Covid-19 vaccine passports for travel and work are coming: what are the...
It is almost exactly a year ago that this blog first talked about the implications of Covid-19 for freedom of speech, surveillance and privacy – one of the earliest to do so. Since then, the pandemic...
View ArticlePrivacy organizations call for facial recognition to be regulated or even...
At the beginning of last year, concerns about facial recognition technology increased with the appearance of the start-up Clearview AI. It was problematic for two main reasons. First, the size of its...
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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 30, 2021
Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of April 30, 2021 As the battle to set 6G standards begins, UK spy agency warns China seeks to “control the global operating system” While 5G is still being rolled...
View ArticleEuropean privacy campaigners win battles against mass surveillance by UK and...
Back in 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the UK’s mass interception of fiber-optic cable traffic violated people’s right to privacy because of insufficient safeguards. The...
View ArticleAntitrust investigations on both sides of the Atlantic emerge as an important...
A few weeks ago, Privacy News Online wrote about the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information taking action against Facebook, in a move that signalled growing unhappiness...
View ArticleUK Leads the Charge Against End-to-End Encryption, Calls on Tech Companies to...
As Privacy News Online has reported, for years governments around the world have kept up a constant assault on end-to-end encryption. One of the leaders of this attempt to demonize a crucially...
View ArticleFrom Surveillance Capitalism to “Influence Government”: Using Microtargeted...
Privacy News Online has written a number of times about “surveillance capitalism“, and its use of micro-targeted advertising to influence people’s buying decisions. But the worrying power of such...
View Article#NoPlaceToHide…for Stupid Ideas Like Backdooring End-To-End Encryption and...
Government attempts to weaken cryptography to allow general surveillance are not new: they date back at least to the 1993 Clipper chip. Similarly, claims that children will be harmed by strong...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Privacy Betrayal: Personal DNA Used for Undisclosed Purposes,...
As this blog has reported, one of the biggest threats to privacy is surveillance advertising. It works by tracking everything people do online — which sites they visit, what they do there. It draws its...
View ArticleSurprisingly, the UK Has a Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner:...
CCTV surveillance has been covered many times on PIA blog. Most of the stories are depressing tales of increased surveillance and loss of privacy. One of the worst offenders in the CCTV camera stakes...
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