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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)

Authenticating

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)

Knowledge & Belief

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

Identifying

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)

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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)

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Demographic

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
To data breach or not to data breach (April 2021)
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)

Medical and Health

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)

Physical Characteristics

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)

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TRACKING

Computer Device

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)

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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)

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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)

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SOCIAL

Professional

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)
To data breach or not to data breach (April 2021)
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)

Public Life

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)
To data breach or not to data breach (April 2021)

Social Network

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)
To data breach or not to data breach (April 2021)
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)

Communication

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)

Transactional

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)

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