A couple of weeks ago, Privacy News Online wrote about France's controversial Global Security Law. One striking element was the authorization of drones for routine police surveillance. These particular "eyes…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78AF0YFX210 Letters between the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Senator Ron Wyden confirm that the United States government has used Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect web…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YypJ00pNk4 U.S. Customs Border Protection (CBP) has filed a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that highlights their ongoing plans to create a facial recognition database with mugshots of all non-US…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4mjGCsleds For the second time in a week, demonstrations took place across France against a new "Global Security Law". The proposed legislation would bring in wide-ranging police surveillance in France,…
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been in hot water and under investigation by its oversight body for buying location information on American citizens without a warrant. Motherboard has seen…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkbXSF_TmTA Back in July last year, this blog wrote about Amazon's Ring series, whose key product is a small Internet-connected camera built into a doorbell. At that time, it was…
As this blog has frequently noted, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) plays a crucial role in the privacy world. It not only creates protections for privacy online in…
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…
This blog frequently covers the world of EU data protection because it is that region of the world that leads the way in regulating digital privacy, just as the US…
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…