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Welcoming Texas and Oregon To Your Digital Rights

We are pleased to welcome Texas and Oregon to YDR. The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) and the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OPCA) took effect on July 1st,…

Yoav Aviram5 July 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Firefox’s new protection against fingerprinting

Firefox already has an Enhanced Tracking Protection feature that blocks a list of known "fingerprinters" when your privacy settings are set to Standard (the default) or Strict. Fingerprinting Protection is…

Yoav Aviram23 May 2022

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Privacy International: EU supports surveillance in non-member countries

Privacy International and 13 other civil society organizations have obtained hundreds of official EU documents which show: How police and security agencies in Africa and the Balkans are trained with the…

Yoav Aviram8 December 2020

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Geekwire: Microsoft will remove user names from ‘Productivity Score’

In late October Microsoft released a new “Productivity Score” feature as part of Microsoft 365. The feature enabled full workplace surveillance by letting managers see individual user data by default.…

Yoav Aviram3 December 2020

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Seattle Times: Washington needs strong privacy law

The Seattle Times reports on Seattle's new draft privacy act which is due to get enacted in early 2021. Ironically, it seems state senator Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, who is championing…

Yoav Aviram3 December 2020

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