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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about an important order from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It set minimum privacy requirements for biometric surveillance in commercial settings, and…
It's well known that we are routinely tracked whenever we use the internet. Most people also understand that the primary business model online is surveillance advertising, whereby huge quantities of…
Last month we wrote about the latest development in a long-running saga to make Meta abide by the EU’s GDPR privacy law. It’s a vital battle for two reasons: first,…