sam start putting boots to asses
11/9: The DEA and ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights
11/9: Berners-Lee takes flak for ‘hippie manifesto’ that only Google and Facebook could love
11/8: 5 privacy settings you should change in Windows 10
11/8: As if connected toys weren’t creepy enough, kids’ data could be used against them in future
11/8: Google vows to take claims of sexual assault, harassment seriously, just like privacy
11/7: How your privacy gets cooked by those restaurant waitlist apps
11/2: Proposed data privacy law could send company execs to prison for 20 years
11/1: ‘Privacy is a human right’: Big cheese Sat-Nad lays out Microsoft’s stall at Future Decoded
10/31: Beware the IoT spy in your office or home via smart furniture, warns NSA
10/31: Supreme Court raises eyebrows at Google’s cozy $8.5m legal deal
10/30: New Signal privacy feature removes sender ID from metadata
10/24: Google Is Putting More Privacy Controls Directly in Search
10/23: Stepping Into an Amazon Store Helps It Get Inside Your Head
10/21: Butchering the Fourth Amendment
Local (PNW):
11/15: King County Council recognizes Automated Fingerprint Information System
11/7: Kirkland council reviews preliminary budget(‘Smart’ cities program)
10/9: Seattle invites public to comment on its surveillance technologies
Govt (Fed):
11/29: Congress still wants answers from Amazon about its facial recognition tech
11/9: After the midterm elections, the odds improve a little for a US data privacy law
11/7: With Dems in control of the House, now is the time for states to pressure Congress to act on privacy
11/5: US draft bill moots locking up execs who lie about privacy violations
11/1: Senator’s data privacy law draft could put CEOs in jail for lying
10/31: Feds Also Using ‘Reverse Warrants’ To Gather Location/Identifying Info On Thousands Of Non-Suspects
10/30: Pentagon Wants to Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance
10/18: Federal officials say drones present an emergent cybersecurity risk
Govt (States & Cities):
10/23: Very Few Police Departments Have Rules for Undercover Cops on Facebook
Policy & Opinion:
11/16: Surveillance Kills Freedom By Killing Experimentation
11/14: The Cybersecurity 202: Amazon is now at the center of a debate over public safety versus privacy
Overseas:
11/30: Mobile app to spy on thy neighbour? (India)
11/30: Electric vehicle makers serving up customer location data to China on a silver platter
11/29: High Court agrees to hear full legal challenge of Blighty’s Snooper’s Charter (UK)
11/27: Euro consumer groups: We think Android tracking is illegal
11/26: The Cybersecurity 202: British parliament turns up heat on Facebook over privacy practices
11/26: Facebook spooked after MPs seize documents for privacy breach probe (UK)
11/23: Facial recognition system mistakes bus ad for jaywalker (China)
11/22: Tech sector unites in attempt to avoid Oz’s anti-crypto push, again
11/22: New EU border security pilot program is all kinds of creepy.
11/19: Using a free VPN? Why not skip the middleman and just send your data to President Xi? (China)
11/16: ‘Unjustifiably excessive’: Not even London cops can follow law with their rubbish gang database
11/11: Alarm over talks to implant UK employees with microchips
11/8: UK watchdog shows how political parties exploit Facebook, personal data
11/8: Civil rights group says Oracles, Tapads and Experians get let off for wanton info-sucking (UK)
11/7: Watchdog slams political data slurpers’ ‘disturbing disregard’ for voters’ privacy (UK)
11/6: Facebook referred to Ireland’s data watchdog over targeting methods
11/6: UK neighbors accuse Tate Modern of invading their privacy
10/30: D.O.Eh: Here’s the new privacy law Canada can’t really enforce
Tech:
11/20: Can you trust an AI data trust not to slurp your data?
11/4: Oi! Not encrypting RPC traffic? IETF bods would like to change that
Books/Media/Podcasts/Misc:
11/1: How politicians acquire and use your voter data(video)
10/13: More and More Movies Are Reflecting Our Fear of the Internet