Art can change the world
Illustration by Carty Sewill Art can change the world. Warhol showed us all the beauty in our everyday; from Coke bottles to Campbell’s soup cans. Social change is led by…
Here’s why Google thinks you should trust it with unprecedented quantities of your city’s “urban data”
Last October, Privacy News Online wrote about an ambitious project from Google's sister company, Sidewalk Labs. It aims to take the idea of a "smart city" to the next level,…
The writing is on the wall for ads based on real-time bidding in the EU – and maybe everywhere
Privacy News Online noted back in February a growing disquiet at the huge amounts of personal information that sites like Facebook and Google routinely gather about us, and how it…
Why Facebook’s new Libra cryptocurrency will be a privacy disaster
Facebook has been appearing on this blog with increasing frequency. In one way, that's natural. A social network, by definition, is about people and their personal information, and so is…
When AI-enhanced customer service is on the line, so is your privacy
Customer service is a crucial part of many businesses, so it comes as no surprise that digital technologies are increasingly being applied to this field. By its very nature, a…
Join the Epic Livestream to Save Net Neutrality
About one year ago, ISP's like Comcast, Verizon & AT&T killed net neutrality, giving themselves control over everything we see and do online. Millions of citizens fought back, demanding that…