Beyond the GDPR: here comes the EU’s ePrivacy regulation – but not yet
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important – and controversial – privacy law passed in recent years. Despite its origin in the EU, its reach is truly…
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EU’s ePrivacy regulation is being subverted by publishers who want their “right” to use tracking cookies enshrined in law
Last year, Privacy News Online wrote about the important EU ePrivacy legislation. As that noted, it was moving through the EU's legislative process slowly because of massive lobbying against the…
How privacy activists are fighting on multiple fronts to strengthen EU privacy laws that will have a global impact
This blog frequently covers the world of EU data protection because it is that region of the world that leads the way in regulating digital privacy, just as the US…
Web sites have a problem after top EU court rules that pre-ticked checkboxes for tracking cookies aren’t valid for consent
Last week we wrote about two important judgments from the EU's top court – the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). It has just released another long-awaited ruling…
How pervasive real-time bidding for online ads silently undermines your privacy
Most people have heard of Moore's Law, which roughly means that computers have doubled in power every few years. One of the benefits of Moore's Law is that it has…
As public fears mount over online surveillance and lack of control, advertising industry gets privacy religion – sort of…
A new Pew Research Center survey confirms what readers of this blog already know: many people are deeply worried about the routine tracking of their activities online: A majority of…
Good news on the privacy front: no more EU demands for crypto backdoors
Governments all around the world hate encryption. Unless they are being incredibly cunning by pretending they can't break strong encryption when they can, this seems to be because crypto really…
US Senate hearing confirms Facebook is the perfect surveillance machine: what can we do about it?
Last week's hearings before US lawmakers has provided us with new insights into the workings of companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter, and how they have been subverted by Russia…
Call for wide-ranging GDPR investigation into online ads, which could kill today’s real-time bidding system
Privacy News Online recently wrote about how the widely-used real-time bidding (RTB) system for online ads causes personal data to be spread widely among potential advertisers. We noted that one…
What’s the best approach for building Bluetooth-based tracing apps as a way out of the pandemic lockdowns?
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, governments around the world are desperately trying to find a way to ease current lockdowns without triggering massive new waves of infection by Covid-19. There…