The Net Neutrality debate, hot as it is, would not exist if the old telco monopolies were behaving like ordinary companies who had to compete for customers. Most of their…
The Swedish government is doubling down on the court-banned and hated data retention surveillance. As a Western first, they're also planning to introduce VPN surveillance, taking a page out of…
There's a new frontier for digital privacy: home devices that understand spoken commands. That's impressive and convenient, but it comes with definite risks, as Rick Falkvinge pointed out earlier this…
The German newspaper Die Zeit has a long feature today about IMSI catchers and their countermeasures, words that were long heard only in countersurveillance cultures at Black Hat and Defcon.…
Here on Privacy News Online, we often write about the impact on privacy of technologies such as facial recognition, iris scans, DNA databases, and drones. Individually, those powerful and rapidly-advancing…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking personal information, including IP addresses, of all visitors to a political website called disruptj20.org. In total, This past Monday, Dreamhost unveiled details about…
The name "Palantir" bespeaks mystery. Its original meaning is the powerful artifact in Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" that allows direct communications with distant lands. It is now also the…
Bitcoin's value is an illusion of money. But so is all governmental money, all central-bank money. All governments always knew that the value of money is an illusion: they could…
The hugely popular internet tool, the Wayback Machine by the Internet Archive, has been blocked by an Indian court order. India has a long history of blocking sites that are…
Facial recognition has matured sufficiently that it is cropping up in real-world applications with increasing frequency, as recent Privacy News Online stories attest. There's one well-known company that is more…