Some clarification for EU data transfers on the horizon
The European Commission’s Bruno Gencarelli offers some clarity and updates on the state of EU data transfers at the IAPP Data Protection Congress 2021.
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Bitcoin’s big code upgrade improves privacy and security
The update improves both privacy and security for complicated transactions through new signatures that make them look like any other exchange.
U.S. Treasury Is Buying Private App Data to Target People
The department will use controversial firm Babel Street to hunt for tax and sanctions dodgers, raising constitutional concerns.
Facebook Plans to Shut Down Its Facial Recognition System
Saying it wants “to find the right balance” with the technology, the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users.
Facebook sues Ukrainian who scraped the data of 178 million users
Facebook has filed a lawsuit on Friday against a Ukrainian national for allegedly scraping its website and selling the personal data of more than 178 million users on an underground cybercrime forum.
EU could ban anonymous registration of domain data
In a bid to boost security and anti-privacy efforts, the EU is planning to ban anonymous registration of domain data.
Amazon Fights Record €746 Million EU Data-Protection Fine
Amazon.com Inc. appealed a record 746 million-euro ($865 million) penalty for allegedly violating the European Union’s tough data-protection rules
Belgian Government Wants To Add Encryption Backdoors To Its Already-Terrible Data Retention Law
Legislators want a form of encryption that can be stripped away whenever the government wants access to communications. It means backdoor.
French privacy watchdog takes action on government fingerprint database issues
CNIL has decided to call the Ministry of the Interior to order after observing several failures in the proper maintenance of the automated fingerprint file.
Over 1.5 billion Facebook users’ personal data found for sale on hacker forum
Unrelated to other recent problems Facebook has had, this particular batch of data was scraped from profiles, meaning it’s publicly available knowledge. That doesn’t stop it from being dangerous.
Hundreds of professional footballers threaten legal action over use of data
Project Red Card is led by the former Cardiff manager Russell Slade and the issue arises over allegedly unlawful use of players’ statistics.
The Netherlands publishes non-paper on upcoming Data Act
The Hague considers it an urgent need to ensure that individuals and smaller companies have access to and can capitalise on their data.