Online Abortion Pill Provider Hey Jane Used Tracking Tools That Sent Visitor Data to Meta, Google, and Others Personal information from reviewers was also exposed until The Markup’s inquiry By: Jon Keegan and Dara Kerr Hey Jane, an online abortion pill provider, performs a service that pro-choice advocates say has become critically important since the U.S….
Category: Breaches
How did a rental startup I’d never heard of leak my home address?
Zack Whittaker writes: I consider myself a fairly privacy-conscious person, going out of my way to evade online tracking and, for the most part, avoiding spam mail. But when I found myself staring at my home address on the website of a company I had never heard of, I knew somewhere I had gone wrong. A…
Canada’s national police force admits use of spyware to hack phones
Maura Forrest reports: In a “remarkable” disclosure, Canada’s national police force has described for the first time how it uses spyware to infiltrate mobile devices and collect data, including by remotely turning on the camera and microphone of a suspect’s phone or laptop. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says it only uses such tools in…
New York State officials are disregarding the law banning facial recognition in schools and are putting students in danger.
Juan Miguel and Daniel Schwarz of the NYCLU write: To protect students, New York State adopted a law in 2020 placing a moratorium on the use of invasive, biased, privacy-destroying biometric surveillance in schools. The moratorium cannot be lifted until the New York State Education Department (NYSED) issues a report on the risks and benefits of this…