In a report released this week, Dutch authorities said that Microsoft Office’s telemetry data collection mechanism violates the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Investigators found the issues in ProPlus subscriptions of Office 2016 and Office 365, but also with the web-based version of Office...
Mozilla released this week a privacy report that evaluated the security standards and privacy policies of 70 popular gift gadgets for this year. The report said that only 25 of the gadgets met Mozilla’s minimum security standards, with the Nintendo Switch the Harry Potter Kano coding...
NYU Law research fellow Julia Powles recently tweeted that DeepMind and Google is demolishing trust by backpedaling on its promise never to share the intimate, identifiable health data of individuals. The tweet was in reaction to the news that DeepMind, a health and AI subsidiary of...
A startup called Cognigo recently raised $8.5 million in a Series A round which was led by an Israel-based crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, with participation from privacy firm Prosegur and State of Mind Ventures. Cognigo says that it can help businesses become GDPR compliant in days instead...
Experts have recently weighed in on the issue of data collection and said that car makers are cashing in on the information without the owners’ being aware of it. Ford’s former head tech John Ellis said that he is able to discern patterns with enough data,...
The European Union Council recently approved a new set of regulations that will help the free movement of non-personal data, like that generated by IoT, AI, and machine learning, across the EU. The new rules, which will take effect in six months time, are expected to...
The Information Commissioner’s Office said this week that for the first time, an individual will be handed a prison sentence for a case that it has prosecuted. The case involves a car repairman by the name of Mustafa Kasim who was found guilty of stealing accident...
The European Commission told governments this week not to misuse the GDPR to silence journalists after hearing of related incidents in Romania and Hungary. It was revealed that Romania’s Rise Project had been threatened last week by the country’s data authority ANSPDCP to reveal its...
US advocacy group Public Knowledge recently warned the National Telecommunications and Information Administration that harms caused by online privacy violations are currently not legally-cognizable and may go beyond pure financial losses. Public Knowledge said that breaches may expose information that could cause embarrassment or reputational harm...
UK’s Privacy International has reportedly submitted complaints to EU regulators against several US companies for violating the GDPR. The complaint, submitted to UK, Ireland, and France, said that Oracle, Axciom, Criteo, Quantcast, Tapad, Equifax, and Experian had violated Articles five and six of Europe’s new data...