#privacy
There are now more and more privacy abuse everywhere, so even though we feel it, it’s often hard to understand the daily privacy demolition. To help me, I started a list of privacy abuse cases here (likely out of date, I have considered only cases by commercial companies for now, if you see additional cases, poke me on Twitter)
2016#
- 2016/08/06 The Internet of Dildos Is Watching You : Connected sextoys sending intensity settings and temperature to the manufacturer in real-time
- 2016/08/03 Comcast: ISPs should be able to sell your Web history to advertisers (Comcast only asked to the Federal Communications Commission, it’s apparently not done yet)
- 2016/08/02 Battery Status readout as a privacy risk
- 2016/07/21 France orders Microsoft to stop collecting excessive user data : MS started to process information an all the apps downloaded and installed by a user and the time spent on each one (linked to an email account now)
- 2016/05/04 Google given access to healthcare data of up to 1.6 million patients : DeepMind (a Google owned company) accessed patient information in an agreement with the Royal Free NHS trust to develop data analysis software
2015#
- 2015/01/10 (at least) Metrics enabled by default in Github Atom editor : Atom sends metrics about the tool usage to Google Servers without user knowledge (it was apparently updated then to inform the user). The id per user chosen is a SHA-1 of the MAC address. Fixed the 9th of August 2016.
- 2015/02/13 Privacy fears over ‘smart’ Barbie that can listen to your kids : New connected barbies send recordings to manufacturer sender for voice-recognition, and can potentially sell recordings to third parties.
2013#
- 2013/08/07 AT&T Is Going To Start Selling Your Data
- 2013/06/24 Barclays to sell customer data : Barclays Bank start to sell spending habits about 13million customers
- 2013/05/22 Verizon Selling Customers’ Cell Phone Data
- 2013/04/05 SFR has a project of commercialising geographic data of its customers (French), use cases cited : understand the origin of people arriving in a supermarket, or understanding people travels in public transports.
2010#
- 2010/04/01 Google Wi-Spy abuse case : Google cars collected Wifi data while driving (mostly illegally). The intercept has done an clear overview in this article