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Court Rules ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Can Only Apply in The EU

The Right to Be Forgotten became a ruling in 2014 and allows the users to demand search engines certain information about them...

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Misc

France Plans To Stop Libra Cryptocurrency From Entering Europe

French Finance Minister Bruno La Maire has announced that the French government does not have any plans to allow Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency...

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Security

EU Considering Laws On Facial Recognition

According some some senior EU officials who have talked with the Financial Times, the European Commission is considering applying more strict rules...

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Security

Luxembourg Watchdog Is Looking Into Amazon Alexa’s Recordings

Privacy concerns regarding the use of manual human reviews of Alexa AI voice assistant recordings were raised recently by Amazon’s lead data...

huawei hongmeng os might launch this year

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Phones

Huawei Might Launch A Hongmeng OS-Driven Smartphone This Year

We could find out very soon if Huawei’s upcoming operating system, Hongmeng, will be on par with Android, according to a Chinese-run...

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Security

German Regulators Temporarily Ban Google From Listening to Voice Recordings

On Thursday, Hamburg’s Data Protection Authority issued a statement saying it has banned Google from listening to conversations from people using its...

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Security

Google Docs, Office 365 and iWork Banned in Some German Schools

A number of schools in Germany have decided to ban the use of Office 365 Google Docs and Apple’s iWork on school...

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Security

British Airways Faces Record £183m Fine

The airline British Airways is targeted by the UK’s data watchdog which plans to fine the company £183 million over last year’s...

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Misc

TikTok Under Investigation In The U.K Over Child Privacy

TikTok, a popular video-sharing app, which you might remember under its previous name, Musical.ly, has agreed back in February, to pay a...

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Security

UK’s Intrusive Use of Facial Recognition to Be Judged in Court

In the United Kingdom, the legal battle over the way police uses face recognition has officially begun. Ed Bridges is claiming that...

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Security

Facebook Slammed with 3 Privacy Investigations In One Day

For the social media giant, the past year has been a whirlwind of public shaming, data privacy scandals, and regulatory investigations. Now,...

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Misc

Facebook Will Tell You Exactly Who Uploaded Your Info for Targeted Ads

You are surely familiar with Facebook’s “why am I seeing this ad?” button that appears whenever an ad pops up on your...

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Security

France Slams Google with $57 Million GDPR Fine for Tracking Users

Months after the groundbreaking user privacy regulation GDPR went into effect across Europe, Google gets its first massive fine. The French watchdog...