Tech chiefs ask US Congress to pass consumer privacy law
Bosses from 51 firms in total – including Salesforce, IBM and Amazon – spoke at a business roundtable recently, where […]
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Judge lets Facebook privacy class action proceed
A federal judge on Monday ordered Facebook to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third parties […]
Startup HiQ Labs may collect data from people’s LinkedIn profiles, court rules
Company called HiQ Labs wins court OK to scrape profiles on LinkedIn for data about people’s lives and connections. LinkedIn […]
New Calculation Model for Data Protection Fines in Germany
In June, the conference of the German Data Protection Authorities (Datenschutzkonferenz) approved a concept for the calculation of GDPR fines. […]
Facebook confirms 419m phone numbers exposed in latest privacy lapse
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ phone numbers were exposed in an open online database, the company confirmed Wednesday. More […]
UK Court Dismisses Challenge to Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology
On September 4, 2019, the High Court of England and Wales dismissed a challenge to South Wales Police’s use of […]
Top European Court to Review National Data Retention Laws
The Court of Justice for the European Union will hear challenges to the data retention laws of the UK, Belgium, […]
Bavarian DPA investigates Blood Donation Service for website tracking
The Bavarian Data Protection Authority (BayLDA) is currently scrutinising the website of the blood donation service of the Bavarian Red […]
Amazon testing payment system that uses hands as ID
Forget the titanium Apple Card — Amazon’s latest payment method uses flesh and blood. The e-tailing giant’s engineers are quietly […]
Google is open-sourcing a tool for data scientists to help protect private information
Google is open-sourcing its so-called differential privacy library, an internal tool the company uses to securely draw insights from datasets […]
Chinese shoppers adopt facial payments in cashless drive
China’s shoppers are increasingly purchasing goods with just a turn of their heads as the country embraces facial payment technology. […]
Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead
In the past few years, a technique called browser fingerprinting has received a lot of attention because of the risks […]