The European Commission has unveiled proposals for what it terms "new rules and actions aiming to turn Europe into the global hub for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence". Evidently hoping that the…
A couple of weeks ago, this blog wrote about Facebook's huge data leak of 533 million personal data records online. As that post noted, despite the huge numbers involved, this…
Most people are aware of the recent rise of China as an economic, political and military superpower. Less well known is China's massive infrastructure program known as the Belt and…
Earlier today, we announced that the ioXt Alliance Expanded their Certification Program for Mobile and VPN Security. This expansions includes a set of VPN-specific standards that were developed by the…
NEWPORT BEACH, California – April 15, 2021 – The ioXt Alliance, the Global Standard for IoT security, today announced that it is expanding its ioXt Compliance Program with a new…
At the beginning of last year, concerns about facial recognition technology increased with the appearance of the start-up Clearview AI. It was problematic for two main reasons. First, the size…
By now, many people will have heard about the appearance of 533,000,000 Facebook records online, first revealed in a tweet by Alon Gal at the weekend. You can find out…
WiFi can be traced back to 1991, but it was in the late 1990s that the technology began to be taken up by the general public. Its success back then…
The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU or short, is a regular critic of Facebook for its many privacy failures over the years. Yet, a recent update to its privacy…
Privacy News Online frequently writes about surveillance conducted by governments on their populations, or by companies on their users. Less well-known is the connection between governments that wish to spy…