VPNs are indispensable tools for today's Internet users, and nowhere more so than in China. The famous "Great Firewall of China" – the name given to the set of technologies…
Privacy News Online has written a couple of times about the major review of copyright law currently underway in the European Union. It’s pretty bad: there are proposals to bring…
As regular readers of this blog will have noticed, one of the hottest topics in the world of online privacy is government access to communications. Essentially, the authorities want to…
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which sets standards for the Web, has released what it calls a "disposition of comments", designed to address objections to the controversial Encrypted Media…
Back in May, Privacy News Online noted that the legal basis of a data-sharing agreement between Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was suspected to…
Last month, Privacy News Online wrote about the first arrest by UK police using an automatic facial recognition system mounted on a vehicle to scan people in a crowd. But…
It's not every day that one of the world's largest publishing companies is awarded $15 million in damages for copyright infringement against a site set up by a Kazakh neuroscientist.…
A new law allowing the German police to hack into mobile phones for even minor crimes, is expected to be passed by the German parliament this week [update: the law…
Encryption is under attack around the world, and not just by hackers trying to break into systems. Governments continue to call for access to encrypted communications, despite universal warnings from…
A long-running legal battle between Dutch ISPs and the local anti-piracy organization BREIN over blocking The Pirate Bay has concluded with a ruling in favor of BREIN. The Court of…