Hardware maker Sonos has a new privacy policy, and is telling users that unless they agree to it, their devices may cease to function entirely. Of course, since people bought…
The German newspaper Die Zeit has a long feature today about IMSI catchers and their countermeasures, words that were long heard only in countersurveillance cultures at Black Hat and Defcon.…
The liberty we know as Freedom of Speech, when written into law, only says that your government cannot retaliate against you for speaking your mind. But your friends and family…
Here on Privacy News Online, we often write about the impact on privacy of technologies such as facial recognition, iris scans, DNA databases, and drones. Individually, those powerful and rapidly-advancing…
Contents 1 Executive Summary2 Introduction2.1 Scope 2.2 Approach2.3 Classification and Severity Rating3 Findings3.1 Summary of Findings3.2 Overview of Cryptographic Design3.3 Static Analysis Results3.4 Dynamic Analysis Results3.5 Detailed Findings3.5.1 SD-01: Randomness source…
Private Internet Access today releases the results of its Libsodium audit. Libsodium is an open source, cryptographic library that is used far and wide in projects such as Zcash as…
The European Commission is circumventing bans on governmental censorship by asking communciations platforms like Facebook and Twitter to agree to "voluntary codes of conduct", which all users would be held…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking personal information, including IP addresses, of all visitors to a political website called disruptj20.org. In total, This past Monday, Dreamhost unveiled details about…
The name "Palantir" bespeaks mystery. Its original meaning is the powerful artifact in Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" that allows direct communications with distant lands. It is now also the…
The hugely popular internet tool, the Wayback Machine by the Internet Archive, has been blocked by an Indian court order. India has a long history of blocking sites that are…