Wheely ride-hailing app writes to UK privacy watchdog over Moscow data demands
The ride-hailing app Wheely has written to the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after claiming it is being pressured into […]
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EDPB Creates Taskforces on Complaints and Supplementary Measures for Data Transfers Following Schrems II Decision
On September 4, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced that it established two taskforces following the judgment of […]
Doorbell Cameras Help to Spy on Police
Two leaked documents show how a monitoring tool used by police has been turned against them. The rise of the […]
Facebook open-sources differential privacy tool
Facebook’s Opacus is a library for training PyTorch models with differential privacy that’s ostensibly more scalable than existing state-of-the-art methods. […]
CNIL issues new guidance on data retention
The French Supervisory Authority CNIL in July has issued new updated guidelines on data retention. These Guidelines aim at providing […]
NSA Mass Surveillance Program Illegal, U.S. Court Rules
The NSA argued its mass surveillance program stopped terrorist attacks – but a new U.S. court ruling found that this […]
ECHR dismisses Privacy International case on UK state hacking
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) dismissed the claim Privacy International and coalition of internet and communications service providers […]
Commission will ‘not exclude’ potential ban on facial recognition technology
The European Commission has not ruled out a future ban on the use of facial recognition technology in Europe, as […]
European Parliament Held Meeting on Future of EU-U.S. Data Flows
On September 3, 2020, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament held a meeting […]
Microsoft launches a deepfake detector tool
Microsoft has added to the slowly growing pile of technologies aimed at spotting synthetic media (aka deepfakes) with the launch […]
The Blurred Lines and Closed Loops of Google Search
Seemingly small design tweaks to the search results interface may change how and where people find information online. In June […]
Kindle Collects a Surprisingly Large Amount of Data
Reading a book on a Kindle sends Amazon a lot of data about reading habits. How fast pages are turned, […]