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Why you need to use a VPN to stop Google and Facebook from tracking your porn habits

Updated on Jan 29, 2024 by Caleb Chen

A team of researchers from Microsoft, the University of Pennsylvania, and Carnegie Mellon have revealed a study showing that Google and Facebook are keeping tabs on your porn viewing habits…

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

Private Internet Access adds BEAM to its list of anonymous payment methods

Updated on Jan 23, 2024 by Chris Miller

Private Internet Access now accepts anonymous payments through BEAM, providing our users with yet another way to protect their privacy and anonymity when signing up for our service. What is…

Categories: Announcements, Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News

Amazon’s collaborations with local police turn its Ring doorbell cameras into unofficial community surveillance systems

Updated on Aug 6, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Amazon was founded almost exactly 25 years ago. Initially it sold books, and people saw it as an interesting early example of e-commerce, but probably assumed that it would remain…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Kazakhstan tries and fails to MITM all of its internet users with rogue certificate installation

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

On July 17th, 2019, the government of Kazakhstan enacted a new cybersecurity measure that aims to spy on its citizens’ internet traffic. Specifically, the Kazakh government ordered all of the…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

The Florida DMV sells your personal information and there’s no way to opt out

Updated on Jul 16, 2021 by Caleb Chen

ABC News Florida’s I-Team issued a breaking news story last week, revealing government documents that prove that the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DMV) sells personal information…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Here’s why Google thinks you should trust it with unprecedented quantities of your city’s “urban data”

Updated on Aug 4, 2021 by Glyn Moody

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,…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

The writing is on the wall for ads based on real-time bidding in the EU – and maybe everywhere

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Glyn Moody

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Why Facebook’s new Libra cryptocurrency will be a privacy disaster

Updated on Jul 29, 2020 by Glyn Moody

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…

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

When AI-enhanced customer service is on the line, so is your privacy

Updated on Jan 28, 2024 by Glyn Moody

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Join the Epic Livestream to Save Net Neutrality

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Chris Miller

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…

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