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Over one month ago, Privacy International filed complaints concerning seven data brokers, ad-tech companies, and credit referencing agencies with data protection authorities across Europe. The companies named in the complaints are Acxiom, Criteo, Equifax, Experian, Oracle, Quantcast, and Tapad. The

Taylor Swift may be tracking you, particularly if you were at her Rose Bowl show in May. According to an article published by Vanity Fair , at Swift’s concert at the California stadium, fans were drawn to a kiosk where they could watch rehearsal clips. At the same time – and without their knowledge

Photo credit: Screenshot from video produced by ICRC, ‘What are metadata’, accessible here. “The platform [Facebook] does not intentionally cause harm to users. Too often, however, Facebook’s business model allows harm to occur.” The Editorial Board, The Financial Times, 2 December 2018 Imagine if a

Why is a privacy organisation working with the humanitarian sector, and why does it matter? We may seem like strange bedfellows, but today's ever-growing digital world means that, more and more, people who receive humanitarian assistance are being exposed to unexpected threats. According to the 2018

Creative Commons Photo Credit: Source In September 2018, a month after Argentina lawmakers voted against the legalisation of abortion, we spoke to Eduardo Ferreyra from the Buenos Aires-based Asociacion por los Derechos Civiles about the role of privacy in the abortion debate. Also joining us in

Photo Credit: Marion S. Trikosko This month, the World Bank's Identity for Development (ID4D) initiative is launching its inaugural "Mission Billion Challenge", a competition designed to promote innovation in the identity space with the inaugural question: "How can digital identification systems in

Image source creative commons. The below piece was o riginally posted on the UNRISD site here. How AI is affecting our human rights Artificial Intelligence (AI) is part of our daily lives. Its many applications inform almost all sectors of society: from the way we interact on social media, to the

We found this here. The European Union’s new privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is being tested across Europe. The first GDPR privacy case in Romania began with an investigation that was published on November 5 about a corruption scandal involving a politician and his

Data sharing among states is gaining prominence, particularly in light of the need to coordinate counter-terrorism activities across borders. The President of the European Commission put it in stark terms just a couple of months ago: “Terrorists know no borders. We cannot allow ourselves to become

We've put together this short FAQ about some of the legal details of our campaign to ask companies to delete our data. 1.What is the right to erasure? The right to erasure (or deletion) is just one of a number of data rights that may be found in data protection law, including the European Union's

Email addresses Acxiom: [email protected] Criteo: [email protected] Equifax: [email protected] Experian: [email protected] Oracle: https://oracle.ethicspointvp.com/custom/oracle/dp/en/form_data.asp Quantcast: [email protected] cc: [email protected] Tapad: privacy

Our team wanted to see how data companies that are not used to being in the public spotlight would respond to people exercising their data rights. You have the right under the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") to demand that companies operating in the European Union (either because they