The latest twist on adding backdoors to encryption is spooky – and dangerous
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…
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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Facebook may not collect or combine personal data using “forced consent”, says German competition authority
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…
People and publishers start to turn against micro-targeted advertising and its harms to privacy
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…
Google hit with first big GDPR fine over “forced consent”; eight new complaints filed over “right to access”
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…
How much privacy should children have from their own parents?
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…
Deep fakes: how immutable blockchain-based life logs could combat them, and the implications for privacy
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,…
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…
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…