https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-LugyNC1fo Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of October 16th, 2020 Survey finds 85% of smartphone users believe they’re being spied on by a mobile app A new survey by…
Police investigators are increasingly taking advantage of a new class of forensics technology known as digital vehicle forensics. When police have access, they will suck up an inordinate amount of…
TikTok gathers information on users and shares it with third parties, even if you’ve never made a profile. VICE reporter Riccardo Coluccini - who has used the app but had…
It begins: Amazon's constantly-listening robotic home assistant was near a domestic murder case, and now the Police wants access to anything it might have heard. There have been similar cases…
In the last post, I recalled that the only thing that matter whether data collection is taking place is whether it's technically possible, and that if you carry an electronic…
One of the common areas of confusion regarding law and online privacy is the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”), 18 U.S.C. §§ 2701-2712, and how it applies to government requests for…
The Police wants the cooperation of a robotic witness to a murder case, requesting Amazon's help in recalling what the domestic robot "Echo" heard in the room. Robotic witnesses have…
As the Internet of Things (IoT) begins to enter the mainstream, concerns about the impact such "smart" devices will have on users' privacy are growing. Many of the problems are…
China’s new MLPS (Multi-level Protection of Information Security) 2.0 cybersecurity laws goes into full effect on December 1st, 2019 and will see all internet service providers (ISPs) and mobile data…
While most people have long suspected that their smart TVs are spying on them, there is now definitive proof. Two new studies have highlighted that smart TVs are still not…