Ottawa tested facial recognition on millions of travellers at Toronto’s Pearson airport in 2016
Six-month initiative to identify potential deportees used technology that has come under intense scrutiny in recent years.
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Cyberattack Shuts Down Services in Greece’s Second-Largest City
As hackers have stepped up cyber attacks on municipal services in a number of countries, Thessaloniki’s agencies were shut down over an electronic intrusion.
How smartphone data can be used to learn secrets
How an unregulated market for personal data is legal, and what it means for your own data.
President Biden Signs Executive Order Encouraging Greater Regulation of Tech and Communications Companies
On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued a far-reaching Executive Order seeking to fight market concentration and anticompetitive practices across the entire U.S. economy
Inside the Industry That Unmasks People at Scale
Unique IDs linked to phones are supposed to be anonymous. But there’s an entire industry that links them to real people and their address.
Uber agrees to reduced fine in fight over sexual assault data
It had been facing a $59 million fine, but it will pay far less.
Disputed ”mass surveillance” legislation ePrivacy Derogation passes
The ePrivacy Derogation was passed by the EU Parliament drawing a lot of attention; welcomed by some, boohooed by others.
Weak US Privacy Law Hurts America’s Global Standing
Unrestrained data collection and selling doesn’t just harm citizens at home. It’s terrible foreign policy.
Austrian Supreme Court asks CJEU if Facebook “undermines” GDPR since 2018
The Austrian Supreme Court referred fundamental questions about Facebook’s GDPR compliance to Court of Justice of European Union.
This tool tells you if NSO’s Pegasus spyware targeted your phone
The toolkit scans iPhone and Android backup files for evidence of a compromise.
Calls to end social media anonymity give platforms more power without actually fixing the problem
The online abuse the England football team received after the Euro 2020 final has pushed people towards drastic measures to stop it happening again: giving social media companies their legal identification.
The Assault on Our Privacy Is Being Conducted in Private
Central databases are exploited by criminals, governments and companies that want to part consumers from their money.