Last week, Privacy News Online wrote about the increasing use of vehicle forensics to solve crimes. These "smartphones on wheels" join a growing list of everyday devices that are becoming…
The United Kingdom (UK) High Court has ruled that the country’s security and intelligence agencies can no longer use “general warrants” as legal writ for property interference, aka hacking. The…
It would be something of an understatement to say that Covid-19 has caused major changes to everyday life around the world. In the world of education, virtual classrooms, with students…
The SolarWinds hack is the most serious breach of governmental and corporate security in years, perhaps the most serious breach ever - at least among those that we know about.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkbXSF_TmTA Back in July last year, this blog wrote about Amazon's Ring series, whose key product is a small Internet-connected camera built into a doorbell. At that time, it was…
Some default Apple apps on MacOS Big Sur bypass any VPN or firewall rules set by the user to send information like what programs you run back to Apple. Namely,…
A new report by non profit in Washington D.C. has used FOIA requests to highlight that police departments across the country have tools to break into phones and download all…
Last month, this blog looked at the continuing repercussions of the decision by the EU's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), to strike down the…
It is hardly news that we are being tracked as we visit Web sites, and move around the Internet. As this blog has reported, it's the basis of today's main…
Two years ago, Privacy News Online warned that the growing number of large-scale DNA databases were likely to become a serious threat to people's privacy. Sadly, things have not improved…