Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 23, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of April 23, 2021 Privacy organizations call for facial recognition to be regulated or even banned, as police turn to Clearview AI Privacy concerns with facial recognition technology have increased greatly with the appearance of Clearview AI and privacy and human rights organizations have taken notice. In January of … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 23, 2021”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 16, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of April 16, 2021 What the Great Personal Data Leak of 2021 tells us about Facebook Last week, we reported on the 533 million Facebook users whose data was leaked online. Despite the severity of the leak and its contents, Facebook’s official response was: “We believe the data in … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 16, 2021”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 2, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of April 2, 2021 Are smartphone apps that constantly monitor a person’s movements and actions the future of parole – and parenting? A company called Shadowtrack makes it possible for parolee’s ditch the ankle monitor in favor of a simple smartphone app. The parolee simply checks in with the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 2, 2021”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 4, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of December 4th, 2020 Amazon’s Ring moves even closer to becoming the perfect urban police surveillance system The increased prevalence of Amazon’s Ring internet connected doorbell has privacy experts worried about surveillance implications. Researchers even found that the Amazon Ring app gathers personal information on the user and sends … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 4, 2020”

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  • Nov 24, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Google sued for using 260mb of cellular data per month to track Android users without permission

Google is being sued by individuals that allege that the company uses cellular data without permission to send information back to Google. Google is facing a lawsuit that highlights just how much data (260mb) Google sends home about you and your Android device. These are all passive, background transfers that will happen even if the … Continue reading “Google sued for using 260mb of cellular data per month to track Android users without permission”

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  • Sep 13, 2019
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance,

Should apps share details of women’s menstruation and sex lives with Facebook and other sites? Some already do

Back in January, Privacy News Online wrote about some important research from Privacy International. It found that 61% of the Android apps it investigated automatically transfer data to Facebook the moment a user opens them. This happens whether or not people have a Facebook account, and regardless of whether they are logged into Facebook or … Continue reading “Should apps share details of women’s menstruation and sex lives with Facebook and other sites? Some already do”

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  • Mar 20, 2019
  • Derek Zimmer
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Guides,

Preparing for Travel – Properly Backing Up Your Android Cell Phone

When I prepare for travel, I take some steps to make sure that my protected data will not be read or otherwise mishandled by customs. I then follow-up with rigorous steps to ensure that my information and devices maintain their integrity and that I can trust them with the same degree that I did before … Continue reading “Preparing for Travel – Properly Backing Up Your Android Cell Phone”

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