September 2024 Privacy News Roundup
Fall has arrived 🍂
Welcome back to another edition of my monthly news roundup. Once again, I complied a list of various news headlines. The biggest ones that I came across is Big Tech once again being caught scraping user data for their AI training without user's explicit consent. Without further ado, here’s what I listed.
1.) Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison - Link
2.) California Governor vetoes privacy bill AB 3048 - Link
3.) You Have No Medical Privacy (Video) - Link
4.) LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service - Link
5.) Why 'protecting kids' is a politician's cop-out for more chat surveillance - Link
6.) Aussie Gov’t: Age Verification Went From ‘Privacy Nightmare’ To Mandatory In A Year - Link
7.) Australia’s Security Chief Says It’s Time To Start Forcing Companies To Break Chat Room Encryption - Link
8.) Mozilla Faces Privacy Complaint for Enabling Tracking in Firefox Without User Consent - Link
9.) Google’s AI Will Help Decide Whether Unemployed Workers Get Benefits - Link
10.) UK’s privacy watchdog takes credit for rise of ‘consent or pay’ - Link
11.) Patrick Breyer: New EU push for chat control: Will messenger services be blocked in Europe? - Link
12.) Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops - Link
13.) Victory! California Bill To Impose Mandatory Internet ID Checks Is Dead—It Should Stay That Way - Link
14.) Volkswagen is rolling out its ChatGPT assistant to the US - Link
15.) YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel - Link
16.) EFF to Tenth Circuit: Protest-Related Arrests Do Not Justify Dragnet Device and Digital Data Searches - Link
17.) European data privacy watchdog closes case against X over its Grok AI bot - Link
18.) Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable - Link
19.) School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety - Link
20.) Therapy Sessions Exposed by Mental Health Care Firm’s Unsecured Database - Link
21.) Saskatoon police officers snooped on investigation files they had no right to access: Privacy commissioner - Link
22.) In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention - Link
23.) Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads - Link
24.) Texas sues to stop a rule that shields the medical records of women who seek abortions elsewhere - Link
25.) Payment provider data breach exposes credit card information of 1.7 million customers - Link
26.) Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option - Link
27.) Wicket signs multi-year deal to provide biometrics at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta - Link
28.) Vancouver Coastal Health slammed for routinely breaking access to information laws - Link
29.) You Really Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public - Link
30.) 23andMe to pay $30 million in genetics data breach settlement - Link
31.) Japan Rethinks 24/7 Police Boxes With Rise of Cybercrime - Link
32.) DPA Digital Digest: France [2024 Edition] - Link
33.) Schools will be covered by artificial intelligence camera system - Link
34.) All Proton Drive apps are now open source - Link
35.) Apple Drops Spyware Case Against NSO Group, Citing Risk of Threat Intelligence Exposure - Link
36.) Google’s GenAI facing privacy risk assessment scrutiny in Europe - Link
37.) Here is what’s illegal under California’s 18 (and counting) new AI laws - Link
38.) F.T.C. Study Finds ‘Vast Surveillance’ of Social Media Users - Link
39.) Data privacy advocates raise alarm over NYC’s free teen teletherapy program - Link
40.) Privacy experts shocked as Hobart council agrees to beam live CCTV footage into police station - Link
41.) How Litecoin Could Mirror Silver’s Role in Crypto Markets - Link
42.) Minimise targeted ads on social media - Link
43.) One in five GPs use AI such as ChatGPT for daily tasks, survey finds - Link
44.) Patents for software and genetic code could be revived by two bills in Congress - Link
45.) 100 million+ US citizens have records leaked by background check service - Link
46.) Discord Introduces DAVE Protocol for End-to-End Encryption in Audio and Video Calls - Link
47.) Telegram will now share user data with authorities for criminal investigations - Link
48.) X will soon allow blocked users to continue viewing posts from public accounts - Link
49.) How did they get my data? I uncovered the hidden web of networks behind telemarketers - Link
50.) Is Tor still safe to use? - Link
51.) What to know about facial recognition security cameras in Arizona schools - Link
52.) Uniting for Internet Freedom: Tor Project & Tails Join Forces - Link
53.) Canada’s Leaders Must Reject Overbroad Age Verification Bill - Link
54.) Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch - Link
55.) South Korea to criminalise watching or possessing sexually explicit deepfakes - Link
56.) UK government's bank data sharing plan slammed as 'financial snoopers' charter' - Link
57.) Meta Slapped With $102M Privacy Fine For Storing Passwords In Plain Text - Link
58.) Digital ID Isn't for Everybody, and That's Okay - Link
59.) Meta's smart glasses raise questions about the future of digital advertising - Link
60.) Mozilla grants Ente $100k - Link
61.) “When Spiders Share Webs”: Unveiling privacy threats of EU-funded INTERPOL policing programme in West Africa - Link
62.) Study finds many European car resellers fail to delete driver data - Link
63.) Meta to Train AI Models Using Public U.K. Facebook and Instagram Posts - Link
64.) Apple quietly removed 60 more VPNs from Russian app store, researchers claim - Link
If you have any other privacy related news that you saw in September, feel free to leave it in the comments.
Until Next Time,
Monique 🍁