10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned? Feature Spies gonna spy Security07 Jun 2023 | 10
Police use of PayPal records under fire after raid on 'Cop City' protest fund trio Nearly anything can look like money laundering if you squint hard enough Security06 Jun 2023 | 7
Microsoft cops $20M slap on the wrist for mishandling kids' Xbox data Pocket change, in other words Security06 Jun 2023 | 3
SEC drops 42 cases after staff bungle data protection Corporate watchdog fouled its info-separation regime, let the wrong people read sensitive docs CSO06 Jun 2023 | 3
Amazon Ring, Alexa accused of every nightmare IoT security fail you can imagine Staff able to watch customers in the bathroom? Tick! Obviously shabby infosec? Tick! Training AI as an excuse for data retention? Tick! Security01 Jun 2023 | 91
Feds, you'll need a warrant for that cellphone border search Here's a story with a twist Security31 May 2023 | 50
90+ orgs tell Slack to stop slacking when it comes to full encryption Protests planned for Wednesday in San Francisco and Denver CSO30 May 2023 | 8
New York county still dealing with ransomware eight months after attack security in brief Also: iSpoof no more, Edmodo fined more than it can pay, UK is #1 (in CC theft), and the week's critical vulns Security29 May 2023 | 8
US bill to protect reproductive health data is dead. Here's why you should care anyway My Body, My Data sounds reasonable enough, right? Personal Tech28 May 2023 | 20
Subpoenaed PyPI says bye-bye to as much IP address data as it can Python package pile prefers protecting programmer privacy Devops27 May 2023 | 8
Mozilla so sorry for intrusive Firefox VPN popup ad 'We accomplished the exact opposite of what we intended...' Personal Tech26 May 2023 | 29
Supreme Court leaves warrantless camera surveillance an open book Can police just set up CCTV and press record? In some places, yes Personal Tech24 May 2023 | 9
SF cops got warrant-free OK to watch protest via private security cameras Officers said they didn't use live feed in the end. So that's all right then? Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 10
FBI abused spy law but only like 280,000 times in a year Well, well, well, if it isn't the Leaning Tower of FISA again Personal Tech22 May 2023 | 37
That Meta GDPR fine is €1.2B. Plus biz must stop sending EU data to US Zuckercorp says the EU-US Data Privacy Framework will pass before its penalties enacted, so why worry? Personal Tech22 May 2023 | 70
Google settles location tracking lawsuit for only $39.9M in brief Also, more OEM Android malware, Google's bug reports (mostly) ditch CVEs, and this week's critical vulns Security22 May 2023 | 7
Guess who is collecting and sharing abortion-related data? Basically everyone at this point. But developer Easy Healthcare has promised to stop Personal Tech19 May 2023 | 27
In a stand against authoritarianism, Montana bans TikTok downloads Updated Dare we say, Broke App Mountain ... and yes, we know that was Wyoming Personal Tech18 May 2023 | 41
Meta facing third fine of 2023 for mishandling EU user data under GDPR This one could set a new record for penalties against US companies doing business on the continent Networks18 May 2023 | 19
Upstart encryption app walks back privacy claims, pulls from stores after probe Try not leaving a database full of user info, chats, keys exposed, eh? Research17 May 2023 | 40
Toyota's bungling of customer privacy is becoming a pattern in brief Also: 3D printing gun mods = jail time; France fines Clearview AI for ignoring fine; this week's critical vulns, and more Security15 May 2023 | 33
Japan's ubiquitous convenience stores now serving up privacy breaches Fujitsu in the frame for foul up with government document dispersal app Security10 May 2023 | 10
Court gives FTC 30 days to swing again in privacy bout with location data slinger Second time's a charm? Personal Tech06 May 2023 | 11
Strike three: FTC says Meta still failing to protect user privacy Deals between Zuckercorp + FTC in 2012 and 2020 are being ignored, so time to get stricter, says commish Security04 May 2023 | 21
Pornhub walls off Utah in age-verification law protest Dare we say that's a master stroke Bootnotes03 May 2023 | 74
Apple, Google propose anti-stalking spec for Bluetooth tracker tags We moved fast and broke things, people got harassed and murdered, so let's revisit privacy Security02 May 2023 | 30
Feds rethink warrantless search stats and – oh look, a huge drop in numbers 119,000 instances of homeland snooping as the power to do so comes under review Security02 May 2023 | 20
The truth about those claims of Qualcomm chips secretly snooping on you Analysis Snapdragon giant and others insist alleged data gathering is overblown Networks27 Apr 2023 | 35
Microsoft probes complaints of Edge leaking URLs to Bing Remember next time Redmond begs you not to install another browser Security26 Apr 2023 | 36
The Weather Channel settles another case claiming mobile app privacy violations That's two in three years, in case anyone's counting Personal Tech26 Apr 2023 | 6
International cops urge Meta not to implement secure encryption for all Why? Well, think of the children, of course Security21 Apr 2023 | 40
Facebook puts a price on privacy for US users and it's not enough to buy a cup of coffee Coughs up $725 million to settle class action that covers 244 million users Personal Tech19 Apr 2023 | 16
Brit cops rapped over app that recorded 200k phone calls Officers didn't know software was saving personal data and neither did people on other end Security18 Apr 2023 | 36
Russia-pushed UN Cybercrime Treaty may rewrite global law. It's ... not great Special report Let's go through all the proposed problematic powers, starting with surveillance and censorship Cyber-crime14 Apr 2023 | 23
Twitter users complain 'private' Circle posts aren't Sorry, make that Titter. We can explain Personal Tech10 Apr 2023 | 27
Child hit by car among videos 'captured by Tesla vehicles, shared among staff' Intimate, disturbing moments became message board memes, probably Personal Tech07 Apr 2023 | 52
Canada sticks a privacy probe into OpenAI's ChatGPT Chatbot's overseers accused of collecting, using, disclosing personal info without consent AI + ML06 Apr 2023 | 6
US police have run nearly 1M Clearview AI searches, says founder Crimes Clearview has helped solve include murder and the devastating scourge of ... shoplifting AI + ML28 Mar 2023 | 15
China crisis is a TikToking time bomb Opinion ByteDance with the devil if you dare Security27 Mar 2023 | 69
South Korea fines McDonald's for data leak from raw SMB share British American Tobacco, Samsung, also burgered up their infosec Security23 Mar 2023 | 2
Privacy fail: Pictures cropped, redacted by Google Pixel phones can be recovered Updated aCropalypse Now, starring any 2018-or-later device Security20 Mar 2023 | 36
BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it Those with 'sensitive' work-related information told to contact Beeb's security team Security20 Mar 2023 | 69
Eufy security cams 'ignore cloud opt-out, store unique IDs' of anyone who walks by Gadget maker accused of 'corporate voyeurism' by gathering up footage against your wishes Security17 Mar 2023 | 59
Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly Online ad colossus hopes it can still make money when users want privacy Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 31
UK spy agency: Don't feed LLMs with sensitive corporate data Oh gosh. Looks like that bot just spilled that you plan to fire 20k staffers in Q4 AI + ML15 Mar 2023 | 18
Pair accused of breaking into US law enforcement database, posing as cops Teen arrested yesterday while another man suspected of being a ViLE crime group member still 'at large' Spotlight on Databases15 Mar 2023 | 4
Pentagon whistleblower Ellsberg given months to live Comment The man leaking vital data before it was fashionable Bootnotes13 Mar 2023 | 17
CISA joins forces with Women in CyberSecurity to break up the boy's club in brief Also, the FBI just admitted to bypassing warrants by buying cellphone location data, and this week's actionable items Security13 Mar 2023 | 17
Catholic clergy surveillance org 'outs gay priests' Religious non-profit allegedly hoovered up location data from dating apps to ID clerics Security10 Mar 2023 | 100
Cop warrant orders Ring to cough up footage from inside this guy's home Don't say you weren't warned Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 75
Dems offer ban on Feds using facial, voice recognition Second time before Congress a charm? AI + ML07 Mar 2023 | 7
Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites Whatever happened to small government that stays out of our lives Personal Tech04 Mar 2023 | 167
Secret Service, ICE break the law over and over with fake cell tower spying Investigations 'at risk' from sloppy surveillance uncovered by audit probe Security04 Mar 2023 | 28
FTC: BetterHelp pushed users to share mental health info then gave it to Facebook Feds propose $7.8M payment and ban on revealing 'sensitive' data to settle complaint Security03 Mar 2023 | 22
German Digital Affairs Committee hearing heaps scorn on Chat Control Proposal to break encryption to scan messages for abuse material challenged as illegal and unworkable Security03 Mar 2023 | 22
Thought you'd opted out of online tracking? Think again Probe shows that – to absolutely no-one's surprise – big biz isn't playing ball Personal Tech03 Mar 2023 | 113
Mozilla says 80 percent of Google Play's app safety labels are inaccurate Labelling scheme offers developers easy loopholes to play down personal info spreading Networks24 Feb 2023 | 34
White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake Wow Harold, you could buy, like, 23 billion sliders with that Personal Tech18 Feb 2023 | 142
Virtual reality telemetry means you can virtually kiss goodbye to privacy Exclusive Boffins find they can identify VR players just from head and hand movements Personal Tech18 Feb 2023 | 34
EU lawmakers argue against signing US data-transfer pact Committee: Something about complaints process being dealt with in total secrecy doesn't sit right Security17 Feb 2023 | 59
Google lets a few Android devices into its Privacy Sandbox Chocolate Factory's ad tech renovation is moving ahead, like it or not Security14 Feb 2023 | 9