security Once you have a student's name, birthday and SSN, the US Department of Education will give you EVERYTHING else Cory Doctorow
politics US says hackers stole Social Security numbers from 21.5 million people in OPM data breach Xeni Jardin
Gadgets This app keeps all your online information safe and encrypted and keeps you from forgetting passwords Boing Boing's Shop
Business Robocalls: Finally, DOJ seeks court enforcement action against telecoms for phone spam Xeni Jardin
robocalls It's not just you — social security scam phone calls are 23 times more common this year Thom Dunn
privacy Chinese law professor's social media denunciation of facial recognition in the Beijing subway system Cory Doctorow
Business T-Mobile says recent 'criminal hack' got personal data of some prepaid wireless customers Xeni Jardin
security Propublica finds millions of Americans' medical images and data sitting on unprotected, publicly accessible servers Cory Doctorow
security A prolific credit-card theft ring is scanning for unsecured "buckets" in Amazon's cloud and has compromised 17,000 domains (so far) Cory Doctorow
Business Blood testing giant Quest Diagnostics lost 12,000,000 patients' personal, financial and medical data Cory Doctorow
Business Real estate title insurance company exposed 885,000,000 customers' records, going back 16 years: bank statements, drivers' licenses, SSNs, and tax records Cory Doctorow
privacy Snap employees used the company's internal 'SnapLion' tool to access Snapchat user data Xeni Jardin
data breach Data Breach: Millions of Instagram 'influencers,' celebrities, and brands' data found online Xeni Jardin
