data

May 21, 2021

Google to give people more power over their personal data

New privacy controls include allowing people to quickly delete the last 15 minutes of their search history and more reminders about location tracking.

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May 18, 2021

Pentagon Surveilling Americans Without a Warrant, Senator Reveals

A letter obtained by Motherboard discusses internet browsing, location, and other forms of data.

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May 18, 2021

Businesses fall into transatlantic privacy hole

Companies have begun to face costly problems abroad while they wait a new privacy deal.

May 14, 2021

Germany Halts Facebook Sharing WhatsApp Data

A German regulator has slapped a three-month ban on Facebook collecting user data from WhatsApp accounts and referred the case to an EU watchdog, citing concerns about election integrity.

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May 14, 2021

Negotiations fail, threat actors dump more data from Metropolitan Police D.C.

Hackers stole more than 250 GB of data from Metropolitan Police D.C. Now they are threating to dump the data in public as negotiations fail.

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May 12, 2021

Japan’s Rikunabi Scandal Shows The Dangers of Privacy Law Loopholes

Ddata privacy scandal in Japan involving Rikunabi—a major job-seeking platform that calculated and sold companies algorithmic scores which predicted how likely individual job applicants would decline a job offer—has underscored how users’ behavioral data can be used against their best interests.

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May 11, 2021

Trump Justice Department seized journalists’ phone records

The action grew out of a leak investigation surrounding reporting on Russia’s role in the 2016 election.

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May 11, 2021

Margrethe Vestager explains the EU’s position in the global battle for data

Margrethe Vestager, the Executive Vice President of the European Commission, responsible for all things digital, gives us her insight into global data, data sharing, big tech, the Data Governance Act and the reality of policy and implementation.