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Clubhouse users are teaching each other how to stay private from Instagram

Posted on Feb 19, 2021 by Caleb Chen

One of the first things that you hear to do on Clubhouse is to add your Twitter and Instagram accounts to your Clubhouse profile for discoverability because otherwise there’s really…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Social Media

The battle over the EU’s far-reaching ePrivacy Regulation enters its final and crucial stage

Posted on Feb 16, 2021 by Glyn Moody

The EU's GDPR has had a massive effect on privacy worldwide. But as a post explained back in 2018, there's more EU privacy legislation coming through which could have a…

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

Time to get rid of pervasive online ad tracking once and for all: the alternative is simple, effective, and fully respects privacy

Posted on Feb 6, 2021 by Glyn Moody

This blog has been pointing out for years the fundamental incompatibility between privacy and the current online advertising model. Today, most Web sites seek to gather as much personal information…

Categories: General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance

UK Police Chief falsely claims that end to end encrypted messaging “puts lives at risk”

Posted on Feb 1, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom (UK) really really don’t want Facebook to bring end to end encryption to Facebook Messenger and Instagram. In fact, a police chief went…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Is the GDPR finally going to get some teeth?

Posted on Jan 19, 2021 by Glyn Moody

The GDPR is a powerful, far-reaching piece of legislation, but one whose full potential the EU data protection authorities have so far failed to realize. Research from DLA Piper shows…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Today’s online advertising not only seriously harms privacy, but is seriously broken in other ways; we need to fix it

Posted on Jan 6, 2021 by Glyn Moody

For three and half years now, Privacy News Online has been warning about the huge, and largely ignored, danger of micro-targeted ads and real-time bidding (RTB). The approach sounds plausible.…

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

The widening SolarWinds debacle shows why the reckless idea of backdooring encryption must be dropped forever

Posted on Dec 24, 2020 by Glyn Moody

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.…

Categories: Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance

New report shows Google tracks 80% of the Web, with Amazon likely to overtake Facebook as second-worst privacy threat

Posted on Dec 10, 2020 by Glyn Moody

It's no secret that practically every Web page we visit is infested with trackers. On its own, that would be bad enough. But most trackers are used in order to…

Categories: General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance

Pakistan bans TikTok; calls videos “immoral and indecent”

Posted on Oct 19, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has officially banned TikTok for providing access to “immoral and indecent” videos - though it remains to be seen how permanent this ban will be.…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Survey finds 85% of smartphone users believe they’re being spied on by a mobile app

Posted on Oct 7, 2020 by Caleb Chen

A new survey by WhistleOut provides some numbers to back up a growing sentiment: That an app on your smartphone is spying on you right this second while you read…

Categories: General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance
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