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Is this the future of Covid-19 vaccine passports: open source and based on the Ethereum blockchain?

Posted on Mar 2, 2021 by Glyn Moody

It was only last week that Privacy News Online wrote about introducing vaccine passports in order to provide additional freedoms to those who have received one of the Covid-19 vaccines.…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments

UK Police Chief falsely claims that end to end encrypted messaging “puts lives at risk”

Posted on Feb 1, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom (UK) really really don’t want Facebook to bring end to end encryption to Facebook Messenger and Instagram. In fact, a police chief went…

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

China releases draft of major new privacy law: why it matters to everyone online

Posted on Jan 28, 2021 by Glyn Moody

China has frequently figured in this blog, usually in the context of its censorship, surveillance activities, and wide-ranging abuse of human rights. But there's another side to the story. Like…

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

ACLU sues to find out how the FBI is breaking into encrypted devices

Posted on Dec 24, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has the ability to break into encrypted phones and laptops, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing so that the public can…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

The widening SolarWinds debacle shows why the reckless idea of backdooring encryption must be dropped forever

Posted on Dec 24, 2020 by Glyn Moody

The SolarWinds hack is the most serious breach of governmental and corporate security in years, perhaps the most serious breach ever - at least among those that we know about.…

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

Protect Our Civil Liberties Act would repeal Patriot Act, FISA Amendments Act, and ban encryption backdoors

Posted on Dec 18, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) are cosponsoring a bipartisan bill titled the Protect Our Civil Liberties Act (H.R. 8970). If passed, the Act would repeal the…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

MacOS Big Sur(veillance) bypasses Firewall/VPN to tell Apple what programs you run on your computer

Posted on Nov 20, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Some default Apple apps on MacOS Big Sur bypass any VPN or firewall rules set by the user to send information like what programs you run back to Apple. Namely,…

Categories: Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Surveillance, VPN

Proposed FTC settlement is a disservice to Zoom customers, says Commissioner

Posted on Nov 16, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Zoom and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have come to a tentative settlement agreement regarding the video conferencing company's false advertising of end-to-end encryption along with other issues. However, the…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments

EU continues to push for lawful access (aka backdoors) to end-to-end encrypted data

Posted on Nov 9, 2020 by Caleb Chen

A leaked draft resolution from the Council of the European Union highlights that the government is planning to crack down on the end-to-end (e2e) encryption used by messaging apps such…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments

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

Posted on Oct 15, 2020 by Glyn Moody

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…

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