Germany’s top court accepts complaint against country’s data retention regime
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has accepted a complaint filed by the activist group Digital Courage and the Working Group against […]
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Is Artificial Intelligence the Ultimate Test for Privacy?
Nothing challenges the effectiveness of data protection law like technological innovation. You think you have cracked a technology neutral framework […]
The FTC-Venmo Privacy Settlement is All About Design
Paypal has settled charges from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that stated its popular money transferring app, Venmo, misled customers […]
GDPR: Regulatory compliance is just the beginning
We have just a few months until the GDPR hits. The road map has now become a very short sprint. […]
Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology
The program began in 2012 as a partnership between New Orleans Police and Palantir Technologies, a data-mining firm founded with […]
Additional 2.4 million Equifax consumers were affected by the cyber attack
Equifax disclosed earlier on Thursday that it had discovered an additional 2.4 million U.S. consumers were affected by the cyber […]
‘Living laboratories’: the Dutch cities amassing data on oblivious residents
In Eindhoven, Utrecht and Assen smart projects are tackling everything from traffic to street crime. But with privacy laws being […]
Blockchain technology is on a collision course with EU privacy law
Those who have heard of “blockchain” technology generally know it as the underpinning of the Bitcoin virtual currency, but there […]
What the GDPR will mean for companies tracking location
The tracking of people’s location is becoming an increasingly useful tool for many businesses, whether they want to use it […]
Vodafone to track users in Ghana to halt spread of epidemics
Vodafone is partnering with the government of Ghana to share the movements of its customers to help track and contain […]
Malicious botnets responsible for 40% of global login attempts
In the fourth quarter of 2017, a spike in the use of botnets for credential abuse was noted as 7.3 […]
US Supreme Court hears arguments in United States v. Microsoft
Today, the United States Supreme Court hears arguments in a case with major implications for the privacy profession. The dispute […]