19 April 2021
Priti Patel, the UK’s home secretary, has warned Facebook that introducing end-to-end encryption to its messaging services will make it harder for police to catch online child abuse offenders, but there are alternative solutions
27 September 2018
States spying on the very organisations that challenge their surveillance power demonstrates how important such work is, says Privacy International’s Edin Omanovic
27 July 2018
A face recognition service sold by Amazon falsely identified 28 members of Congress - and disproportionately black legislators - as people arrested for a crime
13 July 2018
Governments and employers can still snoop on you when you use Chrome’s Incognito Mode or other private browsers, but many people don’t know this
11 July 2018
Facebook faces a £500,000 fine from the UK's data watchdog - the maximum possible under relevant data protection laws. Cambridge Analytica will also face criminal action
26 April 2018
Concerns about use of social media by children and teens are multiplying. But is heavy-handed intervention the solution, wonders Paul Marks
11 April 2018
A report by Mozilla, which makes the Firefox web browser, says the internet is in a bad way when it comes to equality of access and online censorship
11 April 2018
The US Senate questioned Mark Zuckerberg yesterday about Cambridge Analytica. He said Facebook will investigate thousands of other apps for similar misuse
9 April 2018
When Mark Zuckerberg faces US politicians this week, he should admit his network is a global behavioural experiment that needs oversight to match, says Mark Harris
21 March 2018
Allegations about Cambridge Analytica have led some to rethink their relationship with social media. Here are some tips to calm your data worries
