Personal Privacy News Roundup - June 2024

Noteworthy Personal Privacy News From June 2024

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Our roundup of monthly personal privacy news is turning into a reader favorite. So we’re gonna keep it going. These stories are from June 2024, and intended to serve as case studies to help you prepare against current and future privacy threats. June was a massive month for privacy news - over 40 articles linked below!

Feel free to drop in the comments any stories we overlooked.

1. Outrunning the Cyber Bear: take these simple precautions to immediately boost your privacy (source) Note: this is the first Secrets of Privacy LinkedIn article

2. The People’s AI (source)

3. Apple’s ‘confidential computing’ technique for AI servers aims to maintain data privacy (source)

4. Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents(source)

5. Surveillance Risk: Apple's Wi-Fi-Based Positioning System (source) (From May, but we missed it)

6. Canalys Report: AI Smartphones Surge Amid Privacy Concerns (source)

7. ‘She Hooked Me’: How an Online Scam Cost a Senior Citizen His Life’s Savings (source)

   

8. Canalys Report: AI Smartphones Surge Amid Privacy Concerns (source)

9. Car insurance companies secretly collecting driver data with the help of phone apps: report (source)

10. Windows 11's Recall feature is on by default on Copilot+ PCs (source)

11. Just 4 percent of young Americans using AI often: Survey (source)

12. Brazil: Children’s Personal Photos Misused to Power AI Tools (source)

13. Why Google Maps is set to delete your location data - and how to save it (source)

14. Texas Attorney General investigates reports of car manufacturers selling secretly collected driver data (source)

    

15. Opinion: Schools Need Privacy Polices, Tools to Post Student Photos (source)

16. Buy with your eyes, pay with your glance! Together with Empik and PayEye, Mastercard expands its Biometric Checkout Program to Poland (source)

17. Sonos draws more customer anger — this time for its privacy policy (source)

18. Oracle Ads have had it: $2B operation shuts down after dwindling to $300M (source)

19. QR Code Phishing Attacks Evolve to Using Clever ASCII Trick (source)

20. One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down (source)

    

21. Here’s how Apple’s AI model tries to keep your data private (source)

22. Microsoft delays launch of Recall AI amid privacy concerns (source)

23. Survey reveals data privacy risk in used car infotainment systems: Carwow (source)

24. Facial recognition is on the rise – but the law is lagging a long way behind (source)

25. Potential risks associated with storing passwords in browsers - MFA is strictly necessary (source)

26. Apple Intelligence: Privacy-Centric, Context-Aware 'AI for Everyone' vs Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI...and RCS (finally!) (source)

    

27. Privacy app maker Proton transitions to nonprofit foundation structure (source)

28. Biometric ID for IRS FOIA Requests Trigger Privacy and Access Concerns (source)

29. Mozilla Acquires Anonym, A Privacy Tech Startup Founded By Two Top Former Meta Execs (source)

30. MetaMask privacy updates: What users should know (source)

31. How ShinyHunters hackers allegedly pilfered Ticketmaster data from Snowflake (source)

32. Apple collected user location data without consent, says Korea; company fined (source)

33. Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns (source)

34. Robot roaming some federal office buildings raises privacy concerns (source)

35. Meta says it won't release its AI assistant in Europe because EU regulations will make it 'second rate' (source)

36. Big Tech Pushing On-Device AI as Privacy, Performance Booster (source)

37. Red Tape Is Making Hospital Ransomware Attacks Worse (source)

38. Google’s attempt to kill off child privacy app advertising lawsuit defeated (source)

39. Open Source LibreChat Offers More Than Just Extra LLMs (source)

40. AI Assistant Privacy: What Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini Users Should Know (source)

41. ECB Reveals Privacy Plans for Digital Euro in First Progress Update (source)

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