Website privacy options aren’t much of a choice since they’re hard to find and use
Many sites offer the ability to ‘opt out’ of targeted advertisements, but doing so isn’t easy. Simplifying and standardizing opt-outs […]
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The Risks Of Law Enforcement Use Of Facial Recognition Software
Facial recognition is truly a one-of-a-kind technology — and we should treat it as such. Our faces are central to […]
Inherently identifiable: Is it possible to anonymize health and genetic data?
Nearly 25 million people have taken an at-home DNA testing kit and shared that data with one of four ancestry […]
Consumer Data Privacy Rights: Emerging Tech Blurs Lines
Data privacy is a fundamental right for Americans – but new emerging technologies like drone, IoT and facial recognition are […]
UK’s DPA: police should think over live facial recognition technology
How far should we, as a society, consent to police forces reducing our privacy in order to keep us safe? […]
EDPB Issues Final Guidelines on ‘Necessary for the Performance of a Contract’ Legal Basis
The European Data Protection Board has issued issued final guidelines on the “necessary for the performance of a contract” legal […]
EBF publishes proposals on Cyber incident reporting
In order to ensure that financial institutions are able to quickly and effectively report cyber incidents without at the same […]
Tech firms know more about us than any spy agency says ex-GCHQ chief
Big internet firms know more about the lives of private individuals than any intelligence agency ever has and that is […]
Andrew Yang proposes that your digital data be considered personal property
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang published his latest policy proposal: to treat data as a property right. Announcing […]
Design considerations for building privacy-protecting analytics services
If data is the new oil, then analytics are the new refinery without which any modern business is unable to […]
10 reasons why the GDPR is the opposite of a ‘notice and consent’ type of law
A ‘notice and consent’ privacy law puts the entire burden of privacy protection on the person and then it doesn’t […]
EDPS publishes opinion on communication data as personal data
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published, on 11 September 2019, the pleading notes before the Court of Justice of […]