PIA blog first wrote about the facial recognition start-up Clearview AI two years ago, when news about its huge database of three billion facial images appeared. Its main market is…
PIA blog has just written about a major problem for Google: a decision by the Austrian Data Protection Authority that the continuing use of Google Analytics violates the EU's GDPR…
Government attempts to weaken cryptography to allow general surveillance are not new: they date back at least to the 1993 Clipper chip. Similarly, claims that children will be harmed by…
The GDPR is finally beginning to make itself felt more strongly, as a series of blog posts have noted. The situation is summed up in a new "DLA Piper GDPR…
As most people know from bitter personal experience, one of the most tiresome aspects of moving around the web is the constant barrage of pop-ups, asking whether the user agrees…
Back in June 2021, this blog noted that there were two important proposals for new laws moving their way through the European Union's legislative system. One, the Digital Services Act…
Since Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be rebranded as Meta to emphasize a new focus on virtual reality (VR), it has been hard to avoid hearing about the "metaverse".…
The privacy campaigner Max Schrems has been doggedly fighting to force Facebook to respect EU users' privacy for nearly a decade now. As this blog has reported, there have been…
Recently, this blog explored the allegations by 17 US states that Google had abused its monopoly power to stifle competition, and delayed the EU's ePrivacy legislation. Hard on its heels…
Back in December last year, Texas and nine other US states sued Google alleging that the company enjoys monopolistic power, and that it is stifling competition. Google called this a…