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UK police arrest man picked out from the crowd in real time by automatic facial recognition system

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Glyn Moody

An automatic facial scanning system has been used in Wales to spot a man wanted by the UK police, who was then arrested. Believed to be the first of its…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Google now also tracks and collects your OFFLINE credit card purchases

Updated on Jan 31, 2024 by Rick Falkvinge

A little-noticed article in the Consumerist dropped a bombshell: Google is now deliberately tracking your offline activity, your credit card purchases, in order to feed information back to advertisers about…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

New bipartisan bill will permanently end warrantless collection of American emails by the NSA

Updated on Jul 29, 2021 by Caleb Chen

A new bill currently with the House of Representatives will permanently forbid the US government from illegally collecting and searching Americans' private emails. The two House Representative that presented this bill…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

New Jersey is latest state to introduce internet privacy bill to protect your personally identifiable information

Updated on Jul 29, 2021 by Caleb Chen

A New Jersey Democrat has submitted a new internet privacy bill (A-4800) to the New Jersey Assembly that would bring strong broadband privacy protections to the state. According to MediaPost,…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Facebook hit with fines and investigations in six EU countries over privacy law breaches

Updated on Aug 5, 2020 by Glyn Moody

Three EU countries – Belgium, France, and the Netherlands – have determined that Facebook is breaking their privacy laws, while Germany and Spain are still investigating the US company. The…

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

UK government seeks expansion of mass surveillance “technical capabilities” via the Investigatory Powers Act

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The UK government is seeking an expansion to their mass surveillance powers on the Internet. The plans were leaked and released by the Open Rights Group. The draft rules were only officially circulated…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

What Australia can learn from Europe’s failure with Data Retention

Updated on Jul 29, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Last week, Australia's law mandating telecommunications data retention went into effect. It is clear that Australia learned absolutely nothing from Europe's abysmal 10-year failure with this exact law before it…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Not even the telcos like Australia’s mandatory metadata retention scheme aka the Big Brother policy

Updated on Apr 22, 2025 by Caleb Chen

Now that Australia's mandatory metadata retention regime is officially started, many are wondering how we got to this point and what we can do to stay private now that every…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Airport: “We’re tracking every single footstep you take and can connect it to your mail address, but your privacy is safe because we say so”

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

A sign on the revolving entrance to a European airport, one sign among many, says "the airport employs wi-fi and bluetooth tracking; your privacy is ensured". The vast majority of…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Congresswoman Rosen introduces Restoring American Privacy Act of 2017 to reverse S.J. Res. 34

Updated on Jul 29, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Congresswoman Jacky Rosen (NV-03) has introduced H.R. 1868, the Restoring American Privacy Act of 2017, which would reverse the recently signed S.J. Res. 34. America is still reeling from that repeal…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance
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