Rep. Sol Aragones revealed last Thursday that it was decided upon that political, religious and “philosophical” affiliations had to be removed from the bicameral conference report on the national identification system. Aragones, a co-author of the measure, said that they wanted to require only the basic...
Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND won a lawsuit this week that will allow it to continue spying on De-Cix in Frankfurt, the world’s biggest internet hub. De-Cix previously sued the Bundesnachrichtendienst in 2016 where it accused the service of scooping too much data...
California district judge James Donato shot down Facebook’s delaying tactics in its facial recognition class action suit, saying the case was "ripe for trial." Facebook asked the District Court for a complete stay of the case, saying that it was costing the company and damaging its...
It was reported this week that Mozilla developers had made tracking protection easier to discover and use on Firefox Nightly. The privacy feature, which was once tucked away in the preference submenu, prevents website publishers and advertisers from running software that follows the user’s online...
A new poll suggested that sales of smart speakers in Europe will be lower compared to the US since most Europeans are far more worried about privacy and the safety of their personal data and less fond of gadgets in general. The sales data collected by...
According to a recent joint-survey by SAP Hybris and the CMO Council, barely more than half of marketers in the Asia-Pacific region had a plan in place to comply with GDPR, with some still trying to implement changes. SAP’s Patrick Salyer says that this is...
New Zealand Privacy Commissioner John Edwards mentioned this week that his office is seeking new enforcement provisions to be able to regulate tech giant Facebook which is currently dealing with a number of investigations around the world over its handling of personal data. Edwards is set...
A request by the ICANN, the owner of WHOIS, for a delay to comply with the GDPR had reportedly been turned down this week. The site was forced to remove information such as contact names, email addresses, and phone numbers that journalists and police often...
Privacy campaigners recently took aim at Facebook once more, accusing the social network of using a trick to make users agree to its new privacy policy. Considered to be Facebook’s nemesis, activist Max Schrems launched another complaint against the company which says that the two...
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel took some shots at Facebook this week when he said in his speech at Recode’s Code Conference that the social network should also copy Snap’s data protection practices. Spiegel has been a longtime critic of Facebook and has been accusing the company...