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Salami seller peddles his own meat to customer by using her contact tracing details

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Caleb Chen

A New Zealand woman went to a Subway restaurant for a regular purchase of a sub sandwich, but then went home to an unpleasant surprise: unwanted advances from the man…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

These are the 37 Senators that voted to let the FBI seize your internet history without a warrant

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

A key amendment to the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2020 (H.R. 6172) that would have required authorities to obtain a warrant before gaining access to American internet browsing and…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Congress plans to expand Patriot Act with DOJ access to your web browsing and search activity without a warrant

Updated on May 13, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The infamous Patriot Act, which uses the threat of terrorism to expand surveillance over American citizens, is up for renewal under the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act - which is set…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Here’s how China has made mass surveillance a “killer application” for AI: will the US do the same?

Updated on Jan 31, 2024 by Glyn Moody

It's increasingly evident that the coronavirus pandemic will cause a radical re-shaping of many aspects of society, not least in the world of privacy. Many people are trying to discern…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Does California’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee actually care about privacy?

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee of the California Assembly is supposed to have an obvious, eponymous purpose - but doesn't seem to. There’s a new “online privacy” bill in…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Hungary suspends some GDPR privacy protections as part of COVID-19 “state of emergency”

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The Hungarian government is suspending portions of the GDPR as part of their COVID-19 response. They are allowed to do so because the country is under a state of emergency…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Growing storm over UK’s coronavirus tracing app shows how not to do it

Updated on Nov 23, 2022 by Glyn Moody

As this blog noted a couple of weeks ago, many governments around the world are looking to introduce coronavirus tracing apps to help take their countries out of lockdown. The…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Apple and Google create contact tracing API that preserves privacy to fight COVID-19

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Apple and Google have been working together for the last few months on a not-so-secret project to combat the COVID-19 pandemic which uses LE Bluetooth for contact tracing while still…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Private Internet Access announces third year of WireGuard® sponsorship

Updated on Aug 25, 2022 by Private Internet Access

Private Internet Access is happy to announce that we are sponsoring the WireGuard® project as a bronze company donor. Private Internet Access first sponsored WireGuard in 2018, and with our…

Categories: Announcements, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, VPN

Is the GDPR failing? If it is, how can it be saved?

Updated on Oct 25, 2021 by Glyn Moody

The coronavirus pandemic rightly dominates the headlines, including those of the privacy world, but in the background, life goes on. For example, companies operating in the EU are still subject…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments
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