Featured
5 New Year’s Resolutions to Protect Your Technology | The New York Times
New Consumers Union report catalogs the potential collateral damage from the crypto wars | BoingBoing
- Beyond Secrets: The Consumer Stake in the Encryption Debate | Consumers Union/Consumers Reports
The Great Data Breach Disasters of 2017 | Gizmodo
Government Surveillance
Not Ready for Takeoff: Face Scans at Airport Departure Gates | Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology
Privacy Complaints Mount Over Phone Searches at U.S. Border Since 2011 | New York Times
Those airport cameras tracking your face my not be legal, study finds | Washington Post
Government User Data Requests From Facebook Increased in this Year’s First Half | Investor NewsWire
Corporate Surveillance
You may not know much about the companies exposing your personal information. But they know a lot about you. | Washington Post
Web Trackers Exploit Flaw in Browser Login Managers to Steal Usernames | Bleeping Computer
Law and Regulation
Public opinion often sets privacy standards for smart city tech| GT
FTC Hosts Workshop Highlighting Consumer, Industry, and Law Enforcement Perspectives on Informational Injury | National Law Review
“Informational injury,” the harm consumers suffer due to privacy and data security breaches.
- FTC Workshop on Informational Injury (Agenda, video, supporting materials)
Ninth Circuit Panel Upholds Dismissal of VPPA Claim, But Creates Low Bar for Satisfying Article III | National Law Review
Ninth Circuit Weighs In On Scope of Identifiable Information under VPPA | JD Supra
This Week in Data Breaches
Data breach could affect Tallahassee utility customers | WCTV Tallahassee
Possible data breach at Jason’s Deli connected to card numbers for sale on ‘dark web’ | Big Country News (Abilene, TX)
Nissan Canada says customer data may have been compromised in data breach | Globe and Mail
Nissan Canada Breach: Over 1 Million Customers’ Data Leaked | IT Security Central
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