Clear Channel, a international traditional advertising company known for its billboards, will be bringing its Radar tracking program to Europe following some tweaks to the program to bring it into…
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that passcodes aren't protected by the Fifth Amendment. States around the country, and other countries around the world, continue to rule differently on…
Automated facial recognition has emerged as one of the most problematic technologies for privacy. That's reflected in the increasing number of posts on this blog dealing with the issues it…
A Virginia based government contracting firm called Anomaly Six LLC has been revealed to be inserting a proprietary software development kit (SDK) into over five hundred mobile apps then sharing…
The Great Firewall of China is getting longer. Chinese censors upgraded the GFW to be able to block HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI. We know about this…
China is rolling out a real name authentication and verification system for all gamers in the country by September as a way to track gamers and make sure that they…
Back in 2017, this blog noted a new threat to privacy from the increasing use of workplace surveillance. Once people's work is quantified automatically, it can then be used for…
The Privacy Shield framework for transferring personal data across the Atlantic was brought in to deal with a problem created by the EU's GDPR. According to the latter, the personal…
As this blog has noted, for all its faults, the European Union's GDPR represents one of the most important attempts to protect digital privacy. Although it concerns the EU and…
Tim Hortons is facing a class action lawsuit for its data collection practices - which include tracking your GPS location through their mobile app even when the app was turned…