Privacy Roundup #0063 • October 2011
October 2011 paired a surge of Anonymous hacks and breach disclosures with hard questions about how companies and governments quietly track ordinary people.
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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 #0062 • September 2011
A rogue certificate authority collapsed, hacktivists kept dumping personal data, and firms from Facebook to OnStar were caught watching people who thought they had left.
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Privacy Roundup #0061 • August 2011
August 2011 was dominated by hacktivist data dumps, the BART cell shutdown free-speech fight, web tracking exposed, and the fraudulent certificates that broke trust in the web.
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Privacy Roundup #0060 • July 2011
July 2011 was dominated by the AntiSec hacking spree against defence contractors and police, alongside the phone-hacking scandal that closed the News of the World.
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Privacy Roundup #0059 • June 2011
A breach-soaked month dominated by LulzSec, with banks, games firms and spy agencies all losing data to hackers.
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Privacy Roundup #0058 • May 2011
Sony's breach nightmare spread across the globe while regulators, researchers and hacktivists laid bare how little our personal data was protected.
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Privacy Roundup #0057 • April 2011
April 2011 was dominated by the Sony PlayStation Network mega-breach and the discovery that smartphones quietly logged their owners' every move.
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Privacy Roundup #0056 • March 2011
March 2011 was dominated by the RSA SecurID and Comodo certificate breaches, a wave of stolen email databases, and fresh fights over who may read your location and account records.
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Privacy Roundup #0055 • February 2011
February 2011 was dominated by the Anonymous raid on HBGary, fresh proof of corporate surveillance plots, and a browser industry scrambling to define what Do Not Track should mean.
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Privacy Roundup #0054 • January 2011
January 2011 was shaped by the WikiLeaks fallout, hacktivist attacks across the Arab Spring, and a steady drip of data breaches and tracking rows.
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Privacy Roundup #0053 • December 2010
WikiLeaks turned December into a fight over who controls your data, while breaches, tracking apps and new browser defences kept the pressure on everyone else.
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Privacy Roundup #0052 • November 2010
November 2010 was dominated by the WikiLeaks Cablegate disclosures, Facebook's push into email, a TSA body scanner revolt, and Europe's hardening line on Google's Street View data grab.
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Privacy Roundup #0051 • October 2010
October 2010 was dominated by Google's admission that its Street View cars had grabbed emails and passwords, by leaky social apps handing user identifiers to advertisers, and by Firesheep laying bare the perils of unencrypted web sessions.
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Privacy Roundup #0050 • September 2010
September 2010 saw location and behavioural tracking dominate the privacy agenda, as Google's chief courted controversy, the ACS:Law breach exposed thousands of file-sharers, and governments on both sides of the Atlantic pushed for wiretaps, identity numbers, and internet blacklists.
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Privacy Roundup #0049 • August 2010
August 2010 was defined by governments demanding keys to BlackBerry encryption, Facebook pushing location tracking onto users, and WikiLeaks testing the limits of disclosure.
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Privacy Roundup #0048 • July 2010
July 2010 was dominated by leaked profiles, government data demands and the Stuxnet shortcut flaw, as regulators circled Google and Apple over how much they knew about us.
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Privacy Roundup #0047 • June 2010
June 2010 was dominated by the AT&T iPad email breach and the widening Google Street View Wi-Fi scandal, as regulators on three continents and the United States Congress turned on the data giants.
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Privacy Roundup #0046 • May 2010
May 2010 was dominated by Facebook's privacy revolt and Google's Street View Wi-Fi confession, as regulators, lawmakers and users pushed back against social platforms hoovering up personal data.
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Privacy Roundup #0045 • April 2010
April 2010 was dominated by social networks: Facebook opened the web with Open Graph and Instant Personalization while regulators and senators rounded on Google Buzz and the rest.
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Privacy Roundup #0044 • March 2010
March 2010 was dominated by surveillance reckonings, from a German court striking down data retention to American judges and lawmakers turning on warrantless wiretaps, webcam spying and Google Buzz.
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Privacy Roundup #0043 • February 2010
February 2010 was dominated by the Google Buzz backlash, the Lower Merion webcam spying scandal and a string of botnet and surveillance rows on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Privacy Roundup #0042 • January 2010
January 2010 turned privacy into front-page news, as the China hack pushed Google to drop censorship, airport body scanners triggered a strip-search row, and surveillance abuses at the FBI came to light.
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Privacy Roundup #0041 • December 2009
Facebook rewrote its privacy settings to push people to share more, while leaks and lawsuits exposed how phone firms, web giants and governments handle our data.
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Privacy Roundup #0040 • November 2009
November 2009 was the month privacy controls met their critics, as Google, Facebook and Twitter rewrote the rules while watchdogs, courts and lawmakers pushed back on surveillance.
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Privacy Roundup #0039 • October 2009
October 2009 saw harvested webmail passwords spill onto the open web, the Sidekick cloud erase a million phones, and lawmakers water down PATRIOT Act reform.
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