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Facial recognition app may end public anonymity in Russia

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Seemingly unimportant fitness tracker data enables intimate insights

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Singapore enhances smart city programme with pervasive data collection

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Kuwait passes law requiring national DNA sampling

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Royal Parks covertly tracks visitors via mobile phone data

What are smart cities?!
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What are smart cities?!

Privacy International’s Proposed Amendments to the Data Protection Bill for Report Stage at House of Commons
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Privacy International’s Proposed Amendments to the Data Protection Bill for Report Stage at House of Commons

National Security Certificates: Broad exemptions from the data protection regime will have consequences for our data protection rights and for adequacy
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National Security Certificates: Broad exemptions from the data protection regime will have consequences for our data protection rights and for adequacy

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Last chance! Here is how to ask your MP to support strong data privacy:

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Medellin soccer stadium uses facial recognition to build hooligan blacklist

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Research shows that users can be uniquely identified from just four apps

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Researchers release a dataset of 70,000 users' OkCupid profiles and call the data "public"

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"Anonymised" health data vulnerable to reidentification

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Office of Personnel Management breach exposes personal information of 21 million federal employees

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23andMe sells access to biobank to more than 13 drug companies

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Location leaks pose risk to users of gay dating apps

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Hack of Philippines election site exposes voter data

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Radio-enabled telematics unions leave industrial vehicles open to attack

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New police technologies assign individual "threat scores"

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Automated systems determine who qualifies for employment

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Google launches Home to compete with Siri and Alexa

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Google's Voice search records everything it hears

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Mobile phone data helps researchers study Kenya's distribution of wealth

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Startups analyse phone usage to determine credit-worthiness

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China's Ant Financial deploys credit-worthiness scores

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Car insurers turn to third parties to verify mileage

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Chinese researchers claim AI can spot criminal faces

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Neural network successfully identifies obscured faces

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Facebook algorithm identifies photographs when faces are obscured

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Facebook has tested, but does not use, location data to recommend Friends