Smart speaker recordings reviewed by humans - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47893082

Amazon, Apple and Google all employ staff who listen to customer voice recordings from their smart speakers and voice assistant apps.

Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa - Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/is-anyone-listening-to-you-on-alexa-a-global-team-reviews-audio

A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant respond to commands. 

Does Google meet its users’ expectations around consumer privacy? This news industry research says no » Nieman Journalism Lab

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/does-google-meet-its-users-expectations-around-consumer-privacy-this-news-industry-research-says-no/

The results of the study are consistent with our Facebook study: People don’t want surveillance advertising.

EU’s Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next? - Electronic Frontier Foundation

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/eus-parliament-signs-disastrous-internet-law-what-happens-next

A family tracking app was leaking real-time location data - TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/23/family-tracking-location-leak/

was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks

Norske telefoner sendte personopplysninger til Kina - NRKBeta

https://nrkbeta.no/2019/03/21/norske-telefoner-sendte-personopplysninger-til-kina/ Nokia 7 Plus

Hver gang telefonen ble slått på, skjermen aktivert eller låst opp, gikk hans geografiske posisjon, samt SIM-kortnummer og telefonens serienummer til en server i Kina.

Sparkesykkel-appen VOI lagret persondata om nordmenn åpent på nettet

https://nrkbeta.no/2019/03/19/sparkesykkel-appen-voi-lagret-persondata-om-nordmenn-apent-pa-nettet/

Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting - TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/03/facebook-phone-number-look-up/

Users are complaining that the phone number Facebook hassled them to use to secure their account with two-factor authentication has also been associated with their user profile — which anyone can use to “look up” their profile.

Worse, Facebook doesn’t give you an option to opt-out.

Facebook Allows Users to Look Up Others With Their Two-Factor Authentication Phone Number, With No Opt-Out — Pixel Envy

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/facebook-lookups-by-two-factor-authentication-numbers/

China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American Expertise - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/business/china-xinjiang-uighur-dna-thermo-fisher.html