Hacking

The State of Consumer Data Privacy Laws in the US (And Why It Matters)

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Author: Thorin Klosowski; Publisher: The New York Times, Wirecutter; Publication Year: 2021. The following article points out the massive amount of data that is collected on us daily by all sorts of different companies. These companies sometimes sell this data, and other times the data gets hacked. It pointed out several situations of how data getting leaked is harmful. The article is proposing that is not how it has to be. We could rebuild our internet to…

Tesla Cars Store Unencrypted Data

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Author: Marie Weber, Lexy Kassan; Publisher: Data Science Ethics; Publication Year: 2019. The following podcast episode discusses how Tesla had a bug bounty program running in 2019 which led people to try and hack wrecked Tesla cars. The reason was that all the footage, precise geolocation, and other related information was being stored in the car’s computer. The (supposedly ethical) hackers were able to extract personally identifiable…

6 Examples of Online Privacy Violation

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Author: Kayla Matthews; Publisher: Cybernews; Publication Year: 2021. The following articles describes how we live in a world where we are consistently online and using apps, and these companies have access to some of our personal information. In 2020, there was a rise in the use of online meeting platforms, such as Zoom. It was found that Zoom was able to match the user information to individuals’ LinkedIn…