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Privacy is constantly under threat; here are ways communities can help to protect it locally

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Glyn Moody

Stories about privacy have a depressing tendency to be about its loss, and the increasing threats to it in the future. Perhaps we need to spend more time thinking about…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

It’s not just online privacy, Verizon also wants FCC to ban states from protecting your net neutrality

Updated on Jul 22, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Verizon does not want states or localities to have the ability to enact their own net neutrality rules should the FCC vote to destroy net neutrality under the guise of…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Canvas data fingerprinting: yet another way to track you on the web (and Firefox fighting back)

Updated on Jan 29, 2024 by Rick Falkvinge

There's yet another way to fingerprint people online as they move between sites, and that list is getting long by now. This new vulnerability concerns a "canvas" in your browser,…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Youtube MP3 sites known for stream ripping, YTMP3 and MP3juices, block UK IP addresses

Updated on Jul 29, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Websites and extensions that facilitate Youtube MP3 conversions are disappearing in the United Kingdom (UK). Two large stream ripping sites, MP3juices and YTMP3 are now blocking UK IP addresses from…

Categories: Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments

DHS expanding national biometrics database to hold details on over 500 million people, including many US citizens

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Glyn Moody

We've just written about China's ambitious plans to add voiceprints to its existing national biometrics databases. Given the country's long record of keeping a close watch on its citizens, it's…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Unlike the USA Liberty Act, the USA RIGHTS Act could actually end warrantless surveillance on Americans by the NSA

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The end of unwarranted NSA mass surveillance on US citizens may finally be in sight with the (for once) properly named USA RIGHTS Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Reforming…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

China is quietly building a national voiceprint database to allow automated speaker recognition

Updated on Jul 27, 2020 by Glyn Moody

It's hardly a secret that China conducts massive surveillance of all kinds, as Privacy News Online has reported many times. And yet it seems that the authorities there are still…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

Call your representatives today and tell them to stop Ajit Pai from dismantling net neutrality

Updated on Jul 22, 2021 by Caleb Chen

With net neutrality's repeal looming over our heads - now is the time to push your politicians to care about this issue. Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Technology,…

Categories: General Privacy News

The privacy battle over cross-border data flows just went up a notch

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Until the election of Donald Trump last year, multilateral trade deals were a key element of global politics, and affected many aspects of the digital world. Indeed, as the Internet…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Good news on the privacy front: no more EU demands for crypto backdoors

Updated on Nov 18, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Governments all around the world hate encryption. Unless they are being incredibly cunning by pretending they can't break strong encryption when they can, this seems to be because crypto really…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments
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