Facebook Faces 7 Data Probes from Irish Watchdog
Facebook Inc. faces seven separate data-protection probes in Ireland as the country’s privacy regulator looks to take advantage of new […]
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Russia accuses social media giants of flouting data breach laws
The Russian communication watchdog, Roskomnadzor, has begun legal proceedings against Facebook and Twitter for an apparent breach of data laws. […]
Google Screenwise: An Unwise Trade of All Your Privacy for Cash
Imagine this: an enormous tech company is tracking what you do on your phone, even when you’re not using any […]
Fake DSARs: They’re a thing?
Privacy professionals charged with monitoring DSAR compliance report seeing some suspicious trends regarding such requests, some seemingly with nefarious motives. […]
Does anonymization or de-identification require consent under the GDPR?
Data de-identification has many benefits in the context of the EU General Data Protection Regulation . One of the recurring […]
GDPR in Numbers
Statistics collected from 12 EU countries show that 8 months into the GDPR, the new data protection law is alive […]
“No Deal” Brexit May Bring Practical Problems for Privacy and Data Protection
With a “No Deal” Brexit seeming more likely than ever after the UK Parliament voted down a proposed deal in […]
Learning from Google’s record-setting GDPR fine
With the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) disclosing on January 21 st a 50 million euro fine against Google LLC, […]
What happens to ePrivacy under the Romanian presidency?
What chance does the ePrivacy Regulation have of getting anywhere during the first half of this year? As the first […]
IBM releases diverse dataset to fight facial recognition bias
The tech giant released a trove of data containing 1 million images of faces taken from a Flickr dataset with […]
Apple cracks down on Facebook after it paid teens for access to their data
Facebook paid users as young as 13 to install an app that gave the company access to everything their phone […]
EU considers the possibility of legislating for Artificial Intelligence
Karolina Mojzesowicz, Deputy Head, Data Protection Unit, the European Commission, said that the EU Commission is now considering whether additional […]