QR Codes Are Here to Stay. So Is the Tracking They Allow.
Fueled by a desire for touchless transactions, QR codes popped up everywhere in the pandemic. Businesses don’t want to give them up.
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The Italian DPA sanctions a food delivery company for monitoring drivers
Italian supervisory authority published an injunction against a company operating a food delivery app over the processing of riders’ personal data with respect to the use of algorithms for the management of the orders.
What Should Happen to Our Data When We Die?
Anthony Bourdain’s A.I.-generated voice is just the latest example of a celebrity being digitally reincarnated. These days, though, it could happen to any of us.
US federal privacy law important to Privacy Shield replacement
As negotiators work to find a Privacy Shield replacement, some say part of the solution lies within a federal privacy law.
Clubhouse Denies Data Breach Claims, No Users’ Phone Numbers Leaked
Clubhouse, the voice-based chat app, has denied allegations of a data breach that started doing rounds on the internet last week.
Cookie compliance: 40 additional organizations on the radar of the CNIL
As part of its global strategy to ensure compliance with its new cookies mandatory guidelines, the CNIL issued formal notices for not enabling users to accept or refuse cookies using equally easy steps.
DuckDuckGo launches new Email Protection service to remove trackers
DuckDuckGo is launching a new email privacy service meant to stop ad companies from spying on your inbox.
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.
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.