Personal Privacy News Roundup
Noteworthy Personal Privacy News From April 2024
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We’re still receiving positive feedback on our roundup of monthly personal privacy news. So we’re gonna keep it going. These stories are from April 2024, and intended to serve as case studies to help you prepare against current and future privacy threats.
Feel free to drop in the comments any stories we overlooked.
The new tech bringing loved ones back to life through AI (source)
Leaked Cell Phone Location Data Reveals 200 Mystery Guests On Epstein's "Pedo Island" (source)
Running AI Locally and Privately for Free (source) via
Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected (source)
How a vicious spat between two female rap stars revealed America’s feeble framework for battling doxxing (source)
Scammers are using SEO on Google Search to get YOU to download malware (source)
Roku patent invents a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (source)
Reddit blocks access for VPN users: what is happening, and how to get around the block (source)
How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI (source)
Google reCAPTCHA is a privacy nightmare - Questions over privacy promises and cookie use (source)
How fast food is becoming a new surveillance ground (source)
Italy considers law against sharenting to protect children's privacy (source)
T-Mobile users have "another reason to switch" after new privacy nightmare (source)
Here is Android 15's new Private Space in action (source)
Privacy is ‘virtually impossible’ on iPhones, experts warn (source)
4 Resources That Will Help You Understand Your Digital Footprint (source) via
T-Mobile Employees Across The Country Receive Cash Offers To Illegally Swap SIMs (source)
GenAI market research: 80% of leaders concerned about data privacy and security (source)
How and Why to Remove Your Personal Information from Google & Data Broker Sites (Part 1)
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What Big Tech Does With Your Data (source)
Big Tech can’t hoard brainwave data for ad targeting, Colorado law says (source)
LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy (source)
Eye in the Sky: Backyard Trapeze Artist Fights to Halt Use of Aerial Photos for Code Inspection (source)
Top officials again push back on ransom payment ban (source)
Five Privacy Tips For Businesses In The Age Of AI (source)
How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) (source)
Universal Introduces New Guest Tracking Measures: Privacy Laws Under Scrutiny (source)
Ring customers get $5.6 million in privacy breach settlement (source)
How do crypto whales Protect their identities? (source)
U.S. “Know Your Customer” Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users (source)
Samourai Wallet Co-Founder Keonne Rodriguez Pleads Not Guilty, Released on $1M Bond (source)
Disgruntled ex athletic director allegedly created AI racist rant to retaliate against Pikesville principal (source)
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