Personal Privacy News Roundup - July 2024

Noteworthy Digital and Internet Privacy News From July 2024

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We’re expanding the monthly digital privacy news roundup to make it more user friendly. Links will now be organized by categories and are hyperlinked to the right section for quick access:

1. Secrets of Privacy Posts, both from Substack and LinkedIn

2. AI related privacy news and notes

3. CBDC related privacy news and notes

4. Everything else

Let us know what you think of the new format. We’re open to other ideas and categories as well.

Feel free to drop a story in the comments that we overlooked.

Secrets of Privacy Posts

1. Become Privacy Resilient: Fortify Your Digital Life Against Breaches, Hacks and Doxing (source)

2. How Google's Gemini AI Accessed Private Tax Data (source)

3. Privacy Risks of CBDCs Spark U.S. State-Level Bans (source)

4. The Privacy Myth of Wyoming LLCs: What You Need to Know (source)

AI Privacy Related News and Notes

1. Erik Voorhees' Venice AI Now Offers Real-Time Search Results (source)

2. Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers (source)

3. Job scams surged 118% in 2023, aided by AI. Here’s how to stop them (source and see our video below)

4. AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings (source)

5. AI Ethics in Customer Experience: Navigating Privacy and Trust (source)

6. AI and the Data Privacy Paradox: Who owns your data? (source) by

   Olga's Office

7. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Deepfake Video Scams Steal $273,350 From Three Men: Report (source)

8. How to build privacy-protecting AI (source)

9. Brain implant patient says OpenAI’s tech helps him communicate with family (source)

10. AI-Powered Deepfakes Fuel Surge in Social Media Supplement Scams (source)

11. The Top 5 Approaches to AI Data Privacy (source)

12. AI generated deepfake fraud drives public appetite for biometrics: FIDO Alliance (source)

13. Scam calls get real by impersonating Tulsa police officers, loved ones thanks to AI (source)

14. 74% of Americans Fear AI Will Destroy Privacy (source)

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) News and Notes

1. Taiwan Set to Test CBDC by Year-End, Says Official (source)

2. Trump’s Disdain for Digital Dollar Risks ‘Cold War Era’ in Money (source)

3. Putin wants to speed up deployment of Russia’s CBDC (source)

4. Canada makes strong arguments for the need for a CBDC (source)

5. Kazakhstan pays for rail line to China using programmable CBDC (source)

6. Retail Central Bank Digital Currencies Are Off To A Slow Start In Asia (source)

7. Bahamas to regulate banks to offer CBDC digital currency (source)

8. Are CBDCs Getting a Rebrand as “Digital Cash”? (source)

9. Philippines Plans to Introduce Wholesale CBDC by 2029 (source)

10. Kazakhstan’s CBDC pilot enters second phase (source)

11. Peru awards contract for first retail CBDC pilot (source)

12. Bank of Israel selects 14 projects for digital currency use-case development (source)

All Other Privacy News and Notes

1. The Legal Assault on Crypto Privacy and Freedom (source)

2. Surveillance Capitalism and PsyWar (source) by

   Robert W Malone MD, MS

3. Facebook and Instagram’s ‘pay or consent’ ad model violates the DMA, says the EU (source)

4. Introducing Docs in Proton Drive – collaborative document editing that’s actually private (source)

5. Europol says Home Routing mobile encryption feature aids criminals (source)

6. Biggest password database posted in history spills 10 billion passwords — RockYou2024 is a massive compilation of known passwords (source)

7. Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage (source)

8. Police are Using Drones More and Spending More For Them (source)

9. Google Maps Tests New Pop-up Ads That Give Users an Unnecessary Detour (source)

10. Chinese self-driving cars have quietly traveled 1.8 million miles on U.S. roads, collecting detailed data with cameras and lasers (source)

11. Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model fails EU competition rules, Commission finds (source)

12. Tracking the Trackers: Which Domains Pose the Highest Privacy Threat? (source)

    

13. Scammers Exploit Victims Twice by Offering Fake Recovery Assistance (source)

14. Businesses are harvesting our biometric data. The public needs assurances on security (source)

15. Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen (source)

16. An eerie ‘digital afterlife’ is no longer science fiction. So how do we navigate the risks? (source)

17. Guardians of the Digital Frontier: Privacy and Cybersecurity Tips for the Savvy Baby Boomer (source)

18. The Avoidable Mistake that Wrecked My Identity (source)

19. J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows (source)

20. Firefox's New 'Privacy' Feature Actually Gives Your Data to Advertisers (source)

21. Voter company stays silent on whether it deletes private student FERPA data obtained for study (source)

22. USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap (source)

    

23. You Should Opt Out Of The TSA's New Facial Recognition Scans. Here's How (source)

24. New FCC Proposal Requires Disclosure of AI Usage When Obtaining Prior Express Written Consent and During Each Call (source)

25. How a little-known tool is sweeping the real estate industry by giving instant access to vast amounts of homebuyer data (source)

26. Check your VPN, abortion seekers. New 'Vagina Privacy Network' aims to keep data safe (source)

27. Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source (source)

28. Apple takes aim at the world's most popular browser in creepy new ad - see for yourself (source)

29. 'Consent or Pay' and the Future of Privacy (source)

30. FTC is investigating how companies are using AI to base pricing on consumer behavior (source)

31. Norwegian finance minister proposes tax on Big Tech data collectors (source)

32. How US national security interests may lead to a multilateral treaty on data privacy (source)

33. This Machine Exposes Privacy Violations (source)

34. Meta to pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle lawsuit alleging it illegally captured users’ faces (source)

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