Digital and human rights groups have joined in a rare worldwide appeal to governments to respect privacy when handling the COVID-19 crisis.
Tag Archives: data privacy
Should governments track your location to fight COVID-19?
Google Maps data could help governments track patients that a newly-diagnosed COVID-19 sufferer has been in contact with.
No federal privacy law will make it in the US this year, sources say
Without one, the companies that collect our data will likely face compliance with California’s take-no-prisoners law, in effect 1 January 2020.
GDPR privacy can be defeated using right of access requests
A British researcher has uncovered an ironic, gaping security hole in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – right of access requests.
Facebook sues app developer Rankwave over data misuse
The suit says Rankwave used Facebook user data for targeted marketing and ignored its cease-and-desist letter.
Facebook under investigation for harvesting 1.5m users’ contact lists
For years, Facebook asked some new users for email passwords, then grabbed their contacts without consent (or any way to stop the process).
Facebook user data used as bargaining chip, according to leaked docs
Leaked internal docs used to claim “privacy was an afterthought” at Facebook
Is your hard drive exposed online?
Over 13,500 internet-connected storage devices have been exposed online by users who didn’t set passwords for them.
Epic in hot water over Steam-scraping code
Players noticed that Epic Games was gathering and storing data from Steam accounts without their permission.
US House and Senate debate new data privacy law
A steady stream of hair-raising revelations about the treatment of users’ data by Facebook, et al. is pushing Congress to do *something.*