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Defense Intelligence Agency gathered US smartphone location data without a warrant

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 by Caleb Chen

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is the most recent government agency that has been revealed to gather US smartphone location data without a warrant. This most recent revelation that the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

TikTok tracks you even if you never made an account

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 by Caleb Chen

TikTok gathers information on users and shares it with third parties, even if you’ve never made a profile. VICE reporter Riccardo Coluccini - who has used the app but had…

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Tencent has been caught spying on your web browsing history with QQ Messenger

Updated on Jan 20, 2021 by Caleb Chen

QQ Messenger, a popular Chinese instant messaging app by Tencent, was caught scraping web browser history with their desktop client. The discovery was made by Chinese internet users on the…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Is the GDPR finally going to get some teeth?

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Glyn Moody

The GDPR is a powerful, far-reaching piece of legislation, but one whose full potential the EU data protection authorities have so far failed to realize. Research from DLA Piper shows…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

A preliminary look at privacy labels in iOS VPN apps

Updated on Jan 23, 2024 by Caleb Chen

Apple’s new privacy labels inform users about what information the app (VPN or otherwise) is sending back to the app’s developers - and for what purpose. There has been a…

Categories: General Privacy News, VPN

Apple’s new privacy labels show how data hungry Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are

Updated on Jan 25, 2024 by Caleb Chen

The rollout of privacy labels in all apps available in the iOS app store has revealed the massive amount of information that Facebook collects through Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. This…

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Not going dark: personal data from the Internet of Things ushers in a golden age for law enforcement

Posted on Jan 13, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Last week, Privacy News Online wrote about the increasing use of vehicle forensics to solve crimes. These "smartphones on wheels" join a growing list of everyday devices that are becoming…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

UK rules against the use of general warrants to hack into citizen’s devices

Posted on Jan 12, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The United Kingdom (UK) High Court has ruled that the country’s security and intelligence agencies can no longer use “general warrants” as legal writ for property interference, aka hacking. The…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Today’s online advertising not only seriously harms privacy, but is seriously broken in other ways; we need to fix it

Posted on Jan 6, 2021 by Glyn Moody

For three and half years now, Privacy News Online has been warning about the huge, and largely ignored, danger of micro-targeted ads and real-time bidding (RTB). The approach sounds plausible.…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance

Police are increasingly using digital vehicle forensics to solve cases

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 by Caleb Chen

Police investigators are increasingly taking advantage of a new class of forensics technology known as digital vehicle forensics. When police have access, they will suck up an inordinate amount of…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance
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