Privacy Roundup #0113 • December 2015
December 2015 closed the year with breaches of children's data, freshly discovered firewall backdoors, and a wave of European and American rule-making over surveillance and consent.
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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 #0112 • November 2015
November 2015 paired a wave of breaches that swept up children, prisoners and hotel guests with a renewed government push to weaken encryption after the Paris attacks.
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Privacy Roundup #0111 • October 2015
October 2015 was defined by Europe's court tearing up Safe Harbor, a run of large customer-data breaches, and the United States Senate pushing the CISA surveillance bill through.
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Privacy Roundup #0110 • September 2015
September 2015 paired a wave of record-setting breaches with landmark surveillance reforms, as courts, regulators and Edward Snowden himself pushed the privacy debate forward.
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Privacy Roundup #0109 • August 2015
August 2015 turned private lives into public spectacle, as the Ashley Madison dumps, fresh surveillance disclosures and a string of firmware and browser flaws showed how little control people held over their own data.
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Privacy Roundup #0108 • July 2015
July 2015 was dominated by the Hacking Team leak, which laid bare the surveillance trade, alongside the Ashley Madison and OPM breaches and a hardening fight over encryption.
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Privacy Roundup #0107 • June 2015
June 2015 closed the door on the NSA telephone dragnet while a wave of breaches, court orders and new surveillance laws showed how far the fight over personal data still had to run.
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Privacy Roundup #0106 • May 2015
May 2015 was the month the courts and Congress turned on bulk surveillance even as fresh Snowden files and a wave of breaches showed how deeply data collection had spread.
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Privacy Roundup #0105 • April 2015
April 2015 brought state hacking, regulator fines and a fresh fight over surveillance and encryption.
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Privacy Roundup #0104 • March 2015
March 2015 brought fresh Snowden leaks, the FREAK encryption flaw and a run of breaches that put health, hotel and gaming customers at risk.
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Privacy Roundup #0103 • February 2015
February 2015 was dominated by spy agencies caught stealing encryption keys, fresh Snowden disclosures and a wave of breaches that exposed the data of tens of millions of people.
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Privacy Roundup #0102 • January 2015
January 2015 opened the year with a wave of state surveillance disclosures, fresh breaches and a White House push to write privacy and breach rules into federal law.
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Privacy Roundup #0101 • December 2014
December 2014 was dominated by the Sony Pictures breach, fresh Snowden disclosures and a run of retail card thefts that exposed how fragile everyday privacy had become.
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Privacy Roundup #0100 • November 2014
November 2014 paired fresh Snowden cable-tap revelations and nation-state spy malware with a wave of corporate tracking and a stalled push for surveillance reform.
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Privacy Roundup #0099 • October 2014
October 2014 turned the post-Snowden privacy fight towards the phone in your pocket, as default encryption, carrier tracking headers and a run of retail breaches collided with a chorus of official complaints.
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Privacy Roundup #0098 • September 2014
September 2014 turned the post-Snowden privacy debate towards the device itself, as Apple and Google promised encryption by default while breaches at Home Depot, Goodwill and Jimmy John's showed how exposed everyday data remained.
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Privacy Roundup #0097 • August 2014
August 2014 brought a wave of Snowden disclosures, mega retail card breaches and a hard look at how governments and companies hoard our data.
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Privacy Roundup #0096 • July 2014
July 2014 deepened the post-Snowden reckoning, with fresh surveillance leaks, emergency British data laws, transatlantic spy expulsions and a wave of breaches and tracking exposes.
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Privacy Roundup #0095 • June 2014
One year after the first Snowden leak, June 2014 mixed fresh surveillance disclosures with a wave of breaches, encryption launches and a landmark cell phone ruling.
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Privacy Roundup #0094 • May 2014
May 2014 turned the first anniversary of the Snowden leaks into a wave of fresh NSA disclosures, while Europe handed people a right to be forgotten and a run of huge breaches struck eBay, Orange and others.
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Privacy Roundup #0093 • April 2014
April 2014 was defined by the Heartbleed catastrophe and a fresh wave of Snowden surveillance disclosures, as courts and journalists pushed back against state spying.
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Privacy Roundup #0092 • March 2014
March 2014 was dominated by fresh Snowden revelations about mass hacking and whole country call recording, alongside a European backlash, corporate encryption moves and a wave of payment card breaches.
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Privacy Roundup #0091 • February 2014
February 2014 was dominated by fresh Snowden revelations, the launch of The Intercept and a day of global protest, set against a run of data breaches and surveillance climbdowns.
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Privacy Roundup #0090 • January 2014
January 2014 was dominated by fresh Snowden documents on NSA and GCHQ surveillance, a wave of retail and corporate data breaches in the wake of Target, and the first official pushback on bulk telephone records.
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Privacy Roundup #0089 • December 2013
December 2013 was dominated by fresh Snowden disclosures on location tracking, cookies and hardware implants, a landmark court ruling against bulk metadata, a presidential review panel and the Target mega breach.
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