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Invasion of Privacy: Tracking Your Online Behavior Across the Web

December 6, 2017

The new “Tracking the Trackers” report showed that 79% of all websites globally are secretly tracking your online behavior. Moreover, many are, in turn, forwarding your personal information to other companies. For many, the message is clear: it’s time to take back the web and end this widespread invasion of privacy. Read More

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Data Privacy Insights

The New Privacy Threat: Airplane Cameras and Google Nest Microphones

March 28, 2019

In a growing number of cases – including some involving Google Nest microphones for the home and airplane cameras found on back of passenger seats – surveillance devices are deployed haphazardly without thinking about the way they might intrude into people’s lives and privacy. Read More

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Data Privacy Insights

Facial Recognition Surveillance Now at a Privacy Tipping Point

February 15, 2019

Society is finally starting to wake up to the immense privacy implications of real-time facial recognition surveillance as seen in the latest developments in San Francisco, London and the White House. Read More

Man using phone with chat windows on top showing tech companies and civic organizations condemning GCHQ proposal on encrypted chats

Data Privacy News

Top Tech Companies Condemn GCHQ Proposal to Listen in on Encrypted Chats

June 14, 2019

Tech companies and civic organizations signed an open letter to stop GCHQ proposal to insert government or law enforcement officials into encrypted chats. Read More

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Data Protection News

New India Data Protection Bill May Give Government Unlimited Access to Citizen Data

December 24, 2019

Despite similarity to the EU GDPR, proposed India data protection bill would allow the government unfettered access to citizen data for "national security" purposes. Read More

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Data Privacy Insights

The Brave New World of Surveillance Capitalism

December 21, 2018

Surveillance capitalism as a revenue model through the observation and recording of as much personal data as possible to create highly effective targeted advertisements is growing unchecked. Can regulation level the playing field? Read More

Police car on the street showing Swedish police given the powers to deploy spyware on devices of suspected criminals.

Cyber Security News

Swedish Police Given Green Light For Spyware

November 11, 2019

Swedish police will be given powers to deploy spyware on devices of suspected criminals. The spyware could turn on cameras, microphones, and access encrypted chat logs or images stored on the device. Read More

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Data Privacy Insights

The ‘Greater Good’ – When Good Organisations Do Questionable Things

June 21, 2016

Are individuals more likely to allow use of their data when it’s ‘for the greater good’ – even if permission is not sought? It may be that they don’t have a choice. Even as data protection measures increase and regulatory bodies increase their ability to punish bad behaviour by data custodians, there are still some thorny issues when it comes to the moral and legal obligations governing the sharing of Big Data and personal information. Read More

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Data Privacy News

China Steps Up Internet Surveillance by Recording User Activities

December 19, 2018

Increasing Internet surveillance with new set of rules saw Internet authorities in China clenching an iron fist requiring tech companies to identify the real registered names of users and to record user activities. Read More

Image of warming sign on wall representing government surveillance and the consideration of security and privacy

Data Privacy Insights

Government Surveillance, Security and Privacy: Does Security Always Win? (Part I)

January 25, 2017

In this first part of a two-part series, we explore some of the issues around government surveillance and the search for that elusive balance between security and privacy. In this first part, we explore how serious the threat of cyber snooping by government surveillance is and why we shouldn’t panic just yet. Read More