Last October, Privacy News Online wrote about an ambitious project from Google's sister company, Sidewalk Labs. It aims to take the idea of a "smart city" to the next level,…
Privacy News Online noted back in February a growing disquiet at the huge amounts of personal information that sites like Facebook and Google routinely gather about us, and how it…
Facebook has been appearing on this blog with increasing frequency. In one way, that's natural. A social network, by definition, is about people and their personal information, and so is…
Customer service is a crucial part of many businesses, so it comes as no surprise that digital technologies are increasingly being applied to this field. By its very nature, a…
About one year ago, ISP's like Comcast, Verizon & AT&T killed net neutrality, giving themselves control over everything we see and do online. Millions of citizens fought back, demanding that…
Images of travelers and their license plates collected by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been compromised, thanks to a federal contractor who did not follow protocol. The agency…
A previous post discussed what has happened in the world of the GDPR during its first year. Although only a few rulings have been handed down, there are many legal…
A year ago, arguably the most important event in the recent history of privacy occurred: the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) started to be enforced. To mark that anniversary…
Readers of this blog know that a VPN is an indispensable tool for today's digital world. VPNs address a key part of the challenge of staying safe online. They protect…
The next-generation of mobile communications, 5G, is currently a hot topic in two very different domains: technology – and politics. The latter is because of President Trump's attempts to shut…