GDPR News

April 12, 2022

EU Parliament Passes Privacy-Busting Crypto Rules Despite Industry Criticism

Lawmakers are set to end even the smallest anonymous crypto transactions, and plan measures that could see unregulated exchanges cut off.

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April 11, 2022

Apple, Meta Gave User Data to Hackers With Forged Legal Requests

Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials.

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April 11, 2022

China uses AI software to improve its surveillance capabilities

The technology improves on existing software, which simply collects data but leaves it to people to organize.

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April 11, 2022

France says ‘defence secrecy’ in police surveillance operations is constitutional

Constitutional court finds that invoking ‘defence secrecy’ to withhold information about the state hacking of EncroChat cryptophones is constitutional.

April 11, 2022

Apple iOS privacy clampdown ‘did little’ to reduce tracking

Double-standard rules have strengthened iGiant’s gatekeeper power.

April 11, 2022

Google Bans Dozens of Apps Containing Illicit Data-Harvesting Software

Everything from the weather to prayer apps were found to contain hidden code that could harvest a user’s location, email address, phone number and more.

April 1, 2022

Google is testing its new Privacy Sandbox settings in Chrome

Google is starting “origin trials” for its Chrome Privacy Sandbox, its new system for serving targeted ads without using cookies.

March 31, 2022

Google collects text and call data from Android users without consent

New research shows that the Google Messages and Phone apps have been collecting texts and calls data on Android without consent.

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March 30, 2022

DSA: France seeks compromise on targeted advertising, marketplaces, systemic risks

the French Presidency of the European Council proposed a compromise on some critical issues of the Digital Services Act (DSA) to the other member states.