Congress Can Crack Down On Tech Companies, But It Can’t Do Much To Their Algorithms
Within an hour of the House Intelligence Committee’s Wednesday hearing with Facebook, Google, and Twitter, Rep. Adam Schiff, the committee’s […]
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New York City Takes on Algorithmic Discrimination
Invisible algorithms increasingly shape the world we live in, and not always for the better. Unfortunately, few mechanisms are in […]
Trump signs into law U.S. government ban on Kaspersky Lab software
President Donald Trump signed into law on Tuesday legislation that bans the use of Kaspersky Lab within the U.S. government, […]
Surveillance Cameras Made by China Are Hanging All Over the U.S.
Hikvision, a company 42%-owned by the Chinese government, sold devices that monitor U.S. Army base and Memphis streets. That has […]
Article 29 Working Party Sets Deadline to Address Privacy Shield Concerns
Hot on the heels of the European Commission’s official review of the functioning of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, the […]
Caught between Sanctions and Data Protection— What is a Company to Do?
Many companies have found themselves in an awkward position with respect to compliance with trade sanctions and data protection legislation. […]
5 Russian-Made Surveillance Technologies Used in the West
Privacy activists are battling to stop Western surveillance technology from filtering out to oppressive regimes. But Russia is also hard […]
EU to intervene in Microsoft’s U.S. Supreme Court data protection case
The European Union is to make a submission to the U.S. Supreme Court in its hearing of the U.S. Department […]
Working Party Releases Opinion on Joint Review of EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
As we previously reported, this October, the EU Commission released its report and accompanying working document on the first annual […]
What A29WP requires for Privacy Shield and when they want it?
At its 113th plenary meeting held on Nov. 28, 2017, in Brussels, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party adopted […]
Drone Maker D.J.I. May Be Sending Data to China
A memo from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau says the firm’s commercial products may be sending sensitive information about […]
Data breach law proposed by US Senate members
The new bill, called the Data Security and Breach Notification Act, was introduced in the wake of reports that Uber […]