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"Pay or Okay" - the beginning of the end?

"Pay or Okay" - the beginning of the end? "PUR Abo" on derStandard.at illegal according to Austrian DPA https://noyb.eu/en/pay-or-okay-beginning-end

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Meta (Facebook, Instagram) switching to "Legitimate Interest" for Ads

Meta (Facebook, Instagram) switching to "Legitimate Interest" for Ads After noyb complaints, Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is switching form an illegal contract to equally illegal "legitimate interests" for advertisement. noyb will take imminent action. https://noyb.eu/en/meta-facebook-instagram-switching-legitimate-interest-ads

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Meta plans EU targeted advertising opt-outs

The Wall Street Journal reports Meta intends to offer EU users the option to opt out of data processing practices for targeted advertising. The change will be exclusive to EU Facebook and Instagram users as Meta works to meet a compliance order from Ireland's Data Protection Commission concerning legal bases

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Mapping the impact of biometric surveillance and social media platforms on civic space

The European Center for Not-for-Profit Law is concerned about safeguarding human rights and limiting the negative impacts of security technology on civil society. Therefore, they launched a report with partners as a step to investigate how technologies introduced in the name of security and counter-terrorism will impact civil society. https:

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Majority of credit bureau "CRIF" database illegal

Majority of credit bureau "CRIF" database illegal Decision by Austrian DPA in noyb case: Data of millions of Austrians have to be deleted https://noyb.eu/en/majority-credit-bureau-crif-database-illegal

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ENISA Report on Cybersecurity of Artificial Intelligence warns on the lack of standardization on AI

ENISA published a report that addresses standards of cybersecurity for artificial intelligence, and their relevance to ensure compliance with the upcoming EU AI Act. The increasing prominence of artificial intelligence (AI) in various industries has necessitated the establishment of comprehensive standards for cybersecurity. In this context, ENISA published a report

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NOYB alleges German political parties 'microtargeted' voters on Facebook

European privacy rights group NOYB lodged a complaint with the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information alleging multiple German political parties engaged in microtargeting of voters on Facebook during the 2021 campaign, Euractiv reports. While the EU General Data Protection Regulation does not expressly ban "microtargeting," it

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Google seeks dismissal of UK lawsuit alleging it mishandled 1.6M patient records

Google seeks the dismissal of a U.K. lawsuit in London's High Court alleging it mishandled the medical records of 1.6 million patients, Reuters reports. In 2015, the Royal Free London National Health Service Trust transferred patient records to Google-owned artificial intelligence firm DeepMind Technologies, which was developing an

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Political microtargeting on Facebook: an election promise just for you!

Political microtargeting on Facebook: an election promise just for you! noyb filed a series of complaints against several German political parties. The parties had used microtargeting on Facebook during the 2021 federal election and targeted potential voters. https://noyb.eu/en/political-microtargeting-facebook-election-promise-just-you

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Cell phone not personal enough for GDPR protection?!

Cell phone not personal enough for GDPR protection?! Contradictory Decision: Traffic and location data are particularly sensitive data that require additional protection, at the same time they are not personal data at all?! https://noyb.eu/en/cell-phone-not-personal-enough-gdpr-protection

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Germany's BfDI releases 2022 activity report

Germany's Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information published its 2022 activity report. The BfDI highlighted its enforcement work and the various data protection topics tackled, but noted its work showed "room for improvement in many laws and projects." Commissioner Ulrich Kelber said, "data protection can be adapted

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Austrian DSB: Meta Tracking Tools Illegal

Austrian DSB: Meta Tracking Tools Illegal Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates the GDPR and the so-called “Schrems II” decision on transatlantic data flows. https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-meta-tracking-tools-illegal

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Facial recognition tool allegedly scraped images of deceased persons to identify living relatives

PimEyes, a tool purporting to help people track their web presence, is accused of scraping images of deceased persons to populate its database, Wired reports. A user, whose nonconsensual images were previously scraped into PimEyes' facial recognition database, found images of her deceased relatives, which she claimed were used to

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Denmark's welfare auditing system under scrutiny by privacy advocates

Denmark has built one of the most comprehensive machine learning-powered welfare auditing systems in the world, Wired reports. In a joint investigation with Lighthouse Reports, the publications discovered through public records requests that, to prevent fraud, Denmark’s Public Benefits Administration has access to nine state databases containing citizens’ personal

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106th FD Column: Don't let data watchdogs stretch the GDPR

This column appears in an abridged version in Het Financieele Dagblad of Feb. 17, 2023. Follow this link for my earlier FD columns. Regulators conjure up all kinds of new criteria that are not in the detailed privacy law GDPR. According to Axel Arnbak, they should not be allowed to

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Suspicion Machines

Unprecedented experiment on welfare surveillance algorithm reveals discriminationGovernments all over the world are experimenting with predictive algorithms in ways that are largely invisible to the public. What limited reporting there has been on this topic has largely focused on predictive policing and risk assessments in criminal justice systems. But there

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Health Care Bias Is Dangerous. But So Are ‘Fairness’ Algorithms

The article discusses the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve access to high-quality healthcare, especially for historically marginalized populations. However, the authors caution that racially biased medical devices can cause delayed treatment, and cancer detection technologies are known to be less accurate for people with darker skin tones. The

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Ethiopia digital ID prompts fears of ethnic profiling

The Ethiopian government is introducing a national biometric digital ID system, funded by the World Bank, with the aim of registering all eligible adults by 2025. However, some Tigrayans fear that the system will be used to discriminate against them, particularly during the ongoing conflict between the government forces and

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ChatGPT, Galactica, and the Progress Trap

When large language models fall short, the consequences can be serious. Why is it so hard to acknowledge that? By Abeba Birhane and Deborah Raji for WIRED on December 9, 2022 https://www.wired.com/story/large-language-models-critique/

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The Algorithm Addiction

Mass profiling system SyRI resurfaces in the Netherlands despite ban The Netherlands has been among a growing club of nations experimenting with algorithms in pursuit of efficiencies in detecting welfare fraud. It has also been among those countries accused of pushing a “digital dystopia” since losing a landmark human rights

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This Surveillance Artist Knows How You Got That Perfect Instagram Photo

Mr. Depoorter realized that he could come up with an automated way to combine these publicly available cameras with the photos that people had posted on Instagram. So, over a two-week period, he collected EarthCam footage broadcast online from Times Square in New York, Wrigley Field in Chicago and the

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EU-US Privacy Framework needs a long hard look

The Commission has endorsed enthusiastically a recent US order to implement a new framework to protect the privacy of personal data shared between the US and Europe. Dick Roche begs to differ. https://iapp.org/news/a/the-redress-mechanism-in-the-privacy-shield-successor-on-the-independence-and-effective-powers-of-the-dprc/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/opinion/eu-us-privacy-framework-needs-a-long-hard-look/

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Privacy activists warn against removing compensation for data protection breaches

The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a non-binding opinion, which privacy advocates fear could further limit users’ possibilities to enforce their privacy rights under the GDPR. According to the opinion delivered last week, Europeans would hardly get compensated if their rights are

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Analysis: DPC’s Meta fine heralds a new frontier in children’s privacy

The Irish Data Protection Commission’s 405 million euro fine against Meta represents a “watershed moment” in EU General Data Protection Regulation enforcement, write Bird & Bird’s Head of Privacy and Data Protection, Ireland, Anna Morgan and Associate Heather Catchpole. Morgan and Catchpole said the penalty represents “a critical staging

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How anyone can track your car using only your license plate

Registering the target's license plate in parking apps and enabling license plate recognition (ANPR). I could add as many plates as I wanted. Doesn't matter if they already used parking apps: I could claim their plate as if it were my own https://twitter.com/intidc/status/1574263808607997953