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.
Last week, you could have been forgiven for thinking that privacy had finally arrived. Mark Zuckerberg published a 3000-word essay entitled "A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking", and wrote: As…
Everyone knows that surveillance is ubiquitous – on the Internet, in the street, at work, at school, in our homes. What made that constant spying possible was the amazing advance…
Back in 2017, Privacy News Online wrote about workplace surveillance. The systems described were all based on monitoring how employees were using company technology. They noted every email sent and…
Authorities around the world have been calling for backdoors to be added to strong encryption for years – part of an even older battle. The view among all top security…
It would be an understatement to say that Facebook is under intense scrutiny at the moment. Mostly this has come from data protection authorities in the EU, using the GDPR…
Privacy News Online has written a number of articles looking at the threat to privacy posed by the widespread use of micro-targeted ads. At the heart of the idea is…
Last June Privacy News Online wrote about complaints filed just six minutes after the EU's tough privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), started to be enforced. They were…
Back in August last year, Danica Sergison gave good advice here on Privacy News Online about how to help children think critically about privacy. That's crucial, since the world they…
The idea of deep fakes – AI-assisted fake videos – first entered the mainstream around a year ago. After an initial burst of interest, people stopped searching for the term,…
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…