Privacy Victory: EU Waters Down Mass Surveillance Plan
The decision comes as the commissioner responsible for drafting the plan is caught up in an extensive conflict of interests scandal.
The decision comes as the commissioner responsible for drafting the plan is caught up in an extensive conflict of interests scandal.
Facebook and Instagram’s parent company tries to satisfy EU privacy law while maintaining its revenue.
Millions of law-abiding citizens will be included in a facial recognition database, treating them like “suspects.”
The Digital Services Act empowers the European Commission to police what voters are told at elections.
Edwards was hospitalised on mental health grounds after he was named as paying a teenage drug addict for sexually explicit pics with the scandal sparking a media spat over UK privacy laws and the future of the BBC.
“Publicly available” is not the same as “free to use,” the law firm behind the class-action suit argues, seeking to temporarily halt the development of Google’s entire AI structure.
Citing concerns about U.S. intelligence agencies accessing EU citizens’ private data, the Austrian non-profit group NOYB will legally challenge the agreement in the European Court of Justice, where it saw off two previous incarnations of the transatlantic deal.
As multiple civil rights groups are sounding the alarm, Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti tries to allay concerns. The emergence of a surveillance state as described in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, he said, was a “far-off” prospect.
To the applause of watchdog groups, Meta’s mass data collection in Europe may be over.
The Act addresses the question of who owns and has the right to store and make use of non-personal digital data produced in the Internet of Things (IoT), and to the massive windfall such data can represent for industry.
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