Tag: singapore
  • Mar 2, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cryptocurrency, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments,

Is this the future of Covid-19 vaccine passports: open source and based on the Ethereum blockchain?

It was only last week that Privacy News Online wrote about introducing vaccine passports in order to provide additional freedoms to those who have received one of the Covid-19 vaccines. And yet the idea has taken off in a remarkable way, driven no doubt by the desperate desire by both businesses and the public to … Continue reading “Is this the future of Covid-19 vaccine passports: open source and based on the Ethereum blockchain?”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: February 19, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of February 19th, 2021 The government can search your phone at the border without a warrant A Court of Appeals has ruled that border security can conduct basic and advanced searches on your phone without a warrant or probable cause. This most recent court decision overturned a previous 2019 … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: February 19, 2021”

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  • Apr 1, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

How can we protect privacy during a crisis like Covid-19, when “health surveillance” is on the rise around the world?

A couple of weeks ago, this blog looked at the use of smartphones to track people so that contact tracing can be carried out to slow the spread of Covid-19. Two weeks is a long time in a pandemic. Soon after, it emerged that many countries were going further, and using smartphone location to check … Continue reading “How can we protect privacy during a crisis like Covid-19, when “health surveillance” is on the rise around the world?”

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  • Apr 26, 2017 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

Singapore High Court rules that telecoms don’t need to give up information on alleged downloaders

The High Court of Singapore has stopped copyright holders from obtaining personal information on alleged copyright infringers and pirates from Singaporean telecoms and internet service providers (ISP). SSLA, a Singaporean law firm, represented the copyright holders in seeking full names, home addresses, and national identification numbers associated with a list of IP addresses that they … Continue reading “Singapore High Court rules that telecoms don’t need to give up information on alleged downloaders”

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