It would be an understatement to say that Covid-19 has affected practically every aspect of our lives, given the scale of the transformation. Its impact on privacy, too, is evident.…
Will we see more and more open source software in the future, or is this a passing trend that will die off eventually? According to survey data, open source is…
Two and a half years ago, this blog warned about the Internet of "listening, eavesdropping, spying things" that were starting to become more popular. Today, smart speakers are found in…
In the past week, we have seen many details of just how much encryption and privacy technology the NSA and their corresponding agencies in other countries have penetrated. While it…
Two years ago, Privacy News Online wrote about Aadhaar, India's billion-person biometric database, used to check identity, and its potential to become the world's biggest privacy disaster. Barely six months…
There's a new frontier for digital privacy: home devices that understand spoken commands. That's impressive and convenient, but it comes with definite risks, as Rick Falkvinge pointed out earlier this…
Edward Snowden's greatest fear was that his sacrifice would have no effect. To the contrary, it's having an effect throughout the entire Internet - and the biggest effect in the…
The United States government keeps pushing for their mythical and imaginary "golden key" to people's correspondence - a key that would unlock all encryption, and they keep demanding this from…
It didn't take long after the Paris terror attacks for police state hawks to demand more police powers. Bans on encryption have been suggested, as well as regulation of bitcoin…
In a new level of dumb, Germany and France are demanding strong encryption for all citizens at the same time as they demand this strong encryption to be breakable. They…