President Trump has a plan to involve the FTC and FCC in policing censorship by social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter. Earlier in August, CNN’s Brian Fung reported…
The Hong Kong government has drawn up plans to use executive orders to force internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict certain applications in Hong Kong as a way to disrupt…
A court ruling by the Arizona State Court of Appeals has affirmed that Arizona’s state right to privacy, guaranteed by the state’s constitution, also extends to internet privacy. Specifically, this…
William Gibson is best known for his book "Neuromancer", which popularized the word and concept of cyberspace. He also came up with the phrase "the future is already here —…
Last week's post looked at the increasing number of moves to rein in, or even ban, the use of facial recognition technologies in the US. Another country at the forefront…
Recently, FaceApp was much in the headlines. It allows users to submit photos of faces and modify them in interesting ways – making peple look older, or younger, or changing…
Representatives from the UK, US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand recently finished a two day meeting in London where the countries renewed their commitment to seeking encryption backdoors from technology…
Earlier this year, Privacy News Online wrote about a new generation of nanosatellites that are starting to fill the sky. The same continuing advances in technology that have made these…
Two years ago, Privacy News Online wrote about the mysterious Palantir Technologies. It describes itself as a company that makes "products for human-driven analysis of real-world data". It is a…
President Trump’s Attorney General, William Barr, has demanded the tech industry create encryption backdoors because he views encryption as a security risk. Barr made his illogical thoughts on encryption known…