Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: February 12, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of February 12th, 2021 Police served warrant on Google to identify George Floyd protestors Police used a type of warrant known as a geofence warrant to ask Google for information on all accounts that were close to a particular store in a twenty minute window around when the store … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: February 12, 2021”

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  • Feb 10, 2021
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

South Africa’s highest court bans bulk internet surveillance

South Africa’s Constitutional Court – or Concourt as it is often referred to – has banned mass surveillance of internet communications in the country. The court decisions came as a result of a case from journalistic outfit amaBhungane and journalist Sam Sole – who were subject to bulk surveillance and weren’t notified of it during … Continue reading “South Africa’s highest court bans bulk internet surveillance”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: August 28, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of August 28th, 2020 Max Schrems files 101 complaints across 30 European countries to turbocharge GDPR’s impact – and he’s not the only one The European privacy activist behind Noyb recently filed these complaints to follow up on the recent European Union Court of Justice decision that invalidated the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: August 28, 2020”

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  • Aug 21, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News,

Experian breach affects over 24 million customers and businesses in South Africa

Consumer credit reporting agency Experian has suffered a data breach at their South African branch. The Experian data breach didn’t expose consumer credit or financial information, but other personal information which could be used in phishing attempts were definitely exposed. Experian noted in a statement that they fell victim to a social engineering attack where … Continue reading “Experian breach affects over 24 million customers and businesses in South Africa”

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We are removing our Johannesburg, South Africa, and Brazil exit gateways

Private Internet Access is removing servers in Brazil and Johannesburg, South Africa. We are leaving South Africa due to the closing of our local datacenter partner’s Johannesburg location. We are leaving Brazil for more serious, privacy reasons. We have learned that Brazil is currently trying to force companies like VPN providers to comply with Brazilian … Continue reading “We are removing our Johannesburg, South Africa, and Brazil exit gateways”

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  • Oct 14, 2019
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

South African court rules that mass surveillance by the government is illegal

A South African court has ruled that mass surveillance, specifically bulk communication of communications, is illegal for the government to participate in.  A longstanding court case between the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism on behalf of journalist Sam Sole and South Africa’s State Security Agency lead to this ruling on September 16th, 2019. Earlier this … Continue reading “South African court rules that mass surveillance by the government is illegal”

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