Opplysninger om over tre millioner medlemmer av norsk idrett lå tilgjengelige på nett - ABC Nyheter
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Google admits it sent private videos in Google Photos to strangers - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122044/google-photos-privacy-breach-takeout-data-video-strangers
Google’s Takeout service, that lets people download their data, was affected by a “technical issue” between November 21st and November 25th last year. It resulted in a small number of users receiving private videos that didn’t belong to them.
Avast will shut down its marketing subsidiary Jumpshot following controversy over selling user data to third parties - ZDNet
A joint investigation conducted by Motherboard and PCMag, published this week, revealed that information scraped by Avast from users and handed over to Jumpshot is linked to individuals through a unique ID in an effort to anonymize them — but it is possible to pick apart data strings to de-anonymize users and reveal their identity, tracing their online footprint, browsing habits, and purchases.
Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data - VICE
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation
An antivirus program used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is selling highly sensitive web browsing data to many of the world’s biggest companies, a joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag has found.
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We’re Banning Facial Recognition. We’re Missing the Point. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/opinion/facial-recognition-ban-privacy.html
We need to have a serious conversation about all the technologies of identification, correlation and discrimination, and decide how much we as a society want to be spied on by governments and corporations — and what sorts of influence we want them to have over our lives.
Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos - VICE
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mdvk/ring-fired-employees-abusing-video-data
The news highlights a risk across many different tech companies: employees may abuse access granted as part of their jobs to look at customer data or information. In Ring’s case this data can be particularly sensitive though, as customers often put the cameras inside their home.
Amazon Echo Dot Kids: Privacy violations puts kids at risk, lawsuit alleges - CBS News
fails to adequately protect children’s privacy by illegally keeping data on children even after their parents try to delete it
Hackers steal data for 15 million patients, then sell it back to lab that lost it - Ars Technica
Canada’s biggest provider of specialty laboratory testing services said it paid hackers an undisclosed amount for the return of personal data they stole belonging to as many as 15 million customers.
Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people - MIT Technology Review
As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it’s not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too.
The risk is that this will produce generations of increasingly cautious individuals—people too worried about what others might find or think to ever engage in productive risks or innovative thinking.
The second potential danger is more troubling: in a world where the past haunts the present, young people may calcify their identities, perspectives, and political positions at an increasingly young age.
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines - The Washington Post
Short-range phone sensors and campuswide WiFi networks are empowering colleges across the United States to track hundreds of thousands of students more precisely than ever before. Dozens of schools now use such technology to monitor students’ academic performance, analyze their conduct or assess their mental health.
But some professors and education advocates argue that the systems represent a new low in intrusive technology, breaching students’ privacy on a massive scale. The tracking systems, they worry, will infantilize students in the very place where they’re expected to grow into adults, further training them to see surveillance as a normal part of living, whether they like it or not.