As China takes over Hong Kong with a new national security law, Hongkongers prepare by cleaning up their social media presence. Before, under the now demolished “one country, two systems”…
The speech by US Attorney General William P. Barr hardly seems earth-shattering. But buried within its business-like announcement of the indictment of four Chinese military hackers, there is the following…
Two themes crop up again and again on this blog: facial recognition and DNA sequencing. Both technologies on their own are powerful, and steadily becoming greater threats to privacy. So…
A secret backdoor in some Android smartphones has been discovered by Kryptowire, an American security firm. Kryptowire announced their findings in a press release early Tuesday morning. The backdoor was made…
Two and a half years ago, we were one of the first to write about China's new "social credit score" program, which rewards obedient citizens and punishes rebellious can-do-betters. Two…
Amazon has developed a powerful cloud-based facial recognition system called "Rekognition", which has major implications for privacy. It is already being used by multiple US police forces to carry out…
In the next installment of "how bad can things get", Chinese factories are not content with monitoring their workers' communications and physical location, but have found it much more efficient…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcqN_92iQZM Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of August 14th, 2020 Chinese gamers will need to verify their real names on all games by September The Chinese government is rolling…
China is rolling out a real name authentication and verification system for all gamers in the country by September as a way to track gamers and make sure that they…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk8y0MutqW4 Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of September 18th, 2020 SaveOnlineFreeSpeech.org lets you comment against Trump's "Censor the Internet" executive order Digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future…