Increased Accessibility

Increased Accessibility is a form of DISSEMINATION privacy harm under the Solove taxonomy. Increased Accessibility is defined as "amplifying the accessibility of personal information."

A court making proceeding searchable on the internet without redacting personal information.

Occurrences

• 1Health.io and it's Inadequate Protection of Genetic Data and Unfair Privacy Policy (16 June 2023)
• AI Pandemic
• AccuWeather App Stealing Location Data (August 2017)
• Apple consumer privacy concerns
• Automated Tenants Background Checks (May 2020)
• Bluetooth Low Energy Data Transfer Technology (2010)
• Chick-Fil-A (25 January 2023)
• Child Safety Smartwatches Easy to Hack (2017)
• College Recruitment Database Leak (July 2020)
• Contact Tracing Apps (July 2020)
• Contact Tracing Software Sells People’s Information (July 2020)
• Cyber Bullying Through Instagram (July 2018)
• Dangers of Sharenting (2019)
• Data Broker Exposes Millions Of Profiles (August 2020)
• Digital Harassment After an Online Affair (November 2017)
• Facebook's "People You May Know" Feature (November 2017)
• Facebook's Search Profile Function (August 2020)
• Flickr Share Images with MegaFace (2014)
• France aims to protect kids from parents oversharing pics online (28 February 2023)
• Google Analyzes Credit Card Transactions (May 2017)
• Google Privacy Policy Update and Its Implications on Data Privacy (1 July 2023)
• Google+ Bugs Exposed Private Profile Information (2018)
• Hack of Celebrities Revealing Photos (2014)
• IPhone 'NameDrop' Feature Raises Privacy Concerns (29 November 2023)
• IRS Harvesting Data From a Database of Smartphone Movements (November 2020)
• Jogger Wound Up in an Ad Without Knowing (November 2017)
• Larry King’s Video Used For Disinformation (August 2020)
• Leaked Sex Tape Genre on PornHub (July 2020)
• Liberty Safe Discloses Master Code (30 August 2023)
• LinkedIn and AI Data Privacy (September 2024)
• Mayor Reading Names and Addresses of People on Facebook Live (June 2020)
• Medical Records of Cardiac Patients Left Unsecured (August 2020)
• Microsoft Facial Recognition Data Base (2016)
• Microsoft and OpenAI Face $3B Lawsuit Over Privacy Violations (June 2023)
• Motel 6 Provided ICE with Guest Data (April 2019)
• NYC Teenspace (November 2023)
• NaviStone's Code Unmasking Anonymous Website Visitors (June 2017)
• Nude Leak Scandal In Ireland (November 2020)
• Online Harassment of COVID Infected in South Korea (September 2020)
• PRHC reaches $988K proposed settlement for patient privacy breaches in 2011-2012
• Parents Testing Their Children’s DNA Online (January 2020)
• Personal Information About Democrats Donors Made Public (July 2020)
• Personal Information Of Voters in Russia Was Compromised (July 2020)
• Pharmacy Chain Deploys Facial Recognition Systems in Its Stores (July 2020)
• Photographer Snaps Intimate Texts of Strangers (July 2020)
• Policeman Shares CCTV Footage Of A Naked Woman (2017)
• Porn Deepfakes (September 2020)
• Prime Ministers Personal Information Hacked After a Post on Instagram (March 2020)
• Restaurant Worker Uses Contact Tracing Details to Personally Contact a Woman (May 2020)
• Revenge Porn (August 2019)

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Laws and Regulations

The following laws and regulations address the Increased Accessibility harm.