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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…