Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: July 10, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of July 10th, 2020 HongKongers prepare for China and new national security law by scrubbing digital footprint China has officially passed a new national security law for Hong Kong that has caused a massive chilling effect. As a response, many Hong Kong citizens are deleting social media posts or … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: July 10, 2020”

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  • Jul 2, 2020
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

After exaggerated claims about their importance, here’s the reality of contact tracing apps

Back in February, this blog was one of the first to warn that the obvious technological response to the coronavirus – the use of contact tracing apps – raised important privacy questions. Since then, both the apps and their implications have been the subject of debate around the world. That’s particularly the case for the … Continue reading “After exaggerated claims about their importance, here’s the reality of contact tracing apps”

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  • May 23, 2020
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

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 the world. A key question is whether to use a centralized or de-centralized architecture. After some division, the balance has firmly swung towards the latter, … Continue reading “OpenSAFELY: more proof that tackling the coronavirus pandemic does not require privacy to be compromised”

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  • May 14, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Salami seller peddles his own meat to customer by using her contact tracing details

A New Zealand woman went to a Subway restaurant for a regular purchase of a sub sandwich, but then went home to an unpleasant surprise: unwanted advances from the man who sold her the sub sandwich. How did he get her contact information to hit on her? During the course of her purchase, she had … Continue reading “Salami seller peddles his own meat to customer by using her contact tracing details”

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  • May 6, 2020
  • Glyn Moody
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Growing storm over UK’s coronavirus tracing app shows how not to do it

As this blog noted a couple of weeks ago, many governments around the world are looking to introduce coronavirus tracing apps to help take their countries out of lockdown. The hope is that such apps can be used by millions of people to pinpoint potential new cases of Covid-19 so that medical interventions can be … Continue reading “Growing storm over UK’s coronavirus tracing app shows how not to do it”

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  • May 1, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Apple and Google create contact tracing API that preserves privacy to fight COVID-19

Apple and Google have been working together for the last few months on a not-so-secret project to combat the COVID-19 pandemic which uses LE Bluetooth for contact tracing while still preserving privacy. The project has been codenamed Project Bubble. According to an article on this monumental project released by CNBC citing sources from within both … Continue reading “Apple and Google create contact tracing API that preserves privacy to fight COVID-19”

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