January 16, 2020

Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think

Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it's not just dating apps that are doing it...

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December 13, 2019

Weak account checks earn company $10.5 million privacy fine

The telecomms company violates the EU's GDPR by allegedly failing to fully authenticate people phoning up to access their accounts.

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December 02, 2019

Convicted murderer wins ‘right to be forgotten’ case

Google must remove details of a convicted murderer from its search results in Europe following a German court ruling, it emerged last week.

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November 29, 2019

Pressure mounts for federal privacy law with second bill

Pressure is gathering for a federal privacy law in the US with the introduction of a second bill that would protect consumer data.

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November 27, 2019

EU raises eyebrows at possible US encryption ban

EU officials have warned that they may not take kindly to a US encryption ban or insertion of crypto backdoor technology.

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November 13, 2019

Microsoft says it will honor California’s new privacy law across US

Microsoft said CCPA is good news, given the failure of Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy protection law at the federal level.

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October 08, 2019

Nationwide facial recognition ID program underway in France

It's coming next month, in spite of a lawsuit and the data regulator's protests about lack of consent, data security and privacy.

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October 03, 2019

No federal privacy law will make it in the US this year, sources say

Without one, the companies that collect our data will likely face compliance with California's take-no-prisoners law, in effect 1 January 2020.

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September 19, 2019

Researchers find 737 million medical images exposed on the internet

Of the 2,300 archiving systems looked at, 590 were accessible from the internet, exposing 24 million medical records from 52 countries.

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