Slashdot Items Tagged "privacy"

Date / Time Story
Thursday April 18, 2024 @04:47PM Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules
Thursday April 18, 2024 @04:17PM Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data
Thursday April 18, 2024 @01:22PM Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist
Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:13PM House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties
Wednesday April 17, 2024 @11:56AM A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages
Tuesday April 16, 2024 @04:44PM Apple's iOS 18 AI Will Be On-Device Preserving Privacy, and Not Server-Side
Tuesday April 16, 2024 @03:16PM US Senate To Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like'
Monday April 15, 2024 @04:52PM Roku Makes 2FA Mandatory For All After Nearly 600K Accounts Pwned
Friday April 12, 2024 @04:58PM House Votes To Extend -- and Expand -- a Major US Spy Program
Friday April 12, 2024 @04:46PM 96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Info With Meta, Google, Data Brokers
Friday April 12, 2024 @09:01AM Your Anonymous OpenTable Reviews Will Soon Display Your First Name
Friday April 12, 2024 @03:24AM Google Is Killing Its VPN Service
Thursday April 11, 2024 @05:27PM Hackable Intel and Lenovo Hardware That Went Undetected For 5 Years Won't Ever Be Fixed
Thursday April 11, 2024 @10:42AM DuckDuckGo Launches Privacy Pro: A 3-in-1 Service That Includes a VPN
Wednesday April 10, 2024 @05:36PM Microsoft Employees Exposed Internal Passwords In Security Lapse
Wednesday April 10, 2024 @10:08AM Proton Acquires Standard Notes
Tuesday April 09, 2024 @04:39PM A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
Tuesday April 09, 2024 @11:08AM Insurers Are Spying on Your Home From the Sky
Saturday April 06, 2024 @04:09PM Four Baseball Teams Now Let Ticket-Holders Enter Using AI-Powered 'Facial Authentication'
Friday April 05, 2024 @10:18PM Is The US About To Pass a Landmark Online Privacy Bill?
Friday April 05, 2024 @04:14PM Academics Probe Apple's Privacy Settings and Get Lost and Confused
Friday April 05, 2024 @12:30PM Commercial Bank of Ethiopia Names and Shames Customers Over Bank Glitch Money
Wednesday April 03, 2024 @06:30PM Feds Finally Decide To Do Something About Years-Old SS7 Spy Holes In Phone Networks
Tuesday April 02, 2024 @09:02PM Missouri County Declares State of Emergency Amid Suspected Ransomware Attack
Tuesday April 02, 2024 @05:02PM New XZ Backdoor Scanner Detects Implants In Any Linux Binary
Monday April 01, 2024 @11:02AM Google Pledges To Destroy Browsing Data To Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit
Sunday March 31, 2024 @10:38AM AT&T Says Data From 73 Million Customers Has Leaked Onto the Dark Web
Saturday March 30, 2024 @12:19PM America's DHS Is Expected to Stop Buying Access to Your Phone Movements
Thursday March 28, 2024 @07:19PM Cloud Server Host Vultr Rips User Data Ownership Clause From ToS After Web Outage
Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:53AM Portugal Orders Altman's Worldcoin To Halt Data Collection
Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:32AM Telegram's Peer-to-Peer Login System is a Risky Way To Save $5 a Month
Sunday March 24, 2024 @03:59PM Judge Orders YouTube to Reveal Everyone Who Viewed A Video
Sunday March 24, 2024 @12:28PM Steve Wozniak Decries Tracking's Effect on Privacy, Calls Out 'Hypocrisy' of Only Banning TikTok
Friday March 22, 2024 @04:14PM Database For UK Nurse Registration 'Completely Unacceptable'
Friday March 22, 2024 @03:59PM General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers
Friday March 22, 2024 @02:55PM DOT Wants To Know How Big Airlines Use Passenger Data
Thursday March 21, 2024 @05:33PM Hackers Found a Way To Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks In Seconds
Wednesday March 20, 2024 @10:32AM Users Ditch Glassdoor, Stunned By Site Adding Real Names Without Consent
Wednesday March 20, 2024 @02:57AM 'Disabling Cyberattacks' Are Hitting Critical US Water Systems, White House Warns
Tuesday March 19, 2024 @04:43PM AT&T Says Leaked Data of 70 Million People Is Not From Its Systems
Saturday March 16, 2024 @12:10AM Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data
Thursday March 14, 2024 @02:07PM Record Breach of French Government Exposes Up To 43 Million People's Data
Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:53PM Stanford University Failed To Detect Ransomware Intruders For 4 Months
Monday March 11, 2024 @07:19PM Over 15,000 Roku Accounts Sold To Buy Streaming Subscriptions, Devices
Monday March 11, 2024 @04:26PM EU's Use of Microsoft 365 Found To Breach Data Protection Rules
Monday March 11, 2024 @03:26PM Worldcoin Fails To Get Injunction Against Spain's Privacy Suspension
Monday March 11, 2024 @12:27PM Airbnb is Banning Indoor Security Cameras
Tuesday March 05, 2024 @08:36PM Signal's New Usernames Help Keep Cops Out of Your Data
Friday March 01, 2024 @05:30PM A Leaky Database Spilled 2FA Codes For the World's Tech Giants
Thursday February 29, 2024 @07:53PM How the Pentagon Learned To Use Targeted Ads To Find Its Targets
Thursday February 29, 2024 @05:17PM Cheap Doorbell Cameras Can Be Easily Hijacked, Says Consumer Reports
Wednesday February 28, 2024 @12:40PM White House Looks To Curb Foreign Powers' Ability To Buy Americans' Sensitive Personal Data With Executive Order
Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:47PM Hackers Backed By Russia and China Are Infecting SOHO Routers Like Yours, FBI Warns
Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:17PM Meta Will Start Collecting 'Anonymized' Data About Quest Headset Usage
Tuesday February 27, 2024 @03:01PM Tumblr and Wordpress Are Preparing To Sell User Data To OpenAI and Midjourney, Report Says
Saturday February 24, 2024 @05:26PM License Plate-Scanning Company Violates Privacy of Millions of California Drivers, Argues Class Action
Friday February 23, 2024 @08:12PM Vending Machine Error Reveals Secret Face Image Database of College Students
Friday February 23, 2024 @11:21AM Leisure Firm in UK Told Scanning Staff Faces is Illegal
Wednesday February 21, 2024 @06:03PM Leaked Hacking Files Show Chinese Spying On Citizens and Foreigners Alike
Tuesday February 20, 2024 @05:16PM Vietnam To Collect Biometrics For New ID Cards
Monday February 19, 2024 @10:54AM Wyze Says Camera Breach Let 13,000 Customers Briefly See Into Other People's Homes
Friday February 16, 2024 @05:42PM New 'Gold Pickaxe' Android, iOS Malware Steals Your Face For Fraud
Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:34PM Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show
Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:55PM US Military Notifies 20,000 of Data Breach After Cloud Email Leak
Monday February 12, 2024 @10:41AM 'World's Biggest Casino' App Exposed Customers' Personal Data
Friday February 09, 2024 @05:32PM Security Flaw In a Popular Smart Helmet Allowed Silent Location Tracking
Friday February 09, 2024 @10:16AM London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools To Spot Crime
Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:15PM The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real
Tuesday February 06, 2024 @11:06AM Mozilla Monitor Plus Scrubs Your Leaked Personal Information From the Web, For a Fee
Tuesday February 06, 2024 @02:46AM You'll Have To Visit an Apple Store If You Forget Your Vision Pro Passcode
Sunday February 04, 2024 @06:26PM Ask Slashdot: How Can I Stop Security Firms From Harvesting My Data?
Wednesday January 31, 2024 @02:59AM OpenAI's ChatGPT Breaches Privacy Rules, Says Italian Watchdog
Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:57PM ChatGPT is Leaking Passwords From Private Conversations of Its Users - Report
Monday January 29, 2024 @05:08PM Mistakenly Published Password Exposes Mercedes-Benz Source Code
Friday January 26, 2024 @02:31AM NSA Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says
Thursday January 25, 2024 @09:06AM Inside a Global Phone Spy Tool Monitoring Billions
Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:40PM Amazon's Ring To Stop Letting Police Request Doorbell Video From Users
Monday January 22, 2024 @07:17PM EFF Adds Street Surveillance Hub So Americans Can Check Who's Checking On Them
Sunday January 21, 2024 @01:23AM Could Apostrophy OS Be the Future of Cellphone Privacy?
Friday January 19, 2024 @06:36PM Microsoft Executive Emails Hacked By Russian Intelligence Group, Company Says
Wednesday January 17, 2024 @09:01PM Have I Been Pwned Adds 71 Million Emails From Naz.API Stolen Account List
Wednesday January 17, 2024 @08:37PM Mobile Device Ambient Light Sensors Can Be Used To Spy On Users
Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:10PM Chrome Updates Incognito Warning To Admit Google Tracks Users In 'Private' Mode
Friday January 12, 2024 @12:05PM Apple Knew AirDrop Users Could Be Identified and Tracked as Early as 2019
Tuesday January 09, 2024 @05:55PM AirDrop 'Cracked' By Chinese Authorities To Identify Senders
Tuesday January 09, 2024 @04:53PM FTC Bans X-Mode From Selling Phone Location Data
Saturday January 06, 2024 @01:18AM Russian Hackers Were Inside Ukraine Telecoms Giant For Months
Friday January 05, 2024 @10:31AM Google Contractor Pays Parents $50 To Scan Their Childrens' Faces
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @05:43PM 23andMe Tells Victims It's Their Fault Data Was Breached
Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:07PM Meet 'Link History,' Facebook's New Way To Track the Websites You Visit
Friday December 29, 2023 @12:44AM Cyberattack Targets Albanian Parliament's Data System, Halting Its Work
Thursday December 28, 2023 @06:33PM Researchers Come Up With Better Idea To Prevent AirTag Stalking
Thursday December 28, 2023 @01:50PM Google Agrees To Settle Chrome Incognito Mode Class Action Lawsuit
Sunday December 24, 2023 @11:30PM EFF Warns: 'Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays'
Sunday December 24, 2023 @10:25PM ChatGPT Exploit Finds 24 Email Addresses, Amid Warnings of 'AI Silo'
Thursday December 21, 2023 @03:07PM UK Police To Be Able To Run Face Recognition Searches on 50 Million Driving Licence Holders
Wednesday December 20, 2023 @08:03PM Rite Aid Banned From Using Facial Recognition Software
Wednesday December 20, 2023 @05:16PM US Regulators Propose New Online Privacy Safeguards For Children
Wednesday December 20, 2023 @03:20AM Wolverine-Developer Insomniac Games Sees 1.67TB of Secrets Leaked In Data Breach
Tuesday December 19, 2023 @03:22AM Comcast Discloses Data Breach of Close To 36 Million Xfinity Customers [UPDATE]
Monday December 18, 2023 @01:48AM Does Meta's New Face Camera Herald a New Age of Surveillance? Or Distraction...
Saturday December 16, 2023 @03:10AM Why Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime
Saturday December 16, 2023 @01:49AM US Pharmacies Share Medical Data with Police Without a Warrant, Inquiry Finds
Friday December 15, 2023 @05:55PM Delta Dental of California Data Breach Exposed Info of 7 Million People
Thursday December 14, 2023 @10:08AM Beeper Says Apple is Blocking Some iMessages
Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:30PM Google Maps Ditches Cloud-Based Location History
Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:13PM Your Smart TV Knows What You're Watching
Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:36PM Apple's New iPhone Security Setting Keeps Thieves Out of Your Digital Accounts
Monday December 11, 2023 @04:42PM US Healthcare Giant Norton Says Hackers Stole Millions of Patients' Data During Ransomware Attack
Monday December 11, 2023 @07:38AM Ex-Commissioner For Facial Recognition Tech Joins Facewatch Firm He Approved
Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:47PM Republican Presidential Candidates Debate Anonymity on Social Media
Friday December 08, 2023 @03:59PM Verizon Gave Phone Data To Armed Stalker Who Posed As Cop Over Email
Wednesday December 06, 2023 @06:03PM Nearly Every Windows and Linux Device Vulnerable To New LogoFAIL Firmware Attack
Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:05AM Governments Spying on Apple, Google Users Through Push Notifications
Tuesday December 05, 2023 @09:40PM AI Models May Enable a New Era of Mass Spying, Says Bruce Schneier
Tuesday December 05, 2023 @08:48AM Amazon 'Cannot Claim Shock' That Bathroom Spycams Were Used as Advertised, Judge Says
Monday December 04, 2023 @06:07PM Automakers' Data Privacy Practices 'Are Unacceptable,' Says US Senator
Friday December 01, 2023 @10:55PM Amazon's Q Has 'Severe Hallucinations' and Leaks Confidential Data in Public Preview, Employees Warn
Thursday November 30, 2023 @06:10PM Google Researchers' Attack Prompts ChatGPT To Reveal Its Training Data
Wednesday November 29, 2023 @07:18PM Dollar Tree Hit By Third-Party Data Breach Impacting 2 Million People
Monday November 27, 2023 @02:36PM Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits To Their Friends and Family
Tuesday November 21, 2023 @06:20PM CEO Reminds Everyone His Company Collects Customers' Sleep Data
Tuesday November 21, 2023 @11:29AM Sunbird is Shutting Down Its iMessage App for Android
Monday November 20, 2023 @09:03PM Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access To Trillions of US Phone Records
Monday November 20, 2023 @05:32PM Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default
Friday November 17, 2023 @06:37PM Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People In Congo
Thursday November 16, 2023 @05:51PM Prison Phone Company Leaked 600,000 Users' Data and Didn't Notify Them
Thursday November 16, 2023 @11:32AM Children's Tablet Has Malware and Exposes Kids' Data, Researcher Finds
Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:22PM US Privacy Groups Urge Senate Not To Ram Through NSA Spying Powers
Monday November 13, 2023 @05:49PM Healthcare Giant McLaren Reveals Data On 2.2 Million Patients Stolen During Ransomware Attack
Saturday November 11, 2023 @07:37PM It's Still Too Easy for Anyone to 'Become You' at Experian
Wednesday November 08, 2023 @06:35PM WhatsApp Now Lets You Hide Your IP Address During Calls
Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:54PM Data Broker's 'Staggering' Sale of Sensitive Info Exposed in Unsealed FTC Filing
Tuesday November 07, 2023 @03:02PM Tech Groups Fear New Powers Will Allow UK To Block Encryption
Monday November 06, 2023 @07:42PM US Military Members' Personal Data Being Sold By Online Brokers, Report Finds
Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:22PM Apple Called Android a 'Massive Tracking Device' In 2013
Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:16PM Brave Responds To Bing and ChatGPT With a New 'Anonymous and Secure' AI Chatbot
Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:24PM Russia Blocks 167 VPNs, Steps Up OpenVPN and WireGuard Disruption
Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:17PM China Removes Anonymity of Bloggers' Accounts With More Than 500,000 Followers
Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:57AM Apple Warns Indian Opposition Leaders of State-Sponsored iPhone Attacks
Monday October 30, 2023 @06:59PM Drugmakers Are Set To Pay 23andMe Millions To Access Consumer DNA
Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:56PM How the US is Preparing For a Post-Quantum World
Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:37PM iPhones Have Been Exposing Your Unique MAC Despite Apple's Promises Otherwise
Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:10PM Privacy Advocate Challenges YouTube's Ad Blocking Detection Scripts Under EU Law
Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:47PM The UK's Controversial Online Safety Bill Finally Becomes Law
Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:24PM Face Search Engine PimEyes Blocks Searches of Children's Faces
Monday October 23, 2023 @08:38PM 1Password Discloses Security Incident Linked To Okta Breach
Sunday October 22, 2023 @01:48PM Mozilla Launches Annual Digital Privacy 'Creep-o-Meter'. This Year's Status: 'Very Creepy'
Friday October 20, 2023 @03:38AM Telegram is Still Leaking User IP Addresses To Contacts
Thursday October 19, 2023 @08:31PM Casio Keyed Up After Data Loss Hits Customers In 149 Countries
Thursday October 19, 2023 @05:00PM CFPB Moves To Bar Financial Firms From 'Hoarding' a Consumer's Data
Wednesday October 18, 2023 @04:49PM Hacker Leaks Millions More 23andMe User Records On Cybercrime Forum
Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:18PM Meta Will Now Let You Stop Instagram From Tracking You Across the Web
Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:17PM Apple AirTags Triggered 'Explosion' of Stalking Reports Nationwide, Lawsuit Says
Friday October 06, 2023 @04:18PM 23andMe Scraping Incident Leaked Data On 1.3 Million Users
Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:08PM ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data
Thursday October 05, 2023 @05:09PM Google Agrees To Reform Its Data Terms After German Antitrust Intervention
Tuesday October 03, 2023 @03:24PM New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed By US Political Dark-Money Network
Monday October 02, 2023 @05:59PM UK Passport Images Database Could Be Used To Catch Shoplifters
Sunday October 01, 2023 @05:10PM H&R Block, Meta, and Google Slapped With RICO Suit, Allegedly Schemed to Scrape Taxpayer Data
Friday September 29, 2023 @12:38PM A Test of iPhone-to-HDMI Adapter That Demands Location/Browsing Data
Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:21PM New York Bans Facial Recognition In Schools
Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:32PM Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show
Tuesday September 26, 2023 @04:31PM GPUs From All Major Suppliers Are Vulnerable To New Pixel-Stealing Attack
Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:31AM Getting Data From NSA Takes 'Days' So Federal Counterintelligence Agency Turned To Private Company, Documents Show
Saturday September 23, 2023 @01:05AM China's Quest for Human Genetic Data Spurs Fears of a DNA Arms Race
Monday September 18, 2023 @12:04PM Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed Terabytes of Internal Sensitive Data
Friday September 15, 2023 @10:25PM EFF Recognizes Signal, Library Freedom Project for Protecting Privacy
Friday September 15, 2023 @04:10PM California Legislature Passes Delete Act Regulating Data Brokers
Friday September 15, 2023 @03:38PM Google To Pay $155 Million In Settlements Over Location Tracking
Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:31PM Password-Stealing Linux Malware Served For 3 Years and No One Noticed
Saturday September 09, 2023 @01:42AM Wyze Security Camera Owners Were Briefly Able To See Feeds From Other Users
Friday September 08, 2023 @05:16PM Apple Fixes Zero-Day Bugs Used To Plant Pegasus Spyware
Friday September 08, 2023 @10:19AM Polish Senate Says Use of Government Spyware is Illegal in the Country
Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:19PM Google's Cookie Killing Tech Is Now On Almost Every Chrome Browser
Wednesday September 06, 2023 @04:35PM Internet-Connected Cars Fail Privacy and Security Tests Conducted By Mozilla
Wednesday September 06, 2023 @08:43AM UK Pulls Back From Clash With Big Tech Over Private Messaging
Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:50PM CBP Tells Airports Its New Facial Recognition Target is 75% of Passengers Leaving the US
Friday September 01, 2023 @05:39PM Hacker Gains Admin Control of Sourcegraph and Gives Free Access To the Masses
Thursday August 31, 2023 @02:18PM UK Government Seeks Expanded Use of AI-based Facial Recognition By Police
Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:55PM Google Removes Fake Signal and Telegram Apps Hosted on Play
Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:43PM MTA Website 'Feature' Lets You Track Subway Riders' Locations
Monday August 28, 2023 @10:38AM Hackers Can Silently Grab Your IP Through Skype
Friday August 25, 2023 @12:50PM Taliban Says Huawei to Install Cameras to Locate Militants
Friday August 25, 2023 @11:14AM NSA Orders Employees To Spy on the World 'With Dignity and Respect'
Friday August 25, 2023 @09:20AM College Board Shares Student SAT Scores, GPA with Facebook and TikTok
Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:29PM The Feds Asked TikTok For Lots of Domestic Spying Features
Monday August 21, 2023 @04:35PM Cellebrite Asks Cops To Keep Its Phone Hacking Tech 'Hush Hush'
Friday August 18, 2023 @10:39AM Worldcoin Ignored Initial Order To Stop Iris Scans in Kenya, Records Show
Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:19PM Worried About Information Leaks, IBM Bans Siri
Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:18PM NSA Allegedly Exploited Heartbleed
Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:43PM YouTube Ads May Have Led To Online Tracking of Children, Research Says
Wednesday August 16, 2023 @05:05PM Microsoft May Store Your Conversations With Bing If You're Not an Enterprise User
Tuesday August 15, 2023 @09:41PM Cyberattack On Listings Provider Halts US Real Estate Markets
Monday August 14, 2023 @10:15PM Discord.io Temporarily Shuts Down After Breach Affecting 760,000 Members
Monday August 14, 2023 @06:01PM Iraq Lifts Ban On Telegram After Messaging App Complies With Authorities
Monday August 14, 2023 @04:32PM Millions of Americans' Health Data Stolen After MOVEit Hackers Targeted IBM
Sunday August 13, 2023 @01:11AM As Privacy Policies Get Harder to Understand, Many Allow Companies to Copy Your Content
Friday August 11, 2023 @04:26PM After Backlash, Zoom Now Says It Won't Train AI Systems On Customer Content
Friday August 11, 2023 @04:44AM Detroit Police Changing Facial-Recognition Policy After Pregnant Woman Says She Was Wrongly Charged