Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: March 5, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUcpLI8i3I8 Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of March 5th, 2021 Judge rules that California can continue with its net neutrality law Californians first passed their net neutrality law, SB…
China’s Sharp Eyes CCTV surveillance program redefines the Neighborhood Watch
A Chinese government program known as the Sharp Eyes Project is the latest example of China’s technological surveillance infrastructure. There are over 200 million public and private CCTV cameras in China.…
Congressional hearing investigates role of cryptocurrencies in domestic terrorism financing
A recent Congressional hearing held by the Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy sought to examine the use of cryptocurrencies in financing domestic terrorism such as the…
Is this the future of Covid-19 vaccine passports: open source and based on the Ethereum blockchain?
It was only last week that Privacy News Online wrote about introducing vaccine passports in order to provide additional freedoms to those who have received one of the Covid-19 vaccines.…
Privacy Talks | Interview with Robin Wilton from Internet Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBX5CX9LslA&list=PLK9tt5z4bErCL5NPLiWs-IWVzLH1SrsIm&index=7&ab_channel=PrivateInternetAccess This interview originally aired on August 28th, 2020. Timestamp Links & Questions: [0:50] - Can you give a quick introduction of who you are, where you work, and what…
Judge rules that California can continue with its net neutrality law
Judge John Mendez of the US District Court for the Eastern District of California has ruled to let the state of California enact SB 822, a net neutrality law that…
Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: February 26, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y7Mj55Z3jc Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of February 26th, 2021 Clubhouse users are teaching each other how to stay private from Instagram Users on the audio only social media…
Covid-19 vaccine passports for travel and work are coming: what are the implications for human rights, privacy and surveillance?
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…
WhatsApp will eventually delete your account if you don’t accept new privacy policy
WhatsApp has confirmed that users that don’t accept their controversial new privacy policy will eventually have their accounts deleted. The new privacy policy’s roll out has been delayed from February…
Privacy Talks | Interview with Josh Aas from Let’s Encrypt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alu5Ee71mvE&list=PLK9tt5z4bErCL5NPLiWs-IWVzLH1SrsIm&index=8&ab_channel=PrivateInternetAccess This interview originally aired on August 14, 2020. Timestamp Links & Questions: [0:51] - Could you tell us what Let's Encrypt does and what led you to co-found it?…
Clubhouse users are teaching each other how to stay private from Instagram
One of the first things that you hear to do on Clubhouse is to add your Twitter and Instagram accounts to your Clubhouse profile for discoverability because otherwise there’s really…
Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: February 19, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKRbAm4YLLM Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of February 19th, 2021 The government can search your phone at the border without a warrant A Court of Appeals has ruled that…
Spotify granted patent to use mic to infer emotional state, age, gender, and accent
Spotify has been granted a patent on using your phone’s microphone to analyze the sounds around you for the purpose of giving song recommendations. The technology would listen for environmental…
The US Government can search your phone at the border without a warrant
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled that border security doesn’t need a warrant to do a digital search of your device at borders. The court…
The battle over the EU’s far-reaching ePrivacy Regulation enters its final and crucial stage
The EU's GDPR has had a massive effect on privacy worldwide. But as a post explained back in 2018, there's more EU privacy legislation coming through which could have a…