Why politicians don’t, and can’t, understand the Internet
Politicians do not understand the Internet. It is not so much that the politicians in power today in their 60s weren't born with it, even if that's also true. It's…
Governments
UK government confirms plans to destroy the British software industry
Last week, the UK government confirmed plans to force Internet companies to undermine security by weakening or backdooring encryption. As Privacy News Online reported back in March, the UK's Home…
Use the “Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator” to experience an Internet without net neutrality
The "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" is a new Google Chrome browser extension created by the good activists at Keep Our Net Free for education and awareness purposes which simulates…
Aadhaar: India’s billion-person biometric database is the world’s biggest privacy experiment
The use of social security numbers and biometric databases is not unusual these days, but there's nothing else on the scale of what India is doing in this field. Its…
Illinois Right to Know Act will protect the private information that internet companies collect on you
The Right to Know Act in Illinois is a proposed state level internet privacy law that would protect private information online - no matter the type of company it is stored…
Comcast is trying to censor a FFTF website that supports net neutrality
Comcast has sent a formal cease and desist letter to Fight for the Future (FFTF) demanding control of its pro-net neutrality website, comcastroturf.com. FFTF set up comcastroturf.com to allow people, real…
New bipartisan bill will permanently end warrantless collection of American emails by the NSA
A new bill currently with the House of Representatives will permanently forbid the US government from illegally collecting and searching Americans' private emails. The two House Representative that presented this bill…
Detailed medical records of 61 million Italian citizens to be given to IBM for its “cognitive computing” system Watson
Last year, Italy's prime minister at the time, Matteo Renzi, announced that IBM would invest $150 million dollars building a new research center in Milan for its Watson Health division,…
New Jersey is latest state to introduce internet privacy bill to protect your personally identifiable information
A New Jersey Democrat has submitted a new internet privacy bill (A-4800) to the New Jersey Assembly that would bring strong broadband privacy protections to the state. According to MediaPost,…
Theresa May outlines Tory plan to create new, censored Internet controlled by UK government
Yesterday, during her speech describing the current Tory Manifesto, Theresa May revealed that she plans to build a "new Internet," over which the government has complete control. The goal in the…