{"id":15125,"date":"2021-03-05T09:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=15125"},"modified":"2022-08-25T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T21:27:00","slug":"privacy-news-online-weekly-review-march-5-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/privacy-news-online-weekly-review-march-5-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: March 5, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Privacy News Online: Cali's net neutrality law, Congressional hearing on cryptocurrencies and more\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lUcpLI8i3I8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding: 10px; margin: 0px 0 30px 0; background: #118011; color: #ffffff; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 400;\">Featured: Privacy News Online \u2013 Week of March 5th, 2021<\/h2>\n<h3>Judge rules that California can continue with its net neutrality law<\/h3>\n<p>Californians first passed their net neutrality law, SB 822, back in 2018 after the FCC repealed net neutrality laws for the entire country. Since 2018, internet service providers and various lobbying groups have been fighting the law in court but they were only able to delay it for so long. Judge John Mendez\u2019s decision has drawn praise from across the state including from California\u2019s Attorney General.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/judge-rules-that-california-can-continue-with-its-net-neutrality-law\/\">https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/judge-rules-that-california-can-continue-with-its-net-neutrality-law\/<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Congressional hearing investigates role of cryptocurrencies in domestic terrorism financing<\/h3>\n<p>Congress\u2019s Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy recently held a hearing aimed at figuring out if the insurrection at the Capitol back in January could have been funded by cryptocurrency. The hearing was premised on the grounds that privacy rights and civil liberties are impeding investigations into how domestic terrorism is being financed. An expert testified that blockchains such as Bitcoin are pseudonymous, not anonymous, and can actually help authorities in their investigations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/congressional-hearing-investigates-role-of-cryptocurrencies-in-domestic-terrorism-financing\/\">https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/congressional-hearing-investigates-role-of-cryptocurrencies-in-domestic-terrorism-financing\/<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/PNO32\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15135 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BlogAd.jpg\" alt=\"Buy Private Internet Access VPN\" width=\"900\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BlogAd.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BlogAd-300x67.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BlogAd-768x171.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding: 10px; margin: 30px 0; background: #118011; color: #ffffff; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 400;\">More Privacy News This Week:<\/h2>\n<h3>Users largely unaware of the privacy implications of location tracking<\/h3>\n<p>Researchers from Italy and the UK have released a new study which highlights that location information can leak privacy. To showcase just how much private information can be inferred from just location information, the researchers created an app called TrackingAdvisor which was allowed to collect location information 24\/7. In just two weeks, they were able to figure out private information such as the app user\u2019s home location, demographics, habits, interests, and even insight into the user\u2019s personality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2021\/02\/25\/privacy-implications-location-tracking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2021\/02\/25\/privacy-implications-location-tracking\/<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Why would you ever trust Amazon\u2019s Alexa after this?<\/h3>\n<p>A group of researchers from universities in Germany and the United States have done a privacy study on Alexa Skills. Turns out, the majority of Alexa Skills don\u2019t have a privacy policy. Amazon lets developers publish Alexa Skills under any name \u2013 so fake Alexa Skills published under the name of established corporations are rampant. A previous set of researchers even successfully uploaded skills that blatantly broke Amazon\u2019s privacy policy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/why-would-you-ever-trust-amazons-alexa-after-this\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/why-would-you-ever-trust-amazons-alexa-after-this\/<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Judge approves $650 million settlement of Facebook privacy lawsuit linked to facial photo tagging<\/h3>\n<p>Facebook has finally reached a settlement amount to end a 2015 class action lawsuit relating to their facial recognition algorithm. Facebook will need to pay a whopping 650 million for violating Illinois\u2019s Biometric Information Privacy Act. The 1.6 million individuals involved in the class action lawsuit will receive about 345 dollars each. This is one of the largest settlements in the digital privacy space ever.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/facebook-settlement-pay-650-million-privacy-lawsuit-biometrics-face-tagging-2021-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/facebook-settlement-pay-650-million-privacy-lawsuit-biometrics-face-tagging-2021-2<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Google Chrome will soon default to HTTPS when you type a domain name in the address bar<\/h3>\n<p>Browsers generally try the non-secure HTTP protocol when you type a domain in the address bar and it is up to the site to redirect you to HTTPS. Beginning with Google Chrome 90 due in mid-April, Google plans to default to HTTPS instead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/chrome-will-soon-try-https-first-when-you-type-an-incomplete-url\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/chrome-will-soon-try-https-first-when-you-type-an-incomplete-url\/<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>A weaponized exploit for the SCEPTRE CPU vulnerability has been found online<\/h3>\n<p>This is the first time that exploit code has becomee available to the general public since the flaw first came to light in January 2018. Some potential SPECTRE attacks were mitigated via OS and browser patches in 2018, but it remains to be seen whether the newly discovered exploit code may require further OS patches. There is some concern that the malware may try to exploit SPECTRE using this weaponized code.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/therecord.media\/first-fully-weaponized-spectre-exploit-discovered-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/therecord.media\/first-fully-weaponized-spectre-exploit-discovered-online\/<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Brought to you by Private Internet Access<\/h3>\n<p>Privacy News Online is brought to you by Private Internet Access, the world\u2019s most trusted VPN service.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/buy-vpn-online\">Sign up now and get 3 years for just $79!!!<\/a><\/div>\n<h4 style=\"margin-top: 25px;\">Special thanks to Intego<\/h4>\n<p>Thank you to Josh Long, our cybersecurity correspondent from Intego, makers of award-winning security software.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/lp\/buynow?channel=privacynews\">Save on Intego\u2019s world-class protection software for Mac\/Windows<\/a><\/div>\n<style>.wp-post-image{display:none}<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured: Privacy News Online \u2013 Week of March 5th, 2021 Judge rules that California can continue with its net neutrality law Californians first passed their net neutrality law, SB 822, back in 2018 after the FCC repealed net neutrality laws for the entire country. Since 2018, internet service providers and various lobbying groups have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/privacy-news-online-weekly-review-march-5-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: March 5, 2021&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1792],"tags":[2238,2103,2239,235,2226,104,1616,156],"class_list":["post-15125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy-news-online","tag-alexa-skills","tag-amazon-alexa","tag-blockchain-analysis","tag-california","tag-congressional-hearing","tag-facebook","tag-location-tracking","tag-net-neutrality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with 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