Billions of internet activity records tracked by Oracle’s BlueKai leaked online
BlueKai, a company bought by Oracle in 2014, has leaked. The database of internet activity records was left on the open web in an unsecured server. The leaked data was…
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When the home is no data protection haven: addressing privacy threats from intimate relationships
Privacy is one of the key concerns of people using digital technology. Of course, this blog has been warning about threats in this area for years, but it's common now…
35 Members of Congress sign letter asking federal agencies to stop surveillance on Black Lives Matter protests
Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Bobby Rush (D-IL) have published a letter which was sent to multiple federal agencies demanding that the federal agencies stop spying on Black Lives…
Government drones and aircraft are being used to surveil the ongoing protests in American cities
The government is flying predator drones and other military aircraft, well known for their use in foreign combat zones, over US cities to surveil the ongoing protests against police brutality.…
Class action lawsuit against Google says internet giant tracks private internet use
Google is being sued for 5 billion USD in a class action lawsuit over the tracking of private internet activity. Boies Schiller Flexner LLP has filed a massive lawsuit against…
DOJ grants DEA permission to conduct “covert surveillance” on protesters
The DEA is now surveilling protesters in the United States. BuzzFeedNews has uncovered a memorandum that shows that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has been granted powers by the Department…
Arizona has sued Google for illegally tracking phone location data
Arizona has filed a lawsuit against Google for “deceptive and unfair practices used to obtain users’ location data.” Specifically, Google has been collecting location history in its Search and Maps…
House delays vote on renewing FISA surveillance powers to grant FBI warrantless access to internet history
Your internet history is safe from the FBI… for now. Government surveillance powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) - which have sat unrenewed since March - failed to…
House to vote on whether the FBI can access internet history without a warrant: Act now to Save Internet Privacy
Internet privacy is on the line as Congress votes this week on whether or not the FBI will be able to access the internet history of Americans without a warrant.…
Germany’s highest court rules individual right to privacy applies to everyone, even non-Germans
Germany’s Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), the highest court in the country, has ruled that parts of a 2016 law that allowed monitoring of the internet activity of foreign targets…