How the NSA Spies on Us All – Part 3: The 80’s & 90’s
This is part 3 of a series. See: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 With ECHELON up and running, the NSA was free to provide intelligence support for…
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How to Know if You’re Being Tracked on the Internet
You just spoke to your family about how you need a new juicer. When you go online, you see ads for juicers everywhere. And you didn’t even search for a…
How the NSA Spies on Us All – Part 2: The 60’s and 70’s
This is part 2 of a series. See: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Complacency or a sense of immunity started to catch up with the NSA in…
Google wants to spy on everything you do at home, in every room (including the bathroom), to help “improve” your family
Smart speakers and the Internet of Things are undoubtedly impressive considered purely as technology. That may explain why they are increasingly popular. But as this blog has pointed out a…
How the NSA Spies on Us All – Part 1: The Early Years
This is part 1 of a series. See: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 The National Security Agency (NSA), hides in the shadows and sleeps with one eye open…
As facial recognition systems continue to spread, so do concerns about their deployment
Facial recognition is hardly new – Privacy News Online has been writing about the topic for years now. But it is becoming more and more the norm, as some recent…
India now allows government agencies to “intercept, monitor, and decrypt” citizens’ computers
On December 21st, 2018, India expanded its governmental spying powers to an unprecedented level - granting ten new agencies the government writ to "intercept, monitor, and decrypt" data from Indian…
Facebook doesn’t care about your privacy, it just wants to farm your personal data – these confidential documents prove it
Privacy News Online has published a number of stories about privacy problems with Facebook. But what the company's top management really thinks about the personal information it holds – as…
Electric vehicles are sending real-time location and diagnostic data to Chinese government monitoring centers
A couple of months ago, this blog noted how modern vehicles are constantly producing large quantities of data, which has important implications for privacy. An Associated Press article published in…
How to Disable Tracking Features in Windows 10 for Beginners
Windows 10 is the latest operating system offering from Microsoft. It has cloud backup capabilities and many people have privacy concerns over this. While Microsoft allows cloud syncing across different…