Hacking the World – Part 1: Hacking Basics
As part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we published a four-part series packed with facts and stats, to give you an in-depth look at the state of cybersecurity in today’s world.…
General Privacy News
Australian Police Can Now Spy On Citizens, Disrupt Their Computers, Take Over Their Online Accounts, and Change Their Data
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…
What The West’s Disorderly Withdrawal from Afghanistan Tells Us About Privacy and its Preservation
In the wake of the West's chaotic withdrawal from Kabul, and the rapid takeover of the country by the Taliban, Afghanistan continues to dominate the headlines. Given the major geopolitical…
50 Key Stats About Freedom of the Internet Around the World
Almost every part of our everyday lives is closely connected to the internet – we depend on it for communication, entertainment, information, running our households, even running our cars. Not…
Apple Has Betrayed Its Privacy Legacy – and Will Undermine End-to-end Encryption Everywhere
Apple is a company that has always made much of its commitment to privacy, and has succeeded in turning it into a unique selling point of its products. That proud…
Chile is Passing a Neuro-Rights Law to Protect Mental Privacy. It’s Time for Other Nations to Do the Same.
Two years ago, this blog wrote about the privacy implications of the exciting new field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). The approach discussed there involved implanting tiny threads directly into the…
Will Privacy Activist Max Schrems’ New Legal Action Against Facebook at EU’s Highest Court Prove to Be His Most Important Yet?
Given the by-now inarguable importance of data protection to the online world today, it is extraordinary that one person and his organization have almost single-handedly shaped the privacy landscape there.…
The Tiny Nation of Luxembourg Slaps Amazon with the Biggest GDPR Fine Yet: Nearly $900 Million
As Privacy News Online has noted, one name that crops up frequently in the context of the EU's General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) is the privacy expert and activist Max…
Shenzhen, the Silicon Valley of Hardware, Sets a Global Standard with China’s Toughest Local Privacy Law
For many Westerners, China is a country associated with widespread surveillance, stringent censorship, and human rights abuses in regions such as Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Despite that, the Chinese government…
How Discussions at the World Wide Web Consortium Could Undermine Efforts to Strengthen Privacy
One of the surest signs that privacy is becoming a major factor in the online world is the attempt by major Internet companies to claim that they value it. Mark…