Tag: elon musk
  • Aug 31, 2023 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance,

What Does the EU’s Far-Reaching New Digital Services Act Mean for Privacy Worldwide?

The Digital Services Act (DSA) is a major new EU law with the potential to be as influential globally as the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It aims to end the current era of weak self-regulation, and to force companies to actively tackle some of the internet’s more harmful aspects. It includes rules to ensure … Continue reading “What Does the EU’s Far-Reaching New Digital Services Act Mean for Privacy Worldwide?”

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  • Nov 28, 2022 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, Online Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance,

Is Elon Begging Us to Look for Twitter Alternatives? The Silver Lining of Twitter’s Deepening Woes

Whether or not you use the service, most of you are probably aware by now that Twitter is going through a tumultuous period following its purchase by Elon Musk. An article in the New York Times with the headline “Two Weeks of Chaos” runs through some of the changes that Musk has already instituted. Perhaps … Continue reading “Is Elon Begging Us to Look for Twitter Alternatives? The Silver Lining of Twitter’s Deepening Woes”

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  • Feb 18, 2022 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Mainstream Brain-Computer Interfaces Are Coming — Just Ask Synchron, Neuralink, Paradromics, and HackerBCI

Back in 2019, the PIA blog looked at the emerging world of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Given their potential to take direct readings of what we are thinking, they clearly have important implications for privacy. Several countries are already looking to define neuro-rights that protect mental privacy and to pass laws enshrining them. Last November, a … Continue reading “Mainstream Brain-Computer Interfaces Are Coming — Just Ask Synchron, Neuralink, Paradromics, and HackerBCI”

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Privacy News Online: Weekly Review | March 26, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of March 26th, 2021 Countries in the European Union attempt to water down privacy protections With the European Union’s ePrivacy Regulation in the final stretch, seemingly minor changes can lead to massive privacy implications. Current legislation allows for personal data collection by intelligence services, but not for companies acting … Continue reading “Privacy News Online: Weekly Review | March 26, 2021”

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Teen who hacked Twitter accounts of Biden, Obama, Musk, Bezos and more is sentenced to 3 years in prison

Graham Ivan Clark, age 18 was sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years of probation after pleading guilty to hacking into high-profile Twitter accounts when he was 17 years old. Clark managed to gain access to numerous accounts of powerful people and celebrities, such as: Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon … Continue reading “Teen who hacked Twitter accounts of Biden, Obama, Musk, Bezos and more is sentenced to 3 years in prison”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: January 22, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of January 22nd, 2021 Tencent has been caught spying on your web browsing history with QQ Messenger A popular Chinese messaging desktop client, QQ Messenger, has been caught spying on its users’ web browsing history by scraping the history from local storage. Tencent has a suspected history of implementing … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: January 22, 2021”

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

Now is the time to defend the final haven for privacy: your brain

One of the principal concerns of privacy is to prevent others – typically governments or companies – from monitoring what we think. They have to do that indirectly, by spying on what we say or write, and inferring what is going through our minds from that data. We assume that our actual thoughts are immune … Continue reading “Now is the time to defend the final haven for privacy: your brain”

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