Remember, remember: Good evening, London…
It is that time of the year, again. This is worth remembering, every year. https://youtu.be/KKvvOFIHs4k?t=27s Privacy not just remains your own responsibility: the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
General Privacy News
France, Spain, Portugal pushing new bill that considers file-sharing a more serious crime than terrorism and child exploitation
France, Spain, and Portugal are now arguing that people sharing music and movies together is a more serious threat to society than terroristic mass murder or child exploitation. This becomes…
Privacy is constantly under threat; here are ways communities can help to protect it locally
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…
It’s not just online privacy, Verizon also wants FCC to ban states from protecting your net neutrality
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…
Canvas data fingerprinting: yet another way to track you on the web (and Firefox fighting back)
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,…
Youtube MP3 sites known for stream ripping, YTMP3 and MP3juices, block UK IP addresses
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…
DHS expanding national biometrics database to hold details on over 500 million people, including many US citizens
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…
Unlike the USA Liberty Act, the USA RIGHTS Act could actually end warrantless surveillance on Americans by the NSA
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…
China is quietly building a national voiceprint database to allow automated speaker recognition
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…
Call your representatives today and tell them to stop Ajit Pai from dismantling net neutrality
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,…