Around 120,000 taxpayers who filed a Form 990-T will be hearing from the IRS in the coming weeks, telling them that the agency inadvertently exposed their information on its website. Exempted organizations, including charities and religious groups, with unrelated business income are required to file Form 990-T. As The Wall Street Journal notes, though, people with individual retirement accounts invested in assets that generate income, such as real estate, are also required to file the form. Filings by exempted organizations are supposed to be public, but those by private individuals aren't.

It’s been a pretty big week for hackers. Both Plex and LastPass were hit by a data breach, and security researchers uncovered a phishing campaign with over 130 corporate targets. Now, Samsung is notifying customers of its own data breach, which exposed customers names, addresses, and other personal information.

Will Newsom sign it? With a possible presidential bid looming, take a guess

How Americans woke up to the reality of digital life in 2022.

Ohio judge says room scans could form a slippery slope to more illegal searches.

The Irish Council of Civil Liberties’ senior fellow, Johnny Ryan, has launched a US class action lawsuit against Oracle over claims that the tech giant is unduly tracking and monitoring people.

New findings following the Twilio phishing attack revealed that Signal, one of its high-value clients and a popular encrypted messaging platform, was particularly affected.

e-HallPass, a digital system that students have to use to request to leave their classroom and which takes note of how long they’ve been away.

A new analysis of the Instagram app has suggested that every time a user clicks a link within the app, Instagram is capable of monitoring

WhatsApp is launching a new feature that will allow users to leave lengthy group chats without alerting others to their exit. Currently, pulling out of a WhatsApp group chat can be an awkward affair as everyone in the chat is informed when you leave. In larger groups, it can also be annoying.

IMAGINE IF A budding identity thief had a free, user-friendly, publicly searchable database that contained the name, location, date of birth, and mother’s maiden name of millions of people. Enter Amazon registries. We already know that Amazon collects plenty of personal information and data that can be arduous for its users to obtain, but the company also readily shares your information for anyone to access when you set up a registry.

Its only possible savior is a deal that does not look likely.

Canadian coffee giant Tom Hortons is proposing offering impacted customers a free hot drink and baked good as settlement in class action lawsuits filed after the company spied on app users for over a year. The news provides a conclusion to one of the more bizarre location data gathering scandals in recent years.

THE WEBSITES YOU visit can reveal (almost) everything about you. If you are looking up health information, reading about trade unions, or researching details around certain types of crime, then you can potentially give away a huge amount of detail about yourself that a malicious actor could use against you. Researchers this week have detailed a new attack, using the web’s basic functions, that can unmask anonymous users online. The hack uses common web browser features—included in every major browser—and CPU functions to analyze whether you’re logged in to services such as Twitter or Facebook and subsequently identify you.

Arlo, Apple, Wyze, and Anker, owner of Eufy, all confirmed to CNET that they won’t give authorities access to your smart home camera’s footage unless they’re shown a warrant or court order. If you’re wondering why they’re specifying that, it’s because we’ve now learned Google and Amazon are doing just the opposite: they allow police to get this data without a warrant if police claim there’s been an emergency.

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Recently released documents show in new detail how parts of the Department of Homeland Security have been using surveillance tools built on smartphone location data as part of investigations across the United States, including in multiple field offices and for a variety of different crimes.

Hi America, this is Brandon from Tutanota. As I’m sure you already know, on June 24, 2022 the Supreme Court of the United States delivered the ruling that the US Constitution does not confer the right to abortion, thus overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. As soon as the decision was made public, thirteen states with trigger laws were able to begin enforcing stricter restrictions on abortions.

Britain's government is proposing legislation that would require WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Apple's Messages to adopt automatic scanning for child sexual abuse material. Also known in the UK as child sexual abuse and exploitation content (CSAE), the proposal from controversial Home Secretary Priti Patel wants to amend the country's digital safety legislation.

"Measuring Web Cookies in Governmental Websites," in which they investigate governmental websites of G20 countries and evaluate to what extent visits to these sites are tracked by third parties. The results reveal that in some countries up to 90% of these websites add third-party tracker cookies without users' consent. This occurs even in countries with strict user privacy laws.