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Open letter to EU member states from consumer groups, NGOs and industry representatives in support of the ePrivacy Regulation

Consumer groups, NGOs and industry call jointly for the Council of the EU to advance ePrivacy reform

On Monday 3 December, a coalition of more than 30 consumer groups, NGOs and industry representatives sent a letter to EU Ministers and the Council of the EU calling for the conclusion of the negotiations on the reform of the ePrivacy legislation. The letter was sent prior to yesterday's (4 December)

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Join our Supreme Court challenge against mass government hacking

As our four year battle against the UK government’s extraordinarily broad and intrusive hacking powers goes to the Supreme Court, we are launching a new fundraising appeal in partnership with CrowdJustice. We are seeking to raise £5k towards our costs and need your help. If we lose, the court may

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

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

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Unregulated intelligence sharing poses substantive risks to human rights and to the democratic rule of law

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

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Legal Tidbits!

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

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The Letters

Email addresses Acxiom: dataprotection@acxiom.com Criteo: dpo@criteo.com Equifax: complaints@equifax.com Experian: customerservices@uk.experian.com Oracle: https://oracle.ethicspointvp.com/custom/oracle/dp/en/form_data.asp Quantcast: privacy.qil@quantcast.com cc: dpo@quantcast.com Tapad: privacy

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What to Expect

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

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Privacy International files complaints against seven companies for wide-scale and systematic infringements of data protection law

PRESS RELEASE: Privacy International files complaints against seven companies for wide-scale and systematic infringements of data protection law

Today, Privacy International has filed complaints against seven data brokers (Acxiom, Oracle), ad-tech companies (Criteo, Quantcast, Tapad), and credit referencing agencies (Equifax, Experian) with data protection authorities in France, Ireland, and the UK. Privacy International urges the data

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We “value” your privacy – (now allow us to track you across the internet)

I asked an online tracking company for all of my data and here's what I found

It’s 15:10 pm on April 18, 2018. I’m in the Privacy International office, reading a news story on the use of facial recognition in Thailand. On April 20, at 21:10, I clicked on a CNN Money Exclusive on my phone. At 11:45 on May 11, 2018, I read a story on USA Today about Facebook knowing when teen

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Italy's Supreme Court decision limits hacking powers and applies safeguards

Privacy International notes a recent ruling issued by Italy’s Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) that addresses the need to limit government hacking powers for surveillance purposes and articulates required safeguards when hacking is conducted as part of a criminal investigation. The ruling

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Fintech’s dirty little secret? Lenddo, Facebook and the challenge of identity

Photo Credit: Max Pixel The fintech sector, with its data-intensive approach to financial services, faces a looming problem. Scandals such as Cambridge Analytica have brought public awareness about abuses involving the use of personal data from Facebook and other sources. Many of these are the same

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What to remember when listening to big tech "embrace privacy"

Image Source On 10 October 2018, the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a hearing titled “Consumer Data Privacy: Examining Lessons From the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act". The Senate will hear from

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Cyber Security Awareness Month: Privacy and Security Must Go Together

Since 2004, October has been designated National Cyber Security Awareness Month in the United States. Many other countries have followed suit, as part of the effort to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity, and how we can all work together to improve it. However, cyber security (or

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The Next Frontier of the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age

Image attribution: By Blue Diamond Gallery CC BY-SA 3.0. In March 2017, when the UN Human Rights Council requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report on the right to privacy in the digital age, including the responsibility of business enterprises, Cambridge Analytica was an

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Five ways your privacy is compromised without you realising

Photo credit: Pixabay This piece was originally published in iNews It seems that you can’t go anywhere online at the moment without being reassured that ‘we respect your privacy’ and being directed to a 2,000-word privacy policy. You probably just click ‘got it, thanks’ because who has the luxury to

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New U.K. Law Fails European Court Standards on Mass Interception Disclosed by Snowden

This piece was originally published in Just Security. Earlier this month, the European Court of Human Rights issued a major judgment in three consolidated cases challenging the U.K. government’s mass interception program, which was first revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013. That judgment finds