The Guardian view on digital giants: they farm us for the data
An astonishing project is under way to build a “digital time machine” that will show us in fine detail the […]
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Will The Consent Collected Before GDPR Still Be Valid?
The “Guide on the Application of the European Personal Data Protection Regulation” published by the Italian DPA states, in the […]
Study Finds Students Will Give Up Their Friend’s Privacy for Free Pizza
98 percent of students gave away their friend’s email address for pizza, which is pretty astounding, because it’s just pizza. […]
Yellow Printer Dots Reveal Identity of NSA Leaker
Ars Technica reported (thanks Dave Ries) last week on how NSA leaker Leigh Winner was identified. When reporters at The […]
Court Rules Secret Scoring of Teachers Unconstitutional
A federal district court has held that firing public school teachers based on the results of a secret algorithm is […]
Social media intelligence and profiling in the insurance industry…
…it’s not only the price you pay that will be affected. Source: Social media intelligence and profiling in the insurance […]
Is “I forget” a valid defense when court orders demand a smartphone password?
The answer seems to be yes and no. But one suspect on Tuesday gets 180 days jail. Source: Is “I […]
Identity theft can be thwarted by artificial intelligence analysis of a user’s mouse movements
A machine-learning algorithm could spot liars in 95% of cases. Source: Identity theft can be thwarted by artificial intelligence analysis […]
How Big Data Mines Personal Info to Craft Fake News and Manipulate Voters
Political operatives used fake news, Big Data and Facebook to suppress the vote and rile up racists in 2016. It’s […]
ING Belgium Sees Opportunities for ‘Secret’ Sharing of Encrypted Data
Johan Smessaert, head of IT platform services at ING Belgium, tells CIO Journal that the technology would give the bank […]
Body cameras are key for police accountability. We can’t let them erode privacy rights.
Police body cameras give possibility to better investigate police incidents. However, they pose also privacy issues. Source: Body cameras are […]
EU could give police direct access to cloud data in wake of terror attacks
Described as an ‘extraordinary measure for extraordinary threats’, direct data access is one of three proposals to speed up investigations. […]