Get Ready for Generative AI’s Next Assault On Your Privacy
In the 15 months since we first warned that generative AI would be terrible for privacy, the potential threats have become clearer. One example of the new problems generative AI…
Glyn Moody
Glyn Moody is a freelance journalist who writes and speaks about privacy, surveillance, digital rights, open source, copyright, patents and general policy issues involving digital technology. He started covering the business use of the Internet in 1994, and wrote the first mainstream feature about Linux, which appeared in Wired in August 1997. His book, "Rebel Code," is the first and only detailed history of the rise of open source, while his subsequent work, "The Digital Code of Life," explores bioinformatics - the intersection of computing with genomics.
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Top EU Privacy Body Says “Consent or Pay” Approaches Must Offer a Real Choice
August 2023 saw one of the most significant developments in the world of online privacy. Meta announced that it would seek consent from users for behavioral ads in Europe. As…
Top EU Court Ruling Means It May Be Legally Impossible to Use Real-Time Bidding for Ads
Back in 2020, we wrote about a report by Johnny Ryan and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties that claimed over 100 trillion pieces of personal data were being exchanged…
The Rise of the Commercial Spyware Economy & How to Tackle It Proactively
In 2021, 50,000 phone numbers believed to be of interest to clients of the surveillance company NSO were leaked. They represented possible victims of its Pegasus software, revealing the scale…
Why a TikTok Ban Would Miss the Wider Problem: A Massive Failure to Protect Privacy Online
News outlets and opinion columns are full of updates and comments about a US bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner either to sell the app or to see it…
Satellite Eyes in the Sky Will Be Able to Recognize You Soon
Back in 2019, we noted that a new generation of commercial satellites would soon pose a serious threat to privacy. It’s difficult to hide anything outdoors from an invisible eye…
This Global Identity System Tracks Everything You Do Online
It’s nearly seven years since we first wrote about the complex web of surveillance capitalism, a massive machine which tracks everything you do and everywhere you go online. That article…
AI Chatbots Won’t Win Your Heart, but They Will Harvest Your Data
A year ago, we wrote that ChatGPT is a privacy disaster waiting to happen. One of the issues we mentioned was that the new generation of highly convincing chatbots encourage…
Apple’s Vision Pro Makes Developing Ways to Protect Privacy in the Metaverse Even More Urgent
At the end of 2021, we warned that the new generation of virtual reality (VR) systems posed a huge and largely ignored threat to privacy. That post was prompted by…
Two Years After Privacy Risks of Client-Side Scanning Paper Was Published, It’s Time for Governments to Move On
Back in 2021, we wrote about an important preprint written by 13 of the world’s top security gurus, including Ross Anderson, Whitfield Diffie, Ronald L. Rivest, and Bruce Schneier. It…