The march to mandatory, nationwide DNA databases picks up pace around the world
DNA is without doubt one of the new frontiers for privacy – and for the loss of it. As we wrote last year, genetic privacy is becoming a thing of…
Surveillance
New leaked documents reveal that NSA can read minds of 4G LTE users
Apparently, sometime in the last year, Mark Zuckerberg’s Brain-Computer Interface, the DoD’s invisibility cloak projects, and a proprietary goop designed with input from Gwyeneth Paltrow have been integrated into every…
NSA phone surveillance may end soon thanks to a bipartisan bill introduced to Congress
A group of bipartisan Senators and House Representatives have introduced legislation that would end the NSA's mass surveillance of American phone records. The bill is titled: "Ending Mass Collection of…
Finland passed new surveillance laws without a vote in a nearly empty room
Earlier this month, Finland's Parliament of Åland passed two new surveillance laws in a nearly empty room. The surveillance laws expand spying powers by military and civilian intelligence agencies and…
US Government proves again that it has no problem spying on American citizens
Over fifty individuals - including eight American citizens - are accusing the US government of violating their privacy rights by tracking them in a secret database compiled and shared between…
Don’t be fooled: the main beneficiary of Mark Zuckerberg’s apparent embrace of privacy is Facebook, not you
Last week, you could have been forgiven for thinking that privacy had finally arrived. Mark Zuckerberg published a 3000-word essay entitled "A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking", and wrote: As…
A million tiny eyes in the sky: how a new generation of nanosatellites pose a threat to privacy
Everyone knows that surveillance is ubiquitous – on the Internet, in the street, at work, at school, in our homes. What made that constant spying possible was the amazing advance…
How much privacy should children have from their own parents?
Back in August last year, Danica Sergison gave good advice here on Privacy News Online about how to help children think critically about privacy. That's crucial, since the world they…
People start to wake up to the pervasive third-party tracking that comes with 90% of Android apps
It will hardly be news to readers of this site that mobile apps are tracking us on a massive scale. And yet a story in the New York Times last…
How the NSA Spies on Us All – Part 4: The 90’s – Present
This is part 4 of a series. See: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Up until 1998, the NSA had been a purely defensive intelligence agency, that was…