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Governments

UK Government Is Engaged in Large-Scale Surveillance of Social Media

Posted on Feb 1, 2023 by Glyn Moody

New US And EU Laws Bring Risks To Privacy The UK civil rights group Big Brother Watch has published a major new document about the UK government's surveillance of social…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance

EU to Use ePrivacy and GDPR to Tackle Illegal Cookie Walls

Posted on Jan 31, 2023 by Glyn Moody

One of the biggest criticisms of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is that it has led to a plague of annoying pop-ups and Web pages requesting permission to…

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

Meta’s Lawsuit Against NSO Goes Forward – The Fight Against NSO Spyware Gains Strength

Posted on Jan 20, 2023 by Glyn Moody

The murky world of government spyware has never been the same after the Pegasus Project leaked in July 2021 a list of over 50,000 phone numbers believed to be people…

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

Meta’s Tracking Woes Confirmed As It Intensifies Its Battle For Control Of The EU’s GDPR

Posted on Jan 12, 2023 by Glyn Moody

In December 2022, we discussed the leak of an important ruling by EU privacy regulators regarding Meta's micro-targeted advertising, a system entirely based on constant online surveillance. The two parts…

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

Will GDPR’s Win Against Facebook Change Advertising?

Posted on Dec 9, 2022 by Glyn Moody

We've just written about the mounting problems for Facebook and its parent company Meta. And to that list of issues can be added another one, potentially the biggest so far,…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance

Politicians Still Underestimate Smart Cars’ Threat to Privacy

Posted on Nov 8, 2022 by Glyn Moody

It was three years ago that we blog wrote about the privacy problems raised by "smartphones on wheels" – the fact that today's vehicles contain powerful computer systems and a…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Real-Time Bidding is Bad for Privacy and Promotes Disinformation

Posted on Nov 3, 2022 by Glyn Moody

The PIA blog spends a lot of time discussing advertising, which might seem strange. But the sad fact is that today's online advertising model represents the most serious continuing assault…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance

Special Advisor to CJEU Confirms It’s a VPN’s World

Posted on Oct 28, 2022 by Glyn Moody

For what is probably the first time, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU's top court, is considering a case about the use of VPNs. When…

Categories: Copyright, Cybersecurity, Encryption, Governments, Social Media, VPN

The EU Is Tackling a Serious Problem with the Wrong Approach: Real-Time Mass Surveillance

Posted on Oct 21, 2022 by Glyn Moody

One of the most serious new threats to online privacy is currently working its way through the European Union's legislative system. No decent person can be against a regulation "laying…

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

Will Biden’s New EU-US Data Privacy Framework Pass Legal Muster?

Posted on Oct 11, 2022 by Glyn Moody

President Biden hopes that it's third time lucky for the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), implemented last week with an Executive Order (EO) on "Enhancing Safeguards for the United…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance
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