Privacy
NHS email blunder leaks HIV patients’ details
A simple email blunder had a dramatic impact for HIV patients in Scotland, UK.
Yahoo! Japan’s new system looks suspiciously like a social credit score
Yahoo! may be all but dead everywhere else, but it’s still big in Japan.
Millions of Venmo transactions are still exposed and easily scraped
Venmo transactions are made public by default and they’re easily available to mass-scraped.
Mass spying – UK human rights group challenges intelligence services
Liberty is a UK-based group that’s taking the government to court for breaching human rights legislation.
What is Nimses and why is it a privacy nightmare?
Nimses has been in the news a lot this week as it attempts to crack the US market.
After previously banning cryptocurrency ads, Facebook is set to announce its own cryptocurrency
Facebook’s cryptocurrency is set to launch next week.
Your credit score will soon be partially determined by AI monitoring your social media accounts
Credit score companies are some of the most privacy-invasive companies in the world. The amount of data they hold on people is shocking. And it’s about to get worse.
Details of Justice Department efforts to break encryption of Facebook Messenger must be made public, EFF tells court
The EFF wants to know how the Justice Department think they would go about breaking into encryption.
Sweden demands answers from Spotify over its data practices
Spotify’s been given a list of questions that it must answer by July 1st.
Facebook shares tank after leaked emails revealed Zuckerberg was aware of Facebook’s privacy crimes
The FTC specifically wants to know if Facebook violated a consent decree that it has agreed to follow way back in 2012.
Austrian Supreme Court rules: Facebook must face privacy lawsuit
Facebook tried to block the lawsuit.
British spy agency exposed for “extraordinary, persistent illegality” in mass spying protocols
Human rights organization Liberty took Mi5 to task for acting without overreach.