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July 2, 2021

Digital ad industry accused of huge data breach

Legal action filed over volume of data shared by digital advertising firms during ad space sales.

June 30, 2021

EU Internet Providers Can ID Customers Accused of Illegal Downloads

European internet service providers can hand over the personal details of customers who are accused of illegally downloading content, the EU’s top court ruled.

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June 28, 2021

Alibaba Falls Victim to Chinese Web Crawler in Large Data Leak

A Chinese software developer trawled the popular Taobao shopping website for eight months, collecting more than 1.1 billion pieces of user information including IDs and phone numbers.

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June 28, 2021

EU Court Nixes Easy Access to Driving Records

In another win for privacy advocates, Europe’s top court ruled that Latvia is breaching EU data protection rules by making people’s driving records easily accessible.

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June 27, 2021

App Taps Unwitting Users Abroad to Gather Open-Source Intelligence

The Premise app pays users, many in the developing world, to do tasks like taking photos and completing surveys for clients including the U.S. military.

June 16, 2021

Microsoft Gets Second Shot at Banning hiQ from Scraping LinkedIn User Data

Decision throws out previous ruling in favor of hiQ Labs that prevented Microsoft’s business networking platform to forbid the company from harvesting public info from user profiles.

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June 15, 2021

Ring refuses to say how many users had video footage obtained by police

The doorbell camera maker received over 1,800 legal demands during 2020.

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June 15, 2021

Census releases guidelines for controversial privacy tool

the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday announced guidelines for how a controversial statistical method will be applied to the numbers used for drawing congressional and legislative districts.