The Fourth Amendment has been interpreted to mean that law enforcement can’t serve a warrant on tech companies like Google to try and find out what devices were near the…
One of the reasons why protecting privacy is so hard is that our data is vulnerable in so many ways as it flows across the Internet. Threats can come from…
The government in Denmark has fired 3 top officials from the country’s foreign intelligence agency, the Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE), following revelations from a whistleblower. The officials, including the head of…
Two years ago, Privacy News Online warned that the growing number of large-scale DNA databases were likely to become a serious threat to people's privacy. Sadly, things have not improved…
Last month, Privacy News Online discussed another major win for the privacy activist Max Schrems. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU's top court, agreed with…
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that passcodes aren't protected by the Fifth Amendment. States around the country, and other countries around the world, continue to rule differently on…
Automated facial recognition has emerged as one of the most problematic technologies for privacy. That's reflected in the increasing number of posts on this blog dealing with the issues it…
A Virginia based government contracting firm called Anomaly Six LLC has been revealed to be inserting a proprietary software development kit (SDK) into over five hundred mobile apps then sharing…
The Great Firewall of China is getting longer. Chinese censors upgraded the GFW to be able to block HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI. We know about this…
The US Department of Justice has filed for an injunction to stop California from implementing their own net neutrality laws. Net neutrality has been repealed in the United States Federal…