January 2025 Privacy News Roundup
Let's take a look at what the first month of 2025 brought us
Welcome to the first edition of my monthly news roundup for 2025. As you will notice, I didn’t catch as many headlines as I usually do, since I started off the new year slow and have been busy with other projects. With that out of the way, let’s get into it.
1.) FREEDOM ON THE NET 2024 Report - Link
2.) VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional - Link
3.) Politicization of intel oversight board could threaten key US-EU data transfer agreement - Link
4.) US Cloud soon illegal? Trump punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal - Link
5.) Don’t go soft on US Big Tech, European Parliament urges - Link
6.) Spanish PM calls to end social media anonymity, force digital ID - Link
7.) What to Expect in Global Privacy in 2025 - Link
8.) Face Scans to Estimate Our Age: Harmful and Creepy AF - Link
9.) Microsoft’s LinkedIn Under Fire for Alleged Data Misuse for Training AI - Link
10.) The Impact of Age Verification Measures Goes Beyond Porn Sites - Link
11.) Data Privacy Laws in Asia: A Comparative Analysis - Link
12.) Prosecuted for Protesting - Link
13.) The Protesters' Guide to Smartphone Security - Link
14.) A Response to Recent Claims About Session's Security Architecture - Link
15.) Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool - Link
16.) What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger? This... - Link
17.) Reddit and Film Companies Clash in Appeals Court Over Sharing Users’ IP Addresses - Link
18.) Accessing YouTube: are the good days behind us? - Link
19.) UK plans ‘digital wallet’ for driver’s licenses and other ID, plus a chatbot powered by OpenAI - Link
20.) How Barcelona became an unlikely hub for spyware startups - Link
21.) ShredOS is an entire OS just for destroying data - Link
22.) Tuta for Open Source Projects - Link
23.) 12 Organisations tell Just Eat, Uber, and Deliveroo: Time to Deliver Answers - Link
24.) What is a tracking pixel? (+How to stop email tracking) - Link
25.) Kids Online Safety Act Could Leave Homeschooled Kids Without Crucial Resources - Link
26.) Italy pulls DeepSeek app over data privacy concerns amid DPA investigation - Link
27.) DMA: The EU’s Digital Competitiveness Is at Stake - Link
28.) How to switch off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Link
29.) Location tracking company Unacast tells Norway its data was hacked, broadcaster says - Link
30.) Will states lead the way on AI regulation? - Link
31.) What’s next for our privacy? - Link
32.) Bitwarden Blog: 2025 Data Privacy Week survey results - Link
Feel free to share any interesting headlines you've come across.
Until Next Time,
Monique 📰
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