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October 19, 2020

Schrems gets a judicial review of the Irish DPC’s procedure

European privacy campaigner Max Schrems has been granted a judicial review of the Irish regulator’s handling of his complaint. He’s […]

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October 19, 2020

EU regulators draw up ‘hit list’ of tech giants to share data with small rivals

European Union regulators have reportedly drawn up a “hit list” of around 20 tech giants, potentially including Facebook, Apple and […]

October 19, 2020

German lawsuit accuses Amazon of breaking EU privacy law

Amazon faces a lawsuit in Germany over claims it has continued to transfer data to the United States using an […]

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October 19, 2020

UK government under pressure to prove data adequacy to EU

The UK government is coming under increasing pressure to convince Brussels regulators that the country’s data protection landscape is fit […]

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October 19, 2020

Google Analytics Gets A Major Privacy And Machine Learning-Focused Overhaul

Google is revamping Google Analytics for a world in which privacy plays center stage and identifiers are exiting stage left. […]

October 19, 2020

CBP expands facial recognition program to international travelers at San Francisco and San Jose airports

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the expansion of its Simplified Arrival program, which uses facial recognition to verify […]

October 19, 2020

US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search

An unsealed warrant in a case involving alleged pedophile R&B star R. Kelly has shown how the Feds can get […]

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October 16, 2020

Ryanair says it’s not ‘hiding’ behind GDPR in US lawsuit

Ryanair has been accused of trying to hide behind EU data protection rules which, it has been claimed, would prevent […]

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October 16, 2020

Fitbit Spyware Steals Personal Data via Watch Face

Immersive Labs Researcher takes advantage of lax Fitbit privacy controls to build a malicious spyware watch face. A wide-open app-building […]

October 16, 2020

Twitter Data-Breach Case Won’t Be Resolved Before Year’s End

European privacy regulators are unlikely to issue a final ruling on Twitter’s handling of a 2019 data breach before the […]

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October 16, 2020

EU nations call for ‘soft law solutions’ in future Artificial Intelligence regulation

Fourteen EU countries have set out their position on the future regulation of Artificial Intelligence, urging the European Commission to […]

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October 16, 2020

No GDPR damages after data breach, says German court

In a civil action following a personal data breach affecting a credit card bonus programme, the Regional Court (Landgericht) Frankfurt […]

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