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30th April 2019

GDPR loopholes facilitate data exploitation by political parties

13th February 2019

EBPB reminds national data protection authorities to exercise their powers proportionally and in respect of fundamental rights

21st November 2018

#TeleormanLeaks explained: privacy, freedom of expression, and public interest

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Romanian contact tracing app relies on satnav data

Numerous efforts to create apps to help monitor and map the spread of COVID-19 rely on satnav-based location data from Galileo. The CovTrack app developed on a pro-bono basis by the Romanian company RISE, for example, uses Bluetooth connections between mobile phones to store identification data the

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Data protection law is not a tool to undermine freedom of the media

Privacy International, European Digital Rights, and the Association for Technology and Internet (ApTI) together with 15 other digital rights organisations sent a letter on Monday 21 November 2018, to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), with copies to the Romanian Data Protection Authority