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Privacy and population-wide whole-genome sequencing in the age of Google

Updated on Nov 18, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Back in May, Privacy News Online noted that the legal basis of a data-sharing agreement between Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was suspected to…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

This Indian ISP won’t let its users use 128 bit or 256 bit encryption

Updated on Jul 20, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Per its terms and conditions, YOU Broadband, the fifth largest Indian internet service provider (ISP), doesn't let its subscribers use strong encryption. The ISP does technically allow VPN and encryption…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments

Our surveillance future: pervasive, continuous facial recognition from wandering robo-cars and hovering drones

Updated on Nov 18, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Last month, Privacy News Online wrote about the first arrest by UK police using an automatic facial recognition system mounted on a vehicle to scan people in a crowd. But…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Global publishing giant wins $15 million damages against researcher for sharing publicly-funded knowledge

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Glyn Moody

It's not every day that one of the world's largest publishing companies is awarded $15 million in damages for copyright infringement against a site set up by a Kazakh neuroscientist.…

Categories: Copyright, General Privacy News

Canadian Supreme Court decision forces Google to participate in censorship by removing search results worldwide

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

A recent decision by the Canadian Supreme Court will force Google to remove a particular site from search results all around the world, not just in Canada. While Canada has…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

AT&T GigaPower plans to charge extra per month again if you want privacy, no ads

Updated on Jul 19, 2020 by Caleb Chen

AT&T plans to reinstate their GigaPower pay-for-privacy scheme, as revealed by AT&T VP Robert Quinn in a recent interview with C-SPAN. In 2014, AT&T started offering GigaPower 300 Mbps fiber…

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Australia wants to be able to read your encrypted messages

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Australia's Attorney General Senator Brandis announced over the weekend that he would be leading the discussion on squeezing tech firms and forcing them to encryption backdoors in secure messaging apps…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments

Russian FCC threatens to ban Telegram, thereby sending Russian secrets over American servers instead

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

The Russian communications directorate Roskomnadzor, equivalent to the U.S. FCC, has threatened to ban the Russia-authored encrypted messaging service Telegram. Curiously, this is the only service that has been threatened…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Private Internet Access shines the cat signal for net neutrality

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by PIA Team

Today, Private Internet Access is shining the cat signal with a full page ad in the New York Times to gain support for the Net Neutrality Day of Action on…

Categories: General Privacy News

British ISP: Of course you can be a protected anonymous press source, you just need to show us photo ID first

Updated on Aug 6, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

The British Internet provider O2 disputed the previous story that they don't permit people to access tools that give them anonymity protection, like this VPN service. "You only need to…

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