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Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, issued his opinions on how he believes the Court should rule on vital questions relating to European national security mass retention regimes. All three regimes in question were in his opinion incompatible.

Maddie Stone, formally a Senior reverse engineer and tech lead on the Android security team, shockingly revealed a number of examples of how pre-installed apps on Android devices can undermine users privacy and security in her BlackHat USA talk in August 2019. The video of the talk only recently became available to the public in late December 2019.

Today we, along with over 50 organisations including Amnesty International, DuckDuckGo, and the ACLU are asking Google to step up, and we’re asking you to join us in pressuring them to do the right thing.

Cloud extraction allows law enforcement agencies to take huge amounts of your data from the Cloud via a legal back door.

Cloud extraction technology is being used in secret whilst the public are often unaware that large volumes of data that they generate are stored in the cloud and thus accessible using these technologies. 

Privacy International calls for the Swedish draft proposal conferring government hacking powers to law enforcement authorities to be rejected.

Most users around the world still don't have meaningful insight into how ads are being targeted at them on Twitter, Facebook, and Google.

It is imperative that there is honesty as to the capabilities of extraction devices and clarity on what is taking place at a technical level.

Google has been reported to collect health data records, we explore what is dangerous.

In November 2019, Google announced their plan to acquire Fitbit, a company that produces and sells health tracking technologies and wearables. This can potentially give Google ever more dominance in online markets at the expense of our rights. Here's why we should all be concerned.