When Facebook launched Portal, the company promised that no data collected through the devices would be used to re-target users withs ads. Well, that turned out not to be true…

https://wersm.com/facebook-portal-can-collect-your-data-for-future-ad-targeting/

Genome Hackers Show No One’s DNA Is Anonymous Anymore | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/genome-hackers-show-no-ones-dna-is-anonymous-anymore/

60% of Americans of European descent can be identified via public DNA databases, regardless of whether they’ve submitted their own DNA data or not

As Facebook has shown a lack of caution and unquenchable desire for personal info, debuting Portal home video chat devices is just its latest tone-deaf decision

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/facebook-isnt-sorry-it-just-wants-your-data

in-home panopticon

Google+ bug gave outsiders potential access to private data from 2015 to mid-2018; no disclosure made amid fear of blowback and no evidence of misuse - WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared-repercussions-of-disclosing-to-public-1539017194

The Cybersecurity World Is Debating WTF Is Going on With Bloomberg’s Chinese Microchip Stories - Motherboard

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv9npv/bloomberg-china-supermicro-apple-hack

No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek’s bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.

Russia Targeted Investigators Trying to Expose Its Misdeeds, Western Allies Say - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/russia-hacks-doping-poisoning.html

the British foreign ministry, antidoping agencies in Colorado Springs and Canada, and investigators examining the shooting down of a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014

You Gave Facebook Your Number For Security. They Used It For Ads. | Electronic Frontier Foundation

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/you-gave-facebook-your-number-security-they-used-it-ads

Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal information.

Facebook Hack Puts Thousands of Other Sites at Risk - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/technology/facebook-hack-other-sites.html

Companies that allow customers to log in with Facebook Connect are scrambling to figure out whether their own user accounts have been compromised.

First Case Surfaces of Law Enforcement Forcing Suspect to Unlock iPhone With Face ID - Mac Rumors

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/01/first-case-law-suspect-unlock-iphone-face-id/

New Zealand travelers may now be compelled at customs to hand over device passwords or face a $5K fine on “reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing”, under new law – Radio New Zealand

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/367642/travellers-refusing-digital-search-now-face-5000-customs-fine