Different institutions frequently collect people’s private data. This episode of the series “What Everybody Knows About You” by Andrew Oram focuses on governments.

Check it out: https://lpi.org/xqlz

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#datacollection #dataprivacy #governmentdata #personalinformation #surveillance #privacyrights #whateverybodyknowsaboutyou #LPI

CNBC: Epstein victims sue Google and the Trump administration over alleged disclosure of personal information. “The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where Google is headquartered, claims the Justice Department ‘outed’ about 100 Epstein survivors in late 2025 and early 2026, and that even after the government acknowledged the mistake and withdrew the […]

ZDNet: Want to know which sites are selling your data? This free privacy tool gave me answers. “There’s a service called Global Privacy Control that offers extensions and/or links to browsers and apps that support the cause. This service began in 2020 and was inspired by the California Consumer Privacy Act, which gives California residents the right to opt out of any business that would sell […]

Bleeping Computer: Crunchyroll probes breach after hacker claims to steal 6.8M users’ data. “Popular anime streaming platform Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed to have stolen personal information for approximately 6.8 million people.”

Ars Technica: FBI started buying Americans’ location data again, Kash Patel confirms. “Three years after saying it had stopped buying location data of Americans without a warrant, the FBI acknowledged it has restarted the purchases. During questioning at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing yesterday, FBI Director Kash Patel said the location data purchases have produced valuable […]

Lifehacker: This Massive Data Breach Leaked 2.7 Million Social Security Numbers. “Another massive data breach has compromised millions of Americans’ healthcare data and sensitive information. Navia Benefit Solutions, a benefits administrator for more than 10,000 U.S. employers, has disclosed a hack that affects nearly 2.7 million individuals, according to a March 18 filing with the Maine […]

Reuters: Cyber actors linked to Russia targeting users of messaging apps, FBI says. “Hackers tied to the Russian intelligence services are targeting users of consumer ‌messaging applications such as Signal, the FBI ‌and U.S. cyber defense agency CISA said on Friday.”

MakeUseOf: I stopped my data from being used to train AI (you might want to too). “Copyright laws are tipped in favor of AI companies because, so far, the onus is on users to ‘opt out’ of their personal data, chats, and creative work being used to train AI models. Opting out won’t remove work from a dataset that’s already been used to train AI models, but it could prevent it in the future. […]

Canada’s Politicians Hate You: Passes Party Privacy Immunity Law

The pillaging of personal information by political parties just became quite a bit easier with the passage of Bill C-4.

https://www.freezenet.ca/canadas-politicians-hate-you-passes-party-privacy-immunity-law/

#News #Privacy #Security #BillC4 #Canada #GreenParty #PersonalInformation #politicians

Mashable: Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data. “A researcher told 404 Media that they scanned apps for a misconfiguration in apps that use the development platform Google Firebase, as that same issue was seen in the Tea app. The researcher found that Quittr had the same problem and contacted the founders about the issue, and while they said it would be fixed in an hour, it […]