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Researchers were able to figure out which American phone numbers use Signal

Posted on Sep 17, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Privacy flaws in contact discovery have led to a research team being able to enumerate all American Signal users. Enumeration means that using the contact discovery built into the Signal…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Surveillance

Latest developments in the long-running and crucial Schrems vs. Facebook GDPR privacy battle

Posted on Sep 17, 2020 by Glyn Moody

Back in July, this blog reported on a major victory for the privacy campaigner Max Schrems at the Court of Justice of the European Union, (CJEU). Following that win, the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

AT&T to offer ad supported phone plans where you give up privacy for $5 to $10

Posted on Sep 16, 2020 by Caleb Chen

AT&T is planning to offer ad-supported phone plans within a year, according to an exclusive interview that AT&T CEO John Stankey had with Reuters. For those that are keeping track…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Welcome to the quantum Internet, with privacy guaranteed by the laws of physics

Posted on Sep 11, 2020 by Glyn Moody

Quantum computing is gradually moving from the realm of science – and even science fiction – to become a practical technology that is being used in real-life contexts. Three years…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

UN human rights experts condemn China’s new national security law for Hong Kong

Posted on Sep 10, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Human rights experts from the United Nations have published a 14-page letter which was sent to China in which they lay out their concerns that China is violating international human…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Federal appeals court finds the NSA’s mass surveillance of American phone records was illegal

Posted on Sep 2, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has just ruled that the “NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records was illegal.” For years, the NSA has conducted…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

The privacy perils of using a mesh network – and why we urgently need one that is robust and open source

Posted on Sep 2, 2020 by Glyn Moody

One of the reasons why protecting privacy is so hard is that our data is vulnerable in so many ways as it flows across the Internet. Threats can come from…

Categories: Censorship, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Mozilla study reaffirms that internet history can be used for “reidentification”

Posted on Aug 31, 2020 by Caleb Chen

A recent research paper has reaffirmed that our internet history can be reliably used to identify us. The research was conducted by Sarah Bird, Ilana Segall, and Martin Lopatka from…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

The head of Denmark’s spy program has been fired for snooping on citizens and lying about it

Posted on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The government in Denmark has fired 3 top officials from the country’s foreign intelligence agency, the Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE), following revelations from a whistleblower. The officials, including the head of…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Max Schrems files 101 complaints across 30 European countries to turbocharge GDPR’s impact – and he’s not the only one

Posted on Aug 19, 2020 by Glyn Moody

Last month, Privacy News Online discussed another major win for the privacy activist Max Schrems. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU's top court, agreed with…

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