Those in favor of undermining end-to-end encryption claim that it’s necessary to catch criminals, but children want privacy, not surveillance.
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Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of September 4th, 2020 Mozilla study reaffirms that internet history can be used for “reidentification” The sites we visit on the internet can form a unique fingerprint which can be used to track us on the web. A new research paper from Mozilla builds on a 2012 paper which … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: September 4, 2020”
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The government in Denmark has fired 3 top officials from the country’s foreign intelligence agency, the Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE), following revelations from a whistleblower. The officials, including the head of the agency, Lars Finden, have been “relieved of duty for the time being” following the release of a trove of documents. The documents detailed that … Continue reading “The head of Denmark’s spy program has been fired for snooping on citizens and lying about it”
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It seems extraordinary that it was only a month ago that this blog wrote about the new coronavirus, also called Covid-19. At that time, it was not yet clear whether it would turn into a full-blown pandemic. Now, there is no doubt on the matter. As that blog post reported, Covid-19 began in China, and … Continue reading “As Covid-19 spreads around the globe, so does the idea of using smartphones to track everyone to help contact tracing”
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