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Meta Hit With 1.2 Billion Euros Fine For Violating the GDPR – Time It Adopted a Federated Approach

Posted on May 23, 2023 by Glyn Moody

Meta has been ordered to pay a fine of 1.2 billion euros (around $1.3 billion) for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by sending personal data of EU…

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

The EU’s GDPR Is 5 Years Old and Still Not Working Properly: How Can It Be Fixed?

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Glyn Moody

The European Union’s flagship law on privacy, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is five years old. It has undoubtedly had a dramatic impact on the privacy world, as the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Studies

How a New UN Cybercrime Treaty Could Lead to the Repression of Civil Liberties

Posted on Apr 20, 2023 by Glyn Moody

Spyware is arguably one of the most insidious threats to privacy today. While other forms of privacy invasion – CCTV surveillance or even browser cookies – are more or less…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy

What Do Iran’s Theocrats And Tesla Vehicles Have In Common? The Use of High-Tech Surveillance Cameras

Posted on Apr 17, 2023 by Glyn Moody

Digital technology is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it makes vital tools like VPNs possible, providing strong and affordable privacy protection for personal data when in transit across…

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

Data Protection Authorities Around the World Investigate ChatGPT Over Privacy Concerns

Posted on Apr 13, 2023 by Glyn Moody

At the beginning of February, when the excitement over generative AI systems like ChatGPT was starting to build, I warned on the PIA blog “it seems certain that much of…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy

TikTok Bans Miss the Point, But Are Still Great News for Privacy

Posted on Mar 9, 2023 by Glyn Moody

Privacy concerns about the social media platform TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, are not new. We've been reporting on them on the PIA blog for several years. More…

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

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
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