"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Carrefour France and Carrefour Banque, affiliates of the French retail group, the Carrefour Group where fined €3.05 million by the French Data Protection Agency for GDPR violations following complaints from…
Yoav Aviram3 December 2020