This nation's military became infamous for using social media and what's app to spread islamaphobic propagada on the local Rohyinga population.

This app, both a verb and a website, has as wide of a breadth of controversy as it does search results

Passwords...no way! Passphrase ok! This method allows you to come up with complicated passphrases with just a flick of a wrist!

Wifi and bluetooth and cameras oh my! These techy towers can be found throughout the city, criticized by privacy advocates for collecting personal data of users and passerby without their knowledge.

This whistleblower is best known for her disclosure of 750,000 documents to wikileaks. Her twitter game is pretty great to boot!

A bill passed throughout the EU, meant to strengthen privacy rights of citizens. Some of these rights included "right to disappear", and "right to be forgotten".

This smarthome device, developed by Amazon, has brought surveillance into the consumer's home, allowing users to access a world of information with a simple name prompt.

This cultural phenomenon tried to make video games great again for men, while trying to push out the voices of femme/nb gamers and creators

This policy, still pending to be passed, it meant to give citizens more oversight into the surveillance powers of the NYPD

This application, created by Open Whisper Systems, uses standard cellular telephone numbers as identifiers and uses end-to-end encryption to secure all communications to other users.

The name of a bill passed by Congress in 2018, with the intention of curbing sex trafficking by holding communication providers responsible for sexual content. Many critiques of the bill said that this strategy puts many sex workers in more harm by taking away an avenue of income and safety

One of the BIGGEST data leaks of the decade, more than 145.5 million consumers were affected, with the stealing of their personal information, including millions of driver’s licenses, phone numbers, emails, and ID photos.

This helpful lil site encourages users to change their passwords regularly by showing them if their email has been compromised in a data breach

This mega corporate online business intended to build a campus in long island city, until local activists pushed back against the idea. Andrew Cuomo promised citizens that the project would cost the city "nada, nienti, goose egg".

This information activist, a co-founder of Reddit, was arrested by MIT police for accessing and attempting to distribute JSTOR academic journal articles for free. He took his own life during the trial, and is currently remembered with an annual day in his honor.

A popular conversation that went back and forth throughout the decade, it was the concept that the internet should be treated as a common communication service by the FCC, and not left to with whimz of ISPs

This app has driven workers rights and privacy advocates mad, boasting itself to be a great way to get around town, while also underpaying workers, as well as implementing a God mode to track particular customers for a time.

This firefox/chrome extention helps make sure your website connection is Secure. No man in the middle for me please!

This type of technology was threatened to be installed in public housing to "deter crime". Building residents who spoke out against the project were sent threatening letters by management.

Protestors in Hong Kong and Chile used this lil trick to take down drones, and confuse facial recognition cameras

This system of social coin being developed in China, parodied on Black Mirror, is meant to reward citizens for their patriotism, and punish those who veer from the party line.

This company was involved in one of the biggest privacy scandals of the decade. Researchers harvested FB user information without their consent, through the use of an online app. This data was then used to make targeted political ads.

This billionaire was instrumental in the takedown of media site Gawker when they butted heads with racist Hulkamaniac, Hulk Hogan

These devices have been a part of the debate around the militarization of the police. NYPD has been known to use these devices, which mimic cell phone towers to intercept incoming texts in a given area.

this hacktevist group were instrumental in the takedown of Ecorp in 2014