https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4mjGCsleds For the second time in a week, demonstrations took place across France against a new "Global Security Law". The proposed legislation would bring in wide-ranging police surveillance in France,…
The protests in Hong Kong are much in the news. But for readers of this blog, there's a particular reason why they are of interest. Mainland China is well known…
The Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee of the California Assembly is supposed to have an obvious, eponymous purpose - but doesn't seem to. There’s a new “online privacy” bill in…
TL/DR: Don't use your fingerprintsor facial recognition as access passwords. Biometric access is not secure. Fingerprints or facial recognition as passwords are not legally protected. You can't change your fingerprints or…
As the borders between nations have become increasingly sensitive from a political point of view, so the threats to privacy there have grown. Privacy News Online has already reported on…
The cost of sequencing the DNA found in genomes has been decreasingly rapidly in recent years. Since 2008, it has been falling even faster than the well-known Moore's Law for…
The situation concerning the Covid-19 coronavirus is serious, although it is not yet clear whether it will develop into a pandemic affecting billions of people worldwide. The story so far…
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…
Identity and privacy are closely bound up. Typically, you use proof of your identity to access your private information. Alongside traditional approaches like passwords and hardware tokens, biometrics are increasingly…
Last month we wrote about France's "hate speech" law, and noted that it followed in the footsteps of the earlier German law known as NetzDG (short for “Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz”, or network…