Privacy Roundup #0163 • February 2020
February 2020 was dominated by leaky databases, government purchases of location data and a reckoning over facial recognition, as Clearview AI lost its own client list.
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Privacy in the digital world covers how personal data is collected, stored, and used. Posts in this category discuss ways to protect your information online, privacy tools, and related concerns. As more of life moves online, understanding privacy becomes more important.
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Privacy Roundup #0162 • January 2020
January 2020 opened the decade with facial recognition and data brokers under the spotlight, as breach after breach showed how little control people held over their own records.
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Privacy Roundup #0161 • December 2019
December 2019 closed the decade with a flood of exposed databases, hacked home cameras and fresh fights over face recognition and encryption.
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Privacy Roundup #0160 • November 2019
November 2019 showed how casually our most intimate records change hands, as health files, DNA profiles, browsing trails and home camera footage all slipped beyond the reach of the people they describe.
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Privacy Roundup #0159 • October 2019
October 2019 saw European courts redraw the limits of consent and content removal while a steady run of exposed databases, smart-speaker tricks and surveillance fights showed how much personal data still leaks by default.
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Privacy Roundup #0158 • September 2019
September 2019 stacked leaky databases, a record children's privacy fine and two landmark EU and US court rulings into one of the busiest privacy months of the year.
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Privacy Roundup #0157 • August 2019
August 2019 was dominated by the voice assistant listening scandal as Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook were each caught letting humans review private recordings, while a run of careless breaches spilled biometric, payment and hotel data.
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Privacy Roundup #0156 • July 2019
July 2019 was defined by record regulatory penalties, a wave of cloud misconfigurations and breaches, and fresh proof that voice assistants and police camera networks were quietly turning people into data.
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Privacy Roundup #0155 • June 2019
June 2019 was dominated by the cascading American Medical Collection Agency breach, a string of government and corporate data exposures, and a growing public reckoning over facial recognition and surveillance.
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