Tag: amazon
  • Aug 12, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

The Tiny Nation of Luxembourg Slaps Amazon with the Biggest GDPR Fine Yet: Nearly $900 Million

As Privacy News Online has noted, one name that crops up frequently in the context of the EU’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) is the privacy expert and activist Max Schrems. But he is by no means the only player in this sphere. The French digital rights group La Quadrature du Net (LQDN) has also … Continue reading “The Tiny Nation of Luxembourg Slaps Amazon with the Biggest GDPR Fine Yet: Nearly $900 Million”

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  • Jul 20, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

How Do You Solve a Privacy Problem Like Facebook? Two New Ways Emerge

As numerous posts on Privacy News Online demonstrate, Facebook is one of the biggest problems for privacy around the world. That problem just became bigger, as the company’s market capitalization crossed the one trillion dollar mark for the first time, taking Facebook into the elite club whose other members are Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft. … Continue reading “How Do You Solve a Privacy Problem Like Facebook? Two New Ways Emerge”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 2, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of April 2, 2021 Are smartphone apps that constantly monitor a person’s movements and actions the future of parole – and parenting? A company called Shadowtrack makes it possible for parolee’s ditch the ankle monitor in favor of a simple smartphone app. The parolee simply checks in with the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 2, 2021”

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  • Jan 13, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Not going dark: personal data from the Internet of Things ushers in a golden age for law enforcement

Last week, Privacy News Online wrote about the increasing use of vehicle forensics to solve crimes. These “smartphones on wheels” join a growing list of everyday devices that are becoming “smart” – that is, incorporating powerful computers, often linked to the Internet – and therefore of interest to law enforcement. Recent posts on this blog … Continue reading “Not going dark: personal data from the Internet of Things ushers in a golden age for law enforcement”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 18, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of December 18th, 2020 WhatsApp calls Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels for iOS 14 anti-competitive Facebook’s WhatsApp messenger has taken a public stance against Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels. WhatsApp provided the requested privacy information to Apple by the required deadline, but the messaging company also took to the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 18, 2020”

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  • Dec 14, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Reviewers call the Amazon Halo wearable the “most invasive we’ve ever tested”

The preliminary feedback from initial reviewers of Amazon’s wearable Halo band is in: namely that the Amazon Halo band is “the most invasive tech we’ve ever tested.” How invasive could it be? Besides the normal stuff we’ve come to expect from wearables such as location tracking, the health tracking band asks you to submit voice … Continue reading “Reviewers call the Amazon Halo wearable the “most invasive we’ve ever tested””

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  • Dec 10, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance,

New report shows Google tracks 80% of the Web, with Amazon likely to overtake Facebook as second-worst privacy threat

It’s no secret that practically every Web page we visit is infested with trackers. On its own, that would be bad enough. But most trackers are used in order to aggregate enormous quantities of data. Taken together, these create extremely detailed profiles that reveal many things about us, include some pretty private and intimate ones. … Continue reading “New report shows Google tracks 80% of the Web, with Amazon likely to overtake Facebook as second-worst privacy threat”

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  • Nov 24, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Amazon’s Ring moves even closer to becoming the perfect urban police surveillance system

Back in July last year, this blog wrote about Amazon’s Ring series, whose key product is a small Internet-connected camera built into a doorbell. At that time, it was already clear that the system posed a serious threat to privacy, particularly in the urban context. Since then, there has been a massive rise in the … Continue reading “Amazon’s Ring moves even closer to becoming the perfect urban police surveillance system”

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  • Jun 25, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Top suppliers halt sales of facial recognition technology to the police – how much of a win is that really?

As this blog has noted, police forces around the world have been pushing for the routine deployment of real-time facial recognition technologies. It’s an attractive option for politicians. It offers the hope that more criminals will be arrested and convicted, and for a price that is constantly falling. As a result, it’s hard to win … Continue reading “Top suppliers halt sales of facial recognition technology to the police – how much of a win is that really?”

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  • Dec 18, 2019 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Smile as you buy your holiday goods in a store – you are probably being watched, tracked and analyzed

Amazon may have started out by selling books, but it is now getting heavily into the surveillance market. There are four main sectors where it is already working on solutions that pose risks to privacy. Three of them have been covered extensively in this blog before. They are: the home, with its Alexa devices; the … Continue reading “Smile as you buy your holiday goods in a store – you are probably being watched, tracked and analyzed”

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