This blog's posts can often seem a depressing series of stories about privacy loss. But there are some major fightbacks happening in the background, many of which require the slow…
A couple of months ago, this blog wrote about Apple's Expanded Protections for Children, which turned out to mean client-side scanning (CSS). That is, code on your smartphone would be…
Back in April, Privacy News Online reported on an important set of proposals from the European Commission to regulate the use of artificial intelligence within the EU. It contained some…
On 5 October, Mark Zuckerberg sent a note to Facebook employees, beginning: "Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you."…
Need a geographical breakdown of hacking? Look no further. We’ve got all the data breach statistics you need to understand the “who” and “where” of what’s happening in cybersecurity across…
Most people have heard of open source these days – after all, it has conquered every aspect of computing, with the possible exception of the desktop. But Open Source Intelligence…
Privacy News Online has written a number of times about "surveillance capitalism", and its use of micro-targeted advertising to influence people's buying decisions. But the worrying power of such highly-targeted…
Privacy News Online has just written about a troubling proposal by Apple to carry out surveillance directly on iPhones. In Australia, the situation is even worse. There, the government has…
Privacy News Online has just reported on a major privacy disaster in Afghanistan, where biometric and other highly personal data is now in the hands of the Taliban. That makes…
As Privacy News Online has reported, for years governments around the world have kept up a constant assault on end-to-end encryption. One of the leaders of this attempt to demonize…