Privacy


Google Says Once Third-party Cookies Are Toast, Chrome Won't Help Ad Networks Track Individuals Around The Web

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Notes an 'erosion of trust' – gee, wonder who could be responsible for that... Google says it will not come up with n... Read more

30 Percent Of World Agrees Not To Require Onshore Storage For E-commerce Customer Data

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New top trade bloc wants fewer barriers to business across China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Australia and 11 more ... Read more

Doxxing Nixed By Hong Kong Courts, Again

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This time to protect judicial enforcement authorities, but previous bans on publishing Police's personal details haven'... Read more

Dutch National Broadcaster Saw Ad Revenue Rise When It Stopped Tracking Users. It's Meant To Work Like That, Right?

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Brave browser's policy officer questions efficacy of personalised ads Johnny Ryan, chief policy officer at privacy-focu... Read more

Happy Privacy Action Day In California: If You Don't Have 'Do Not Sell My Information' In Your Website Footer, You Need To Read This Story Right Now

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Golden State AG prepares crackdown Today is the first day that California will start enforcing its new data privacy law... Read more

Privacy Activists Prep Legal Challenge Against UK Plan To Keep Coronavirus Contact-tracing Data For Two Decades

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It's too long a retention period, say digital rights campaigners Privacy rights campaigners are to legally challenge th... Read more

Yahoo Japan Shares User Location Data With Government To Track Coronavirus Clusters

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As LINE named nation's preferred telemedicine tool Yahoo!’s Japanese offshoot has signed a deal to share analysis of ... Read more

Taiwan May Turn Traffic Advice App Into Massive Tracking System

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To offer social distancing advice when people head out to play on a looming long weekend Taiwan has floated the idea of... Read more

Hack Of Luscious Anime Porn Site Exposed Identities And Info Of 1.2m Users

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When users hand over their personal data, there is an expectation that this data will remain private and secure. This e... Read more

Kazakhstan Asks Internet Users To Install Controversial Security Certificate

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Privacy advocates have warned that a new security certificate for internet browsers being promoted by the Kazakhstan go... Read more

Helen Dixon Reappointed As Data Protection Commissioner For Five Years

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Helen Dixon has been reappointed as Data Protection Commissioner for Ireland for a further five-year term. Since takin... Read more

Whats Up With WhatsApp As Flaw Injects Spyware On Phones

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WhatsApp has confirmed that it has become the victim of a major attack where hackers were able to remotely install surv... Read more

Facebooks New General Counsel Is A Trump Adviser Who Helped Author Patriot Act

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Facebook has named Jennifer Newstead, a legal adviser to the US state department, as its chief lawyer. She will replace... Read more

A New Deal: Privacy Must Always Come Before Profit

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Do you sometimes feel a tremor of fear when you retrieve cash from an ATM, wondering if there is some secret recording ... Read more

After Christchurch, Technology Has Reached A Reckoning

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The viciousness of the attack that took at least 50 lives, some aged as young as three, as they peacefully went about p... Read more

World Wide Web At 30: Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Wants A Better Web

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Today marks the 30th anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitting his proposal for an information management system th... Read more

Whats In Store For Data Protection In 2019?

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Leo Moore has been a partner in the technology group at law firm William Fry since 2010. In that time, he has seen his ... Read more

HIQA Launches National Standard For Electronic Patient Summaries To Improve Safety

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The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is the body in Ireland tasked with setting the standards for many o... Read more

State Refuses To Release Information On Public Services Card Probe

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A request brought by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) for information regarding the investigation into the ... Read more

Weekend Takeaway: GDPR Is Here

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Max attacks: Schrems launches €7bn worth of GDPR cases in Europe Max Schrems during a visit to Dublin in 2015. Image... Read more