https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wctYWPqc4Pg Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of March 26th, 2021 Countries in the European Union attempt to water down privacy protections With the European Union’s ePrivacy Regulation in the…
In the four years since Privacy News Online first wrote about corporate surveillance as the principal business model for much of the Internet, the practice has become a mainstream concern.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGYAEc96iqc This interview first aired on September 25, 2020 Timestamp Links & Questions: [0:50] - Could you tell us a little bit about what you do in your position as…
A couple of years ago, Privacy News Online wrote about the use by parents of ankle bracelets to track their childrens' whereabouts. That's a relatively rare application of the technology;…
Sadly, we have all become so accustomed to having our data bought and sold that it rarely surprises anyone to hear about yet another company filling their coffers with the…
Graham Ivan Clark, age 18 was sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years of probation after pleading guilty to hacking into high-profile Twitter accounts when he was…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGDsfV5uqbo Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of March 19th, 2021 Algorithmic bias: how automated decision making has become an assault on privacy An automated decision-making system was employed in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsEvTdspC5E This interview first aired on September 18, 2020 Timestamp Links & Questions: [0:44] - How did the name “Orchid” come to be? [2:27] - Could you tell us a…
Last month, this blog noted that the EU's important ePrivacy Regulation has now entered the final stretch of its legislative passage. An article on the Lawfare blog has spotted an…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLK9tt5z4bErCL5NPLiWs-IWVzLH1SrsIm&v=4_rfTlc1GFI&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=PrivateInternetAccess This interview first aired on September 11, 2020. Timestamp Links & Questions: [0:52] - To start off, could you expand more on what Index on Censorship does and what…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV1d9QW7wg0 Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of March 12th, 2021 China’s Sharp Eyes CCTV surveillance program redefines the Neighborhood Watch China has over 200 million CCTV cameras across the…
Trying to detect welfare fraud, where people claim benefits they are not entitled to, is not new. Nor is it unreasonable: taxpayers rightly want to know that their money is…
Google recently declared that it will stop selling targeted ads based on your internet history as provided by third party cookies, and is instead working on a new privacy conscious way for advertisers to target internet users called Federated Learning of…
Brave Browser, the secure and private browser launched by Brendan Eich in 2018, has recently announced the acquisition of Tailcat and the release of their Google Search alternative: Brave Search. Google Chrome is the most used web browser in the world…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUcpLI8i3I8 Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of March 5th, 2021 Judge rules that California can continue with its net neutrality law Californians first passed their net neutrality law, SB…