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France rocked again by demonstrations against the new “Global Security Law”, which includes mass surveillance by police drones

Posted on Dec 1, 2020 by Glyn Moody

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,…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

The Hong Kong protests reveal how our faces are becoming a key battleground for privacy and freedom

Posted on Oct 11, 2019 by Glyn Moody

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Does California’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee actually care about privacy?

Posted on May 11, 2020 by Caleb Chen

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Why a passcode is better than biometric access

Posted on Nov 24, 2018 by Jayson Q.

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Guides

AI-based lie detection system will screen travellers to EU for ‘biomarkers of deceit’

Posted on Nov 10, 2018 by Glyn Moody

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

The growing threat to privacy from big data forensics and false positives

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Glyn Moody

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Freedom of speech, surveillance and privacy in the time of coronavirus

Posted on Feb 21, 2020 by Glyn Moody

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Leak of proposed US law reveals plans for widespread use of multiple surveillance technologies at borders

Posted on Aug 18, 2017 by Glyn Moody

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

What happens to identity and privacy when every biometric can be faked?

Posted on Jan 5, 2019 by Glyn Moody

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…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Turkey takes Germany’s “hate speech” law, and makes it much worse with its own censorship and data localization rules

Posted on Aug 5, 2020 by Glyn Moody

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…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments
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