FTC Order Will Ban Avast from Selling Browsing Data for Advertising Purposes, Require It to Pay $16.5 Million Over Charges the Firm Sold Browsing Data After Claiming Its Products Would Block Online Tracking | Federal Trade Commission
Ftc.gov · 2024-02-24 5 min The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider Avast to pay $16.5 million and prohibit the company from selling or licensing any web browsing data for advertising purposes to settle charges that the company and its subsidiaries sold such information to third parties

Privacy and AI #9
Linkedin.com · 2024-01-23 17 min In this edition of Privacy and AI:PRIVACY • EDPB bans Meta's processing PD for behavioral ads using legitimate interests or contract in the EU• Guidelines on the use of API• AI development and use - legal basis• EDPB Guidelines 2/2023 on Technical Scope of Art. 5(3) of e

Address trader sues German DPA to prevent noyb from accessing files
Noyb.eu · 2023-11-16 3 min Two years ago, noyb filed a complaint against the address trader Acxiom and the credit reference agency CRIF in Germany. Although there is strong evidence that the companies’ large-scale trade with people’s personal data violates the GDPR, the case is still pending with the B

Face search company Clearview AI overturns UK privacy fine
Bbc.com · 2023-10-19 2 min Image source, Getty ImagesBy Chris VallanceTechnology reporter, BBC NewsA company which enables its clients to search a database of billions of images scraped from the internet for matches to a particular face has won an appeal against the UK's privacy watchdog.Last year, Clearvi

Peeking into the Black Box AlgorithmWatch
Algorithmwatch.org · 2023-09-18 13 min Editor's note: This article was written for and first published in the "journalist" magazine.Single mothers were seen as a particularly high risk. In the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, an algorithm spent years combing through the data of welfare recipients to determine which of t

Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
Nytimes.com · 2023-08-12 7 min Porcha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wrongfully accused as a result of facial recognition technology.Porcha Woodruff was getting her two daughters ready for school when six police

Disney creates task force to explore AI and cut costs: Sources
Businesstoday.in · 2023-08-10 4 min Walt Disney has created a task force to study artificial intelligence and how it can be applied across the entertainment conglomerate, even as Hollywood writers and actors battle to limit the industry's exploitation of the technology.Launched earlier this year, before the Holly

From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You – The Markup
Themarkup.org · 2023-08-07 15 min Share This Article Copy Link RepublishWhat words would you use to describe yourself? You might say you’re a dog owner, a parent, that you like Taylor Swift, or that you’re into knitting. If you feel like sharing, you might say you have a sunny personality or that you follow

Katharina Koerner on LinkedIn: Privacy enhancing technologies Guide ICO, June 2023 | 38 comments
Linkedin.com · 2023-06-23 2 min Katharina KoernerAI for Humanity, Privacy Tech/PPML, Responsible AI, PETs, AI Governance, Security• Community advocate • Bridging the world between privacy, policy, and IT3d Today, Information Commissioner's Office published its Guidance on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for

Katharina Koerner on LinkedIn: Algorithms that remember
Linkedin.com · 2023-06-23 2 min Katharina KoernerAI for Humanity, Privacy Tech/PPML, Responsible AI, PETs, AI Governance, Security• Community advocate • Bridging the world between privacy, policy, and IT1h This paper from 2018 was ahead of its time by analyzing the highly up-to-date question of whether mach

The algorithm that blew up Italy’s school system  AlgorithmWatch
Algorithmwatch.org · 2023-06-15 4 min Italy has a problem with teachers. The number of teachers on short-term contracts across pre-school and high-school education has doubled in six years. Of a total of 907,929 teachers in the 2020/2021 school year, one in five had a short-term contract, up from one in nine in 2015.

EU data bill threatens to upend smart contracts in potential blow for DeFi
Dlnews.com · 2023-06-15 5 min Leaked draft of the legislation shows that policymakers are weighing measures that may require drastic design changes to smart contracts. Proposal may cloud EU’s regulatory clarity as US crypto founders eye the bloc amid crackdown. The latest draft of proposed legislation windi

"State of the art"
Teletrust.de · 2023-05-31 1 min When the German IT Security Act came into effect in July 2015, the IT Security Association Germany (TeleTrusT) launched the Task Force “State of the art” to provide interested parties with recommended actions and guidelines on the “state of the art” required for technical

Filippo Bianchini on LinkedIn: ASEAN MCCs and EU SCCs
Linkedin.com · 2023-05-30 1 min LinkedIn and 3rd parties use essential and non-essential cookies to provide, secure, analyze and improve our Services, and to show you relevant ads (including professional and job ads) on and off LinkedIn. Learn more in our Cookie Policy.Select Accept to consent or Reject to decl

ECJ Advocate General: GDPR fines against the controller for activities of its processor
Linkedin.com · 2023-05-13 3 min Another important GDPR interpretation from 4.5.2023 (the Data Protection Day at the ECJ, if you will) that has received little attention so far: in Case C-683/21, Advocate General Emiliou has delivered his Opinion on some relevant questions regarding the application of the GDPR.

Texts adopted Data Act Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Europarl.europa.eu · 2023-04-12 206 min THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 114 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission, After transmission of the draft legislative act

Friday Long Read: What To Do About AI
Wordfence.com · 2023-04-09 18 min Mark MaunderApril 7, 2023This is a Friday long-read, so grab a warm cup of something and kick back because we’re going to take our time on this. The world is about to profoundly change. I know you’re nervous – perhaps excited and optimistic, but if you’ve been paying att

Luis Alberto Montezuma on LinkedIn: k
Linkedin.com · 2023-03-26 < 1 min "Since the effectiveness of the Cybersecurity Law in 2017, there have been debates on what would constitute cross-border data transfers. Several previous draft regulations issued by the CAC tried to provide some clarifications, but those draft regulations were never finalize

DSB (Austria) 2022 0.726.643
Gdprhub.eu · 2023-03-17 5 min DSB - 2022-0.726.643 Authority: DSB (Austria) Jurisdiction: Austria Relevant Law: Article 5(2) GDPRArticle 28 GDPRArticle 29 GDPRArticle 44 GDPR Type: Complaint Outcome: Upheld Started: 18.08.2020 Decided: 06.03.2023 Published: Fine: n/a Parties: Meta Platforms Inc. National C

Digital Debrief – GA4 Automigration – What you NEED to know
Kristaseiden.com · 2023-03-02 8 min GA4 Automigration – What you NEED to know February 28, 2023 / Digital Analytics Google Analytics / No Comments Google is about to start auto migrating your Universal Analytics properties to GA4 for you BUT You actually DO NOT want to do this, for many many reasons.  Alread

VW WOULDN'T HELP FIND KIDNAPPED CHILD BECAUSE HIS MOTHER WASN'T PAYING FOR FIND MY CAR SUBSCRIPTION
Pluralistic.net · 2023-02-28 9 min Today's links VW wouldn't help find kidnapped child because his mother wasn't paying for find-my-car subscription: All the harms of surveillance, none of the benefits. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publicati

Cyber Insurance: Fitting the Needs of Operators of Essential Services?
Enisa.europa.eu · 2023-02-24 2 min News Item The new report by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) explores the challenges faced by Operators of Essential Services in the EU, when seeking to acquire cyber insurance. Published on February 23, 2023 Focused on the potential challenges faced by Operato

EDPS to pilot the use of Open Source Software
Edps.europa.eu · 2023-02-24 2 min Press Release EDPS to pilot the use of Open Source Software In February 2023, the EDPS has started piloting the use of the Open Source Software Nextcloud and LibreOffice Online. Together, theyoffer the possibility to share files, send messages, make video calls, and allows collab

HardBit 2.0 Ransomware
Varonis.com · 2023-02-21 12 min IntroductionFirst observed in October 2022, HardBit is a ransomware threat that targets organizations to extort cryptocurrency payments for the decryption of their data.Seemingly improving upon their initial release, HardBit version 2.0 was introduced toward the end of November

EU chat control law will ban open source operating systems Blog | Mullvad VPN
Mullvad.net · 2023-02-02 3 min Update: Open source OSes might be saved from being covered depending on the interpretation of EU regulation 2019/1150 2.2.c.To be considered an online intermediation service it requires a contractual relationship between the service and any businesses using it. The open source li

EUR Lex 32019R0881 EN
Eur-lex.europa.eu · 2023-01-31 153 min REGULATION (EU) 2019/881 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCILof 17 April 2019on ENISA (the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) and on information and communications technology cybersecurity certification and repealing Regulation (EU) No 526/2013 (Cybersecurity Act

How to legally use Google Analytics in Europe
Vischer.com · 2023-01-18 39 min Many website operators in Europe are at a loss: Is Google Analytics illegal? This is what recent decisions and statements by European Data Protection Authorities suggest, and some of them even say so directly. On closer inspection the situation is less black and white. Google A

Facebook and Instagram decisions: “Important impact on use of personal data for behavioural advertising”
Edpb.europa.eu · 2023-01-12 3 min Brussels, 12 January - Following the EDPB’s binding dispute resolution decisions of 5 December 2022, the Irish Data Protection Authority (IE DPA) has adopted its decisions regarding Facebook and Instagram (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, ‘Meta IE’). These decisions are the

Luis Alberto Montezuma on LinkedIn: hj
Linkedin.com · 2023-01-11 1 min Article 6 of the GDPR lays down six legal bases for the processing of personal data. There are six available lawful bases for processing. No single basis is ’better’ or more important than the others – which basis is most appropriate to use will depend on your purpose and r

Open source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act
Blog.nlnetlabs.nl · 2022-12-28 14 min By Maarten AertsenNLnet Labs is closely following a legislative proposal by the European Commission affecting almost all hardware and software on the European market. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) intends to ensure cybersecurity of products with digital elements by laying down