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…
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…
Two years ago, this blog noted that the latest generation of mobile communications, 5G, brought with it undoubted benefits, but also real risks to privacy. Even today, the threat of…
Most people are aware of the recent rise of China as an economic, political and military superpower. Less well known is China's massive infrastructure program known as the Belt and…
Privacy News Online frequently writes about surveillance conducted by governments on their populations, or by companies on their users. Less well-known is the connection between governments that wish to spy…
Judge John Mendez of the US District Court for the Eastern District of California has ruled to let the state of California enact SB 822, a net neutrality law that…
One of the first things that you hear to do on Clubhouse is to add your Twitter and Instagram accounts to your Clubhouse profile for discoverability because otherwise there’s really…
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…
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…
When Privacy News Online first wrote about Covid-19, in February, we noted that it would touch on key concerns of this blog: freedom of speech, surveillance and privacy. Already by…