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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…
This blog has written a number of times about the growing threat that low-cost, rapid DNA sequencing represents for privacy. The increased use of genetic material by the police to identify suspects poses particular problems.…
In the aftermath of the George Floyd Protests, Police served Google with a geofence warrant to identify suspects in crimes committed during the protests. Minneapolis Police say that the looting and property damage started at…
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…
Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of February 5th, 2021 UK Police Chief falsely claims that end to end encrypted messaging “puts lives at risk” The Detective Chief Superintendent in charge of the Uinted Kingdom’s…
An unannounced update to Raspberry Pi OS has added Microsoft’s GPG key and apt repository for VSCode to the popular operating system previously known as Raspbian which is used on millions of Raspberry Pi devices…
The Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom (UK) really really don’t want Facebook to bring end to end encryption to Facebook Messenger and Instagram. In fact, a police chief went so far as to say…
Google will be updating its in house iOS apps to avoid scaring users with a tracking permission prompt. Apple’s iOS14 privacy upgrades – specifically Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) initiative will force apps to get…
Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of January 29th, 2021 TikTok tracks you even if you never made an account TikTok’s privacy policy allows the social media company to track a lot of app usage…
China has frequently figured in this blog, usually in the context of its censorship, surveillance activities, and wide-ranging abuse of human rights. But there’s another side to the story. Like other people around the world,…
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