|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A list of some (but not all) of the data points Facebook uses to target ads for users, which begs to question of if the tracking and bundling of information that Facebook does is really benevolent or not.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Google and the University of Chicago Medical Centre are being sued after hundreds of thousands of patient records were shared without removing date stamps or doctors notes, making it possible for Google to determine the identities of each patient.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Superhuman, an email productivity software company, is caught spying on its customers through its default read-receipts feature with no way to opt out, giving way for malicious actors to potentially abuse the feature to harm users.
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Hackers demanding collective ransoms of $2.5 million dollars have infiltrated 22 Texas municipalities simultaneously. This article discusses this event and the rise of ransomware attacks against government bodies.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Hackers launched a cyber attack on the government of Lake City, Florida, disabling the city's computer systems for several days. After working with the FBI they reluctantly paid the ransom. This is just one of a series of ransomware attacks in Florida.