The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a popular online tool for immortalizing and viewing historical internet content is blocked by default in the United Kingdom. According to the Open Rights Group’s…
Last June Privacy News Online wrote about complaints filed just six minutes after the EU's tough privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), started to be enforced. They were…
It will hardly be news to readers of this site that mobile apps are tracking us on a massive scale. And yet a story in the New York Times last…
This is part 4 of a series. See: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Up until 1998, the NSA had been a purely defensive intelligence agency, that was…
This is part 3 of a series. See: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 With ECHELON up and running, the NSA was free to provide intelligence support for…
This is part 2 of a series. See: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Complacency or a sense of immunity started to catch up with the NSA in…
This is part 1 of a series. See: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 The National Security Agency (NSA), hides in the shadows and sleeps with one eye open…
Facial recognition is hardly new – Privacy News Online has been writing about the topic for years now. But it is becoming more and more the norm, as some recent…
On December 21st, 2018, India expanded its governmental spying powers to an unprecedented level - granting ten new agencies the government writ to "intercept, monitor, and decrypt" data from Indian…
On Thursday, the Australian government passed a controversial new law that would allow law enforcement and government agencies to demand access to encrypted communications. Under the new legislation, companies who…