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…
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…
Denmark's ISPs are collectively putting their foot down and will no longer surrender identifying subscriber information to the copyright industry's lawyer armies. This follows a ruling in neighboring Norway, where…
Three years ago, Colombian researcher Diego Gomez was charged with copyright infringement for uploading one (1) academic paper to Scribd, and was facing four to eight years in prison for…
A little-noticed article in the Consumerist dropped a bombshell: Google is now deliberately tracking your offline activity, your credit card purchases, in order to feed information back to advertisers about…
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…
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 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…
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…
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,…