Border Agents Fail to Delete Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says
https://gizmodo.com/u-s-customs-fails-to-delete-personal-data-after-electr-1831006534
regularly leaving the personal data of travelers on USB drives.
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Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134541/google-plus-privacy-api-data-leak-developers
the new vulnerability impacted 52.5 million users, who could have had profile information like their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed […] even if their account was set to private.
How to Stop Apps From Tracking Your Location - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/technology/prevent-location-data-sharing.html
Unlike iPhones, Android phones don’t allow you to restrict an app’s access to your location to just the moments when you’re using it.
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html
Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.
Facebook knew Android call-scraping would be ‘high-risk’ - The Verge
Internal emails show Facebook weighing the privacy risks of collecting call records — then going ahead anyway
Quora Hacked
https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update
We recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party.
Forbrukerrådet: – Google fører brukerne bak lyset
https://nrkbeta.no/2018/11/27/forbrukerradet-google-forer-brukerne-bak-lyset/
– Vi mener forbrukere manipuleres til å overvåkes når de benytter Googles tjenester. Dette skjer gjennom en rekke ulike metoder som å tilbakeholde eller skjule informasjon, benytte villedende designgrep[…]
EU watchdog: LinkedIn processed email addresses of 18M non-members and targeted them with advertising on Facebook without permission before GDPR became a law
Facebook bug let websites read ‘likes’ and interests from a user’s profile – TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/13/facebook-bug-website-leak-likes-interests-profile/
The vulnerability exposed the user and their friends’ interests, even if their privacy settings were set so that interests were only visible to the user’s friends
Children’s Commissioner calls for transparency on data gathered from children
A new report says children’s digital footprints are growing and more must be done to educate them about data security.
Tim Cook calls for strong US privacy law, rips “data-industrial complex”
Apple CEO Tim Cook today called on the US government to pass “a comprehensive federal privacy law,” saying that tech companies that collect wide swaths of user data are engaging in surveillance.
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…
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.