Government Surveillance
Warrant Not Always Needed for ‘Inadvertent’ NSA Surveillance of Americans: U.S. Court | Reuters
Attorney General Defends Preserving Surveillance Court Despite Past FBI Mistakes | The New York Times
Stories of the Decade: Edward Snowden and Mass Surveillance | NPR
Surveillance in China: Implications for Americans [Opinion] | The New York Times
AI Surveillance Proliferating, with China Exporting Tech to over 60 Countries, Report Says | The Japan Times [see also: The Global Expansion of AI Surveillance | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]
Corporate Surveillance
Amazon’s Ring Home Surveillance Network Raises Big Privacy Concerns | Observer
Facebook Says it Will Use Consumer Data from Virtual Reality to Target Ads | Ad Age
Giant Surveillance Balloons Are Lurking at the Edge of Space | Wired
The dark side of Alexa, Siri and other personal digital assistants | The Conversation
Encryption
Private Information at Risk from Laws Allowing Access Encrypted Data | RNZ
Biometric Privacy
Federal study of top facial recognition algorithms finds ‘empirical evidence’ of bias |The Verge
NIST Study Evaluates Effects of Race, Age, Sex on Face Recognition Software | NIST
Thought Pieces
Privacy is a Human Right – It Can’t Be Bought or Sold | Consumer Federation of America
Surveillance is a Fact of Life, so Make Privacy a Human Right | The Economist
Regulation is Coming: How Startups Should be Thinking about Data, Security and Privacy | GeekWire
This Week in Data Breaches and Leaks
15 Million Consumers of Canadian Diagnostic Company Potentially Exposed in Data Breach | Becker’s Hospital Review
Stolen Facebook Hard Drives Jeopardize 29,000 Employees | PC Magazine
Vulnerabilities and Exploits
Hackers are Taking Control of Ring Cameras and Using them to Taunt Both Adults and Children | Inc.
Factoring RSA Keys in the IoT Era | KeyFactor [Deep dive into Internet of Things vulnerabilities]
Privacy Tools
Proposed Standard Would Make Warrant Canaries Machine-Readable | Naked Security
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