Tag: privacy
Will You Need a COVID-19 Vaccine Passport?
(Associated Press) What is a COVID-19 vaccine passport, and will I need one?
"Vaccine passports," or vaccine certificates, are documents that show you were vaccinated...
Facebook Data on More Than 500M Accounts Found Online
(Associated Press) Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers.
The information appears to be several...
COVID Tracking Apps Have Eerie Echoes of Chinese Surveillance System
(Washington Free Beacon) President Joe Biden's COVID team appears to have entertained an electronic test-and-trace program pioneered by the University of Illinois that would...
Google Gets into Sleep Surveillance with New Nest Hub Screen
(Associated Press) Google's next internet-connected home device will test whether consumers trust the company enough to let it snoop on their sleep.
New sleep-sensing technology...
Kroger: Some Pharmacy Customer Data Impacted in Vendor Hack
(Associated Press) Kroger Co. says personal data, including Social Security numbers of some of its pharmacy and clinic customers, may have been stolen in...
Tucker Carlson: Bank of America Handed Over Customer Data to Feds...
(Fox News) "Tucker Carlson Tonight" has exclusively obtained evidence that Bank of America, the second-largest bank in the country with more than 60 million customers, is...
Agency Homing in on Social Media Companies’ Data Collection
(Associated Press) Federal regulators are ordering Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, TikTok's parent and five other social media companies to provide detailed information on how they...
Apple, Google Build Virus-Tracing Tech Directly into Phones
(Associated Press) Apple and Google are trying to get more U.S. states to adopt their phone-based approach for tracing and curbing the spread of...
Amazon Has a New Fitness Tracker and Wants to Get Personal
(Associated Press) Amazon, the company that made shopping from a La-Z-Boy possible, is going into the fitness-tracking business.
The company started selling a wrist band...
Twitter Trust Breached: Billionaires, Celebrities, Politicians Hacked in Bitcoin Scam
(Associated Press) A breach in Twitter's security that allowed hackers to break into the accounts of leaders and technology moguls is one of the...
