For the first time, a telecommunications provider is having opinions on the content of your conversations. This is unprecedented and a sharp deviation from all previous history. How long until…
Vietnam enforced a Facebook ban for a week last month. Censorship is a tool most often used by those that understand it least. Fighting against censorship forces one to come…
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force a few weeks ago. As Rick Falkvinge noted in his post on the topic, its impact is potentially huge. The GDPR…
A French court has ruled that a challenge to Facebook's terms of service under French law may go ahead in a French court. A man had had his account suspended…
People have finally woken up to what happened with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, and the massive personality databases that were built. The problem is, nobody's learning anything for the future,…
A new class action lawsuit in the state of Illinois is trying to bring Facebook to task for illegally harvesting biometrics data, specifically facial recognition data or a “face template.”…
The GDPR is a powerful, far-reaching piece of legislation, but one whose full potential the EU data protection authorities have so far failed to realize. Research from DLA Piper shows…
Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of November 27th, 2020 Official Trump 2020 App collected phone numbers from contact lists without consent and could sell that data New details about…
Last week, Google announced that it would be buying Fitbit, valuing the 12-year-old company at $2.1 billion. Many have seen this as an attempt to boost Google's position in the…
Two US senators have introduced a bill that seeks to establish a “privacy bill of rights” for American consumers and prohibit social media platforms and other websites from sharing or…