Human Rights Watch Reverse-Engineers Mass Surveillance App used by Police in Xinjiang
For years, Xinjiang has been a testbed for the Chinese government’s novel digital and physical surveillance tactics, as well as […]
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Reported Google browser change could be final death blow to cookies
Google is planning to announce new tools for Chrome that offer users more control over third party tracking cookies. The […]
How to slow Google Sensorvault from tracking your location on iOS, Android
Not only is Google Maps tracking you, but a program called Google Sensorvault is potentially turning over your location data […]
Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police
The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running […]
EU pushes to link tracking databases
Lawmakers are set to approve plans for an enormous new database that will collect biometric data on almost all non-EU […]
Autonomous cars rise privacy questions
When fully autonomous vehicles begin circulating on public roads they will have to be able to detect when people enter […]
A New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments
Sophisticated surveillance, once the domain of world powers, is increasingly available on the private market. Smaller countries are seizing on […]
EU Advocate General Issues Opinion on Consent for Cookies and Intersection with the GDPR
On March 21, 2019, Advocate General Szpunar released his opinion in the Planet49 case, currently pending before the Court of […]
EU citizens being tracked on sensitive government sites
EU governments are allowing more than 100 advertising companies, including Google and Facebook, to surreptitiously track citizens across sensitive public […]
How the tragic death of Do Not Track ruined the web for everyone
A decade ago, a simple browser setting – called Do Not Track – promised to make it easy to protect […]
Chrome will soon make it harder for websites to spy on you
A new feature coming to Chrome in the near future will allow users to limit the kind of data certain […]
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 […]