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PIA Is Leaving India Due to Data Collection Directive

Posted on Jun 13, 2022 by Julia Olech

The Indian government has announced a new data collection directive, No. 20(3)/2022-CERT-In, which goes into effect on June 27, 2022. The legislation forces data-handling companies, including VPNs, to collect customers’…

Categories: Announcements, Censorship, Cybersecurity, Online Privacy

How New Copyright Laws Threaten Privacy and Freedom of Speech

Posted on Apr 28, 2022 by Glyn Moody

There’s a new US bill that everyone in the privacy world should know about — it goes by the name of “Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of…

Categories: Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance

Top Security Experts Warn: Client-side Scanning “Tears at the Heart of Privacy of Individual Citizens”

Posted on Oct 27, 2021 by Glyn Moody

A couple of months ago, this blog wrote about Apple's Expanded Protections for Children, which turned out to mean client-side scanning (CSS). That is, code on your smartphone would be…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, Encryption, Governments, Surveillance

50 Key Stats About Freedom of the Internet Around the World

Posted on Sep 6, 2021 by PIA Research Team

Almost every part of our everyday lives is closely connected to the internet – we depend on it for communication, entertainment, information, running our households, even running our cars. Not…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

What the Pegasus Spyware Leak Means for Surveillance, Smartphones & Encryption Backdoors

Posted on Jul 22, 2021 by Glyn Moody

A few months ago, we wrote about dual-use surveillance systems – that is, technology that can be used for both peaceful and military purposes. The post discussed some limited efforts…

Categories: Censorship, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance

European privacy campaigners win battles against mass surveillance by UK and Swedish governments, but have they lost the war?

Posted on May 27, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Back in 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the UK's mass interception of fiber-optic cable traffic violated people's right to privacy because of insufficient safeguards. The…

Categories: Censorship, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

How data minimization can protect privacy and reduce the harms of collecting personal information

Posted on May 25, 2021 by Glyn Moody

It's no secret that many companies and governments try to collect as much personal information as possible. This might be because they believe this will improve the results of their…

Categories: Censorship, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance

As the battle to set 6G standards begins, UK spy agency warns China seeks to “control the global operating system”

Posted on Apr 27, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Two years ago, this blog noted that the latest generation of mobile communications, 5G, brought with it undoubted benefits, but also real risks to privacy. Even today, the threat of…

Categories: Censorship, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

How China’s massive Digital Silk Road project threatens privacy around the globe

Posted on Apr 16, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Most people are aware of the recent rise of China as an economic, political and military superpower. Less well known is China's massive infrastructure program known as the Belt and…

Categories: Censorship, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Dual-use digital surveillance technologies finally get regulated – a little

Posted on Apr 5, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Privacy News Online frequently writes about surveillance conducted by governments on their populations, or by companies on their users. Less well-known is the connection between governments that wish to spy…

Categories: Censorship, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance
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