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Skype is officially blocked in Qatar – WhatsApp, Viber, Duo, and Facetime are also inaccessible

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Qatar is still blocking popular Voice over IP (VoIP) apps such as Skype, Facetime, Duo, Viber, and WhatsApp. In September, Saudi Arabia lifted its ban on Skype and WhatsApp. The…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

UK privacy laws may allow 230 million Americans to demand personality profiles created by Trump’s big data ally

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Earlier this week, Facebook released a statement about ads it carried which had been paid for by Russian sources. It now says that around ten million people in the US…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Big Canadian ISP is actually asking the Canadian Government for Internet censorship

Updated on Aug 6, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Bell Canada, one of Canada's major ISPs, is requesting the Canadian government to create a governmental censorship regime, blacklisting resources that Canadians shall not be reading. According to Bell Canada,…

Categories: Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments

The UK home secretary still doesn’t know how encryption works, and she’s not ashamed

Updated on Jul 22, 2021 by David Meyer

Railing against the use of encryption by criminals has always been an exercise in futility, but it's a great way to sound tough. What better way to assert your power…

Categories: Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News

EU is losing its patience with the US government over its failure to implement properly the Privacy Shield deal

Updated on Aug 6, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Last week, the European Commission announced new guidelines to tackle illegal content inciting hatred, violence and terrorism online. Central to its new framework is expecting "online platforms" – Internet companies…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

UN experts are worried about the Catalan referendum online crackdown

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by David Meyer

Catalonia is set to have an independence vote this coming Sunday and the Spanish authorities, who say the referendum is unconstitutional, are furious — to the extent that they arrested…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

South Korea considers blocking Tumblr

Updated on Jul 19, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Korea has threatened to block Tumblr should the site not cooperate with the South Korean government to censor pornographic content. The Korean government's position was revealed during a briefing held…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Stunning: Taser wants to turn the public and their smartphones into its big data posse of police informants

Updated on Jul 28, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Last month we wrote about the increasing application of big data analysis by police forces, often using software from the shadowy outfit Palantir. But it's by no means the only…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

The race to save online privacy: what happens when quantum computers can break all our crypto?

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Although many people are well aware of the many threats to their privacy, there is an underlying assumption that the use of strong encryption will always be available to mitigate…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

Opening the black boxes: algorithmic bias and the need for accountability

Updated on Oct 25, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Here on Privacy News Online we've written a number of stories about the privacy implications of DNA. There's an important case going through the Californian courts at the moment that…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News
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