Privacy News Online Weekly Recap videos will be back in a few weeks. We are taking a short break, then we will be back with some new segments featuring some top names in the privacy community! You can still keep up with the latest privacy news from around the world right here on the Privacy … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: July 24, 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”
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”
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”