Workplace surveillance has become increasingly common since this blog first wrote about it back in 2017. One recent development is that it has moved into the home as more people…
In the four years since Privacy News Online first wrote about corporate surveillance as the principal business model for much of the Internet, the practice has become a mainstream concern.…
A couple of years ago, Privacy News Online wrote about the use by parents of ankle bracelets to track their childrens' whereabouts. That's a relatively rare application of the technology;…
Sadly, we have all become so accustomed to having our data bought and sold that it rarely surprises anyone to hear about yet another company filling their coffers with the…
Last month, this blog noted that the EU's important ePrivacy Regulation has now entered the final stretch of its legislative passage. An article on the Lawfare blog has spotted an…
Trying to detect welfare fraud, where people claim benefits they are not entitled to, is not new. Nor is it unreasonable: taxpayers rightly want to know that their money is…
Google recently declared that it will stop selling targeted ads based on your internet history as provided by third party cookies, and is instead working on a new privacy conscious way for advertisers to target internet users called Federated Learning of…
Brave Browser, the secure and private browser launched by Brendan Eich in 2018, has recently announced the acquisition of Tailcat and the release of their Google Search alternative: Brave Search. Google Chrome is the most used web browser in the world…
A Chinese government program known as the Sharp Eyes Project is the latest example of China’s technological surveillance infrastructure. There are over 200 million public and private CCTV cameras in China.…
A recent Congressional hearing held by the Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy sought to examine the use of cryptocurrencies in financing domestic terrorism such as the…