• Dec 21, 2023
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Studies, Surveillance,

Body Cameras Impact Privacy – And It’s Only Getting Worse

Constant surveillance from CCTV cameras, which often use AI software to identify people, is common across the world. While problematic, mounted cameras are at fixed locations, which you can avoid to a certain extent. A new frontier in privacy harm is being opened up by body-worn cameras, which are far more difficult to dodge. In … Continue reading “Body Cameras Impact Privacy – And It’s Only Getting Worse”

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  • Apr 28, 2022
  • Glyn Moody
  • Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance,

How New Copyright Laws Threaten Privacy and Freedom of Speech

There’s a new US bill that everyone in the privacy world should know about — it goes by the name of “Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022” or the “SMART Copyright Act of 2022” for short. Although the bill is mostly geared toward tackling copyright infringement, the way it does so … Continue reading “How New Copyright Laws Threaten Privacy and Freedom of Speech”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 9, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of April 9th, 2021 Workplace surveillance is entering our homes and driving through our streets Surveillance in the workplace is nothing new, but there are far more people working in places where other people may be in view and have their privacy unjustly compromised. One great example is the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 9, 2021”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 2, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of April 2, 2021 Are smartphone apps that constantly monitor a person’s movements and actions the future of parole – and parenting? A company called Shadowtrack makes it possible for parolee’s ditch the ankle monitor in favor of a simple smartphone app. The parolee simply checks in with the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 2, 2021”

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  • Feb 6, 2021
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance,

Time to get rid of pervasive online ad tracking once and for all: the alternative is simple, effective, and fully respects privacy

This blog has been pointing out for years the fundamental incompatibility between privacy and the current online advertising model. Today, most Web sites seek to gather as much personal information about visitors as possible, and then sell advertisers access based on people’s data. Until recently, there has been little effort to change that system. The … Continue reading “Time to get rid of pervasive online ad tracking once and for all: the alternative is simple, effective, and fully respects privacy”

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  • Jan 20, 2021
  • Caleb Chen
  • Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Tencent has been caught spying on your web browsing history with QQ Messenger

QQ Messenger, a popular Chinese instant messaging app by Tencent, was caught scraping web browser history with their desktop client. The discovery was made by Chinese internet users on the Q and A platforum Zhihu. Here is a Chinese language thread that documents the QQ Messenger web browsing history scraping investigation. Basically, all Chromium based … Continue reading “Tencent has been caught spying on your web browsing history with QQ Messenger”

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  • Nov 24, 2020
  • Glyn Moody
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Amazon’s Ring moves even closer to becoming the perfect urban police surveillance system

Back in July last year, this blog wrote about Amazon’s Ring series, whose key product is a small Internet-connected camera built into a doorbell. At that time, it was already clear that the system posed a serious threat to privacy, particularly in the urban context. Since then, there has been a massive rise in the … Continue reading “Amazon’s Ring moves even closer to becoming the perfect urban police surveillance system”

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