Articles by types of high risk groups
Crime
Criminal
- Attorney-Client Calls by Jails (July 2020)
- B.C. Canadian Tire stores broke privacy laws with facial ID technology (20 April 2023)
- Child Suspects’ Private Data Published Online (October 2020)
- Google Gives Search Keywords Data to Police (October 2020)
- LEDS Mega Database in Great Britain (October 2020)
- Liberty Safe Discloses Master Code (30 August 2023)
- Los Angeles Police Uses Powerful Data Analytics Software (September 2020)
- NSO Group Spyware (November 2019)
- Personal Information of Prisoners Who Used GettingOut App Is Leaked (August 2020)
- Police Spying on Connected Cars (January 2017)
- Police Uses Algorithm To Predict Who Might Commit a Crime (September 2020)
- Prisons Monitor Inmate Calls to Detect Coronavirus (September 2020)
- Remote Tracking of Parolees Through Apps (November 2020)
- Researchers Predicting Parolees Recidivism With AI (August 2020)
Law Enforcement Officer
- AI Accuses Wrong Person of Police Brutality in Belarus (September 2020)
- Belarusian Hackers Leaked Police Personal Information (September 2020)
- Hack of Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Information of 700,000 Cops (June 2020)
Suspect
- Ancestry.com Genealogy Company Giving Access to Its Database to the Police (2015)
- Cellebrite Hackers Help United States Law Enforcement Hack Peoples Phones (September 2020)
- FBI Using Travel Company Data to Track People (July 2020)
- Falsified Drug Tests Results (November 2020)
- GEDmatch Accidentaly Share Data With Police (July 2020)
- GEDmatch Giving Access to Genetic Data to the Police (November 2019)
- Geofencing Used To Monitor Antiracism Protesters (August 2020)
- German Police Accesses People’s WhatsApp Message (July 2020)
- Liberty Safe Discloses Master Code (30 August 2023)
- Los Angeles Police Uses Facial Recognition Software (October 2020)
- Police Investigate Protesters Through Smart Streetlight (June 2020)
- Police Spying on Connected Cars (January 2017)
- Police Uses Algorithm To Predict Who Might Commit a Crime (September 2020)
- Protesters Tracked by Their Phones (2019)
- SFPD Access Private Security Cameras to Spy on Protesters (July 2020)
- US Police Abusing Confidential Databases (September 2016)
- Wrong Man Accused For Accosting a Group of People (June 2020)
Victim
- Abusers Using Smartphones to Track Victims (September 2014)
Victim of Domestic Violence
- Clearview AI Settles Lawsuit and Limits the Sales of Facial Recognition Database (May 2020)
- Smart Devices Exploited For Domestic Abuse (October 2020)
Victim of Human Trafficking
Witness
Witness Protection Participant
Money
Debtor
Celebrity
- AI Impersonation Through Deepfakes Troubles Bollywood (November 2023)
- Companies Stealing Influencers’ Faces (2020)
- Elon Musk Twitter Suspension (16 December 2022)
- Hack of Celebrities Revealing Photos (2014)
- High-Profile Twitter Accounts Hack (July 2020)
- Porn Deepfakes (September 2020)
- Revenge Porn (August 2019)
- Scammers Hijack Popular YouTube Accounts (July 2020)
- TikTok Collecting User MAC Addresses (August 2020)
- Twitter Contractors Spy on Accounts (2017)
- Uber Collecting Users Information (2017)
Wealthy
- Chinese Database With Details on More Than Two Million People (September 2020)
- High-Profile Twitter Accounts Hack (July 2020)
- Jeff Bezos's Phone Hack (April 2018)
- Paparazzi Photos of Harry and Meghan Markle’s Son (July 2020)
- Powerfront’s Technology for Tracking Online Shoppers (November 2019)
- Prime Ministers Personal Information Hacked After a Post on Instagram (March 2020)
- Privacy Dark Patterns (August 2020)
- Scammers Hijack Popular YouTube Accounts (July 2020)
- TikTok Collecting User MAC Addresses (August 2020)
Diminished Capacity
Child
- Amazon Agrees to Pay $25 Million Fine to Settle Allegations Alexa Voice Assistant Violated Children’s Privacy Law (20 July 2023)
- Amazon Violates Child Privacy Law (1 June 2023)
- Amazon heavily fined for invasion of privacy and insecurity (1 June 2023)
- Android Sharing User Physical Activity With Third Party Apps (October 2017)
- Apps With Eavesdropping Software (December 2017)
- ChatGPT Privacy Issues (31 March 2023)
- Child Safety Smartwatches Easy to Hack (2017)
- Child Suspects’ Private Data Published Online (October 2020)
- College Recruitment Database Leak (July 2020)
- Cyber Bullying Through Instagram (July 2018)
- Dangers of Sharenting (2019)
- Disappearance of British woman: Privacy Concerns and Police Transparency (27 January 2023)
- Discord Admits Data Breach: Info of 760K Users Sold Online (14 August 2023)
- F.B.I. Says Video Voyeur Hid Camera in Cruise Ship Bathroom (April 30 JL)
- FTC Will Require Microsoft to Pay $20 million over Charges it Illegally Collected Personal Information from Children without Their Parents’ Consent (5 June 2023)
- Facebook's "People You May Know" Feature (November 2017)
- Facebook’ Algorithm to Change User Behaviour (March 2017)
- France aims to protect kids from parents oversharing pics online (28 February 2023)
- Google Faces $5 Billion Lawsuit For Collecting User Data In Incognito Mode (2 June 2020)
- Hidden Airbnb Camera (April 2019)
- How Meta’s New Face Camera Heralds a New Age of Surveillance (13 December 2023)
- IOS Apps Access to Camera (October 2017)
- Instagram Sliders (2019)
- Instagram's Privacy Dilemma: The App Alleges to Show Who Views Your Profile, Raising Privacy Concerns (7 November 2023)
- Kid Security: Parental Control App (September 2023)
- Malicious Android App Records Users Without Consent (24 May 2023)
- Meta Fined $400 Million for Treatment of Children’s Data on Instagram (5 September 2022)
- Meta Pixels found in Health Systems across America tied to the breach of sensitive medical information of over 3,000,000 people. (October 2022)
- Microsoft Fined for COPPA Violation (6 June 2023)
- Microsoft to pay $20m for child privacy violations (6 June 2023)
- Misucal. ly (later TikTok) Collecting Personal Information from Children (February 2019)
- My Friend Cayla Doll (2017)
- New Jersey Department of Health Retaining Newborn Data without Parental Consent (8 November 2023)
- Online Violence Against Women and Girls (October 2020)
- PS5 Recording Players Voice When They Get a Trophy (December 2020)
- Parents Testing Their Children’s DNA Online (January 2020)
- Parents Using GPS Ankle Trackers On Their Children (2018)
- Privacy Concerns over Transgender Sports Case (7 December 2023)
- Privacy Dark Patterns (August 2020)
- Ring's Privacy Failures - Spying and Harassing Through Home Cameras (May 2023)
- School Collecting Fingerprints to Verify Students’ Lunch Payments (2015)
- School Makes Parents Consent to Childs Data Collection
- School-Based Software Monitors Kids’ Online Searches (March 2016)
- Social Network Xanga Collecting Children’s Personal Information Without Parents’ Consent (2006)
- Target's Algorithm to Calculate Customer's Pregnancy Likelihood (February 2016)
- Teacher Filming His Female Students (2010)
- TikTok Collecting User MAC Addresses (August 2020)
- TikTok Data Tracking and Sharing Practices (July 2020)
- TikTok Tracks Users Without Their Consent (2022)
- TikTok fined 345 million euros over handling of children's data in Europe
- Amazon to Pay $25 Million to Settle Children’s Privacy Charges (May 2023)
- ChatGPT Privacy Issues (31 March 2023)
- Clearview's Facial Recognition App (2020)
- Face Search Engine PimEyes Blocks Searches of Children’s Faces (October 2023)
- Flickr Share Images with MegaFace (2014)
- Google Faces $5 Billion Lawsuit For Collecting User Data In Incognito Mode (2 June 2020)
- Google Fails to End $5 Billion Consumer Privacy Lawsuit (1 June 2016)
- Italy Bans ChatGPT Over Privacy Concerns (March 2023)
- Michigan College Tracking Students’ Movements (August 2020)
- Targeted Ads found on YouTube's "made for kids" content (August 2023)
- TikTok Collecting User MAC Addresses (August 2020)
- Twitch launches Privacy Center to educate users about their personal data (16 November 2023)
- Twitter Contractors Spy on Accounts (2017)
- US Federal Judge Rules Against Meta in Privacy Fight with FTC (27 November 2023)
- YouTube Ads May Have Led to Online Tracking of Children, Research Says (17 August 2023)
- Youtube Using Children’s Data for Targeting Advertisement (2019)
- ‘Fortnite’ maker Epic settles child privacy case, agrees to make refunds (December 2022)
- ‘I’m in your baby’s room’: A hacker took over a baby monitor and broadcast threats, parents say (20 December 2018)
Mentally Disabled
- Mental Health Charities in the UK Hand Facebook Sensitive Data (3 June 2023)
- Meta Pixels found in Health Systems across America tied to the breach of sensitive medical information of over 3,000,000 people. (October 2022)
- Wisconsin Green Act to Find Troubled Veterans (April 2019)
Medical Patient
- 45 Million Medical Files Leaked (December 2020)
- A sweeping drug addiction risk algorithm (July 2020)
- Apps Sending Personal Information to Facebook (December 2018)
- Attempt to Extort Toronto Hospital Using Stolen Patient Data (October 2020)
- CVS, Kroger, and Rite Aid Disclose Patient Prescriptions Without a Warrant (15 December 2023)
- Central Health Employee Accessed Patient Data (July 2020)
- Contact Tracing Apps (July 2020)
- Dating Apps User Information Leaked Online (June 2020)
- 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)
- Manasa Health Center Violates HIPAA By Responding To Google Reviews (5 June 2023)
- Medical Records of Cardiac Patients Left Unsecured (August 2020)
- Member of Parliament Leaks COVID Patients Information to Press (July 2020)
- Online Harassment of COVID Infected in South Korea (September 2020)
- Ontario Police Used COVID-19 Database Illegally (September 2020)
- PRHC reaches $988K proposed settlement for patient privacy breaches in 2011-2012
- Pharma Database Exposes Information of Prescription-Drug Users (October 2020)
- Pharmacies Shared Patient Records Without a Warrant, an Inquiry Finds (13 December 2023)
- Photographer Snaps Intimate Texts of Strangers (July 2020)
- Sisters of Charity Data Breach (October 2020)
- Traces.ai To Trace COVID-19 Patient Contacts At Risk (March 2020)
- Walgreens Sells Medical Data (June 2017)
- Zoom Video Recordings Publicly Available Online (April 2020)
Elderly
- Android Sharing User Physical Activity With Third Party Apps (October 2017)
- Apps With Eavesdropping Software (December 2017)
- Disappearance of British woman: Privacy Concerns and Police Transparency (27 January 2023)
- Don't Believe Everything you Hear: How Cybercriminals Are Exploiting AI Voice Cloning (April 2023)
- F.B.I. Says Video Voyeur Hid Camera in Cruise Ship Bathroom (April 30 JL)
- Facebook Excludes Older Workers From Job Ads (December 2017)
- Facebook's "People You May Know" Feature (November 2017)
- Fitness Trackers Inaccuracy (May 2020)
- How Meta’s New Face Camera Heralds a New Age of Surveillance (13 December 2023)
- IOS Apps Access to Camera (October 2017)
- Meta Pixels found in Health Systems across America tied to the breach of sensitive medical information of over 3,000,000 people. (October 2022)
- Privacy Dark Patterns (August 2020)
- Redcliffe Labs (25 October 2023)
- Ring's Privacy Failures - Spying and Harassing Through Home Cameras (May 2023)
- TikTok Tracks Users Without Their Consent (2022)
- Walgreens Sells Medical Data (June 2017)
Illiterate
Political
Political Activist
- Liberty Safe Discloses Master Code (30 August 2023)
- NSO Group Spyware (November 2019)
- Policeman Shares CCTV Footage Of A Naked Woman (2017)
- Yahoo Shares Personal Information of Pro Democracy Dissident with China (September 2020)
- Animal Agriculture Industry Tracks and Punishes Critics (October 2020)
- App Spied on Belarusian Protesters (August 2020)
- Dataminr Helps Police Track Protesters (July 2020)
- Iranian Hackers Found Way Into Encrypted Apps (September 2020)
- Liberty Safe Discloses Master Code (30 August 2023)
- Mayor Reading Names and Addresses of People on Facebook Live (June 2020)
- Police Investigate Protesters Through Smart Streetlight (June 2020)
- Protesters Tracked by Their Phones (2019)
- Virginia Politician Suffers Her Explicit Video Being Leaked (September 2023)
Political Prisoner
Refugee
Freedom Fighter
- App Spied on Belarusian Protesters (August 2020)
- NSO Group Spyware (November 2019)
- SFPD Access Private Security Cameras to Spy on Protesters (July 2020)
- Yahoo Shares Personal Information of Pro Democracy Dissident with China (September 2020)
- Dataminr Helps Police Track Protesters (July 2020)
- Police Investigate Protesters Through Smart Streetlight (June 2020)
- Protesters Tracked by Their Phones (2019)
Human Rights Worker
- NSO Group Spyware (November 2019)
Voter
- AI Being Used to Spread Misinformation and How It Can Affect the Presidential Election (July 2023)
- Geofencing Technology To Target Catholics At Mass (February 2020)
- Personal Information About Democrats Donors Made Public (July 2020)
- Personal Information Of Voters in Russia Was Compromised (July 2020)
- Politicians Using Smart-TV Data for Ads (2019)
- Protesters Tracked by Their Phones (2019)
- Trump Campaign Using Phone Location-Tracking (September 2020)
- Trump Campaign Videotaping Voters (October 2020)
Politician
- Chinese Database With Details on More Than Two Million People (September 2020)
- High-Profile Twitter Accounts Hack (July 2020)
- Office of Personnel Management Data Breach (June 2015)
- Prime Ministers Personal Information Hacked After a Post on Instagram (March 2020)
Others
Adulter
Candidate
- AI Being Used to Spread Misinformation and How It Can Affect the Presidential Election (July 2023)
- Employer Asking Candidates Family Questions (July 2020)
Employee
- Amazon Monitors Employees Private Facebook Groups (September 2020)
- Canada Revenue Agency Credential Stuffing Attack (August 2020)
- Company Executives Read Employee’s Therapy Chat to the Team (December 2016)
- Employee Health-Screening Technology (July 2020)
- Employee Monitoring Through Microsoft Office Software (December 2020)
- Employee Tracking at Barclays Bank (August 2020)
- H&M Management Collect Detailed Personal Information on Employees (2019)
- Italy Bans ChatGPT Over Privacy Concerns (March 2023)
- Little Caesar Enterprises Collect Fingerprint Data From Employees (June 2019)
- Parents Spying On a Nanny (August 2019)
- Slack's Insufficient Security Measures (July 2019)
- Uber Collecting Users Information (2017)
- White House seeks information on tools used for automated employee surveillance (1 May 2023)
Pregnant Women
- Abortion Rights in Indonesia (October 2020)
- Advertising Agency Uses Geofencing to Target Women Near Abortion Centers (2017)
- China's Two-Child Policy (1 January 2016)
- Google workers demand abortion protections and stronger data privacy (August 2022)
- Photographer Snaps Intimate Texts of Strangers (July 2020)
- Target's Algorithm to Calculate Customer's Pregnancy Likelihood (February 2016)
Student
- Brainwave Tracking of Students in Class (2017)
- Fayette Schools Introduce Thermal Imaging Cameras (August 2020)
- Geofencing Used To Monitor Antiracism Protesters (August 2020)
- High School Teacher Taking Photos Inside Students Skirt (October 2017)
- Michigan College Tracking Students’ Movements (August 2020)
- Online Proctors Monitoring Students During Exams (September 2020)
- School Mandates Students to Wear COVID Detecting BioButton (September 2020)
- School Uses Cameras With Facial Recognition In Its Buildings (May 2019)
- Schools Hacking Students’ Phones (May 2016)
- Student Loan Fraud Through Identity Theft (October 2020)
- Students Grades in Great Britain Calculated by an Algorithm (August 2020)
- Students Health Records Shared With Parents (October 2015)
- Uni Sends A Database to Everyone From the List (September 2020)
- Universities Spy on Students With Software (October 2020)
- Zoom AI Data Collection Language In Terms of Service (27 July 2023)
Driver
- Australian Scanned Drivers Licenses Database Leak
- Car Companies Tracking Drivers With AI (2020)
- Data Вroker LexisNexis Selling DMV Data (November 2020)
- Departments of Motor Vehicles Sell Personal Information of Drivers (2019)
- Ford's GPS Tracking Speed (January 2014)
- Improperly Anonymized Taxi Logs (July 2014)
- Peruvian Wachitaxi App (May 2017)
- Policemen Abuse Driver's License Database (2012)
- States Sharing Driver's License Info
- Tesla Employees Sharing Recordings
- Tesla hit with class action lawsuit over alleged privacy intrusion (April 2023)
Journalist
- Al Jazeera Journalists Phones Hack by NSO’s Spyware (December 2020)
- NSO Group Spyware (November 2019)
- Policeman Shares CCTV Footage Of A Naked Woman (2017)
Journalist's Source
- Al Jazeera Journalists Phones Hack by NSO’s Spyware (December 2020)
- NSO Group Spyware (November 2019)
- Policeman Shares CCTV Footage Of A Naked Woman (2017)
Protected Classes
Ethnic Minority
- A Man Gets Arrested After Facebook Translated His Post Wrongly (2017)
- B.C. Canadian Tire stores broke privacy laws with facial ID technology (20 April 2023)
- China Keeping Records on Muslims (February 2020)
- DHS Buys Cellphone Location Data (October 2020)
- Dataminr Helps Police Track Protesters (July 2020)
- Facebook Analyses User Race to Serve Ads (August 2020)
- Facial Recognition Technology Wrongfully Accuses Person of Crime (November 2020)
- Facial Recognition in Public Places by Israeli Government (September 2023)
- Fitness Trackers Inaccuracy (May 2020)
- Gmail Filters Black Lives Matter Emails (June 2020)
- Iranian Hackers Found Way Into Encrypted Apps (September 2020)
- Liberty Safe Discloses Master Code (30 August 2023)
- Man Wrongfully Accused by Facial Recognition (June 2020)
- Mass Surveillance creates fear and disruption in China (24 September 2023)
- Medical Algorithm with a Racial Bias (October 2019)
- Parents Spying On a Nanny (August 2019)
- Pay-by-Palm Privacy Concerns (21 August 2023)
- Pharmacy Chain Deploys Facial Recognition Systems in Its Stores (July 2020)
- Police Drone Over a Public Beach (July 2020)
- Police Investigate Protesters Through Smart Streetlight (June 2020)
- Predictive Policing in the Netherlands (September 2020)
- SNAP Online Buying Program (July 2020)
- States Sharing Driver's License Info
- TSA Testing Facial Recognition (15 May 2023)
- TikTok Data Tracking and Sharing Practices (July 2020)
- UK Local Authorities Analysing Peoples Social Media Accounts (October 2020)
Religious Minority
- Apps Sending Personal Information to Facebook (December 2018)
- China Keeping Records on Muslims (February 2020)
- Chinese facial recognition company exposes the database of people's locations (13 February 2019)
- Facial Recognition in Public Places by Israeli Government (September 2023)
Female
- A Photo of a Woman Crying After Florida School Shooting (February 2018)
- A sweeping drug addiction risk algorithm (July 2020)
- Abortion Rights in Indonesia (October 2020)
- Abusers Using Smartphones to Track Victims (September 2014)
- Access to Face Recognition Search of Moscow Cameras System Is For Sale (November 2020)
- Apple's Sexist Credit Card (November 2019)
- Charges Dismissed for Following Women with a Camera (April 2020)
- China's Two-Child Policy (1 January 2016)
- Content Written On Amazon Package
- Cyber Bullying Through Instagram (July 2018)
- Digital Harassment After an Online Affair (November 2017)
- Female Student Killed After Blackmail (2020)
- Fitness Trackers Inaccuracy (May 2020)
- Hack of Celebrities Revealing Photos (2014)
- Hidden Cameras in Women Bathrooms in Seoul
- High School Teacher Taking Photos Inside Students Skirt (October 2017)
- Jogger Wound Up in an Ad Without Knowing (November 2017)
- Leaked Sex Tape Genre on PornHub (July 2020)
- Man Using Tracking Device to Monitor Girlfriend (November 2020)
- Nude Leak Scandal In Ireland (November 2020)
- Nude Photos Without Models Consent (September 2020)
- Online Violence Against Women and Girls (October 2020)
- Policeman Shares CCTV Footage Of A Naked Woman (2017)
- Policemen Abuse Driver's License Database (2012)
- Porn Deepfakes (September 2020)
- Premom Share User Information With Chinese Firms (August 2020)
- Restaurant Worker Uses Contact Tracing Details to Personally Contact a Woman (May 2020)
- Revenge Porn (August 2019)
- Saudi Arabia Text Alerts Tracking Women (2012)
- Strangers Filming Women at Protests (June 2020)
- Strava App Automatically Tags People Who Run Nearby (September 2020)
- Target's Algorithm to Calculate Customer's Pregnancy Likelihood (February 2016)
- Teacher Filming His Female Students (2010)
- Verkada Emplyees Abuse Access to Company’s Facial Recognition System (October 2020)
- Virginia Politician Suffers Her Explicit Video Being Leaked (September 2023)
- We-vibe Vibrator Harvests Customer Data (March 2017)
- Woman Falsely Accused of Racism (May 2019)
- Woman Fired After Calling Police on a Black Man (May 2020)
LGBT
- Dating Apps User Information Leaked Online (June 2020)
- Transgender patients sue the hospital that provided their records to Tennessee’s attorney general (25 July 2023)
Physically Disabled
Union Member