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France passes legislation to block adult websites that don’t comply with new age verification framework

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 by Caleb Chen

France plans to implement an age verification system for pornography and expand website blocking powers to punish non-compliant websites. The new law would grant the French audiovisual authority, CSA, the…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service to install trojans on user devices

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

A new law being proposed in Germany would see all 19 federal state intelligence agencies in Germany granted the power to spy on German citizens through the use of trojans.…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

Brazil plans to bring in a “fake news” law, with serious implications for everyone’s privacy, no matter where they live

Updated on Jul 8, 2019 by Glyn Moody

The world's attention is rightly focused on the terrible new National Security Law in Hong Kong. But, as ever, there are bad things happening to human rights elsewhere as well.…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

Tim Hortons is being sued for tracking your GPS location even when the app was off

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Tim Hortons is facing a class action lawsuit for its data collection practices - which include tracking your GPS location through their mobile app even when the app was turned…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Reddit and Linkedin apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents

Updated on Aug 25, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Linkedin and Reddit both check your clipboard and copy and paste your clipboard contents with every keystroke - even when you’re in another app. Another set of potential privacy violators…

Categories: General Privacy News, Social Media

After exaggerated claims about their importance, here’s the reality of contact tracing apps

Updated on Jul 5, 2019 by Glyn Moody

Back in February, this blog was one of the first to warn that the obvious technological response to the coronavirus – the use of contact tracing apps – raised important…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

HongKongers prepare for China and new national security law by scrubbing digital footprint

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

As China takes over Hong Kong with a new national security law, Hongkongers prepare by cleaning up their social media presence. Before, under the now demolished “one country, two systems”…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Big win for online freedom in EU: key parts of France’s new “hate speech” law ruled unconstitutional

Updated on Aug 25, 2020 by Glyn Moody

One of the most worrying trends in today's online world is a move by governments against "hate speech". That's a vague term in itself, so policing it is hard. Making…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Act now to protect encryption and make sure that there is no EARN IT Act passed

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

A new anti-encryption bill proposed by Senator Graham will face a key vote this week, and activists are working to make sure that the bill does not pass. The bill…

Categories: Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments

TikTok seems to be copying and pasting your clipboard with every keystroke

Updated on Jan 30, 2024 by Caleb Chen

A new privacy feature in iOS 14 has revealed that TikTok is copying the contents of your clipboard with every keystroke. The new feature - called paste notifications - shows…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Social Media
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