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Privacy: the foundation of all other human rights

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

Privacy 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

• The Eternal Value of Privacy
• Why Privacy Matters
• Privacy Matters
• Why Does Privacy Matter? One Scholar's Answer
• 10 Reasons Why Privacy Matters
• Privacy and why it matters
• Protecting Yourself on Social Networks
• “I have nothing to hide”: Why Privacy Matters
• Ways to convince people to take online privacy seriously - common objections debunked

Need proof? Here's an ever-growing list of situations where a lack of privacy has real-life consequences.

1. South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage 💬 Discussion
2. AT&T, Verizon, And T-Mobile Customers Should Be Worried About The FCC's Ruling
3. Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff 💬 Discussion
4. Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 💬 Discussion
5. Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads 💬 Discussion
6. Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn 💬 Discussion
7. A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers
8. Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings 💬 Discussion
9. Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras 💬 Discussion
10. CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement 💬 Discussion
11. The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 💬 Discussion
12. How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device 💬 Discussion
13. You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says 💬 Discussion
14. After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 💬 Discussion
15. ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship 💬 Discussion
16. Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 💬 Discussion
17. ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 💬 Discussion
18. A New Bill Aims to Ban Both Adult Content Online and VPN Use. Could It Work? 💬 Discussion
19. Hong Kong phone scams triple since real-name SIM card registration required 💬 Discussion
20. As 'No Kings' protests decry Trump, surveillance worries emerge 💬 Discussion
21. Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police 💬 Discussion
22. DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 💬 Discussion
23. Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online 💬 Discussion
24. Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 💬 Discussion
25. Senators Warn Trump Administration Is Developing Secret Watchlist of Americans 💬 Discussion
26. Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison
27. The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 💬 Discussion
28. ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones
29. Amazon Ring plans to use facial recognition scans. The new “familiar faces” feature is raising privacy concerns
30. Project Dystopia: How a Little-Known Non-Profit Has New Orleans Considering Mass, Real-Time Facial Recognition Surveillance 💬 Discussion
31. Police unlawfully storing images of innocent people for facial recognition 💬 Discussion
32. Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up' 💬 Discussion
33. Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans 💬 Discussion
34. ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 💬 Discussion
35. Massive attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment 💬 Discussion
36. The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it 💬 Discussion
37. Republican senator targets overseas facial recognition site (PimeEyes) over ICE doxing 💬 Discussion
38. Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws
39. OpenAI says it's scanning users' ChatGPT conversations and reporting content to the Police 💬 Discussion
40. ‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences 💬 Discussion
41. Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 💬 Discussion
42. License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows 💬 Discussion
43. Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 💬 Discussion
44. Instagram's new location feature has left users feeling 'sick' 💬 Discussion
45. Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ 💬 Discussion
46. No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online 💬 Discussion
47. Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 💬 Discussion
48. Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 💬 Discussion
49. Google could be reading your ChatGPT conversations. Concerned? You should be
50. Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers 💬 Discussion
51. Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 💬 Discussion
52. Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 💬 Discussion
53. Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 💬 Discussion
54. WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages
55. 'The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen'. The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment
56. Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
57. Wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia moves to safe house after DHS posts address online
58. UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
59. Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China
60. Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave, AP sources say
61. Facebook’s Zuckerberg oversaw censorship tool for China: whistleblower
62. Social Security classifies thousands of immigrants as dead, as part of Trump crackdown
63. ChatGPT Will Soon Remember Everything You've Ever Told It
64. The rise of surveillance during protests: a threat to fair trial rights
65. New airport rules will get rid of boarding passes and check-in
66. Meta to Restart AI Training on Europeans’ Public Facebook and Instagram Posts
67. Microsoft rolls out AI screenshot tool dubbed 'privacy nightmare'
68. How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To
69. Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You.
70. Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI
71. Madison Square Garden Bans Fan After Surveillance System IDs Him as a Critic of Its CEO
72. T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children
73. Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
74. Now Even Gmail Will Push AI-Powered Search on You
75. X blocks access to Turkish university students’ solidarity accounts amid protests
76. Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids
77. How much will the uncomfortable truth of a former employee cost Meta?
78. 23andMe users may want to delete data as company faces financial trouble
79. 'Chilling and Unprecedented': Trump Memo Threatens Law Firms That Cross His Administration
80. Trump Admin Wants to Inspect Immigrants’ Social Media Profiles
81. Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.
82. Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands
83. UK woman mistaken as shoplifter by Facewatch, now she's banned from all stores with facial recognition tech
84. Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their School
85. Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy
86. Apple’s Photo Bug Exposes the Myth of ‘Deleted’
87. Meta-provided Facebook chats led a woman to plead guilty to abortion-related charges
88. WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages
89. iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes
90. Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media—and driving some to suicide.
91. Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser
92. Zoom’s updated Terms of Service permit training AI on user content without Opt-Out
93. AI is quietly being used to pick your pocket
94. Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out
95. People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are
96. Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
97. Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox
98. How Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted
99. Masked protesters could soon face arrest, says Home Office
100. It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
101. Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams
102. $5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial
103. Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
104. European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights
105. Chromium Manifest V3 Explained for Toddlers
106. Dropbox is sharing users' files with OpenAI, here's how to opt out
107. Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data
108. Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the police
109. Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users
110. The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
111. As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline
112. Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service
113. From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services
114. Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode
115. Revealed: Home Office secretly lobbied for facial recognition ‘spy’ company
116. Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads
117. 96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers
118. Signal’s Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as ‘parochial, magical thinking’
119. Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode
120. US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all
121. Scary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark web
122. Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
123. Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says
124. Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’
125. Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
126. Fake Cisco Webex Google Ads abuse tracking templates to push malware
127. Stalker 'found Japanese singer through reflection in her eyes'
128. 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.
129. They criticized Israel. This Twitter account upended their lives.
130. How Political Campaigns Use Your Data to Target You, and What You Can Do to Protect Your Privacy
131. To Address Online Harms, We Must Consider Privacy First
132. Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps
133. Microsoft’s Copilot Studio AI leaks your business info internally and externally
134. Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads
135. Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
136. India orders phone makers to pre-install state-owned web safety app: Report 💬 Discussion