Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: May 29th, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f54Gr3XwvfY Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of May 29th, 2020 UK’s largest airline, easyJet, reveals January 2020 breach of 9 million customer records The biggest airline in the United…
Arizona has sued Google for illegally tracking phone location data
Arizona has filed a lawsuit against Google for “deceptive and unfair practices used to obtain users’ location data.” Specifically, Google has been collecting location history in its Search and Maps…
House delays vote on renewing FISA surveillance powers to grant FBI warrantless access to internet history
Your internet history is safe from the FBI… for now. Government surveillance powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) - which have sat unrenewed since March - failed to…
Top EU data protection agency under pressure to act against Internet giants as GDPR turns 2 years old
A few weeks ago, this blog noted that there were questions hanging over the GDPR, not least the fact that no major fines had been issued against top Internet companies.…
House to vote on whether the FBI can access internet history without a warrant: Act now to Save Internet Privacy
Internet privacy is on the line as Congress votes this week on whether or not the FBI will be able to access the internet history of Americans without a warrant.…
OpenSAFELY: more proof that tackling the coronavirus pandemic does not require privacy to be compromised
In recent weeks, there has been an intense focus on the use of contact tracing apps as a way to emerge safely from the lockdowns that are in place around…
Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: May 22nd, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az5xSbfSWbQ Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of May 22nd, 2020 Congress plans to expand Patriot Act with DOJ access to your web browsing and search activity without a warrant…
Germany’s highest court rules individual right to privacy applies to everyone, even non-Germans
Germany’s Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), the highest court in the country, has ruled that parts of a 2016 law that allowed monitoring of the internet activity of foreign targets…
Private Internet Access implores Representative Crow to protect internet privacy by voting “NO” on H.R. 6172
RE: Vote “NO” on H.R. 6172, USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020 Dear Representative Crow, Private Internet Access implores you to vote “NO” on H.R. 6172, the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization…
China moves to take full control over Hong Kong with a proposed national security law in China’s National People’s Congress
Hong Kong will soon have a new national security law implemented without a single vote by a Hong Kongese politician. If that doesn’t sound democratic, that’s because it isn’t. The…
How a VPN can protect your internet history from The Patriot Act & the FBI
If passed as is, the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020 will expand the infamous Section 215 of the Patriot Act to allow the FBI to view your internet search…
UK’s largest airline, easyJet, reveals January 2020 breach of 9 million customer records
The largest airline in the United Kingdom, easyJet, revealed that they had been hacked by a “sophisticated attack” in January of 2020. All in all, approximately 9 million customers were…
Tell your House Representative to vote against letting the FBI access internet history without a warrant
The Patriot Act is up for renewal with the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act and this bill as-is allows the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) to…
Noyb files complaint against Google under GDPR, saying Android Advertising ID can be tracked
Every phone has an Android Advertising ID and it can be used to track your phone’s actions - and tied back to your identity. A privacy advocacy group called Noyb…
Privacy News Online Week in Review (May 15th, 2020)
Privacy News Online provides a “Week in Review” with privacy news summaries from around the world. Keep up to date with what has happened in the online privacy world over…