The next big privacy battles: cross-border data flows and data localization
A couple of weeks ago, this blog looked at a rather unexpected consequence of the decision by the EU’s top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU),…
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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Abusive surveillance in the name of public health is a widespread problem around the world, new report says
When Privacy News Online first wrote about Covid-19, in February, we noted that it would touch on key concerns of this blog: freedom of speech, surveillance and privacy. Already by…
EU politicians want Europe’s next big digital law to tackle micro-targeted advertising, by regulating or even banning it
Although privacy is by its very nature personal, it is also something that concerns everyone. As a result, local data protection laws can have a global impact. That's certainly been…
French data protection authority says it can’t trust top US Internet companies with EU personal data – even if they keep it in the EU
Last month, this blog looked at the continuing repercussions of the decision by the EU's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), to strike down the…
Top court rules again that EU laws may not require general and indiscriminate data retention, but then muddies the privacy waters
National governments in the EU are very keen for communication companies to store traffic and location data for all their users. They claim this is necessary to enable the authorities…
How Blacklight illuminates the murky world of ad tracking, key logging, canvas fingerprinting, Facebook pixels, and more
It is hardly news that we are being tracked as we visit Web sites, and move around the Internet. As this blog has reported, it's the basis of today's main…
Web sites shared over 100 trillion pieces of our personal data last year: time to stop real-time bidding’s blatant disregard of privacy
Last week Privacy News Online wrote about developments in the long-running battle between the privacy campaigner Max Schrems and Facebook. One of the key issues there is the failure by…
Latest developments in the long-running and crucial Schrems vs. Facebook GDPR privacy battle
Back in July, this blog reported on a major victory for the privacy campaigner Max Schrems at the Court of Justice of the European Union, (CJEU). Following that win, the…
Welcome to the quantum Internet, with privacy guaranteed by the laws of physics
Quantum computing is gradually moving from the realm of science – and even science fiction – to become a practical technology that is being used in real-life contexts. Three years…
The privacy perils of using a mesh network – and why we urgently need one that is robust and open source
One of the reasons why protecting privacy is so hard is that our data is vulnerable in so many ways as it flows across the Internet. Threats can come from…