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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
No Cash Needed At This Cafe. Students Pay The Tab With Their Personal Data – NPR
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
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
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
To name a few: ASKfm, NOAA Weather Radar, Homes.com, Perfect365
New facial recognition tech catches first impostor at D.C. airport
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.