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From Clue and Flo to Premom and Stardust, there are many popular applications women use to monitor their health by tracking information such as their periods, ovulation cycles, and sexual activity. But are female health apps protecting this sensitive data? A team of researchers in the UK found “problematic practices, including inconsistencies” regarding data privacy in several female health apps. They presented the research at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii in the US this month. The researchers analysed 20 popular female health apps available on the US...
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The Irish data protection authority, responsible for implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) issued privacy fines totalling €1.55 billion in 2023, a record since the GDPR came into force in 2018, it said in its activity report published yesterday (29 May). Chinese-owned social network TikTok was fined €345m in September 2023 for mishandling the personal data of users aged under 18. The investigation found problems with default public settings, parental controls, and age verification. In 2021, the Dutch Data Protection Authority and the British Information Commissioner’s Offi...
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The workplace communication platform Slack clarified how it uses customer data this month after social media users alleged it had an obscure policy. Slack is a popular cloud-based software owned by the US tech giant Salesforce. Its use rose during the COVID-19 pandemic as many people began remote working.Criticism against Slack this month began when a user posted his surprise regarding Slack's privacy principles which state that "systems analyse customer data (e.g. messages, content, and files) submitted to Slack as well as other information (including usage information)" to develop non-genera...
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The third time wasn’t the charm. After Safe Harbour and Privacy Shield both met their maker at the hands of the EU’s Court of Justice (CJEU), a new report predicts that the US’ latest attempt to offer adequate protection to EU citizens and residents when it comes to the transfer of their data could be the next fatality. The report assessed the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) based on a legal "fitness check" that considers the benchmarks established by EU law and the CJEU in judgments like Schrems I and Schrems II. Any international data transfers deal between the European Commission and...
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French police are deploying video surveillance powered by artificial intelligence (AI) at two Paris metro stations used by fans attending pop superstar Taylor Swift'ss concerts in the city. The decree, published by the capital's Prefecture de Police earlier this week, justified the use of the controversial technique by saying that "in the current context, these concerts are events that are particularly exposed to the risk of acts of terrorism". The deployment will last a week from May 7 to 14 at the Nanterre Préfecture and La Défense Grande Arche metro stations, both of us which serve the Pari...
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Online rights activists have called for a sweeping overhaul of dated online privacy rules, in a letter published on Wednesday (24 April). The EU’s ePrivacy legislation needs to protect encryption and remove Facebook-style pay-and-consent models, said an open letter to the European Commission sent by 14 organisations, including European Digital Rights (EDRi) and Access Now. EU online privacy laws, first set out in 2002 and amended in 2006 and 2009, now seem dated given the rapid evolution of the internet. But plans to reform the law to offer better online protections and new business opportunit...
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Facebook cannot use publicly available data to target users with personal advertising, Athanasios Rantos, an Advocate General at the EU's Court of Justice, said in an opinion published today (25 April). Austria's Supreme Court had asked the EU judges to clarify whether data protection rules allow the social network to analyse and process personal data for targeted ads without any time bar. The case involves privacy lawyer Max Schrems, an Austrian user of Facebook, which is owned by US tech giant Meta. Schrems filed a complaint about the targeted advertising he received about his sexual orienta...
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A European Commission initiative aimed to let Big Tech companies voluntarily commit to a "cookie pledge", which would allow consumers to make effective choices regarding tracking-based advertising models, has failed to gain traction, a Commission spokesperson told Euronews. During the 2023 Consumer Summit, EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders announced his intention to introduce measures that would reduce consumer tracking, allow conscious choices, and address "pay or consent" policies pursued by tech giants, by means of a voluntary pledge, which companies were supposed to sign at last week...
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EU institutions last month reached a deal on rules governing the new European Health Data Space (EHDS), setting a common European framework for the sharing of health data. The agreement envisions the sharing of sensitive health data across the EU for research, innovation, public health, policy-making and regulatory purposes. One issue divided lawmakers throughout the negotiations: the secondary use of data. This means re-use of data already registered by health services by third parties for research, innovation and public health purposes. These third parties can be public, private and non-prof...
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Think about what you did yesterday with your phone. Did you look for an address? Did you order food? Did you read the newspaper? Did you listen to a podcast? Did you open an app or take a photo? It's all registered. Today, it's almost impossible to live without leaving a digital footprint. How can we be sure this very long trail of data protects us and does not violate our privacy? In this special episode of Euronews Tech Talks, we traveled to Vienna, the capital of Austria, to find answers at the Fundamental Rights Forum 2024. There, we interviewed two experts in data security: Wojtech Wiowio...
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