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November 20, 2020

DEA Pursues Vast Expansion of Patient Surveillance

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is looking to expand its anti-diversion surveillance infrastructure by being able to search and analyze […]

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November 20, 2020

Tim Berners-Lee launches enterprise-friendly decentralised web platform in move to ‘restore power on the web’

Tim Berners-Lee has launched an enterprise-friendly decentralised web platform using the open-source technology, Solid, to “restore power” on the web. […]

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November 17, 2020

Forensic Genealogy Cracks Cold Cases Amid Privacy Concerns

Millions of people will unwrap at-home ancestry testing kits this holiday season and eagerly swab their cheeks and mail in […]

A person holds a smartphone displaying the home screen filled with various app icons, including Messages, Photos, and Settings. The wallpaper shows a beach scene with sand and waves. The time at the top is 9:42. The background is a plain, blurred, grayish color.

November 17, 2020

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps

A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain […]

Four NYPD police SUVs are parked in a row on a city street beside a building with tall columns and glass doors. A hanging flower basket is visible, and trees line the background near another building. The scene is calm, with no people present.

November 17, 2020

How the NYPD gets people’s personal data with no oversight

The NYPD has used tens of thousands of questionable subpoenas over the last decade to intimidate private companies into handing […]

Smartphone displaying a health app screen with a large green checkmark indicating the app is active and scanning. Options include venue check-in, check symptoms, read latest advice, about this app, enter test result, and contact tracing, with a toggle switch for status.

November 16, 2020

The Covid App Ecosystem Has Become a Privacy Minefield

An analysis of nearly 500 Covid-related apps worldwide shows major differences in how much data they expect you to give […]

November 7, 2020

Border officer provides device passwords to police

A Canadian border officer who dealt with Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver’s airport in the hours before her arrest said he […]

A person holds a smartphone displaying a map app. The screen shows directions to "Mark's Butcher" with a location pin in an urban area. The business has four stars. Options to "Call" or get "Directions" are visible. A search bar and navigation icons can also be seen.

November 6, 2020

DHS Authorities Are Buying Moment-By-Moment Geolocation Cellphone Data To Track People

The Department of Homeland Security is purchasing consumer cellphone data that allows authorities to track immigrants trying to cross the […]

A person is using a laptop displaying analytics data, including a pie chart, line graphs, and bar charts. Their hands are on the keyboard. Beside the laptop, there is a smartphone and a pair of eyeglasses on the table. The setting appears to be a workspace.

November 5, 2020

Folksam data breach leaks info of 1M Swedes to Google, Facebook, more

Folksam, one of the largest insurance companies in Sweden, today disclosed a data breach affecting around 1 million Swedes after […]

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November 5, 2020

23,600 hacked databases have leaked from a defunct ‘data breach index’ site

Site archive of Cit0day.in has now leaked on two hacking forums after the service shut down in September. Cit0day operated […]

Graffiti of a black surveillance camera labeled "CAT" on a speckled concrete wall. Below, stenciled text reads "FOR YOUR SAFETY & OUR CURIOSITY" in black, with "CURIOSITY" emphasized in red.

October 31, 2020

Real estate company collected 5 million shoppers’ images

Cadillac Fairview – one of North America’s largest commercial real estate companies – embedded cameras inside their digital information kiosks […]

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October 30, 2020

Experian vows to drag UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office to court after being told off for data-slurping practices

Experian has been rapped over the knuckles by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after it discovered the credit reference […]

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DEA Pursues Vast Expansion of Patient Surveillance

Tim Berners-Lee launches enterprise-friendly decentralised web platform in move to ‘restore power on the web’

Forensic Genealogy Cracks Cold Cases Amid Privacy Concerns

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps

How the NYPD gets people’s personal data with no oversight

The Covid App Ecosystem Has Become a Privacy Minefield

Border officer provides device passwords to police

DHS Authorities Are Buying Moment-By-Moment Geolocation Cellphone Data To Track People

Folksam data breach leaks info of 1M Swedes to Google, Facebook, more

23,600 hacked databases have leaked from a defunct ‘data breach index’ site

Real estate company collected 5 million shoppers’ images

Experian vows to drag UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office to court after being told off for data-slurping practices

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