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

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

Undermining Democracy: The European Commission's Controversial Push for Digital Surveillance – Danny Mekić
Dannymekic.com · 2023-10-15 11 min Biography Quotes Nederlands Menu Danny Mekić. Speaker Chairman Entrepreneur NewTeam StrategyCooker HackathonFactory Innovation Company Innovations Automotive & Innovation Banks & Innovation Education & Innovation Healthcare & Innovation

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

FACT SHEET: Biden Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI | The White House
Whitehouse.gov · 2023-07-21 5 min Voluntary commitments – underscoring safety, security, and trust – mark a critical step toward developing responsible AIBiden-Harris Administration will continue to take decisive action by developing an Executive Order and pursuing bipartisan legislation to keep Americans saf

Do Foundation Model Providers Comply with the Draft EU AI Act? (germany)
Crfm.stanford.edu · 2023-06-22 14 min Stanford researchers evaluate foundation model providers like OpenAI and Google for their compliance with proposed EU law on AI.Requirements   Rubrics   Grades   GitHubFoundation models like ChatGPT are transforming society with their remarkable capabilities, serious risks

"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

Delta Chat: Good news from security audits, past and present
Delta.chat · 2023-03-30 2 min March 27, 2023 by missytake, holgaIn case you wonder how safe Delta Chat’s core messaging implementation and server guides are, you may be interested in the summary statement from the recent independent security audit by Cure53:"... a positive impression following the completio

Restic · Backups done right!
Restic.net · 2023-03-16 3 min Restic is a modern backup program that can back up your files: from Linux, BSD, Mac and Windows to many different storage types, including self-hosted and online services easily, being a single executable that you can run without a server or complex setup effectively, only

Medical Devices Should Use Free Software +++ 25 New Videos FSFE
Fsfe.org · 2023-03-07 4 min Pubblicato il  In this issue we have a podcast episode about the need that medical devices have Free Software. Watch our talks from FOSDEM and videos about legal issues when developing. Participants of YH4F are already coding. Thanks to all your contributions, our fundraising e

German Constitutional Court strikes down predictive algorithms for policing
Euractiv.com · 2023-02-16 3 min The German Federal Constitutional Court declared the use of Palantir surveillance software by police in Hesse and Hamburg unconstitutional in a landmark ruling on Thursday (16 February). The ruling concludes a case brought by the German Society for Civil Rights (GFF) last year, h

Disinformazione ed elezioni: screditare il candidato ai familiari, entrando in gmail e telegram.
Theguardian.com · 2023-02-15 8 min The undercover footage was filmed by three reporters, who approached Team Jorge posing as prospective clients.In more than six hours of secretly recorded meetings, Hanan and his team spoke of how they could gather intelligence on rivals, including by using hacking techniques to a

Denmark bans Gmail and Co from schools due to privacy concerns.
Tutanota.com · 2022-08-07 4 min Danish schools must stop using Google's email and cloud services due to concerns or violating the high European privacy standards defined by the GDPR. According to Denmark’s data protection authority, Google’s cloud-based Workspace software suite "does not meet the requiremen

Europeans' data shared 376 times daily in advertising sales, report says
Bbc.com · 2022-05-17 2 min Image source, GettyData about every internet user is shared hundreds of times each day as companies bid for online advertising slots, a report suggests.The study, by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), found that the average European user's data is shared 376 times per