China bans 23m from buying travel tickets as part of ‘social credit’ system
China has blocked millions of “discredited” travellers from buying plane or train tickets as part of the country’s controversial “social […]
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European Court of Human Rights to Reexamine Bulk Collection
On February 5, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) announced that the Grand Chamber will reexamine two cases concerning […]
Second rise for the ‘Do Not Track’
In recent years, the setting has been criticized as being essentially meaningless. But it might have a crucial role to […]
Using the New Russian Facial Recognition Site
In September 2018, the Russian website FindFace was taken offline in order to provide “solutions tailored for government and business”. […]
How facial recognition technology follows you, even as you shop
As digital billboards record customers’ reactions to advertisements tailored to them, just who is safeguarding Australians’ privacy? The semi-camouflaged cameras […]
Glass houses: how much privacy can city-dwellers expect?
The recent court decision against the neighbours of Tate Modern in London belies a much wider problem – everyone is […]
Facebook monitors and tracks the locations of users it deems a threat
Facebook monitors and tracks the locations of its users when the company’s security team finds that they are making credible […]
How Taylor Swift showed us the scary future of facial recognition
Surveillance at concerts is just the beginning, as fears grow around an unregulated, billion-dollar industry. Taylor Swift raised eyebrows late […]
Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking
When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company’s […]
Many popular iPhone apps secretly record your screen without asking
Many major companies, like Air Canada, Hollister and Expedia, are recording every tap and swipe you make on their iPhone apps. […]
Your VPN could be a privacy trap
When people turn to a VPN service, they expect full-on anonymity. Particularly when the VPN service says, “we do NOT […]
How should we regulate facial-recognition technology?
The privacy concerns with facial-recognition technology are obvious: Nothing is more “personal” than one’s face. So how is the processing […]