NSA Triples Collection of Data From U.S. Phone Companies
The National Security Agency collected last year more than 534 million or three times the phone and text message records […]
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What Zuckerberg Forgot To Mention… Profiling
This is why we need real data protection – not just better privacy settings! Like many Facebook users around the […]
EU Member States plan to ignore EU Court data retention rulings
EU Member States are exploring all possible options to keep, and in fact expand, their current data retention regimes. The […]
Facebook to Reorganize After Scrutiny Over Data Privacy
The social network overhauled itself into three new divisions and shuffled the leadership of its key businesses in one of […]
Facebook fined $33 million for failing to provide user data to Brazil court
The judge fined Facebook for failing to give access in 2016 to WhatsApp messages exchanged by individuals under investigation for […]
Sophisticated Android malware tracks all your phone activities
An advanced type of malware can spy on nearly every Android smartphone function and steal passwords, photos, video, screenshots and […]
Questions We Need To Be Asking Before Deciding an Algorithm is the Answer
Across the globe, algorithms are quietly but increasingly being relied upon to make important decisions that impact our lives. This […]
Pseudonymised data in scope of portability rules
Personal data that has been subjected to pseudonymisation will be in scope of new data portability rules, the UK’s data […]
Data Surveillance, Monitoring, and Spying
Much of the attention has been on how government collects data or uses surveillance, though there are also significant concerns […]
Extent of how Canadians’ online data used ‘very surprising,’ MP says
A member of the parliament’s standing committee on access to information, privacy and ethics says he and his colleagues “didn’t […]
NSA Spied On 534 Million US Calls In 2017
The NSA collected “call detail records” from over 500 million Americans’ phone calls in 2017, over three times the number […]
Ethically Scraping and Accessing Data: Governments Desperately Seeking Data
As cities get smarter, their appetite and access to information is also increasing. The rise of data-generating technologies has given […]