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| Aug 19, 2019 | Facebook Takes First Steps in Creating Mind-Reading Technology | If you still use Facebook after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Libra, and more privacy and ethics violations than you and your extended family can count on their fingers and toes, you should have no ethical concerns over the computer-brai... |
| Sep 2, 2018 | Privacy Shield on Shaky Ground: What’s Up With EU-U.S. Data Privacy Regulations | There’s a lot going on in the privacy and data protection world. But one of the most pressing issues is the uncertain fate of Privacy Shield, the framework governing the flow of data between the EU and the U.S. for commercial purposes.
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| May 7, 2018 | Irish Judge Slaps Down Facebook's Attempt To Halt EU's Top Court Examining The Legality Of Sending Personal Data To US | A few weeks ago, we wrote about the Irish High Court referring to the EU’s highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), eleven questions concerning the legality of personal data transfer across the Atlantic.The question... |
| Apr 30, 2018 | Facebook is trying to block Schrems II privacy referral to EU top court | Facebook’s lawyers are attempting to block a High Court decision in Ireland, where its international business is headquartered, to refer a long-running legal challenge to the bloc’s top court.
The social media giant’s lawyers asked the cour... |
| Apr 18, 2018 | EU Court of Justice Will Answer Questions on Facebook Data Transfers | On April 12, the High Court of Ireland referred 11 questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the legality of data transfers between Facebook’s Irish and U.S. corporate entities. This request for a preliminary ruling ... |
| Apr 16, 2018 | Bad News For 'Privacy Shield': As Expected, EU's Top Court Will Examine Legality Of Sending Personal Data To US | Last October, Techdirt wrote about an important decision by the Irish High Court in a case concerning data transfers from the EU to the US. The original complaint was brought by Max Schrems in the wake of revelations by Edward Snowden back ... |
| Apr 13, 2018 | Privacy Shield now facing questions via legal challenge to Facebook data flows | The Irish High Court has referred for a second time a legal challenge to Facebook’s EU-US data transfers to Europe’s top court, seeking a preliminary ruling on a series of fundamental questions pertaining to the clash between US mass survei... |
| Apr 10, 2018 | A brief history of Facebook’s privacy hostility ahead of Zuckerberg’s testimony | The Facebook founder will be questioned by the Senate Judiciary and Senate Commerce Committees later today — in a session entitled “Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data.”
Mark Zuckerberg is also due to testify befor... |
| Mar 24, 2018 | Facebook was warned about app permissions in 2011 | Who’s to blame for the leaking of 50 million Facebook users’ data? Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke several days of silence in the face of a raging privacy storm to go on CNN this week to say he was sorry. He also admitted the... |
| Jan 30, 2018 | EU's Highest Court Says Privacy Activist Can Litigate Against Facebook In Austria, But Not As Part Of A Class Action | Last November we reported on the legal opinion of one of the Advocates General that advises the EU’s top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). It concerned yet another case brought by the data protection activist and law... |
| Nov 27, 2017 | Yet Another Legal Action By Dogged Privacy Activist Brings Good News And Bad News For Facebook In EU's Highest Court | The Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems has appeared a few times on Techdirt, as he conducts his long-running campaign to find out what Facebook is doing with his personal data, and to take back control of it. In 2011, he obtained a CD-RO... |
| Oct 3, 2017 | Challenge to data transfer tool used by Facebook will go to Europe’s top court | Facebook has bought itself a little more time over a major legal challenge in Europe after the Irish High Court decided not to strike down a b2b mechanism it uses to transfer user data between its EU and U.S. businesses for processing. Rath... |
| Jun 13, 2016 | U.S. Government wants to step into European Facebook privacy legal challenge | European privacy campaigner Max Schrems’ legal challenge to Facebook has already been credited with the demise of a fifteen-year-old data transfer arrangement between the region and the U.S. last year, causing huge uncertainty for transatla... |
| May 25, 2016 | More uncertainty over EU-U.S. data flows as Irish DPA warns on legality of model contract clauses | Another development in the slow unraveling of the legal regime governing EU-U.S. data flows: The Irish data protection agency has warned that one of the mechanisms currently being used by thousands of companies might not be legal.
Companies... |
| Feb 29, 2016 | Draft Text Of EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Deal Fails To Impress The Man Who Slayed Safe Harbor | The draft text of an agreement between the EU and the U.S. to establish a new self-certification framework governing transatlantic data flows aimed at ensuring data protection and privacy compliance when Europeans’ data is taken to the U.S.... |
| Feb 5, 2016 | US retailers: “new agreement avoids new trade barrier” | The American retail federation welcomes the new, tentative privacy agreement on transfers of personal data between the US and Europe and says officials should quickly implement this measure. “Failure to renew this agreement would create a n... |
| Feb 2, 2016 | Europe And US Seal ‘Privacy Shield’ Data Transfer Deal To Replace Safe Harbor | A new transatlantic data transfer deal has been announced today between the EU and the US. The new EU-US Privacy Shield will replace the old Safe Harbor agreement, which was invalidated by the European Court of Justice last October, on the ... |
| Dec 22, 2015 | Europe vs. the U.S. in 2015: A year of transatlantic tussles | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Beyond the countless data breaches that companies and consumers endured in 2015, perhaps the most obvious tension in the online privacy... |
| Dec 22, 2015 | Europe vs. the U.S. in 2015: A year of transatlantic tussles | Beyond the countless data breaches that companies and consumers endured in 2015, perhaps the most obvious tension in the online privacy realm could be felt in the many altercations between the U.S. and Europe.
The seed of this combative sur... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | With No European Safe Harbor, Facebook Faces Privacy Complaints On Multiple Fronts | Facebook’s least favorite Austrian, lawyer and privacy campaigner, Max Schrems, has updated his data protection complaints against the social network giant in the light of the recent EJC strikedown of the Safe Harbor transatlantic data-shar... |
| Oct 6, 2015 | Europe’s Top Court Strikes Down ‘Safe Harbor’ Data-Transfer Agreement With U.S. | The European Court of Justice has today declared invalid the Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement that has governed EU data flows across the Atlantic for some fifteen years.
“The Court of Justice declares that the Commission’s U.S. Safe Harb... |
| Oct 6, 2015 | Europe’s highest court strikes down Safe Harbor data sharing between EU, US | reader comments 78 with 55 posters participating, including story author
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| Oct 1, 2015 | Is the Safe Harbor Framework in Trouble? | Last week, the Court of Justice for the European Union’s Advocate General published an opinion that casts doubt on the future of the so-called United States-European Union “safe harbor framework”—a legal arrangement which enables much of th... |
| Sep 7, 2015 | Delayed European Legal Opinion On Facebook NSA/PRISM Coming Later This Month | A European legal opinion regarding Facebook’s alleged data-sharing co-operation with the NSA/PRISM dragnet surveillance program that’s due to be issued by the Advocate General (AG) of Europe’s top court is now slated to be delivered on Sept... |
| Jul 1, 2015 | Setback For European Facebook Privacy Class Action, As Austrian Court Rules Lawsuit Inadmissible | An ongoing Facebook class action suit in Europe over alleged privacy violations took a significant step back today. A regional court in Austria, where the suit was originally filed, ruled the it inadmissible, with the court saying it has “n... |
| Apr 9, 2015 | European Facebook Privacy Lawsuit Heads To Court In Vienna | A class action data privacy lawsuit that’s being brought against Facebook in Europe — for participation in the NSA’s PRISM dragnet surveillance program, among other alleged data protection violations — gets its first preparatory court heari... |
| Apr 9, 2015 | Facebook’s facing a huge privacy class action lawsuit in Europe, and it’s in court today for the first time | Today sees Facebook head to court in Europe for the first time in relation to a privacy-focused class action lawsuit brought about by an Austrian law graduate.
Led by Max Schrems, Europe vs. Facebook has 25,000 signed-up claimants, who coul... |
| Jan 26, 2015 | Facebook’s European Privacy Class Action Hearing Set For April 9 | Some developments on the class action suit filed against Facebook over alleged privacy violations in Europe. Europe vs. Facebook, the group leading the suit now with 25,000 claimants in tow, has had its first hearing set for April 9, in a c... |
| Aug 21, 2014 | European Facebook Class Action Suit Attracts 60K Users As It Passes First Court Hurdle | Some developments around the class action suit filed against Facebook in Europe earlier this month over alleged privacy violations: the Austria-based Europe vs Facebook group organising the suit says that the Vienna Regional Court, where th... |
| Aug 6, 2014 | Facebook Data Privacy Class Action Now Oversubscribed | A civil class action lawsuit being brought against Facebook on privacy grounds by Europe vs Facebook campaigner Max Schrems has hit its current maximum of 25,000 participants less than a week after the action was announced.
The class action... |
| Aug 4, 2014 | Facebook Data Privacy Class Action Joined By 11,000 And Counting | On Friday the Europe vs Facebook privacy campaign group kicked off a new legal initiative targeting Facebook — in the form of a class action lawsuit that’s inviting adult non-commercial Facebook users located anywhere outside the US and Can... |
| Aug 2, 2014 | Austrian activist ropes Facebook users into his class-action lawsuit against the company | Updated at 9:25 a.m. Pacific with comment from Schrems.
Facebook users outside the United States and Canada can now join in an Austrian’s class-action lawsuit against Facebook that seeks damages for data sharing, analysis of users, and othe... |
| Aug 2, 2014 | Austrian activist ropes Facebook users into his class-action lawsuit against the company | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Mar 7, 2014 | You Know Who Else Collected Metadata? The Stasi | Republished from ProPublica under a Creative Commons license. |
| Nov 27, 2013 | Post-Snowden, European Commission Sets Out Actions Needed To Restore Trust In E.U.-U.S. Data Flows | The European Commission has today detailed the actions it believes are required to restore trust in data-sharing agreements between the European Union and the U.S. following revelations of surveillance dragnets operated by U.S. intelligence... |
| Oct 11, 2013 | Skype’s NSA ties prompt investigation in Luxembourg | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When Skype was founded 10 years ago, privacy advo... |
| Oct 11, 2013 | Skype’s NSA ties prompt investigation in Luxembourg | When Skype was founded 10 years ago, privacy advocates hailed the Internet VoIP service as a secure tool that would shield its users from surveillance.
How quickly things change.
Today, the Microsoft-owned company is under investigation by ... |
| Jul 25, 2013 | Irish Data Protection Agency Smiles On Apple, Facebook Prism Compliance But Europe Is Taking Closer Look At Safe Harbor “Loophole” | The Irish Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has responded to two of the complaints filed last month by the European data protection activists behind the Europe v Facebook (evf) campaign group against several U.S. technology ... |
| Jun 26, 2013 | Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype & Yahoo Hit With Prism Data Protection Complaints In Europe | The European data protection activists behind the Europe v Facebook (evf) campaign group, that has long been a thorn in Facebook’s side in Europe, have filed new complaints under regional data protection law targeting Facebook, Apple, Micro... |
| Jan 28, 2013 | Data Privacy Day: Painful Growing Pains | Monday, January 28, is Data Privacy Day, an internationally recognized 24 hours aimed at raising awareness and promoting best practices in the oft-shaky world of online security. As we “celebrate” this day, from social media and email accou... |
| Dec 4, 2012 | Europe v Facebook Privacy Campaign Group Is Preparing To “Fight” Facebook In Ireland, Sets Up Crowdfunding Platform To Fund Legal Fight Against Irish DPA (Updated) | As Facebook polls its users on site governance and privacy policy — a poll that looks very likely to result in Facebook href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/11/21/facebook-site-governance-vote/">withdrawing users’ ability to ... |
| Nov 26, 2012 | 19K+ Commenters Trigger Vote On If Facebook Users Will Lose The Ability To Vote On Privacy Changes | 19,000 Facebook users have commented on proposed changes to Facebook’s governing documents, enough to trigger a vote on whether they’ll go into effect. Today the Electronic Privacy Information Center asked Mark Zuckerberg to withdraw the pr... |
| Nov 2, 2012 | Facebook now gives all new users a privacy tutorial, thanks to Irish authorities | reader comments 17 with 16 posters participating
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| Jun 21, 2012 | Problems For Monetization: Lawsuit Forces Facebook To Let You Opt Out Of Sponsored Story Ads | Facebook’s business model just hit a stumbling block, as the social network is being forced to let users opt out of having their likenesses repurposed as endorsements in Sponsored Stories ads. The requirement of opt out controls comes as pa... |
| Jun 9, 2012 | Turnout is low for Facebook's first-ever policy vote | Users vote to keep old privacy policies; but turnout too low to matter
We are living in age where privacy is increasingly becoming a concern for people. Many believe that we are sharing too much of ourselves these days, and once we put our ... |
| Jun 8, 2012 | Whopping .038% of Facebook users vote on data use policy change | reader comments 74 with 64 posters participating, including story author
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| Jun 8, 2012 | Facebook hid policy vote, privacy group says | Democracy is great when everyone participates, but what do you do when the voters don’t show up?
Facebook opened up to users last week the ability to vote on its new data use policies, but, as it turns out, not so many people were intereste... |
| Jun 1, 2012 | Facebook Nation: privacy changes go to a 270 million-user vote | Step into the virtual voting machine.
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| Jun 1, 2012 | Facebook Forced By Privacy Activist To Put Policy Changes Up For Worldwide Vote Until June 8th | Max Schrems, the Austrian founder of Europe Vs. Facebook, has forced Facebook to put proposed policy changes up for a vote by all its users. By mobilizing his privacy group to flood Facebook’s Site Governance page with pasted messages, many... |
| May 18, 2012 | European Activists Could Force Facebook’s New Privacy Changes To A Worldwide Vote | The European activists “europe-v-facebook.org”, led by a group of Austrian students, say that they have reached the 7,000-comment threshold on a Facebook privacy proposal, first raised last week, which would force the company to take the re... |
| Apr 3, 2012 | Facebook Accused Of Ignoring Irish DPC’s Privacy Change Deadline | Remember last December when Facebook agreed to change some of its data retention policies based on an audit by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner? In internet years, which are kind of like dog years, those three months feel more like th... |
| Apr 3, 2012 | Facebook ‘Missed Irish Data Protection Deadline’, Says Consumer Group. Facebook Objects | As Facebook has continued its rapid rise, one thing it has not been able to shake off are questions over how it deals with user data and privacy. That issue is getting revisited again today in Europe, where a consumer rights group says that... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | Austrian student fights Facebook over privacy | Formal investigation has been launched against Facebook
Max Schrems, a 22-year-old Austrian student from Vienna, got more than he asked for when he requested Facebook to turn over all of his data. Schrems claims on his website, called "... |
| Oct 22, 2011 | Facebook accused of retaining deleted user data, could face fines | Facebook’s international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland is facing an audit this month for keeping users’ deleted data. The company could face a $138,000 (€100,000) fine if it does not comply with Irish data protection laws.
The audit was t... |
| Oct 22, 2011 | Facebook accused of retaining deleted user data, could face fines | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facebook’s international headquarters in Dublin, ... |