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May 25: The General Data Protection Regulation takes effect today

Updated on Jul 27, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

It's May 25, and the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect. It contains such a shocking amount of common sense, that companies worldwide have been scrambling in…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Switzerland holds referendum on Internet censorship — to protect domestic gambling

Updated on Jul 20, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

The Swiss Pirate Party reports that there is a Swiss referendum coming on June 10 to introduce Internet censorship for the first time. The purpose of the censorship is to…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

The growing threat to privacy from big data forensics and false positives

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Glyn Moody

The cost of sequencing the DNA found in genomes has been decreasingly rapidly in recent years. Since 2008, it has been falling even faster than the well-known Moore's Law for…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Your Cell Phone Carrier Is Selling Your Real-Time Location Data to Third Parties

Updated on Jul 23, 2021 by Josiah Wilmoth

All major cell phone carriers collect and sell their customers’ real-time location data to third-party advertisers, information disclosed in a recent court case has revealed. Krebs On Security even discovered…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Today, the Senate Votes to Save Net Neutrality

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Today, the United States Senate will vote on whether or not to save net neutrality.  All 49 Senate Democrats, with the support of key Republican Senators, have successfully forced a Resolution of…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Crypto backdoors are in the news again, and as bad for privacy as ever

Updated on Aug 25, 2020 by Glyn Moody

VPNs are an indispensable part of online life, and they protect many aspects of privacy. But there's a class of threats that VPNs can't defend against: crypto backdoors, which allow…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

European Commission expands planned copyright auto-censorship machines to also include censorship of unwanted political opinions

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

The European Commission is expanding its plans for proposed automated censorship: from only having concerned copyright infringements, which is bad enough and cannot nearly be determined by a machine, the…

Categories: Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments

In China, workers’ brainwaves are now being monitored on the factory floor

Updated on Jan 25, 2024 by Rick Falkvinge

In the next installment of "how bad can things get", Chinese factories are not content with monitoring their workers' communications and physical location, but have found it much more efficient…

Categories: General Privacy News

The European Commission’s “Upload Censorship for Copyright” is already obsolete

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

As Julia Reda has continuously reported from inside the European Parliament, the European Commission is pushing for an update to copyright monopoly laws that would introduce upload-time censorship on copyright…

Categories: Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments

Why we support the Index on Censorship: 2018 Freedom of Expression Awards

Updated on Jul 29, 2021 by Christel Dahlskjaer

Freedom of Expression is a fundamental human right as enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But it sadly comes as no surprise to any of…

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