Is Europe Fracturing With Respect To Respect For Privacy?
Last decade, all of Europe was marching in lockstep toward surveillance nightmare societies. This decade, that has changed, and some states in Europe (Germany et al) are choosing to restore…
General Privacy News
Outdated Privacy Laws Were Written In Age Of 24-Shot Chemical Film Rolls
The privacy laws of today are terribly outdated. They make assumptions about people's observation-and-documentation capability that are no longer valid, and at the same time, what was once strongly protected…
Argentinian Block Of Pirate Bay Shows Poor Understanding Of Modern Privacy-Of-Location
An Argentinian court ordered an interim censorship of The Pirate Bay this week, at the request of the copyright industry. It affects all ISPs in Argentina, and spills over into…
Reduced Acceptance For Mass Surveillance And Wiretapping
A ten-year study in Sweden shows a sharply falling popular support for mass surveillance, even if necessary to protect national security. Over a ten-year period, opinion has shifted ten points,…
Dangerous And False Justifications For Invading Privacy
There's no shortage of justifications for new surveillance powers. One of the more disturbing ones is a trend toward outlawing the mere attempt of maintaining your own privacy against intrusion.…
Watch Out For Data Gluttony In Governmental Population Registries
While the NSA is collecting vast amounts of data about everybody, we need to learn from history that even basic population records have been used for systemic discrimination and genocide.…
Privacy Isn’t Just About Keeping Things To Yourself
In findings that contradict Facebook and the NSA, teenagers are more aware of privacy than ever. But privacy isn't about "keeping everything to yourself". It's much more nuanced than that.…
Guess Who Determines If You Have Something To Hide Now?
When dismissing privacy concerns, many people use the idea that since they haven't done anything wrong, they have "nothing to hide". This disregards the most fundamental fact: it's not them…
The Rights And Liberties Of Our Parents
Our parents had certain rights and liberties that they took for granted, inherited from our grandparents. They have not been passed on to our children. That is an enormous failure…
Why A “Do Not Track” Flag Cannot Possibly Work
The advertising industry has created a private mass-surveillance nightmare on the web, in addition to the government spooks. One resurfacing suggestion to solve this has been a "no surveillance please"…