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…
At the beginning of last year, concerns about facial recognition technology increased with the appearance of the start-up Clearview AI. It was problematic for two main reasons. First, the size…
By now, many people will have heard about the appearance of 533,000,000 Facebook records online, first revealed in a tweet by Alon Gal at the weekend. You can find out…
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…
Workplace surveillance has become increasingly common since this blog first wrote about it back in 2017. One recent development is that it has moved into the home as more people…
A couple of years ago, Privacy News Online wrote about the use by parents of ankle bracelets to track their childrens' whereabouts. That's a relatively rare application of the technology;…
Sadly, we have all become so accustomed to having our data bought and sold that it rarely surprises anyone to hear about yet another company filling their coffers with the…
Last month, this blog noted that the EU's important ePrivacy Regulation has now entered the final stretch of its legislative passage. An article on the Lawfare blog has spotted an…
Trying to detect welfare fraud, where people claim benefits they are not entitled to, is not new. Nor is it unreasonable: taxpayers rightly want to know that their money is…
A Chinese government program known as the Sharp Eyes Project is the latest example of China’s technological surveillance infrastructure. There are over 200 million public and private CCTV cameras in China.…