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‘Massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints

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NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security

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Data-Free Disney

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Please Sell My Personal Information

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Media companies that also sell personal data

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“Privacy”.com–Yeah Right

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Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine

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Schluss – A secure vault for personal data

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Norway to track all supermarket purchases?

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Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: you can check-out any time you like – not

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Visa's marketing opt-out has been down for over a week. Is this a legal issue?

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Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium

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Big data may not know your name, but it knows everything else

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Anonymized data is rarely anonymous

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I was part of a human subject research study without my consent

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Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections

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Debit card apps for kids are collecting a shocking amount of personal data

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Payments down 20% in my SaaS after EU introduced PSD2

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Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales

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Amazon insiders sound alarm over security

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Little League wants all your information

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Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out

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GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn

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Data isn't just being collected from your phone, it's being used to score you

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Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data

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The Triplebyte data download doesn’t give you all your data

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Oracle’s BlueKai tracks people across the web – that data spilled online

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800Gb of possible Census Bureau data (tax records,etc) leaked. Check your data

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The Junk Mail Men: Selling Your Data for over a Century (2019)

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Leaked doc shows how big companies buy credit card data on millions of Americans

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Companies that buy data derived from scraping the contents of email

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Data Brokers

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India’s about to hand people data Americans can only dream of

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Database containing details of 56M US residents found on the public internet

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Genetic testing is an inexact science with real consequences

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Personal information and ads on Twitter

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Harvesting LinkedIn data for fun and profit

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Credit cards have a privacy problem

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The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE under attack by employees

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Reasons not to reveal your DNA

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Credit cards automatically providing updated card info to subscribing merchants

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A researcher needed three hours to identify me from my DNA

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The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love

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No funding for uncomfortable results

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Lawsuits Aim Billions in Fines at Equifax and Ad-Targeting Companies

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Microsoft regularly shared data of India bank customers with US intelligence

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K-map, the weird cousin of k-anonymity (2017)

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No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Their Personal Data

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Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers

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δ-presence, for when being in the dataset is sensitive

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K-anonymity

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Exactis Data Breach May Have Leaked Personal Data of Almost Every American Adult

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Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records

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Vermont passes first law to crack down on data brokers

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OpenSCHUFA – Reverse-engineering the algorithm of the German credit score agency

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120M American Households Exposed In 'Massive' ConsumerView Database Leak

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Please Request Your Personal Data Held by Cambridge Analytica

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When I asked Tinder for my data, it sent me 800 pages of my deepest secrets

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FTC says Uber took a wrong turn with misleading privacy, security promises

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Amazon Knows Your New Bank Card Number Before You Do

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The “Inside Airbnb” project has earned the home-sharing company bad press

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How banks are getting around open banking and PSD2

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New website lets anyone spy on Tinder users

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Airbnb purged 1,000 "entire home" listings days before preparing data snapshot

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Tracking and mapping the data broker ecosystem

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191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database

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What Really Happened With the DNC’s “Datagate”?

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How Facebook knows who you might be dating online

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If you've nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear

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RadioShack puts customer personal data up for sale in bankruptcy auction

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Doxxing defense: Remove your personal info from data brokers

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Brokers use ‘billions’ of data points to profile Americans

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Data Broker Lets You See Their Dossier About You Starting Today

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How to remove yourself from all background check websites

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Etsy users irked after buyers, purchases exposed to the world

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Deny This, Last.fm

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I find this startup rather disturbing...

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U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers

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23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration

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How to delete your data from data brokers

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German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation

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Most dating apps sell and share users' personal data

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