How the NSA Spies on Us All – Part 3: The 80’s & 90’s
This is part 3 of a series. See: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 With ECHELON up and running, the NSA was free to provide intelligence support for…
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How to Know if You’re Being Tracked on the Internet
You just spoke to your family about how you need a new juicer. When you go online, you see ads for juicers everywhere. And you didn’t even search for a…
How the NSA Spies on Us All – Part 2: The 60’s and 70’s
This is part 2 of a series. See: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Complacency or a sense of immunity started to catch up with the NSA in…
Google wants to spy on everything you do at home, in every room (including the bathroom), to help “improve” your family
Smart speakers and the Internet of Things are undoubtedly impressive considered purely as technology. That may explain why they are increasingly popular. But as this blog has pointed out a…
How the NSA Spies on Us All – Part 1: The Early Years
This is part 1 of a series. See: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 The National Security Agency (NSA), hides in the shadows and sleeps with one eye open…
How to Manage and Protect Your Cloud Data
The use of cloud storage is growing at a very significant rate. Cloud storage is predicted to be the most widely used option by 2020 due to many factors including…
What is Tor? A Beginner’s Guide
When you use the Internet, your data can be collected by the websites you visit, ISPs, governments, advertisers, intruders, and more. One of the easiest and most affordable ways to protect…
As facial recognition systems continue to spread, so do concerns about their deployment
Facial recognition is hardly new – Privacy News Online has been writing about the topic for years now. But it is becoming more and more the norm, as some recent…
India now allows government agencies to “intercept, monitor, and decrypt” citizens’ computers
On December 21st, 2018, India expanded its governmental spying powers to an unprecedented level - granting ten new agencies the government writ to "intercept, monitor, and decrypt" data from Indian…
What is Doxing and How Can You Protect Yourself?
Almost all of us are guilty of oversharing on the internet to some degree. Between geo-marked photos, statuses containing personal details about our lives, and Facebook’s “check in” feature, it…