Yoav Aviram, Author at Conscious Digital

Welcoming Utah To Your Digital Rights

We are pleased to welcome the state of Utah to YDR. The Utah Consumer Privacy Act, or UCPA for short, took effect on January 1st, 2024, and was immediately available…

Yoav Aviram1 January 2024

Opinion

Location Data IS Personally Identifiable Information

I want to debunk the myth that location data can be anonymized. This is false in most practical circumstances where the movement of individuals is concerned, and any statement to…

Yoav Aviram16 May 2023

Featured Opinion

The NSA’s Large Language Models

What does a ChatGPT developed by a well-funded intelligence agency such as the NSA look like, and what can it be used for?

Yoav Aviram7 March 2023

Privacy News

France Fines Clearview AI Maximum Possible For GDPR Breaches

"Clearview AI had two months to comply with the injunctions formulated in the formal notice and to justify them to the CNIL. However, it did not provide any response to…

Yoav Aviram29 October 2022

Advice

A new Google search tool let’s you remove results containing your personal information

Google is rolling out a new “Results about you” tool. With this feature, you can request the removal of individual search results that contain your personal phone number, home address…

Yoav Aviram26 October 2022

Privacy News

Toyota Suffered a Data Breach by Accidentally Exposing A Secret Key Publicly On GitHub

On October 7th, Toyota revealed a partial copy of their T-Connect source code had been accidentally exposed for 5 years, including access to data for over 290,000 customers. Read more

Yoav Aviram14 October 2022

Privacy News

No place for privacy in India as government withdraws Personal Data Protection Bill – Access Now

Access Now reporting on how the Indian data protection law was curtailed this week after 3 years of deliberations: "This decision, and the government’s consistent failure to advance a meaningful,…

Yoav Aviram4 August 2022

Privacy News

Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts

9to5mac reports about a twitter data breach which has allowed an attacker to get access to the contact details of 5.4M accounts. Twitter has confirmed the security vulnerability which allowed…

Yoav Aviram24 July 2022

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Product News

Just launched: support for Brazil’s data protection law, the LGPD

We are proud to welcome all Brazilians to YourDigitalRights.org! Our privacy platform now supports Brazil's data protection law, the LGPD. That's another 215 million people who can easily get their…

Yoav Aviram5 June 2022