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Online Privacy

EFF Agrees: Protecting Privacy Is the Best Way to Address the Internet’s Biggest Problems

Updated on Jan 23, 2024 by Glyn Moody

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is probably the best-known organization that's fighting for digital rights. It's just released a new report with a title that's certain to interest the readers…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Online Security, Social Media, Surveillance

Real-Time Bidding Is Bad for Your Privacy and a Serious Threat to National Security

Updated on Jan 23, 2024 by Glyn Moody

It’s extraordinary to think that it's been six years since this blog started warning readers about real-time bidding (RTB), the system behind most online ads. In the few hundredths of…

Categories: General Privacy News, Online Privacy, Online Security, Social Media, Surveillance

Advanced AI Chatbots Can Now Infer Detailed Personal Attributes from General Social Media Posts

Updated on Jan 23, 2024 by Glyn Moody

It's old news that the exciting new generation of LLM-based AI chatbots posed a serious threat to people’s privacy. But nine months is a long time in the world of…

Categories: General Privacy News, Online Privacy, Online Security, Social Media, Studies

Best Browser for Mac in 2026: Privacy and Performance

Updated on Sep 12, 2025 by Nicole Forrest

Your browser is the gateway to almost everything you do online, which makes choosing the right one especially important. In this guide, we’ll look at Mac browsers offering great privacy,…

Categories: Guides, Online Privacy

Meta Offers Ad-Free Subscriptions in EU, but Is Banned from Using Behavioral Advertising without Consent

Updated on Jan 23, 2024 by Glyn Moody

One of the most important and longest-running privacy battles has been taking place over Meta’s use of behavioral ads on Facebook and Instagram. As we shared back in August, the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance

Contextual Advertising Should Be Great for Privacy, But It Risks Being Undermined

Updated on Jan 23, 2024 by Glyn Moody

We've been discussing the privacy advantages of contextual advertising – a system that places ads based on a webpage’s content and not who's viewing it (also known as behavioral advertising)…

Categories: General Privacy News, Online Privacy, Online Security, Social Media, Surveillance

Chat Control, EU’s Plan for Real-Time Mass Surveillance, Takes a Dramatic Turn

Updated on Jan 23, 2024 by Glyn Moody

We discussed the EU’s plans to undermine end-to-end encryption, generally known as “Chat Control,” a year ago. The proposed law, which intends “to prevent and combat child sexual abuse,” is…

Categories: Censorship, Encryption, Governments, Online Privacy, Online Security, Social Media, Surveillance

Will the New European Media Freedom Act Mean Freedom to Spy on Journalists and Spread Disinformation?

Updated on Jan 23, 2024 by Glyn Moody

The European Union's important new law, the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), is likely to have an impact well beyond the EU’s borders. Unfortunately, that impact will be negative in…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Online Security, Social Media, Surveillance

Poland Opens GDPR Investigation into ChatGPT and OpenAI amid Mounting Privacy Concerns

Updated on Jan 24, 2024 by Glyn Moody

Poland’s Personal Data Protection Office is investigating a GDPR complaint against ChatGPT and the company behind it, OpenAI. According to the Polish data protection agency: the complainant turned to the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy

TikTok Hit with €345 Million GDPR Fine as Privacy Protection Becomes a Key Issue

Updated on Jan 24, 2024 by Glyn Moody

TikTok has officially come of age: it has joined an exclusive club of companies that have been hit with major fines for infringing on the EU’s main privacy law, the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Online Security, Social Media
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