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/

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.

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

No Cash Needed At This Cafe. Students Pay The Tab With Their Personal Data – NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/29/643386327/no-cash-needed-at-this-cafe-students-pay-the-tab-with-their-personal-data

By doing so, the students also open themselves up to receiving information from corporate sponsors who pay the cafe to reach its clientele

UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International

https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/2283/press-release-uk-intelligence-agency-admits-unlawfully-spying-privacy

Today’s revelations highlight the danger that can arise from […] a lack of safeguards, the absence of which has allowed an intelligence agency to extract data about a human rights charity […]

How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/12/technology/kids-apps-data-privacy-google-twitter.htm

The review of 20 children’s apps […] found examples on both platforms that sent data to tracking companies, potentially violating children’s privacy law; the iOS apps sent less data over all.

GCHQ data collection regime violated human rights, court rules – The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-collection-violated-human-rights-strasbourg-court-rules

GCHQ’s methods for bulk interception of online communications violated privacy and failed to provide sufficient surveillance safeguards, the European court of human rights has ruled.

Dozens of popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms – TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/07/a-dozen-popular-iphone-apps-caught-quietly-sending-user-locations-to-monetization-firms/

To name a few: ASKfm, NOAA Weather Radar, Homes.com, Perfect365

New facial recognition tech catches first impostor at D.C. airport

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-facial-recognition-tech-catches-first-impostor-d-c-airport-n903236

trying to enter the U.S. on a fake passport that may have passed at face value with humans

critics worry about the implications for invasions of privacy … and the potential for mistaken matches.

Google revises help page that describes how its “Location History” setting works, clarifying that it still tracks location even if the setting is turned off - Associated Press

https://apnews.com/ef95c6a91eeb4d8e9dda9cad887bf211