Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system

2024-11-19

Visual scans of the world have helped Niantic build what it calls a Large Geospatial Model.

Hacker downloaded sealed damaging testimony against Matt Gaetz, attorney says

2024-11-19

The hacked files include an unredacted deposition of a woman who reportedly had sex with Gaetz when she was 17 years old.

Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany

2024-11-19

More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.

US Border Agency Under Fire for App's Handling of Personal Data

2024-10-11

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has been forced to release documentation on CBP One, its border control app accused of mishandling migrants’ personal data.

A new law in California protects consumers’ brain data. Some think it doesn’t go far enough.

2024-10-04

Tech companies collect brain data that could be used to infer our thoughts—so it’s vital we get legal protections right.

Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug

2024-09-26

Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will—the latest in a plague of web bugs that’s affected a dozen carmakers.

Mozilla Faces Privacy Complaint for Enabling Tracking in Firefox Without User Consent

2024-09-25

Vienna-based privacy non-profit noyb (short for None Of Your Business) has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority (DPA) against Firefox maker Mozilla for enabling a new feature called Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA) without explicitly seeking users' consent.

FTC Staff Report Finds Large Social Media and Video Streaming Companies Have Engaged in Vast Surveillance of Users with Lax Privacy Controls and Inadequate Safeguards for Kids and Teens

2024-09-19

Report recommends limiting data retention and sharing, restricting targeted advertising, and strengthening protections for teens

The man quietly rewriting American privacy law

2024-09-18

Lobbyist Andrew Kingman has reshaped American policy on a key tech issue — without ever setting foot on Capitol Hill.

Data privacy advocates file complaints against EU Parliament

2024-08-22

Austrian advocacy group NOYB has filed two complaints with the EU privacy watchdog against the European Parliament, accusing it of inadequately protecting employees' personal data, the group said on Thursday.

US intelligence officials say Iran is to blame for hacks targeting Trump, Biden-Harris campaigns

2024-08-20

U.S. intelligence officials said Monday they were confident that Iran was responsible for the hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, casting the cyber intrusion as part of a brazen and broader effort by Tehran to interfere in American politics and potentially shape the outcome of the election.

Toyota confirms third-party data breach impacting customers

2024-08-19

Toyota confirmed that customer data was exposed in a third-party data breach after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of stolen data on a hacking forum.

Data breach exposed details of Ukrainian refugees in Scotland

2024-08-16

Personal details of Ukrainian refugees and the families offering to house them have been exposed online in serious data breach, a council has confirmed.

Under Surveillance

2024-07-18

How Location Data Jeopardizes German Security

Phone Tracker mSpy Breached, 2.4 Million Email Addresses Leaked

2024-07-18

Over 300GB of data on mSpy customers leaks online following a data breach last month that also includes IP addresses, names, credit cards, and nude photos.

Nearly all AT&T cell customers’ call and text records exposed in a massive breach

2024-07-18

The call and text message records from mid-to-late 2022 of tens of millions of AT&T cellphone customers and many non-AT&T customers were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company revealed Friday.

Google settles $5 billion consumer privacy lawsuit

2023-12-29

Alphabet's Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately.

iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise

2023-10-26

Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads when they joined a network. On Wednesday, the world learned that the feature has never worked as advertised. Despite promises that this never-changing address would be hidden and replaced with a private one that was unique to each SSID, Apple devices have continued to display the real one, which in turn got broadcast to every other connected device on the network.

If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare

2023-09-07

Bad news: your car is a spy. Every major car brand's new internet-connected models flunked privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla.

AMERICAN PHONE-TRACKING FIRM DEMO’D SURVEILLANCE POWERS BY SPYING ON CIA AND NSA

2022-04-22

Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button.

New Brave Browser Feature Bypasses 'Harmful' Google AMP Pages

2022-04-20

Privacy-focused browser Brave has announced a new feature that bypasses pages rendered with Google's AMP framework and automatically redirects users to the original website.

Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

2022-04-11

John Oliver discusses how much data brokers know about us, what they’re doing with our personal information, and one….unusual way to change privacy laws.

Bumble security flaw could have let anyone track you down

2021-08-31

Security hole in dating app Bumble exposed user location data

CVS Accidentally Leaks 1 Billion Website Records—Including Covid-19 Vaccine Searches

2021-06-16

CVS blamed an unnamed third-party for disclosure of the information and says no personal data was made public, despite email addresses appearing in the unsecured database.

What a Gambling App Knows About You

2021-03-24

Sky Bet, the most popular one in Britain, compiled extensive records about a user, tracking him in ways he never imagined.

One company wants to sell the feds location data from every car on Earth

2021-03-18

Federal agencies already buy tons of user data; one vendor is now being sued.

Stop This ‘Secret’ Location Tracking On Your iPhone—3 Critical Settings You Need To Change Today

2021-03-13

So, you think that what happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone? Well, think again.

Facebook and Apple Are Beefing Over the Future of the Internet

2021-01-29

It turns out Tim Cook blames Mark Zuckerberg for undermining democracy too.

TikTok faces fresh legal challenge in UK for violating children’s data privacy law

2021-01-08

The popular video sharing app was sued a record $5.7 million by the FTC for violating U.S. children’s privacy law in 2019.

South Africa's plan to record all babies' biometrics raises privacy fears

2021-01-07

Facebook ‘Secretly’ Tracks Your iPhone Location—This Is How To Stop It

2020-12-13

Facebook has a data addiction—it can’t help itself. The social media giant’s entire business model is built around collecting, processing and then monetizing our personal information.

The Smoking Gun in the Facebook Antitrust Case

2020-12-09

The government wants to break up the world’s biggest social network. Internal company emails show why.

This ‘Magical Bug’ Exposed Any iPhone in a Hacker's Wi-Fi Range

2020-12-03

A Google researcher found flaws in Apple's AWDL protocol that would have allowed for a complete device takeover.