privacy
Location Data Firm Provides Heat Maps of Where Abortion Clinic Visitors Live
Placer.ai allowed anyone to freely create an account and start using its visualized data to see where visitors to Planned Parenthood facilities approximately live.
Data Broker SafeGraph Stops Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Planned Parenthood
The move comes after Motherboard found it was possible to buy data showing how many people visited Planned Parenthood locations, where they came from, and where they went afterwards.
Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics
It costs just over $160 to get a week's worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards.
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes, too.
Lawmakers Call For Better Facebook User Data Oversight
After a Motherboard article showed that Facebook struggles to track what it does with user data, European and American lawmakers are calling for closer oversight.
Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document
“We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.
Class-Action Lawsuit Targets Company that Harvests Location Data from 50 Million Cars
Last year as part of a Motherboard investigation, experts said Otonomo could face legal issues. Now the company is facing a class action lawsuit.
Cash App Tells Millions of Customers a Former Employee Could Access Their Data
After leaving the company, a former employee of Cash App accessed several records containing customers’ information.
E.U. Lawmakers Back Rules to Identify Owners of Crypto Wallets
Draft legislation requires exchanges to collect information on users of self-hosted wallets and report transactions of any size to authorities.
You Can Now Sign Away Rights to Your Biometric Data
Getty Images is now using an 'Enhanced Release' form, which prompts photo models to consent to the use of biometrics like facial data.
Russia’s Digital Iron Curtain Is Starting To Take Shape
Sanctions, censorship, and digital roadblocks have dramatically changed how Russians use the internet since the invasion of Ukraine.
What Happened to the Dream of Private Cryptocurrency?
Surveillance, sanctions, and address bans have come to the crypto industry. But privacy tech is also alive and well.