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Privacy: the foundation of all other human rights

Don’t think you need privacy, huh? Think again.

Privacy because protects our freedom to be who we are. It stops people from using our personal information in ways we don’t want. It stops bad actors from hurting us or the ones we love. Without privacy, we have no control over our lives.

Essential reads about the importance of privacy

Here’s the proof: a never-ending list of situations where a lack of privacy has real-life consequences

  1. Meta-provided Facebook chats led a woman to plead guilty to abortion-related charges
  2. WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages
  3. Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media—and driving some to suicide.
  4. Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser
  5. Zoom’s updated Terms of Service permit training AI on user content without Opt-Out
  6. Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out
  7. Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
  8. Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox
  9. How Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted
  10. Masked protesters could soon face arrest, says Home Office
  11. It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
  12. Google’s new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams
  13. $5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial
  14. Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
  15. European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights
  16. Chromium Manifest V3 Explained for Toddlers
  17. Dropbox is sharing users’ files with OpenAI, here’s how to opt out
  18. Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data
  19. Google will no longer hold onto people’s location data in Google Maps — meaning it can’t turn that info over to the police
  20. Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users
  21. The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
  22. As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline
  23. Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft’s new data collection service
  24. From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services
  25. Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode
  26. Revealed: Home Office secretly lobbied for facial recognition ‘spy’ company
  27. Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads
  28. 96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers
  29. Signal’s Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as ‘parochial, magical thinking’
  30. Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode
  31. US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all
  32. Scary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark web
  33. Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
  34. Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says
  35. Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’
  36. Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
  37. Fake Cisco Webex Google Ads abuse tracking templates to push malware
  38. Stalker ‘found Japanese singer through reflection in her eyes’
  39. Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant - a digital dragnet tool that allows law enforcement to identify everyone who searched the internet for a specific term or phrase.
  40. They criticized Israel. This Twitter account upended their lives.
  41. How Political Campaigns Use Your Data to Target You, and What You Can Do to Protect Your Privacy
  42. To Address Online Harms, We Must Consider Privacy First
  43. Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps