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INTERNAL
- Advertising Agency Uses Geofencing to Target Women Near Abortion Centers (2017)
- Amazon Extending Prime into Whole Foods (2017)
- Amazon's Alexa Asking Questions (July 2020)
- Animal Agriculture Industry Tracks and Punishes Critics (October 2020)
- Apps Sending Personal Information to Facebook (December 2018)
- Apps With Eavesdropping Software (December 2017)
- Cashier in the Supermarket Asking for Postal Code (October 2020)
- Chinese Database With Details on More Than Two Million People (September 2020)
- Companies Track Phone’s Movements to Target Ads to Its Owners (September 2020)
- Company Executives Read Employee’s Therapy Chat to the Team (December 2016)
- Content Written On Amazon Package
- Data Broker Exposes Millions Of Profiles (August 2020)
- Dataminr Helps Police Track Protesters (July 2020)
- Facebook's Search Profile Function (August 2020)
- Facebook's User Interests Classification (January 2019)
- Facebook's “Pseudoscience” Ad Category (April 2020)
- Geofencing Technology To Target Catholics At Mass (February 2020)
- Gmail Controling which Political Emails Land in Primary Inbox (2020)
- Gmail Filters Black Lives Matter Emails (June 2020)
- Google Analyzes Credit Card Transactions (May 2017)
- Google People Cards Feature (August 2020)
- H&M Management Collect Detailed Personal Information on Employees (2019)
- Instagram Sliders (2019)
- Jeff Bezos's Phone Hack (April 2018)
- Lidl Offering Free Ice Cream for App Download (August 2020)
- Login to Oculus Only Possible With Facebook Account (August 2020)
- Online Tracking Agency Monitoring Peoples Online Behavior (2018)
- Parents Spying On a Nanny (August 2019)
- Personal Information Of Voters in Russia Was Compromised (July 2020)
- Politicians Using Smart-TV Data for Ads (2019)
- Powerfront’s Technology for Tracking Online Shoppers (November 2019)
- Privacy Dark Patterns (August 2020)
- Retailers Using AI (November 2020)
- SNAP Online Buying Program (July 2020)
- Samba TV Tracking Viewers Behavior (July 2018)
- School-Based Software Monitors Kids’ Online Searches (March 2016)
- Shopify Support Team Abused Access to Company Network (October 2020)
- Smart Billboards Used For Targeted Ads (August 2018)
- Smartphone Carriers Track User Activity (2014)
- TikTok Data Tracking and Sharing Practices (July 2020)
- Trump Campaign Using Phone Location-Tracking (September 2020)
- UK Local Authorities Analysing Peoples Social Media Accounts (October 2020)
- Universities Spy on Students With Software (October 2020)
- Vizio Collecting User Data (2017)
- Walgreens Sells Medical Data (June 2017)
- We-vibe Vibrator Harvests Customer Data (March 2017)
- Child Safety Smartwatches Easy to Hack (2017)
- China’s Cryptocurrency (2019)
- Data Breach Compromising 500 Thousands Call of Duty Accounts (September 2020)
- Equifax Data Breach (2017)
- Exploit on Apple’s Secure Enclave (July 2020)
- Freepik Company Data Breach (October 2020)
- German Police Accesses People’s WhatsApp Message (July 2020)
- Glitch in India's Biometric Welfare System (October 2019)
- Google People Cards Feature (August 2020)
- Hack of Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Information of 700,000 Cops (June 2020)
- High-Profile Twitter Accounts Hack (July 2020)
- Identity Non-Theft Case (May 2009)
- Microsoft User Asked for More Personal Information With New Computer (July 2020)
- Netgear Prevents Access to Full UI Unless Customer Creates an Account in Cloud (September 2020)
- Office of Personnel Management Data Breach (June 2015)
- Passwords of Some Facebook’s Users Were Stored in Plain Text (2019)
- Scammers Hijack Popular YouTube Accounts (July 2020)
- Slack's Insufficient Security Measures (July 2019)
- WhatsApp Share Data with Facebook (October 2017)
- Apps Sending Personal Information to Facebook (December 2018)
- China Keeping Records on Muslims (February 2020)
- Dataminr Helps Police Track Protesters (July 2020)
- Facebook's “Pseudoscience” Ad Category (April 2020)
- Geofencing Technology To Target Catholics At Mass (February 2020)
- Google Combining Search and Location Data (2016)
- Google Gives Search Keywords Data to Police (October 2020)
- H&M Management Collect Detailed Personal Information on Employees (2019)
- Iranian Hackers Found Way Into Encrypted Apps (September 2020)
- Microsoft Leaks 6.5TB of Users Personal Information (September 2020)
- Online Proctors Monitoring Students During Exams (September 2020)
- Parents Spying On a Nanny (August 2019)
- School Makes Parents Consent to Childs Data Collection
- School-Based Software Monitors Kids’ Online Searches (March 2016)
- Students Grades in Great Britain Calculated by an Algorithm (August 2020)
- TikTok Data Tracking and Sharing Practices (July 2020)
- UK Local Authorities Analysing Peoples Social Media Accounts (October 2020)
- Universities Spy on Students With Software (October 2020)
- Yahoo Shares Personal Information of Pro Democracy Dissident with China (September 2020)
EXTERNAL
- A Man Gets Arrested After Facebook Translated His Post Wrongly (2017)
- A Photo of a Woman Crying After Florida School Shooting (February 2018)
- AI Accuses Wrong Person of Police Brutality in Belarus (September 2020)
- AIRprint Fingerprint Recognition From a Distance (2011)
- Abusers Using Smartphones to Track Victims (September 2014)
- Access to Face Recognition Search of Moscow Cameras System Is For Sale (November 2020)
- AccuWeather App Stealing Location Data (August 2017)
- Airport Facial Recognition Systems (2018)
- Allstate’s Insurance Pricing Algorithm Based on Non-Risk Factors (2013)
- Amazon Extending Prime into Whole Foods (2017)
- Amazon Gives Access to Alexa Recordings to a Wrong User (2018)
- Amazon Monitors Employees Private Facebook Groups (September 2020)
- Amazon’s Ring Security Camera (2020)
- Ancestry.com Genealogy Company Giving Access to Its Database to the Police (2015)
- Animal Agriculture Industry Tracks and Punishes Critics (October 2020)
- Anthem Data Breach (2014)
- App Spied on Belarusian Protesters (August 2020)
- Apple's Sexist Credit Card (November 2019)
- Apps Sending Personal Information to Facebook (December 2018)
- Attempt to Extort Toronto Hospital Using Stolen Patient Data (October 2020)
- Attorney-Client Calls by Jails (July 2020)
- Australian News-Sharing Platform Leaks 80 Thousand User Records (October 2020)
- Australian Scanned Drivers Licenses Database Leak
- Australian Security Cameras Hacked (June 2020)
- Automated Tenants Background Checks (May 2020)
- Baltimore Police Flies Planes With Cameras (July 2019)
- Belarusian Hackers Leaked Police Personal Information (September 2020)
- Bolsa Familia Social Welfare Program in Brazil (October 2020)
- Brainwave Tracking of Students in Class (2017)
- Canada Revenue Agency Credential Stuffing Attack (August 2020)
- Central Health Employee Accessed Patient Data (July 2020)
- Charges Dismissed for Following Women with a Camera (April 2020)
- Child Safety Smartwatches Easy to Hack (2017)
- Child Suspects’ Private Data Published Online (October 2020)
- China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys (September 2020)
- China Keeping Records on Muslims (February 2020)
- China’s Cryptocurrency (2019)
- Chinese Database With Details on More Than Two Million People (September 2020)
- Chrome Collects User Data Regardless of Consent
- Chrome's Wipe Private Data Feature (October 2020)
- Clearview's Facial Recognition App (2020)
- College Recruitment Database Leak (July 2020)
- Companies Stealing Influencers’ Faces (2020)
- Company Executives Read Employee’s Therapy Chat to the Team (December 2016)
- Contact Tracing Apps (July 2020)
- Contact Tracing Software Sells People’s Information (July 2020)
- Content Written On Amazon Package
- Cyber Bullying Through Instagram (July 2018)
- DNA Testing Companies Share Data with Third Parties (November 2017)
- Dangers of Sharenting (2019)
- Facebook Analyses User Race to Serve Ads (August 2020)
- Facebook Asking Users to Complete Their Profiles (2013)
- Fitness Trackers Inaccuracy (May 2020)
- GEDmatch DNA Testing Website (2019)
- Google Gets Access to Health Records from Ascension (November 2019)
- Los Angeles Police Uses Powerful Data Analytics Software (September 2020)
- Motel 6 Provided ICE with Guest Data (April 2019)
- Parents Spying On a Nanny (August 2019)
- Police Drone Over a Public Beach (July 2020)
- States Sharing Driver's License Info
- TikTok Data Tracking and Sharing Practices (July 2020)
- Apps Sending Personal Information to Facebook (December 2018)
- Content Written On Amazon Package
- Dating Apps User Information Leaked Online (June 2020)
- Digital Harassment After an Online Affair (November 2017)
- Impersonating Profiles on Grindr (September 2018)
- Leaked Sex Tape Genre on PornHub (July 2020)
- Online Tracking Agency Monitoring Peoples Online Behavior (2018)
- We-vibe Vibrator Harvests Customer Data (March 2017)
- Access to Face Recognition Search of Moscow Cameras System Is For Sale (November 2020)
- Advertising Agency Uses Geofencing to Target Women Near Abortion Centers (2017)
- Amazon Extending Prime into Whole Foods (2017)
- Amazon Monitors Employees Private Facebook Groups (September 2020)
- Amazon's Alexa Asking Questions (July 2020)
- Android Listens to Everyday House Sounds (October 2020)
- Android Sharing User Physical Activity With Third Party Apps (October 2017)
- Animal Agriculture Industry Tracks and Punishes Critics (October 2020)
- Apps Sending Personal Information to Facebook (December 2018)
- Australian News-Sharing Platform Leaks 80 Thousand User Records (October 2020)
- Australian Police Fly Drones Monitoring How People Obey Anti COVID19 Measures (August 2020)
- Australian Security Cameras Hacked (June 2020)
- Automated Tenants Background Checks (May 2020)
- Baltimore Police Flies Planes With Cameras (July 2019)
- Bluetooth Low Energy Data Transfer Technology (2010)
- Bolsa Familia Social Welfare Program in Brazil (October 2020)
- Brainwave Tracking of Students in Class (2017)
- Brave Browser Affiliate Referral Scheme (June 2020)
- Car Companies Tracking Drivers With AI (2020)
- Charges Dismissed for Following Women with a Camera (April 2020)
- Child Safety Smartwatches Easy to Hack (2017)
- Child Suspects’ Private Data Published Online (October 2020)
- China Keeping Records on Muslims (February 2020)
- China’s Cryptocurrency (2019)
- Chinese Database With Details on More Than Two Million People (September 2020)
- Chrome Collects User Data Regardless of Consent
- Chrome's Wipe Private Data Feature (October 2020)
- Companies Track Phone’s Movements to Target Ads to Its Owners (September 2020)
- Company Executives Read Employee’s Therapy Chat to the Team (December 2016)
- Contact Tracing Apps (July 2020)
- Contact Tracing Software Sells People’s Information (July 2020)
- Cyber Espionage on LinkedIn (July 2020)
- Data Breach Compromising 500 Thousands Call of Duty Accounts (September 2020)
- Data Broker Exposes Millions Of Profiles (August 2020)
- Data Вroker LexisNexis Selling DMV Data (November 2020)
- Dataminr Helps Police Track Protesters (July 2020)
- Dating Apps User Information Leaked Online (June 2020)
- Departments of Motor Vehicles Sell Personal Information of Drivers (2019)
- EasyJet Cyber Attack (May 2020)
- Employee Monitoring Through Microsoft Office Software (December 2020)
- Employee Tracking at Barclays Bank (August 2020)
- FBI Using Travel Company Data to Track People (July 2020)
- Facebook Acquires GIPHY
- Facebook Tricks to Affect User Privacy Decisions (2012)
- Facebook's Search Profile Function (August 2020)
- Facebook's User Interests Classification (January 2019)
- Facebook's “Pseudoscience” Ad Category (April 2020)
- Facewatch Facial Recognition System (October 2020)
- Falsified Drug Tests Results (November 2020)
- Fayette Schools Introduce Thermal Imaging Cameras (August 2020)
- Anthem Data Breach (2014)
- Australian Scanned Drivers Licenses Database Leak
- Bolsa Familia Social Welfare Program in Brazil (October 2020)
- Cashier in the Supermarket Asking for Postal Code (October 2020)
- Central Health Employee Accessed Patient Data (July 2020)
- Child Suspects’ Private Data Published Online (October 2020)
- China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys (September 2020)
- Data Breach at Immigration Law Firm (November 2020)
- Equifax Data Breach (2017)
- Facebook Asking Users to Complete Their Profiles (2013)
- Facebook Excludes Older Workers From Job Ads (December 2017)
- Facebook's "People You May Know" Feature (November 2017)
- Fitness Trackers Inaccuracy (May 2020)
- Glitch in India's Biometric Welfare System (October 2019)
- Google Gets Access to Health Records from Ascension (November 2019)
- Google People Cards Feature (August 2020)
- Google+ Bugs Exposed Private Profile Information (2018)
- Hidden Cameras in Canadian Mall (October 2020)
- Information About Adopting Parents Shared With Birth Parents (2016)
- Jogger Wound Up in an Ad Without Knowing (November 2017)
- Lidl Offering Free Ice Cream for App Download (August 2020)
- Mariott Data Breach (2014)
- Online Harassment of COVID Infected in South Korea (September 2020)
- Online Tracking Agency Monitoring Peoples Online Behavior (2018)
- Sisters of Charity Data Breach (October 2020)
- States Sharing Driver's License Info
- Trump Campaign Using Phone Location-Tracking (September 2020)
- US Police Abusing Confidential Databases (September 2016)
- Uber Collecting Users Information (2017)
- Uni Sends A Database to Everyone From the List (September 2020)
- 45 Million Medical Files Leaked (December 2020)
- Abortion Rights in Indonesia (October 2020)
- Advertising Agency Uses Geofencing to Target Women Near Abortion Centers (2017)
- Ancestry.com Genealogy Company Giving Access to Its Database to the Police (2015)
- Anthem Data Breach (2014)
- Apps Sending Personal Information to Facebook (December 2018)
- Attempt to Extort Toronto Hospital Using Stolen Patient Data (October 2020)
- Central Health Employee Accessed Patient Data (July 2020)
- China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys (September 2020)
- China's Two-Child Policy (1 January 2016)
- Company Executives Read Employee’s Therapy Chat to the Team (December 2016)
- Contact Tracing Apps (July 2020)
- DNA Testing Companies Share Data with Third Parties (November 2017)
- Employee Health-Screening Technology (July 2020)
- Falsified Drug Tests Results (November 2020)
- Fayette Schools Introduce Thermal Imaging Cameras (August 2020)
- Fitness Trackers Inaccuracy (May 2020)
- GEDmatch Accidentaly Share Data With Police (July 2020)
- GEDmatch DNA Testing Website (2019)
- Glitch in India's Biometric Welfare System (October 2019)
- Google Acquires Fitbit (2019)
- Google Combining Search and Location Data (2016)
- Google Gets Access to Health Records from Ascension (November 2019)
- Hack of Psychotherapeutic Clinic in Finland (October 2020)
- LabCorp Security Flaw Exposes Information of Their Customers (2019)
- Medical Algorithm with a Racial Bias (October 2019)
- Medical Records of Cardiac Patients Left Unsecured (August 2020)
- Member of Parliament Leaks COVID Patients Information to Press (July 2020)
- Michigan College Tracking Students’ Movements (August 2020)
- Online Harassment of COVID Infected in South Korea (September 2020)
- Ontario Police Used COVID-19 Database Illegally (September 2020)
- Parents Testing Their Children’s DNA Online (January 2020)
- Pharma Database Exposes Information of Prescription-Drug Users (October 2020)
- Prisons Monitor Inmate Calls to Detect Coronavirus (September 2020)
- Researchers Predicting Parolees Recidivism With AI (August 2020)
- School Mandates Students to Wear COVID Detecting BioButton (September 2020)
- School-Based Software Monitors Kids’ Online Searches (March 2016)
- Secret Sharing App Whisper (October 2014)
- Sisters of Charity Data Breach (October 2020)
- Smart Helmets At the Bishop Airport (August 2020)
- Students Health Records Shared With Parents (October 2015)
- Target's Algorithm to Calculate Customer's Pregnancy Likelihood (February 2016)
- TikTok Parents Use Persons Face To Make Their Kids Cry (August 2020)
- Uptick in the Use of Wearables in the Global Response to COVID19 (October 2020)
- Walgreens Sells Medical Data (June 2017)
- Wisconsin Green Act to Find Troubled Veterans (April 2019)
- Zoom Video Recordings Publicly Available Online (April 2020)
- A Lifeguard is Forced to Wear A Speedo Instead of a Thigh Covering Swimsuit (2007)
- A Photo of a Woman Crying After Florida School Shooting (February 2018)
- AI Accuses Wrong Person of Police Brutality in Belarus (September 2020)
- AIRprint Fingerprint Recognition From a Distance (2011)
- Airport Facial Recognition Systems (2018)
- Amazon’s Ring Security Camera (2020)
- Ancestry.com Genealogy Company Giving Access to Its Database to the Police (2015)
- Android Sharing User Physical Activity With Third Party Apps (October 2017)
- Apple's Sexist Credit Card (November 2019)
- Australian News-Sharing Platform Leaks 80 Thousand User Records (October 2020)
- Australian Police Fly Drones Monitoring How People Obey Anti COVID19 Measures (August 2020)
- Australian Scanned Drivers Licenses Database Leak
- Australian Security Cameras Hacked (June 2020)
- Baltimore Police Flies Planes With Cameras (July 2019)
- Belarusian Hackers Leaked Police Personal Information (September 2020)
- Charges Dismissed for Following Women with a Camera (April 2020)
- Child Suspects’ Private Data Published Online (October 2020)
- Clearview's Facial Recognition App (2020)
- College Recruitment Database Leak (July 2020)
- Companies Stealing Influencers’ Faces (2020)
- Cyber Bullying Through Instagram (July 2018)
- Dangers of Sharenting (2019)
- Data Broker Exposes Millions Of Profiles (August 2020)
- Dating Apps User Information Leaked Online (June 2020)
- Digital Harassment After an Online Affair (November 2017)
- Employee Health-Screening Technology (July 2020)
- Facebook Facial Recognition (2015)
- Facebook's Search Profile Function (August 2020)
- Facewatch Facial Recognition System (October 2020)
- Facial Recognition Technology Wrongfully Accuses Person of Crime (November 2020)
- Fayette Schools Introduce Thermal Imaging Cameras (August 2020)
- Female Student Killed After Blackmail (2020)
- Fitness Trackers Inaccuracy (May 2020)
- Flickr Share Images with MegaFace (2014)
- GEDmatch DNA Testing Website (2019)
- Gait Recognition Technology by Watrix (2018)
- German Police Accesses People’s WhatsApp Message (July 2020)
- Glitch in India's Biometric Welfare System (October 2019)
- Google Acquires Fitbit (2019)
- Google Bug Sent Private Videos to the Wrong People (2020)
- Google People Cards Feature (August 2020)
- Grabs Four Privacy Breaches in Two Years (September 2020)
- Hack of Celebrities Revealing Photos (2014)
- Hidden Cameras in Canadian Mall (October 2020)
- Hidden Cameras in Women Bathrooms in Seoul
- High Resolution Image Generated From Low Resolution Image (March 2020)
- High School Teacher Taking Photos Inside Students Skirt (October 2017)
- IOS Apps Access to Camera (October 2017)
- Impersonating Profiles on Grindr (September 2018)
- Instagram Accused of Watching Users Through Cameras (August 2020)
TRACKING
- Abusers Using Smartphones to Track Victims (September 2014)
- AccuWeather App Stealing Location Data (August 2017)
- Advertising Agency Uses Geofencing to Target Women Near Abortion Centers (2017)
- Al Jazeera Journalists Phones Hack by NSO’s Spyware (December 2020)
- Amazon Extending Prime into Whole Foods (2017)
- Amazon Monitors Employees Private Facebook Groups (September 2020)
- Amazon’s Ring Security Camera (2020)
- Android Sharing User Physical Activity With Third Party Apps (October 2017)
- App Spied on Belarusian Protesters (August 2020)
- Apps Sending Personal Information to Facebook (December 2018)
- Apps With Eavesdropping Software (December 2017)
- Attorney-Client Calls by Jails (July 2020)
- Australian Security Cameras Hacked (June 2020)
- Bluetooth Low Energy Data Transfer Technology (2010)
- Brainwave Tracking of Students in Class (2017)
- Brave Browser Affiliate Referral Scheme (June 2020)
- Cellebrite Hackers Help United States Law Enforcement Hack Peoples Phones (September 2020)
- Child Safety Smartwatches Easy to Hack (2017)
- Chrome's Wipe Private Data Feature (October 2020)
- Clearview's Facial Recognition App (2020)
- Contact Tracing Software Sells People’s Information (July 2020)
- DHS Buys Cellphone Location Data (October 2020)
- Employee Monitoring Through Microsoft Office Software (December 2020)
- Employee Tracking at Barclays Bank (August 2020)
- FBI's De-anonymization Attack on Tor (November 2014)
- Facebook Acquires GIPHY
- Facebook Allowed Third Parties Read Users’ Messages (December 2019)
- Facebook Tricks to Affect User Privacy Decisions (2012)
- Facebook's User Interests Classification (January 2019)
- Facebook's “Pseudoscience” Ad Category (April 2020)
- Fitness Trackers Inaccuracy (May 2020)
- Flickr Share Images with MegaFace (2014)
- Ford's GPS Tracking Speed (January 2014)
- Geofencing Technology To Target Catholics At Mass (February 2020)
- Geofencing Used To Monitor Antiracism Protesters (August 2020)
- German Police Accesses People’s WhatsApp Message (July 2020)
- Google Acquires Fitbit (2019)
- Google Asks for Location Data in COVID19 Exposure Notification Software (July 2020)
- Google Collects Location Data (November 2017)
- Hack of Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Information of 700,000 Cops (June 2020)
- IBMs Weather Channel App Sharing User Location Data (2018)
- IRS Harvesting Data From a Database of Smartphone Movements (November 2020)
- Iranian Hackers Found Way Into Encrypted Apps (September 2020)
- Jeff Bezos's Phone Hack (April 2018)
- Keyless “Smart Access” Technologies (December 2019)
- Lidl Offering Free Ice Cream for App Download (August 2020)
- LinkNYC Kiosks in New York (2019)
- Man Using Tracking Device to Monitor Girlfriend (November 2020)
- Messaging App ToTok (December 2019)
- Microsoft Leaks 6.5TB of Users Personal Information (September 2020)
- Access to Face Recognition Search of Moscow Cameras System Is For Sale (November 2020)
- Amazon Extending Prime into Whole Foods (2017)
- Amazon’s Ring Security Camera (2020)
- Anthem Data Breach (2014)
- Australian News-Sharing Platform Leaks 80 Thousand User Records (October 2020)
- Automated Tenants Background Checks (May 2020)
- Belarusian Hackers Leaked Police Personal Information (September 2020)
- Chinese Database With Details on More Than Two Million People (September 2020)
- Clearview's Facial Recognition App (2020)
- College Recruitment Database Leak (July 2020)
- Contact Tracing Apps (July 2020)
- Contact Tracing Software Sells People’s Information (July 2020)
- Data Breach at Immigration Law Firm (November 2020)
- Data Broker Exposes Millions Of Profiles (August 2020)
- Dating Apps User Information Leaked Online (June 2020)
- Departments of Motor Vehicles Sell Personal Information of Drivers (2019)
- Digital Harassment After an Online Affair (November 2017)
- EasyJet Cyber Attack (May 2020)
- Facebook Disabling User Accounts Without Explanation (2019)
- Facebook Excludes Older Workers From Job Ads (December 2017)
- Facebook's "People You May Know" Feature (November 2017)
- Facebook's Search Profile Function (August 2020)
- Facebook's User Interests Classification (January 2019)
- Flickr Share Images with MegaFace (2014)
- Freepik Company Data Breach (October 2020)
- GEDmatch Giving Access to Genetic Data to the Police (November 2019)
- Gmail Controling which Political Emails Land in Primary Inbox (2020)
- Gmail Filters Black Lives Matter Emails (June 2020)
- Google Acquires Fitbit (2019)
- Google People Cards Feature (August 2020)
- Google Tracks User Purchasers via Gmail (May 2019)
- Google+ Bugs Exposed Private Profile Information (2018)
- Gravatar Can Be Abused for Information Collection of Its Profiles (October 2020)
- Hack of Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Information of 700,000 Cops (June 2020)
- IRS Harvesting Data From a Database of Smartphone Movements (November 2020)
- Impersonating Profiles on Grindr (September 2018)
- Information About Adopting Parents Shared With Birth Parents (2016)
- Jeff Bezos's Phone Hack (April 2018)
- Keyless “Smart Access” Technologies (December 2019)
- Lidl Offering Free Ice Cream for App Download (August 2020)
- Mariott Data Breach (2014)
- Mayor Reading Names and Addresses of People on Facebook Live (June 2020)
- Messaging App ToTok (December 2019)
- Microsoft User Asked for More Personal Information With New Computer (July 2020)
- Misucal. ly (later TikTok) Collecting Personal Information from Children (February 2019)
- Motel 6 Provided ICE with Guest Data (April 2019)
- My Friend Cayla Doll (2017)
- NSO Group Spyware (November 2019)
- NaviStone's Code Unmasking Anonymous Website Visitors (June 2017)
- Nigeria Orders Mobile Users to Link Phones to ID Numbers (December 2020)
- Abusers Using Smartphones to Track Victims (September 2014)
- Access to Face Recognition Search of Moscow Cameras System Is For Sale (November 2020)
- AccuWeather App Stealing Location Data (August 2017)
- Advertising Agency Uses Geofencing to Target Women Near Abortion Centers (2017)
- Amazon Extending Prime into Whole Foods (2017)
- App Spied on Belarusian Protesters (August 2020)
- Apps Sending Personal Information to Facebook (December 2018)
- Australian Security Cameras Hacked (June 2020)
- Automated Tenants Background Checks (May 2020)
- Baltimore Police Flies Planes With Cameras (July 2019)
- Bluetooth Low Energy Data Transfer Technology (2010)
- Car Companies Tracking Drivers With AI (2020)
- Cellebrite Hackers Help United States Law Enforcement Hack Peoples Phones (September 2020)
- Child Safety Smartwatches Easy to Hack (2017)
- Chinese Database With Details on More Than Two Million People (September 2020)
- Clearview's Facial Recognition App (2020)
- Companies Track Phone’s Movements to Target Ads to Its Owners (September 2020)
- Contact Tracing Apps (July 2020)
- DHS Buys Cellphone Location Data (October 2020)
- Data Вroker LexisNexis Selling DMV Data (November 2020)
- Dataminr Helps Police Track Protesters (July 2020)
- Departments of Motor Vehicles Sell Personal Information of Drivers (2019)
- Digital Harassment After an Online Affair (November 2017)
- EasyJet Cyber Attack (May 2020)
- FBI Using Travel Company Data to Track People (July 2020)
- Facebook's "People You May Know" Feature (November 2017)
- Facebook's Search Profile Function (August 2020)
- Fayette Schools Introduce Thermal Imaging Cameras (August 2020)
- Flickr Share Images with MegaFace (2014)
- Ford's GPS Tracking Speed (January 2014)
- Geofencing Technology To Target Catholics At Mass (February 2020)
- Geofencing Used To Monitor Antiracism Protesters (August 2020)
- Google Acquires Fitbit (2019)
- Google Asks for Location Data in COVID19 Exposure Notification Software (July 2020)
- Google Collects Location Data (November 2017)
- Google Combining Search and Location Data (2016)
- Google People Cards Feature (August 2020)
- Google Smart Displays to Monitor Peoples Proximity (October 2020)
- Gravatar Can Be Abused for Information Collection of Its Profiles (October 2020)
- IBMs Weather Channel App Sharing User Location Data (2018)
- IRS Harvesting Data From a Database of Smartphone Movements (November 2020)
- Impersonating Profiles on Grindr (September 2018)
- Improperly Anonymized Taxi Logs (July 2014)
- Information About Adopting Parents Shared With Birth Parents (2016)
- Jeff Bezos's Phone Hack (April 2018)
- License Plate Scanner Data Accessed by US CBP (July 2020)
- LinkNYC Kiosks in New York (2019)
- Los Angeles Police Uses Powerful Data Analytics Software (September 2020)
- Man Using Tracking Device to Monitor Girlfriend (November 2020)
- Mariott Data Breach (2014)
SOCIAL
- AI Accuses Wrong Person of Police Brutality in Belarus (September 2020)
- Animal Agriculture Industry Tracks and Punishes Critics (October 2020)
- Automated Tenants Background Checks (May 2020)
- Belarusian Hackers Leaked Police Personal Information (September 2020)
- Bolsa Familia Social Welfare Program in Brazil (October 2020)
- Canada Revenue Agency Credential Stuffing Attack (August 2020)
- China Keeping Records on Muslims (February 2020)
- College Recruitment Database Leak (July 2020)
- Cyber Espionage on LinkedIn (July 2020)
- Data Breach at Immigration Law Firm (November 2020)
- Employee Tracking at Barclays Bank (August 2020)
- Facebook Asking Users to Complete Their Profiles (2013)
- Google People Cards Feature (August 2020)
- Google+ Bugs Exposed Private Profile Information (2018)
- Hack of Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Information of 700,000 Cops (June 2020)
- Improperly Anonymized Taxi Logs (July 2014)
- Information About Adopting Parents Shared With Birth Parents (2016)
- Los Angeles Police Uses Powerful Data Analytics Software (September 2020)
- Monitoring of Travellers in the EU (October 2020)
- Office of Personnel Management Data Breach (June 2015)
- Online Tracking Agency Monitoring Peoples Online Behavior (2018)
- Personal Information About Democrats Donors Made Public (July 2020)
- School Makes Parents Consent to Childs Data Collection
- Sisters of Charity Data Breach (October 2020)
- Slack's Insufficient Security Measures (July 2019)
- Student Loan Fraud Through Identity Theft (October 2020)
- Students Grades in Great Britain Calculated by an Algorithm (August 2020)
- Uni Sends A Database to Everyone From the List (September 2020)
- Automated Tenants Background Checks (May 2020)
- Child Suspects’ Private Data Published Online (October 2020)
- Facewatch Facial Recognition System (October 2020)
- Italian Municipality Installs Facial Recognition (June 2020)
- LEDS Mega Database in Great Britain (October 2020)
- Los Angeles Police Uses Facial Recognition Software (October 2020)
- Los Angeles Police Uses Powerful Data Analytics Software (September 2020)
- Monitoring of Travellers in the EU (October 2020)
- Police Uses Algorithm To Predict Who Might Commit a Crime (September 2020)
- Researchers Predicting Parolees Recidivism With AI (August 2020)
- UK Stores Are Using Facial Recognition to Track Shoppers (December 2020)
- US Police Abusing Confidential Databases (September 2016)
- Wrong Man Accused For Accosting a Group of People (June 2020)
- A Photo of a Woman Crying After Florida School Shooting (February 2018)
- Australian Police Fly Drones Monitoring How People Obey Anti COVID19 Measures (August 2020)
- Automated Tenants Background Checks (May 2020)
- China's Two-Child Policy (1 January 2016)
- Digital Harassment After an Online Affair (November 2017)
- Facebook Asking Users to Complete Their Profiles (2013)
- Facebook Disabling User Accounts Without Explanation (2019)
- Identity Non-Theft Case (May 2009)
- Jeff Bezos's Phone Hack (April 2018)
- Jogger Wound Up in an Ad Without Knowing (November 2017)
- Keyless “Smart Access” Technologies (December 2019)
- Larry King’s Video Used For Disinformation (August 2020)
- Personal Information About Democrats Donors Made Public (July 2020)
- Personal Information Of Voters in Russia Was Compromised (July 2020)
- Police Uses Algorithm To Predict Who Might Commit a Crime (September 2020)
- Researchers Predicting Parolees Recidivism With AI (August 2020)
- Scammers Hijack Popular YouTube Accounts (July 2020)
- TikTok Data Tracking and Sharing Practices (July 2020)
- US Police Abusing Confidential Databases (September 2016)
- Wrong Man Accused For Accosting a Group of People (June 2020)
- A Photo of a Woman Crying After Florida School Shooting (February 2018)
- Abortion Rights in Indonesia (October 2020)
- Ancestry.com Genealogy Company Giving Access to Its Database to the Police (2015)
- Attempt to Extort Toronto Hospital Using Stolen Patient Data (October 2020)
- Australian Security Cameras Hacked (June 2020)
- Bolsa Familia Social Welfare Program in Brazil (October 2020)
- China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys (September 2020)
- China Keeping Records on Muslims (February 2020)
- China's Two-Child Policy (1 January 2016)
- Chinese Database With Details on More Than Two Million People (September 2020)
- College Recruitment Database Leak (July 2020)
- Digital Harassment After an Online Affair (November 2017)
- Employer Asking Candidates Family Questions (July 2020)
- H&M Management Collect Detailed Personal Information on Employees (2019)
- Identity Theft of Deceased People for Fraud (October 2020)
- Information About Adopting Parents Shared With Birth Parents (2016)
- Jeff Bezos's Phone Hack (April 2018)
- Keyless “Smart Access” Technologies (December 2019)
- Online Tracking Agency Monitoring Peoples Online Behavior (2018)
- Parents Spying On a Nanny (August 2019)
- Personal Information of Prisoners Who Used GettingOut App Is Leaked (August 2020)
- Target's Algorithm to Calculate Customer's Pregnancy Likelihood (February 2016)
- A Man Gets Arrested After Facebook Translated His Post Wrongly (2017)
- Animal Agriculture Industry Tracks and Punishes Critics (October 2020)
- China Keeping Records on Muslims (February 2020)
- College Recruitment Database Leak (July 2020)
- Data Broker Exposes Millions Of Profiles (August 2020)
- Digital Harassment After an Online Affair (November 2017)
- Facebook Asking Users to Complete Their Profiles (2013)
- Facebook Excludes Older Workers From Job Ads (December 2017)
- Facebook's "People You May Know" Feature (November 2017)
- Facebook's Search Profile Function (August 2020)
- Facebook's User Interests Classification (January 2019)
- Facewatch Facial Recognition System (October 2020)
- Geofencing Used To Monitor Antiracism Protesters (August 2020)
- Google People Cards Feature (August 2020)
- H&M Management Collect Detailed Personal Information on Employees (2019)
- Hack of Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Information of 700,000 Cops (June 2020)
- High-Profile Twitter Accounts Hack (July 2020)
- Instagram Sliders (2019)
- Italian Municipality Installs Facial Recognition (June 2020)
- Jeff Bezos's Phone Hack (April 2018)
- Login to Oculus Only Possible With Facebook Account (August 2020)
- Los Angeles Police Uses Powerful Data Analytics Software (September 2020)
- Messaging App ToTok (December 2019)
- Personal Information of Prisoners Who Used GettingOut App Is Leaked (August 2020)
- Researchers Predicting Parolees Recidivism With AI (August 2020)
- Secret Sharing App Whisper (October 2014)
- Slack's Insufficient Security Measures (July 2019)
- Social Network Xanga Collecting Children’s Personal Information Without Parents’ Consent (2006)
- TikTok Accessing Clipboard Content (June 2020)
- TikTok Data Tracking and Sharing Practices (July 2020)
- UK Local Authorities Analysing Peoples Social Media Accounts (October 2020)
- Uber Collecting Users Information (2017)
- WhatsApp Accessing User Contact Details And Tracking Users (October 2020)
- WhatsApp Share Data with Facebook (October 2017)
- A Man Gets Arrested After Facebook Translated His Post Wrongly (2017)
- Al Jazeera Journalists Phones Hack by NSO’s Spyware (December 2020)
- Alexa Installed In Apartments Before People Move In (September 2020)
- Amazon Gives Access to Alexa Recordings to a Wrong User (2018)
- Amazon's Alexa Asking Questions (July 2020)
- Apps With Eavesdropping Software (December 2017)
- Attorney-Client Calls by Jails (July 2020)
- College Recruitment Database Leak (July 2020)
- Company Executives Read Employee’s Therapy Chat to the Team (December 2016)
- Dating Apps User Information Leaked Online (June 2020)
- Employee Monitoring Through Microsoft Office Software (December 2020)
- Facebook Allowed Third Parties Read Users’ Messages (December 2019)
- Facebook's Search Profile Function (August 2020)
- German Police Accesses People’s WhatsApp Message (July 2020)
- Gmail Filters Black Lives Matter Emails (June 2020)
- Google+ Bugs Exposed Private Profile Information (2018)
- H&M Management Collect Detailed Personal Information on Employees (2019)
- High-Profile Twitter Accounts Hack (July 2020)
- Instagram Keeping User Information After Deletion (August 2020)
- Iranian Hackers Found Way Into Encrypted Apps (September 2020)
- Jeff Bezos's Phone Hack (April 2018)
- Larry King’s Video Used For Disinformation (August 2020)
- Messaging App ToTok (December 2019)
- My Friend Cayla Doll (2017)
- NSO Group Spyware (November 2019)
- Online Harassment of COVID Infected in South Korea (September 2020)
- PS5 Recording Players Voice When They Get a Trophy (December 2020)
- Parents Spying On a Nanny (August 2019)
- Personal Information of Prisoners Who Used GettingOut App Is Leaked (August 2020)
- Photographer Snaps Intimate Texts of Strangers (July 2020)
- Police Spying on Connected Cars (January 2017)
- Prisons Monitor Inmate Calls to Detect Coronavirus (September 2020)
- Scammers Hijack Popular YouTube Accounts (July 2020)
- School-Based Software Monitors Kids’ Online Searches (March 2016)
- Schools Hacking Students’ Phones (May 2016)
- Sift Consumer Scoring (2019)
- Slack's Insufficient Security Measures (July 2019)
- TikTok Accessing Clipboard Content (June 2020)
- TikTok Data Tracking and Sharing Practices (July 2020)
- Torrent Website Shares User Data with Anti Piracy Law Firm (August 2020)
- Voice Assistant Devices (2020)
- WhatsApp Vulnerability Compromises Chat Sessions Through Gifs (October 2019)
- Yahoo Shares Personal Information of Pro Democracy Dissident with China (September 2020)
- Zoom Video Recordings Publicly Available Online (April 2020)
FINANCIAL
- Apple's Sexist Credit Card (November 2019)
- Cashier in the Supermarket Asking for Postal Code (October 2020)
- China’s Cryptocurrency (2019)
- Data Breach Compromising 500 Thousands Call of Duty Accounts (September 2020)
- Grabs Four Privacy Breaches in Two Years (September 2020)
- Gravatar Can Be Abused for Information Collection of Its Profiles (October 2020)
- Identity Theft of Deceased People for Fraud (October 2020)
- Jeff Bezos's Phone Hack (April 2018)
- Man Using Tracking Device to Monitor Girlfriend (November 2020)
- Mariott Data Breach (2014)
- Online Tracking Agency Monitoring Peoples Online Behavior (2018)
- Precious Metal Retailer Payment Information Breach (October 2020)
- Ritz Customers Targeted After the Data Breach (October 2020)
- Suggestion for Banks to Set New Rules For the Sale of Guns (February 2018)
- Bolsa Familia Social Welfare Program in Brazil (October 2020)
- China’s Cryptocurrency (2019)
- DHS Buys Cellphone Location Data (October 2020)
- Data Вroker LexisNexis Selling DMV Data (November 2020)
- Grabs Four Privacy Breaches in Two Years (September 2020)
- License Plate Scanner Data Accessed by US CBP (July 2020)
- NaviStone's Code Unmasking Anonymous Website Visitors (June 2017)
- Powerfront’s Technology for Tracking Online Shoppers (November 2019)
- Target's Algorithm to Calculate Customer's Pregnancy Likelihood (February 2016)
- Zoom App Share Data with Facebook (March 2020)
- Allstate’s Insurance Pricing Algorithm Based on Non-Risk Factors (2013)
- Amazon Extending Prime into Whole Foods (2017)
- Anthem Data Breach (2014)
- Apple's Sexist Credit Card (November 2019)
- Canada Revenue Agency Credential Stuffing Attack (August 2020)
- Cashier in the Supermarket Asking for Postal Code (October 2020)
- China’s Cryptocurrency (2019)
- Data Вroker LexisNexis Selling DMV Data (November 2020)
- FBI Using Travel Company Data to Track People (July 2020)
- Google Analyzes Credit Card Transactions (May 2017)
- Google Tracks User Purchasers via Gmail (May 2019)
- Medical Algorithm with a Racial Bias (October 2019)
- NaviStone's Code Unmasking Anonymous Website Visitors (June 2017)
- Online Tracking Agency Monitoring Peoples Online Behavior (2018)
- Personal Information About Democrats Donors Made Public (July 2020)
- Powerfront’s Technology for Tracking Online Shoppers (November 2019)
- Precious Metal Retailer Payment Information Breach (October 2020)
- Razer Leaked Personal Information of More Than Hundred Thousands Customers (August 2020)
- Ritz Customers Targeted After the Data Breach (October 2020)
- Shopify Support Team Abused Access to Company Network (October 2020)
- Sisters of Charity Data Breach (October 2020)
- Suggestion for Banks to Set New Rules For the Sale of Guns (February 2018)
- Target's Algorithm to Calculate Customer's Pregnancy Likelihood (February 2016)
- Anthem Data Breach (2014)
- Apple's Sexist Credit Card (November 2019)
- EasyJet Cyber Attack (May 2020)
- Equifax Data Breach (2017)
- Identity Non-Theft Case (May 2009)
- Identity Theft of Deceased People for Fraud (October 2020)
- Personal Information Of Voters in Russia Was Compromised (July 2020)
- Suggestion for Banks to Set New Rules For the Sale of Guns (February 2018)
HISTORICAL
- Automated Tenants Background Checks (May 2020)
- SFPD Access Private Security Cameras to Spy on Protesters (July 2020)