Facial recognition has matured sufficiently that it is cropping up in real-world applications with increasing frequency, as recent Privacy News Online stories attest. There's one well-known company that is more…
Last week, the FCC received two letters - one signed by 11 members of Congress and another signed by 21 members of Senate. The first letter was titled simply: "In…
National identity cards are an emotive topic. In the UK, the ID card debate raged for years before and after the authorities there passed a law in 2006 to introduce…
The European Union is preparing measures that would freeze savers' assets in banks when the solvency of the bank is in question, to prevent a "run on the bank" and…
The recent repeal of broadband privacy protection in the US has highlighted the highly-personal nature of browsing histories. One natural solution is to use a VPN in order to shield…
Verizon's new rewards program, Verizon Up, lets mobile subscribers get rewards and coupons on their bill every time they spend $300 - if they voluntarily agree to enrolling in Verizon's…
The Canadian government is using carrots to lure in new helpers in its quest for mass surveillance powers. A new app called Carrot Rewards is a behavioral modification mobile app…
Putin has signed a new law that increases internet censorship dramatically and has been marked as the beginning of the Russia VPN ban, but does the new law actually ban…
Last week, Europe's highest court issued what might seem a fairly obscure ruling on an agreement between the EU and Canada on the transfer of passenger data between the two…
A society without rulebreakers doesn't challenge the rules, the status quo, the established consensus. Our society pretends to celebrate its entrepreneurs, its freethinkers, and its trailblazers. But in action, in…