Tag: leaks
  • May 18, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Bad news for Facebook on two fronts – and for Ireland’s role as EU’s privacy enforcer

Back in February, Privacy News Online wrote about a major change to the way WhatsApp and Facebook accounts would be managed. New terms and conditions for WhatsApp users meant that the service is granting itself the right to share users’ data with other Facebook companies. Since Facebook’s privacy policy also allows a more general cross-company … Continue reading “Bad news for Facebook on two fronts – and for Ireland’s role as EU’s privacy enforcer”

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  • Nov 20, 2017 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments,

Two ways to help preserve privacy in an age of massive leaks and deep hacks

We live in the golden age of leaks. That’s not to say that leaks didn’t happen before. But the move to digital data and the availability of high-speed Internet connections has made the exfiltration of data on a massive scale much easier. Where in 1971 Daniel Ellsberg had to photocopy 7,000 pages of what became … Continue reading “Two ways to help preserve privacy in an age of massive leaks and deep hacks”

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  • Aug 31, 2017 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Even encrypted data streams from the Internet of Things are leaking sensitive information; here’s what we can do

As the Internet of Things (IoT) begins to enter the mainstream, concerns about the impact such “smart” devices will have on users’ privacy are growing. Many of the problems are obvious, but so far largely anecdotal. That makes a new paper from four researchers at Princeton University particularly valuable, because they analyze in detail how … Continue reading “Even encrypted data streams from the Internet of Things are leaking sensitive information; here’s what we can do”

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