technology

January 27, 2022

Google proposes yet another interest-based ad system

Google introduces Topics, a categorization system for serving interest-based ads.

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January 22, 2022

CNIL sets parameters for processors’ reuse of data for product improvement

The guidance addresses question: when can a processor use personal data for purposes broader than just strictly providing services to the controller?

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January 19, 2022

Belgian Data Protection Authority Clarifies Key Rules on Biometric Data Processing

The recommendation provides guidance on how to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when processing biometric data.

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January 17, 2022

Privacy Problems of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing

Consumer Reports investigates the privacy problems of the direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies 23andMe, AncestryDNA, CircleDNA, GenoPalate, and MyHeritage.

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January 15, 2022

New W3C Group Aims To Dial Back The Rhetoric And Get Practical About Post-Cookie Tech

The new W3C Private Advertising Technology Community Group will incubate tech solutions that make online advertising work better without hurting privacy.

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January 15, 2022

Austrian Supervisory Authority Finds that Website Deploying Google Analytics Carried out Unlawful Transfers to the US

The Austrian DPA found that a website that implemented the free version of Google analytics violated the GDPR’s rules on international data transfers.

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January 11, 2022

Polish leader admits country bought powerful Israeli spyware

The leader of Poland’s ruling conservative party has acknowledged that the country bought advanced spyware from the Israeli surveillance software maker NSO Group.

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January 11, 2022

New privacy tool prevents data brokers from hoarding your data

Incogni helps prevent data brokers from storing and selling your personal information.

January 4, 2022

Google Patent Describes How Its Technology Authorizes Transfer Of Data Without Cookies

Google registered a patent for a web browser-based API that can control authorization of data transmissions and attribute a click withoutusing cookies.

January 1, 2022

Are Apple AirTags Being Used to Track People and Steal Cars?

Privacy groups sounded alarms about the coin-sized location-tracking devices when they were introduced. Now people are concerned those fears are being realized.

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December 27, 2021

DuckDuckGo is working on a privacy-focused desktop browser

The desktop app will work just like its mobile equivalent.

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December 20, 2021

The CNIL orders Clearview AI to stop reusing photographs available on the Internet

The CNIL chair has ordered the company to cease this illegal processing and to delete the data within two months.

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