Good News: Things you might have missed in 2023
This week we talk about good things (or good-ish things) that you might have missed from 2023!
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14th December 2023
English
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Companies getting disciplined
- Ovulation Tracking App Premom Will be Barred from Sharing Health Data for Advertising Under Proposed FTC Order
- Facebook getting fined for data exploitation in Norway
- CNIL fines Criteo
- CNIL fines Doctissimo
- Worldcoin (aspires to be World ID) has been getting some pushback from some countries
Governments abandoning plans, or at least held to account
- Kenya drops Huduma Numba and replaces it with new systems (it’s not any better and advocacy under way) but it’s still a sense of victory that they dropped Huduma Numba that caused some much controversy as highlighted by CSOs in particular through advocacy, research and litigation (which we supported led by Kenyan organisations like Nubian Rights Forum, amongst others)
- MI5 win
- UK Supreme Court rules against Rwandan policy
- Colombia at the UN Human Rights Committee
- USA at the UN Human Rights Committee
- Brazil at the UN Human Rights Committee
Legal protections emerging
Innovations
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