Though non-binding, the opinion hands a victory to digital rights groups, parents and teachers’ unions that opposed the experiment. […]
French digital rights group La Quadrature du Net, which led the charge against the high school trials…
Tag: Privacy – Personal Data
France is poised to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to give citizens a secure digital identity — whether they want it or not. […]
“The government wants to funnel people to use Alicem…
European Digital Rights (EDRi), together with 45 NGOs, academics and companies across 15 countries, has sent an open letter to European policymakers and regulators, warning about widespread and potentially growing use of deep packet inspection…
Today 45 NGOs, Academics and Companies from 15 countries released an open letter outlining the dangers of the wide-spread use of privacy invasive Deep Packet Inspection technology in the European Union. The letter is referencing…
The Atlantic podcast Crazy/Genius returns to explain how privacy became the most important idea on the internet—and why it’s still so confusing. […]
“I think privacy is the wrong way to describe the issue we face in…
What isn’t obvious on Ever’s website or app — except for a brief reference that was added to the privacy policy after NBC News reached out to the company in April — is that the photos people…
EU Parliament green-lights the creation of the Common Identity Repository (CIR), a gigantic biometrics database. […]
Ever since plans to create this shared biometrics database have been made public last year, privacy advocates have criticized the EU,…
CNIL agrees with complaints brought by activists: user consent is insufficient.
Google has been fined €50 million (~$57 million) by French regulators, the first major penalty under a sweeping new European Union privacy law known as…
Patents recently issued to Google provide a window into their development activities. While it’s no guarantee of a future product, it is a sure indication of what’s of interest to them. What we’ve given up…
Microsoft broke Euro privacy rules by carrying out the “large scale and covert” gathering of private data through its Office apps.
That’s according to a report out this month [PDF] that was commissioned by the Dutch…