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Chinese Police use facial recognition to apprehend one person among crowd of 50,000

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

Chinese police have used automated face recognition cameras to identify and apprehend a fugitive among a stadium crowd of 50,000. This marks a decisive shift in the possibility to be…

Categories: General Privacy News

Rhode Island Lawmaker Pulls Porn Censorship Bill, Citing Its ‘Dubious Origins’

Updated on Nov 18, 2021 by Josiah Wilmoth

A Rhode Island lawmaker has a yanked a controversial porn censorship bill, citing its “dubious origins.” The “Human Trafficking and Prevention Act” (HTPA), versions of which are circulating in more…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

US Senators Introduce ‘Privacy Bill of Rights’ in Wake of Facebook Data-Harvesting Scandal

Updated on Jan 29, 2024 by Josiah Wilmoth

Two US senators have introduced a bill that seeks to establish a “privacy bill of rights” for American consumers and prohibit social media platforms and other websites from sharing or…

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Microsoft and Facebook start intervening in private conversations. How long until they beep out unwanted parts in real time?

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

For the first time, a telecommunications provider is having opinions on the content of your conversations. This is unprecedented and a sharp deviation from all previous history. How long until…

Categories: General Privacy News, Social Media

Another day, another breach: At what point does storing passwords in plaintext become criminally negligent?

Updated on Jun 16, 2026 by Rick Falkvinge

The third largest breach ever in Finland happened yesterday. Passwords were stored in plaintext. At T-Mobile Austria, they explain that of course they store the password in plaintext, but they…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Brazil’s ISPs Earn Failing Grades on Data Privacy

Updated on Jul 22, 2021 by Josiah Wilmoth

Brazil’s internet service providers (ISPs) earn failing grades on data privacy, researchers say. Earlier this month, Brazilian independent research center InternetLab -- in partnership with the Electronic Frontier Foundation --…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Finland’s ISPs Begin Censoring Websites on Government Blacklist

Updated on Jul 23, 2021 by Josiah Wilmoth

Internet service providers (ISPs) in Finland have begun blocking access to websites on a government-curated blacklist. According to English-language Finnish news service Metropolitan.fi, the initiative is the product of a…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (21/21): Conclusion, privacy has been all but eliminated from the digital environment

Updated on Jun 16, 2026 by Rick Falkvinge

In a series of posts on this blog, we have shown how practically everything our parents took for granted with regards to privacy has been completely eliminated for our children,…

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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: Pretty much everyone’s looking the wrong way and learning nothing

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

People have finally woken up to what happened with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, and the massive personality databases that were built. The problem is, nobody's learning anything for the future,…

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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (20/21): Your analog boss couldn’t read your mail, ever

Updated on Jun 16, 2026 by Rick Falkvinge

Slack has just updated its Terms of Service to let your manager read your private conversations in private channels. Our analog parents would have been shocked and horrified at the…

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