How New Copyright Laws Threaten Privacy and Freedom of Speech
There’s a new US bill that everyone in the privacy world should know about — it goes by the name of “Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of…
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Google’s Radar Chip: Real-Time Biometric Data Collection
Digital surveillance comes in many forms. The traditional kind, where governments spy on you as you move around the Internet, is the easiest to take measures against. A good VPN…
Clearview AI Fined in Italy, Starts Scanning Dead Russian Soldiers in Ukraine
Ever since the facial recognition company Clearview AI appeared from nowhere two years ago, it has remained at the leading edge of its field, not least in terms of ethics.…
Phishing, Smishing & Vishing: What You Need to Know & How to Protect Yourself
My career is about to take off — at least it is if I was to believe the number of companies looking at my LinkedIn profile over the past few…
How a Few Thoughtless Words about Privacy Led to Huge Political and Economic Headaches for the US and EU
One of the most surprising developments in recent years is how privacy - something that by definition is about small, intimate things – has become a major global force in…
The Fediverse: Decentralized Social Media for Human Beings
For the last two decades, social media has been the arena into which thoughts are thrown — open to inspection by friends, family, colleagues, and the wider world. Facebook and…
The Ultimate Privacy Betrayal: Personal DNA Used for Undisclosed Purposes, without Permission
As this blog has reported, one of the biggest threats to privacy is surveillance advertising. It works by tracking everything people do online — which sites they visit, what they…
Clearview AI Offers to Eliminate Public Anonymity and Destroy Privacy around the World for a Mere $50 Million
PIA blog first wrote about the facial recognition start-up Clearview AI two years ago, when news about its huge database of three billion facial images appeared. Its main market is…
Google’s Surveillance Advertising Model under Attack on Both Sides of the Atlantic for Its Deep Privacy Problems
PIA blog has just written about a major problem for Google: a decision by the Austrian Data Protection Authority that the continuing use of Google Analytics violates the EU's GDPR…
#NoPlaceToHide…for Stupid Ideas Like Backdooring End-To-End Encryption and Undermining Privacy
Government attempts to weaken cryptography to allow general surveillance are not new: they date back at least to the 1993 Clipper chip. Similarly, claims that children will be harmed by…