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New research confirms Kazakhstan is spying on connections to Facebook, Twitter, VK, Instagram, Youtube, Google, and more

Updated on Jul 26, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Kazakhstan is actively spying on its citizens' internet connections to Facebook, Twitter, VK, Instagram, Youtube, Google, along with many other sites. New research published by Ram Sundara Raman, Leonid Evdokimov,…

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

Amazon’s collaborations with local police turn its Ring doorbell cameras into unofficial community surveillance systems

Updated on Aug 6, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Amazon was founded almost exactly 25 years ago. Initially it sold books, and people saw it as an interesting early example of e-commerce, but probably assumed that it would remain…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Kazakhstan tries and fails to MITM all of its internet users with rogue certificate installation

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

On July 17th, 2019, the government of Kazakhstan enacted a new cybersecurity measure that aims to spy on its citizens’ internet traffic. Specifically, the Kazakh government ordered all of the…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

The Florida DMV sells your personal information and there’s no way to opt out

Updated on Jul 16, 2021 by Caleb Chen

ABC News Florida’s I-Team issued a breaking news story last week, revealing government documents that prove that the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DMV) sells personal information…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Art can change the world

Updated on Jan 29, 2024 by Carty Sewill

Illustration by Carty Sewill Art can change the world. Warhol showed us all the beauty in our everyday; from Coke bottles to Campbell’s soup cans. Social change is led by…

Categories: Censorship, Governments

Here’s why Google thinks you should trust it with unprecedented quantities of your city’s “urban data”

Updated on Aug 4, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Last October, Privacy News Online wrote about an ambitious project from Google's sister company, Sidewalk Labs. It aims to take the idea of a "smart city" to the next level,…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

The writing is on the wall for ads based on real-time bidding in the EU – and maybe everywhere

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Privacy News Online noted back in February a growing disquiet at the huge amounts of personal information that sites like Facebook and Google routinely gather about us, and how it…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Why Facebook’s new Libra cryptocurrency will be a privacy disaster

Updated on Jul 29, 2020 by Glyn Moody

Facebook has been appearing on this blog with increasing frequency. In one way, that's natural. A social network, by definition, is about people and their personal information, and so is…

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

General Data Protection Regulation one year on: what next?

Updated on Nov 17, 2021 by Glyn Moody

A previous post discussed what has happened in the world of the GDPR during its first year. Although only a few rulings have been handed down, there are many legal…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

General Data Protection Regulation one year on: what has it done?

Updated on Nov 17, 2021 by Glyn Moody

A year ago, arguably the most important event in the recent history of privacy occurred: the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) started to be enforced. To mark that anniversary…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance
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