President Biden hopes that it's third time lucky for the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), implemented last week with an Executive Order (EO) on "Enhancing Safeguards for the United…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…