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During his mandate, Breyer was a prominent voice against the controversial Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) regulation, also known as “chat control”, and played a key role in the reform of the EU’s e-Privacy regulations—critical to safeguarding online privacy. Breyer – who has a track record of challenging both Germany and the EU Commission with lawsuits over data retention - said he will continue fighting for digital rights, in parallel with his work as a civil law judge in his native Germany. Euronews: For readers who might be unfamiliar, could you explain what the Pirate Party stands for?...
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Social media platform X has been hit with legal action by the Irish Data Protection Authority over concerns about the company’s use of personal data to train its artificial intelligence tools. The Irish DPC yesterday (6 August) filed a complaint at the High Court, as first reported by the Irish Examiner, over Grok, X's new feature available to premium and premium+ subscribers against a monthly fee of €8.54 and €17.08 respectively. Grok became available last May and is, according to X, designed to "answer almost any user question with a touch of wit and humour, while also providing helpful and ...
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Data protection safeguards in the planned EU certification scheme for cloud services, EUCS, need to be improved, French privacy watchdog CNIL has said in a statement published late on Friday (19 July). The concerns add to the French government doubts about the long overdue scheme, which aims to ensure ICT packages sold in the EU market are protected from cyberattacks, but which has been bedevilled by delays. “In its current state, the European certification scheme for cloud services no longer allows providers to demonstrate that they protect stored data against access by a foreign power,” the ...
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The European Commission wrongly refused a request for document disclosure related to its Child Sexual Abuse law which was in the public interest, the European Ombudsman has found in a report. The ombudsman - which oversees proper administration of EU institutions – this week (16 July) investigated the Commission’s refusal to disclose policy papers and minutes of meetings with Thorn, a child protection NGO, around the proposal on rules to combat Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). Thorn, a non-governmental organisation founded in 2012 by US actors Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, aims to develop ...
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Online platform Vinted will appeal the €2,3 m privacy fine it received from the Lithuanian data protection authority yesterday, a company spokesperson told Euronews today (4 July). The platform, on which users can sell second hand clothes, shoes and bags, was ordered to pay the penalty as the Lithuanian watchdog found that the company breached the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by failing to give users the right to erase their data. The investigation was forwarded to Vilnius after the French and the Polish privacy regulators received local complaints. Under the GDPR, the regula...
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Ambassadors meeting in Brussels today (20 June) could agree wording of a regulation to protect children online which would compel encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp and Messenger to include surveillance technology that would scan all users' images. The technology - known as 'upload monitoring' - is part of a compromise aiming to break a deadlock in protracted negotiations over the Child Sexual Abuse (CSAM) regulation. Negotiations over the draft regulation, originally proposed in 2022, has been dogged by divisions between countries and the European Parliament over how much the solut...
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US regulators said on Tuesday that they “uncovered reason to believe” TikTok and its parent company ByteDance are “violating or are about to violate” a US child privacy law. The law requires kid-oriented websites to get parental permission before collecting information about those under the age of 13. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) referred the complaint to the US justice department. The agency also cited potential violations of the FTC Act, the law that outlines its enforcement responsibilities. A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment on the substance of the refer...
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Hundreds of thousands of European schoolchildren are likely being tracked by Microsoft education software widely deployed in schools across continent, according to a group which lodged a formal complaint on the issue before an Austrian regulator today (4 June). NOYB has asked the watchdog to investigate what data is processed by Microsoft 365 Education – a product used widely in classrooms – as it claims that neither the company’s privacy documentation, requests for access, nor NOYB’s own research could fully clarify this, which violates transparency provisions of the General Data Protection R...
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From Clue and Flo to Premom and Stardust, there are many popular applications women use to monitor their health by tracking information such as their periods, ovulation cycles, and sexual activity. But are female health apps protecting this sensitive data? A team of researchers in the UK found “problematic practices, including inconsistencies” regarding data privacy in several female health apps. They presented the research at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii in the US this month. The researchers analysed 20 popular female health apps available on the US...
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