Earlier this month, PogoWasRight.org reported on a case involving a teenager we called “Kenny.” Kenny had asked for this blogger’s help getting IMDb to remove a fake page about him. The fake page on IMDb had his real name and real location, but claimed that he had acted in a movie, [Read More…]
Gary Horcher reports: A Portland, Oregon, family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon’s Alexa – the voice-controlled smart speaker – and the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s [Read More…]
Ed Hasbrouck writes: The state of Alaska has sent us a whopper of a “the records you have requested do not exist” response to one of our attempts to find out about government oversight (or lack thereof) of the private contractor operating the national ID database created to implement the [Read More…]
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries reports: KidGuard is a phone app that markets itself as a tool for keeping tabs on children. But it has also promoted its surveillance for other purposes and run blog posts with headlines like “How to Read Deleted Texts on Your Lover’s Phone.” A similar app, mSpy, offered [Read More…]