The government in Taiwan has rolled out an “electronic fence” to keep quarantined individuals in their homes. The “electronic fence” uses mobile phone data to notify police if the cell…
This past Monday, Toronto Mayor Tory announced at a virtual TechTO meetup that the government has been receiving location data from wireless carriers and telecommunication companies in the area to…
Facial recognition crops up on this blog more than most technologies. That's in part because the underlying AI is advancing rapidly, boosting the ability of low-cost systems to match faces…
A Firefox system add-on called telemetry-coverage may still be sending your IP address data to Mozilla even if you explicitly turn off telemetry data - which has privacy implications most…
A couple of years ago, Privacy News Online wrote about a new kind of surveillance, taking place in the workplace. The aim of these systems back then was to keep…
The Patriot Act was passed in the protectionist aftermath of 9/11, where the government decided to spy on its own citizens phone records under the guise of protecting against terrorism.…
Wacom drawing tablets have a dirty little secret - they are likely tracking the name and time of every app you're opening - and sending that information to Google. The…
A couple of weeks ago, a story in the New York Times put facial recognition, and the serious problems it raises, firmly into the mainstream. It concerned the start-up Clearview…
I was preparing to do something for Data Privacy Day on January 28th, when I discovered something truly alarming... This year and every year since 2007, Data Privacy Day is…
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU's top court, has played a key role in protecting privacy in the digital age, in Europe and beyond. In…