What can we learn from the Clearview “end of privacy” story?
A couple of weeks ago, a story in the New York Times put facial recognition, and the serious problems it raises, firmly into the mainstream. It concerned the start-up Clearview…
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Facebook may not collect or combine personal data using “forced consent”, says German competition authority
It would be an understatement to say that Facebook is under intense scrutiny at the moment. Mostly this has come from data protection authorities in the EU, using the GDPR…
ID card scandal deepens: Irish government vows to defy Data Protection Commission’s ruling against Public Services Card
Two years ago, Privacy News Online wrote about Ireland's plans to introduce an identity card by stealth. The Irish government pretended that its Public Services Card (PSC) was not an…
OpenSAFELY: more proof that tackling the coronavirus pandemic does not require privacy to be compromised
In recent weeks, there has been an intense focus on the use of contact tracing apps as a way to emerge safely from the lockdowns that are in place around…
Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: May 22nd, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az5xSbfSWbQ Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of May 22nd, 2020 Congress plans to expand Patriot Act with DOJ access to your web browsing and search activity without a warrant…
Privacy News Online Week in Review (May 15th, 2020)
Privacy News Online provides a “Week in Review” with privacy news summaries from around the world. Keep up to date with what has happened in the online privacy world over…
Brazil plans to bring in a “fake news” law, with serious implications for everyone’s privacy, no matter where they live
The world's attention is rightly focused on the terrible new National Security Law in Hong Kong. But, as ever, there are bad things happening to human rights elsewhere as well.…
People and publishers start to turn against micro-targeted advertising and its harms to privacy
Privacy News Online has written a number of articles looking at the threat to privacy posed by the widespread use of micro-targeted ads. At the heart of the idea is…
Me, my data and I: Decode and the future of the personal data economy
It's no secret that personal data has become the key commodity of the online business world. The Internet giants - Facebook, Google, etc. - all provide their services "free", but…
Here’s how China has made mass surveillance a “killer application” for AI: will the US do the same?
It's increasingly evident that the coronavirus pandemic will cause a radical re-shaping of many aspects of society, not least in the world of privacy. Many people are trying to discern…