Surveillance

Surveillance is a form of a COLLECTION privacy harm under the Solove taxonomy. Surveillance is defined as "watching, listening to, or recording of an individual's activities."

A website monitoring cursor movements of a visitor while visiting the website.

Occurrences

• A Photo of a Woman Crying After Florida School Shooting (February 2018)
• 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)
• Alexa Installed In Apartments Before People Move In (September 2020)
• Amazon Agrees to Pay $25 Million Fine to Settle Allegations Alexa Voice Assistant Violated Children’s Privacy Law (20 July 2023)
• Amazon Extending Prime into Whole Foods (2017)
• Amazon Monitors Employees Private Facebook Groups (September 2020)
• Amazon Violates Child Privacy Law (1 June 2023)
• Amazon heavily fined for invasion of privacy and insecurity (1 June 2023)
• Amazon sued for not telling New York store customers about facial recognition (16 March 2023)
• Amazon to Pay $25 Million to Settle Children’s Privacy Charges (May 2023)
• Amazon to pay over $30 million in FTC settlements over Ring, Alexa privacy violations (31 May 2023)
• 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)
• Apple Faces Lawsuit Over AirTag Stalking Dangers (6 December 2022)
• Apps Sending Personal Information to Facebook (December 2018)
• Apps With Eavesdropping Software (December 2017)
• Attorney-Client Calls by Jails (July 2020)
• Australian Police Fly Drones Monitoring How People Obey Anti COVID19 Measures (August 2020)
• Australian Security Cameras Hacked (June 2020)
• Automakers prevail in lawsuit alleging data collection violated Washington Privacy Act (7 November 2023)
• B.C. Canadian Tire stores broke privacy laws with facial ID technology (20 April 2023)
• Balancing Safety and Privacy: The Ethics of Facial Recognition in Schools (17 October 2019)
• Baltimore Police Flies Planes With Cameras (July 2019)
• Barred From Grocery Stores by Facial Recognition British merchants (June 2023)
• BetterHelp Privacy Harm (3 March 2023)
• BetterHelp under Fire : " FTC Alleges Privacy Violations and Misleading Practices in Online Counseling" (March 2023)
• Biometrics and Privacy: The Expansion of TSA's Facial Recognition Program in Airports (5 June 2023)
• Bluetooth Low Energy Data Transfer Technology (2010)
• Brainwave Tracking of Students in Class (2017)
• Brave Browser Affiliate Referral Scheme (June 2020)
• CRITEO's €40 Million Fine: GDPR Violations and the Impact on User Privacy in Personalized Advertising (June 2023)
• California hits Google for $93M over deceptive location data options (14 September 2023)
• Cambridge Analytica and Facebook Scandal (2016)
• Car Companies Tracking Drivers With AI (2020)
• Cellebrite Hackers Help United States Law Enforcement Hack Peoples Phones (September 2020)
• Charges Dismissed for Following Women with a Camera (April 2020)
• Child Safety Smartwatches Easy to Hack (2017)
• China Keeping Records on Muslims (February 2020)
• China's Massive Data Breach Reveals Growing Concerns Over Surveillance State (15 July 2022)
• China's Two-Child Policy (1 January 2016)
• China’s Cryptocurrency (2019)
• Chinese Database With Details on More Than Two Million People (September 2020)
• Chinese facial recognition company exposes the database of people's locations (13 February 2019)
• Chrome Collects User Data Regardless of Consent
• Clearview's Facial Recognition App (2020)

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Laws and Regulations

The following laws and regulations address the Surveillance harm.