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The EU’s main privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is three years old. Access Now has produced what it calls an “implementation report”, which usefully summarizes the GDPR’s achievements and problems. One of…
Back in 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the UK’s mass interception of fiber-optic cable traffic violated people’s right to privacy because of insufficient safeguards. The privacy groups who brought the…
It’s no secret that many companies and governments try to collect as much personal information as possible. This might be because they believe this will improve the results of their analyses, or simply “just in…
Back in January, Privacy News Online wrote about China’s important new privacy legislation, the Personal Information Protection Law. That post concentrated on the law’s extraterritorial reach, and its likely impact on non-Chinese companies, and referred…
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 modern smartphone is a wonder. In terms of raw computing power, an article on ZME Science compared an iPhone 6 with the computers used to send astronauts to the moon: the iPhone 6’s clock…
Whether you want your daily dose of cute cat videos or a step-by-step video guide for a software installation, YouTube is your go-to place no matter where you are in the world. With almost 5…
A recurrent theme on this blog has been the growing importance of controlling cross-border data flows, in part because of concerns about privacy. One increasingly popular approach with governments is to require data localization, whereby…
Highly-paid management consultants are generally regarded with a certain suspicion and perhaps envy by many people. A popular joke has it that a management consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you the…
Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of May 7, 2021 What happens to privacy once AIs start hacking systems – and people? Artificial Intelligence (AI) has mostly figured in this blog because of its ability…
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