• Aug 9, 2021
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Shenzhen, the Silicon Valley of Hardware, Sets a Global Standard with China’s Toughest Local Privacy Law

For many Westerners, China is a country associated with widespread surveillance, stringent censorship, and human rights abuses in regions such as Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Despite that, the Chinese government is well aware that the country’s billion Internet users care deeply about personal privacy, and has been steadily introducing surprisingly strong data protection laws to … Continue reading “Shenzhen, the Silicon Valley of Hardware, Sets a Global Standard with China’s Toughest Local Privacy Law”

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  • Jul 14, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments,

Huawei 5G banned in the United Kingdom; must be removed by 2027

The United Kingdom (UK) is banning telecommunications companies from using Huawei 5G equipment. Following sanctions put on Huawei by the United States, United Kingdom Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the press on Tuesday that the UK will forbid mobile providers from buying Huawei 5G kits and must retire already bought hardware by 2027. Huawei hardware … Continue reading “Huawei 5G banned in the United Kingdom; must be removed by 2027”

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  • Apr 3, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments,

China’s “New IP” proposal to replace TCP/IP has a built in “shut up command” for censorship

The Chinese government and the Chinese telecommunications companies such as Huawei under its control are proposing a “New IP” addressing system for the internet to replace TCP/IP. The New IP system includes top-down checks and balances and such features as a “shut up command” that would allow a central controller to stop packets from being … Continue reading “China’s “New IP” proposal to replace TCP/IP has a built in “shut up command” for censorship”

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Huawei Could Rebuild Trust in Their Products Through Open Source

Chinese Megacorp Huawei has been in the news over the last few months because companies and entire nations have been banning their equipment over spying concerns. There has been little public evidence of such spying taking place on a large scale, but the action of multiple countries within the fourteen eyes surveillance alliance suggests that … Continue reading “Huawei Could Rebuild Trust in Their Products Through Open Source”

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  • Apr 13, 2019
  • Glyn Moody
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments,

China’s AI-based prisons – both indoors and outdoors – offer a warning of how privacy may die elsewhere

Online freedom of speech is under attack around the world. The EU’s new Copyright Directive is about to become law, and brings with it a need to filter all uploads to most sites. Once filters are in place, it will be easy to use them for blocking things other than alleged copyright infringement. Australia has … Continue reading “China’s AI-based prisons – both indoors and outdoors – offer a warning of how privacy may die elsewhere”

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  • Mar 28, 2019
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News,

Privacy News Daily | March 28, 2019

Welcome to the Online Privacy News Update for March 28th, 2018. Today, the VPN industry let the world know that Russia had asked the world’s VPNs to censor websites. Read below for other privacy news from today. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/new-4g-lte-vulnerabilities-allow-attackers-to-view-and-manipulate-traffic-to-your-smartphone/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/russias-roskomnadzor-orders-vpns-to-censor-banned-sites/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/us-government-proves-again-that-it-has-no-problem-spying-on-american-citizens/ UK report blasts Huawei for network security incompetence UK’s National Security Advisor received a report … Continue reading “Privacy News Daily | March 28, 2019”

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  • Jun 22, 2018
  • Glyn Moody
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media,

Maybe “smart” devices are too clever: they know all about your Facebook friends, and can spy on you and your family

The Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed the power of psychological profiling and hyper-targeted advertising based on personal data collected and stored by Facebook. As it became aware of these privacy violations, Facebook tightened up the rules governing what data the apps running on its platform could access. However, in a further blow to Facebook’s reputation as … Continue reading “Maybe “smart” devices are too clever: they know all about your Facebook friends, and can spy on you and your family”

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  • Oct 18, 2017
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News,

Powerful and pervasive artificial intelligence is coming: now is the time to talk about its impact on privacy

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rather like the GNU/Linux desktop: every year is the one when it will finally take off. Indeed, this has been true for AI far longer than for the GNU/Linux desktop, since it is generally held that AI as a discipline was born back in 1956, whereas the GNU project only started … Continue reading “Powerful and pervasive artificial intelligence is coming: now is the time to talk about its impact on privacy”

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  • Sep 15, 2017
  • Glyn Moody
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments,

The Chinese IT giant Huawei has big plans for the cloud in Western markets, with important implications for privacy

Some Chinese high-tech companies may be bigger than you think. The e-commerce giant Alibaba has a market capitalization of over $400 billion. The social media and gaming company Tencent is not far behind, and nearly a billion people use its WeChat messaging service. Baidu is the world’s second largest search engine, and is increasingly strong … Continue reading “The Chinese IT giant Huawei has big plans for the cloud in Western markets, with important implications for privacy”

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