• This ‘invisible’ data trail can reveal your location, health status and even sexuality to scammers: An ‘invisible’ layer of all our technology is a gold mine for scammers – and most people have never heard of it.
• What companies are making it harder to delete your personal data online?: Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. After our reporters reached out for comment, multiple companies have stopped the practice.
• Russia Is Cracking Down on End-to-End Encrypted Calls: Russia started blocking WhatsApp and Telegram calls this week, saying that the encryption schemes the communication platforms use to protect customer calls from interception violate information-sharing requirements between tech companies and the government.
• Google pays $30M to settle lawsuit over children’s YouTube data: The lawsuit alleges that Google collected data from children watching YouTube videos; while this kind of data collection has become common, it remains illegal to collect data from children under the age of 13, per the longstanding COPPA legislation.
• Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database: Nearly a million records, which appear to be linked to a medical-cannabis-card company in Ohio, included Social Security numbers, government IDs, health conditions, and more.