Tag: germany
  • Aug 23, 2023 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance, VPN,

Canada’s New C-18 “Link Tax” Law Tackles the Wrong Problem. The Real Solution Would Enhance Privacy.

In June, Canada passed the Online News Act, commonly known as C-18. It’s framed as a law that’s designed to help Canadian news publishers financially, as it forces large tech companies to pay when they link to news stories. What Is C-18? The Canadian government describes the key element of the new law as follows: [C-18] … Continue reading “Canada’s New C-18 “Link Tax” Law Tackles the Wrong Problem. The Real Solution Would Enhance Privacy.”

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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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  • May 11, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Privacy concerns cause tensions over data localization and data transfers to rise

A recurrent theme on this blog has been the growing importance of controlling cross-border data flows, in part because of concerns about privacy. One increasingly popular approach with governments is to require data localization, whereby a country’s personal data remains within its borders. Although some companies like Facebook have been fighting this tendency, others providing … Continue reading “Privacy concerns cause tensions over data localization and data transfers to rise”

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  • Apr 30, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Facebook and publishers sour about Apple’s new privacy controls that stop apps tracking users across sites without consent

One of the greatest threats to privacy online is the tracking of users across multiple sites and services. This allows companies such as Facebook and specialist data brokers to build up highly-revealing profiles of our interests and concerns. The profiles are then used to display micro-targeted ads, typically bought as the result of real-time bidding. … Continue reading “Facebook and publishers sour about Apple’s new privacy controls that stop apps tracking users across sites without consent”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: November 6, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of November 6th, 2020 EU politicians want Europe’s next big digital law to tackle micro-targeted advertising, by regulating or even banning it The EU’s next big digital law, the Digital Services Act (DSA) would update the EU’s e-commerce directive – which hasn’t been touched since 2000. Recommendations for the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: November 6, 2020”

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  • Oct 27, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments,

German authorities want large porn sites to implement age verification or be blocked via DNS

Internet service providers (ISPs) in Germany may soon be forced to apply DNS blocks to stop users from accessing porn sites like Pornhub, xHamster, and YouPorn. German authorities, led by a State Media Authority director named Tobias Schmid, have been pushing for large porn sites like those previously mentioned to implement age verification of the … Continue reading “German authorities want large porn sites to implement age verification or be blocked via DNS”

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  • Aug 5, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments,

Turkey takes Germany’s “hate speech” law, and makes it much worse with its own censorship and data localization rules

Last month we wrote about France’s “hate speech” law, and noted that it followed in the footsteps of the earlier German law known as NetzDG (short for “Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz”, or network enforcement law). NetzDG was bad news not just for German freedom of speech, but for human rights around the world, because of its knock-on effects. … Continue reading “Turkey takes Germany’s “hate speech” law, and makes it much worse with its own censorship and data localization rules”

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