People start to wake up to the pervasive third-party tracking that comes with 90% of Android apps
It will hardly be news to readers of this site that mobile apps are tracking us on a massive scale. And yet a story in the New York Times last…
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.
Posts by GlynMoody:
What happens to identity and privacy when every biometric can be faked?
Identity and privacy are closely bound up. Typically, you use proof of your identity to access your private information. Alongside traditional approaches like passwords and hardware tokens, biometrics are increasingly…
Google wants to spy on everything you do at home, in every room (including the bathroom), to help “improve” your family
Smart speakers and the Internet of Things are undoubtedly impressive considered purely as technology. That may explain why they are increasingly popular. But as this blog has pointed out a…
As facial recognition systems continue to spread, so do concerns about their deployment
Facial recognition is hardly new – Privacy News Online has been writing about the topic for years now. But it is becoming more and more the norm, as some recent…
Facebook doesn’t care about your privacy, it just wants to farm your personal data – these confidential documents prove it
Privacy News Online has published a number of stories about privacy problems with Facebook. But what the company's top management really thinks about the personal information it holds – as…
Electric vehicles are sending real-time location and diagnostic data to Chinese government monitoring centers
A couple of months ago, this blog noted how modern vehicles are constantly producing large quantities of data, which has important implications for privacy. An Associated Press article published in…
Multiple threats from EU’s GDPR to today’s corporate surveillance and targeted advertising system
Eighteen months ago, Privacy News Online wrote about how pervasive corporate surveillance is threatening the privacy of everyone who uses the Internet. Nearly every move people make online is being…
Welcome to the burgeoning, globalized business of implementing government surveillance
That fact that massive surveillance is taking place around the world is hardly a secret, not least since Edward Snowden revealed the extraordinary scale and reach of Western spying. But…
Why are people so poor at making privacy choices? What can be done about it?
Privacy News Online explores a rich mix of information about privacy. Things like threats to privacy, privacy wins, ways to enhance privacy. One common thread is how bad people are…
AI-based lie detection system will screen travellers to EU for ‘biomarkers of deceit’
As the borders between nations have become increasingly sensitive from a political point of view, so the threats to privacy there have grown. Privacy News Online has already reported on…