Tag: Digital Rights
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Digital Rights Watch and EFA push for right to repair to quash tech giant monopoly power
Digital Rights Watch (DRW) and Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) have sternly warned that if big tech giants including Apple, Google, …
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EU-US Privacy Shield is dead. Long live Privacy Shield
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Europe’s top court strikes down flagship EU-US data transfer mechanism
A highly anticipated ruling by Europe’s top court has just landed — striking down a flagship EU-US data flows arrangement called …
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Telco metadata grab is for modelling COVID-19 spread, not tracking citizens, says EC
“The idea is to analyse mobility patterns including the impact of confinement measures on the intensity of contacts, and hence the risks …
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This College Banned Students From Even Discussing Facial Recognition
Amidst a growing nationwide resistance to facial recognition on college campuses, school administrators at Michigan’s Oakland Community …
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Google gobbling Fitbit is a major privacy risk, warns EU data protection advisor
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has intervened to raise concerns about Google’s plan to scoop up the health and activity data …
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Lack of big tech GDPR decisions looms large in EU watchdog’s annual report
it received a total of 7,215 complaints in 2019; a 75% increase on the total number (4,113) received in 2018. A full 6,904 of which were …
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UCLA Abandons Plans to Use Facial Recognition After Backlash
Ahead of a national day of action led by digital rights group Fight for the Future, UCLA has abandoned its plans to become the first …
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A new senate bill would create a US data protection agency
Europe’s data protection laws are some of the strictest in the world, and have long been a thorn in the side of the data-guzzling Silicon …
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Tinder’s handling of user data is now under GDPR probe in Europe
Dating app Tinder is the latest tech service to find itself under formal investigation in Europe over how it handles user data. Ireland’s …
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Google’s location tracking finally under formal probe in Europe
Google’s lead data regulator in Europe has finally opened a formal investigation into the tech giant’s processing of location data — …
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Tech companies, we see through your flimsy privacy promises
why Data Privacy Day pisses me off. January 28 was the annual “Hallmark holiday” for cybersecurity, ostensibly a day devoted to …
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