Since this summer, new users are now being tracked to Google’s fullest potential unless they opt-out. Google has bought many tech companies over the last few decades. One such purpose,…
Yahoo spied on users, even American citizens, at the behest of the United States government. As everyone hopefully already knows, according to Reuters sources, a NSA (and/or FBI) backed surveillance…
In the Yahoo fallout, Europe is now accusing the United States for disallowing its corporations to give any kind of guarantees for handling sensitive private data. This means that US…
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler has released new draft rules designed to protect internet users from their internet service providers. The Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal will require internet…
A key conclusion in my latest column deserves elaboration: why all available empiric data tells us that the only way to prevent misuse of surveillance data is to never collect…
Max Schrems is at it again: after having made the sharing of private European data to corporations in United States banned by the European Court of Justice, he's now seeking…
The French National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) has issued a formal notice to Microsoft regarding Windows 10 privacy and security concerns. The agency, along with the other European countries in…
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) says that mass surveillance of innocent people may be legal in a preliminary ruling issued today. The ECJ is the highest court in the…
While the Internet has turned into a global surveillance machine, with only tech-aware and privacy-aware people opting out of the surveillance, it's important to remember that we could have had…
Five years with the "cookie law", taking effect in 2011, shows how politicians' good intentions - when coupled with incompetence - can create a security and privacy nightmare. It was…