Big privacy and data security concerns as India forces coronavirus tracing app on millions
Privacy and legal experts raise red flags as many are forced to download an app one politician calls a “sophisticated […]
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No need to mourn the death of the third-party cookie
Amid the whirlwinds of the industry’s response, it’s become abundantly clear that the demise of the cookie is probably a […]
NHS contact-tracing app must not be released to public without privacy protections, MPs say
The NHS contact-tracing app must not be released in its current form without increased privacy and data protections, a parliamentary […]
UK racing to improve contact-tracing app’s privacy safeguards
NHS officials are racing to introduce greater privacy safeguards for the contact-tracing app at the centre of the government’s lockdown […]
‘No data, security breach’: Aarogya Setu says after hacker claims ‘privacy of 90 million Indians at stake’
Aarogya Setu was alerted “by an ethical hacker of a potential security issue in the app”, which they discussed with […]
Notorious Spyware Vendor Pushes COVID-19 Tracking Solution
A notorious spyware firm currently defending in a lawsuit on spying on WhatsApp users is marketing its COVID-19 tracking solution […]
Lawful Interception Market worth $8.8 billion by 2025
According to report “Lawful Interception Market″, lawful interception market size is projected to grow from USD 3.6 billion in 2020 to […]
You can have privacy and fight Covid-19
You don’t have to give up privacy in fight against Covid, says Leonardo Cervera Navas, Director European Data Protection Supervisor, […]
Privacy watchdog approves French Covid-19 contact tracing app
France’s privacy watchdog CNIL on April 26 gave a conditional green light to a government-backed scheme to monitor people infected […]
COVID-19 contact tracing apps being deployed around the world
As countries begin to lift lockdowns from COVID-19, they are relying on contact tracing apps to identify and break the […]
Germany switches sides in privacy contact tracing solution backing Apple and Google
Germany appears to have undertaken a volte-face in the approach it takes to combine privacy and contact tracing, supporting an […]
Coronavirus didn’t kill our privacy — it just exposed the corpse
In most countries only minor amendments of the laws sufficed to introduce Covid-19 surveillance, which normally would be an eye […]