L’utilizzo dei dati biometrici del viso per verificare l’identità di una persona si sta diffondendo in ambiti pubblici e privati scatenando le prime leggi specifiche di contrasto. La sfida normativa sarà trovare un equilibrio tra esigenze di sicurezza e tutela…

As part of its CCPA compliance efforts, Google has recently announced that they will block personalized ads by giving customers the right to opt-out of personal data collection.

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As governments and companies invest more in security networks, hundreds of millions more surveillance cameras will be watching the world in 2021, mostly in China, according to a new report.

It’s COPPA all the way down

  Il whistleblower e attivista americano Edward Snowden ha paragonato i modelli di business dei giganti della tecnologia come Facebook, Google e Amazon a degli "abusi". Snowden, che è famoso per aver copiato e divulgato informazioni altamente riservate dalla…

La manipolazione è possibile, ma l’impatto non è chiaro. Il problema è che vi è un’ampia incomprensione delle dinamiche dell’ambiente digitale, per cui questo viene demonizzato a prescindere e ampiamente sovrastimato il suo effetto sulla società.

IPVM has found 12 recent government projects across China (PRC) that require Uyghur analytics and a general government guideline requiring such analytics.

Amazon's Ring started from humble roots as a smart doorbell company called "DoorBot." Now it's surveilling the suburbs and partnering with police.

OpenVPN, WireGuard, and IKEv2/IPSec VPNs are vulnerable to attacks.

Par 13 arrêts du 6 décembre 2019, le Conseil d’État fixe les conditions dans lesquelles doit être respecté le droit au déréférencement sur internet prévu par le RGPD. Il est ainsi la première juridiction française à livrer, à Google et à la Commission nationale…

Rich Communication Services promises to be the new standard for texting. Thanks to sloppy implementation, it's also a security mess.

CyrusOne data centers infected by REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware.

This article was written by Jose Antonio Medrano, an intern at FMA under Global Affairs Canada’s International Youth Internship Program. Digital applications are becoming ever more ubiquitous in today’s society. These apps are used not Read more…

Spotify is bringing people together in an unusual way.

Following a series of FOI requests from Privacy International and other organisations, the Department of Health and Social Care has now released its contract with Amazon, regarding the use of NHS content by Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant. The content of…

Un'indagine di Kaspersky mostra che 4 computer su 10 deputati ad archiviare queste informazioni sensibili sono finiti nel mirino