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| 18.09.2026 | UK Secrecy Over Apple iCloud Backdoor Order Called ‘Farcical’ at Tribunal Hearing | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Sep 18 2026, 11:23 AM EDT
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| 22.08.2026 | Crime writers’ new conundrum: How to get away with murder when cameras are everywhere | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
For generations, crime writers could send a killer into the night with little more than gloves, a disguise and a getaway car. Today, the fictional villain must also leave the phone behind, hide the... |
| 28.07.2026 | UK Supreme Court Strips Bahrain of Immunity Over FinSpy Dissident Hack | By Earl Bensen
Published: Jul 28 2026, 12:46 PM EDT
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| 26.07.2026 | SIM Owner Details and the KYC Gap: Lessons From Pakistan’s 204 Million Biometric SIM Registry | Share
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In July 2026, Pakistan’s telecom regulator fined every mobile operator in the country over the identity controls that sit behind SIM owner details. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, known as PTA, impose... |
| 25.07.2026 | Indonesia’s Biometric SIM Drive Hits 10 Million, Targets 291 Million Existing Subscribers | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Jul 25 2026, 10:08 AM EDT
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| 01.06.2026 | Сайты-шринкфляторы: законно ли «урезание» купленного цифрового продукта? | Вы покупаете игру, приложение или фильм и рассчитываете, что вещь останется примерно такой, какой была в день покупки. В физическом мире это базовое ожидание, а вот в цифровом компания может удалить книгу из базы, отключить купленную функци... |
| 02.10.2025 | UK Orders Apple to Hand Over British Users’ Data Amid Encryption Row | Image: garloon/Envato Images
The UK government wants Apple to hand over the personal data of its British users. This could be seen as a compromise after it dropped its request for all iCloud users’ data amid US backlash.
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| 01.10.2025 | UK orders Apple to give access to encrypted iCloud backups | The UK government has ordered Apple to give law enforcement access to encrypted iCloud backups of British users, escalating a long-running dispute over data privacy and surveillance powers.
The move, first reported by the Financial Times, f... |
| 22.08.2025 | Home Office’s Use of Algorithms in Immigration Called Into Question | Privacy International has filed a complaint to the UK’s data regulator over the Home Office’s use of algorithms in immigration processing.
The rights advocacy group’s complaint was filed to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over t... |
| 03.06.2025 | AI regulation needs to be smarter in the UK, urges Deepmind boss | Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google Deepmind, has called on UK policymakers and business heavyweights to embrace the “smart regulation” of AI, warning that a failure to do so could prompt unintended harm, or the loss of public trust.
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| 30.05.2025 | The Legal Quagmire of Surveillance and Oversight | In the age of technology, the law often lags behind innovation. This is especially true in the realm of surveillance and government oversight. Two recent incidents in the UK and the US highlight the urgent need for a robust legal framework ... |
| 29.05.2025 | AI watchdog slams government over facial recognition rollout | An artificial intelligence (AI) search body has criticised the UK government for accelerating the deployment of facial recognition technology without first establishing a comprehensive legal framework.
The Ada Lovelace Institute has warned ... |
| 18.03.2025 | The Tug of War Over Data Privacy: Apple vs. the UK Government | In the digital age, our smartphones are like treasure chests. They hold our secrets, memories, and personal data. But what happens when the guardians of these treasures face off against the very governments meant to protect us? This is the ... |
| 16.03.2025 | What Apple’s fight over encryption means for your data | Your iPhone holds some of your most private information – messages, photos and personal data secured by encryption, that even Apple itself cannot access.
But a legal battle between the tech giant and the UK government is now testing the lim... |
| 14.03.2025 | Human rights groups challenge Apple’s privacy fight with the UK government | Two UK human rights groups have challenged the government’s attempts to force tech titan Apple to weaken its security systems, saying the process lacks transparency.
The UK government had attempted to force Apple to create a “back door” in ... |
| 14.03.2025 | Court hearing reported to be Apple's appeal against UK order held in secret | Court hearing reported to be Apple's appeal against UK order held in secret
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| 31.01.2025 | The Double-Edged Sword of AI in Law Enforcement and Data Privacy | In the age of technology, the line between safety and privacy is razor-thin. Recent events in Cleveland and Washington highlight this precarious balance. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in law enforcement is a double-edged sword. It... |
| 29.01.2025 | Полиция Кливленда использовала ИИ для обоснования ордера на обыск, и теперь прокуратура может проиграть дело... | Прокуратура округа Кайахога оказалась в тупике при рассмотрении дела об убийстве. Выяснилось, что полиция Кливленда (административный центр округа) использовала ИИ-систему распознавания лиц Clearview AI для получения ордера на обыск по делу... |
| 19.12.2024 | EU Provides Guidance on How AI Developers Can Obey Privacy Laws | The European Data Protection Board has published an opinion addressing data protection in AI models. It covers assessing AI anonymity, the legal basis for processing data, and mitigation measures for impacts on data subjects for tech compan... |
| 14.07.2024 | AT&T Data Breach: A National Security Nightmare | The recent AT&T data breach, compromising millions of customer records, has raised serious security concerns and threatens US national security. The breach, one of the worst in American telecommunications history, exposed sensitive comm... |
| 12.07.2024 | Massive AT&T hack raises serious security concerns | A hack that has compromised millions of AT&T customers’ communication and location records undermines US national security and represents one of the worst breaches of an American telecommunications provider on record, according to priva... |
| 04.06.2024 | 6 Best VPNs for the UK in 2024 | Best overall VPN for the U.K.: NordVPN Best for unlimited connections: Surfshark Best for number of VPN servers: Private Internet Access Best for torrenting: ExpressVPN Best for travel in Europe: CyberGhost Best open-source VPN: Proton VPN
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| 06.04.2024 | Price of zero-day exploits rises as companies harden products against hackers | Tools that allow government hackers to break into iPhones and Android phones, popular software like the Chrome and Safari browsers, and chat apps like WhatsApp and iMessage, are now worth millions of dollars — and their price has multiplied... |
| 01.03.2024 | ICO: Home Office’s GPS Monitoring of Migrants Breached Data Laws | The Home Office has been issued an enforcement notice and a warning by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) regarding a pilot involving GPS ankle tags to monitor the movement of up to 600 migrants in the UK.
The purpose of the Home O... |
| 23.02.2024 | The European Court of Human Rights Concludes Encryption Backdoor Mandates Violate the Right to Private Life of All Users Online | On 13 February the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued a ground-breaking judgment in the case of Podchasov v Russia. The case concerned the statutory requirements that Russia imposed on the online messaging platform Telegram to au... |
| 15.02.2024 | Spyware startup Variston is losing staff — some say it’s closing | In July 2021, someone sent Google a batch of malicious code that could be used to hack Chrome, Firefox, and PCs running Microsoft Defender. That code was part of an exploitation framework called Heliconia. And at the time, the exploits used... |
| 09.02.2024 | South Africa’s proposed new spying law is deeply flawed | In early 2021, the constitutional court found that the country’s State Security Agency, through its signals intelligence agency, the National Communication Centre, was conducting bulk interception of electronic signals unlawfully.
Bulk inte... |
| 22.06.2023 | Adtech giant Criteo hit with revised €40M fine by French data privacy body over GDPR breaches | French advertising technology giant Criteo has been issued with a revised fine of €40 million ($44 million) over failings to garner users’ consent around targeted advertising.
The case in question dates back to 2018 when Privacy Internation... |
| 03.04.2023 | Robust Consumer Protection Can Support a Rights-Respecting Digital Future | The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace released a report on March 13 on cyber vulnerabilities across Africa and the potential harm these can cause for underserved communities. It shared the experience of a woman in Nigeria whose rel... |
| 09.01.2023 | Targeted ads are stalking you. Here’s how to avoid and stop targeted ads | As you may recall, last week we wrote about Meta and Apple after the two tech giants were fined for breaking EU data rules with their targeted ads. Facebook’s Meta was fined over $400 million by the EU privacy regulator for forcing users to... |
| 28.09.2022 | Artificial Intelligence Or Augmented Intelligence? | Jayesh Shah is a Digital Transformation Expert |
| 16.09.2022 | Modern ID systems: Watching a global identity crisis unfold | “Show me your papers.” We associate those four words with 20th-century state oppression and the separation of citizens from “others” – where an identity card or number was about facilitating survival, not civic participation. Modern biometr... |
| 01.09.2022 | Africa: Digital Humanitarianism in Africa - Hope or Hype? | Technology can help deliver aid and services more effectively - but can be harmful if users don't know its risks.
Many humanitarian organisations, including in Africa, are revolutionising their service delivery through new technology. This ... |
| 17.08.2022 | Challenge Launched To UK's GPS Monitoring Of Migrants | Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images Getty Images |
| 25.06.2022 | You shouldn't feel you have to delete your period-tracking app because Roe v. Wade was overturned — but you should know the risks, expert says | Period-tracking apps don't have a great record on protecting users' privacy.
With Roe v. Wade overturned, user data from these apps might be accessible by law enforcement.
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| 10.05.2022 | You shouldn't feel you have to delete your period-tracking app if Roe v. Wade is overturned — but you should know the risks, expert says | Period-tracking apps don't have a great record on protecting users' privacy.
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, user data from these apps might be accessible by law enforcement.
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| 05.05.2022 | As Roe v. Wade reversal looms, should you delete your period-tracking app? | The U.S. Supreme Court is anticipated to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that guaranteed a person’s constitutional right to abortion, allowing states to decide whether to heavily regulate or ban the procedure. This reported mov... |
| 30.04.2022 | В Германии присудили апрельскую Международную Премию Большого Брата | "Индивид обладает властью настолько, насколько он перестал быть индивидом". Д. Оруэлл "1984".О премии Big Brother Awards
Церемония присуждения премии состоялась 29 апреля в 18 раз. Премию Big Brother Awards (далее BBA) п... |
| 17.03.2022 | Africa: Challenges of Fingerprinting - Will Digital IDs Revolutionise Service Delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa? | Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and be... |
| 20.12.2021 | Privacy Roundtable IV, problems in the metaverse, a Bitcoin trust fund, and AfDB’s $170 million loan | Share this article:
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| 13.12.2021 | Gig platform report calls for transparency to fix abuse | A not-for-profit set up by a former Uber driver who successfully challenged the ride-hailing giant’s misclassification of drivers’ employment status in the U.K. has published a timely report pressing the case for proper oversight of the alg... |
| 29.11.2021 | Are Ugandan telcos equipped to protect user data? | A recent report from Unwanted Witness, a Uganda-based civil society organisation, reveals that two years on from the implementation of Uganda’s Data Protection and Privacy Act, the nation’s tech companies are still struggling with complianc... |
| 29.10.2021 | Bolt’s EV option, aYo Holdings’ new business model, Facebook’s new name, Namibia’s crime-busting plans | Share this article:
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| 22.10.2021 | African governments are ignoring privacy laws with impunity | - |
| 22.10.2021 | Surveillance Laws Are Failing To Protect Privacy Rights: What We Found In Six African Countries | wp_booster error:
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| 07.10.2021 | M-Pesa, Opay, Telebirr, Palmpay: How Chinese tech is powering African fintech | In 2013, M-Pesa, Africa’s largest mobile money platform, was faced with a major challenge: Its users couldn’t settle insurance premiums and make bank payments in real-time. Payments made to Kenya Power took 48 hours before reflecting in the... |
| 17.09.2021 | 54gene’s Series B, Vilsquare’s founder’s journey, Techpoint Africa’s Privacy Roundtable | Share this article:
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| 30.07.2021 | UK Spy Agencies Under Fire for “Unlawfully” Collecting Private Data | A UK court has declared that UK spy agencies’ collection of private data was carried out illegally.
The harvested data, collected through the use of the Telecommunications Act 1984, was obtained in a way that now breaches EU law, according ... |
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| 26.07.2021 | Meet Clearview, the controversial AI facial recognition startup that scrapes billions of social media photos for use by law enforcement agencies | Late last year, we wrote about Clearview, a controversial facial recognition tech startup that uses AI to automatically scrape and collect publicly billions of photos of faces across social media and other websites to build out its biometri... |
| 30.06.2021 | Worldcoin wants to give you cryptocurrency — in exchange for scanning your eyeballs | Details are slowly emerging about a new startup, Worldcoin, that aims to launch a new cryptocurrency that it would distribute to people in exchange for their eye scans. The futuristic-sounding idea has attracted major supporters in Silicon ... |
| 18.06.2021 | UK’s ICO warns over ‘big data’ surveillance threat of live facial recognition in public | The UK’s chief data protection regulator has warned over reckless and inappropriate use of live facial recognition (LFR) in public places.
Publishing an opinion today on the use of this biometric surveillance in public — to set out what is ... |
| 28.05.2021 | Clearview AI under fire for breaking privacy laws in Europe | Privacy groups in Austria, France, Greece, Italy, and the UK have taken legal action against facial recognition company Clearview AI for breaking EU privacy laws per Bloomberg.
Clearview AI scraped more than 3 billion personal photos from F... |
| 25.05.2021 | Mass surveillance must have meaningful safeguards, says ECHR | The highest chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has delivered a blow to anti-surveillance campaigners in Europe by failing to find that bulk interception of digital comms is inherently incompatible with human rights law — w... |
| 17.05.2021 | All You Need to Know About the U.K. Proscribing the Neo-Nazi Group Atomwaffen Division | On April 23, the U.K. officially proscribed the U.S. accelerationist neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division and its alias, National Socialist Order, as a terrorist organization. This designation follows Canada’s similar move in February and com... |
| 02.05.2021 | Regulators Look Set To Be The Year's Biggest Tech Disruptors (With More To Come) | May 2, 2021 6 min read
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| 22.04.2021 | EU Is Cracking Down On AI, But Leaves A Loophole For Mass Surveillance | AI can be biased. aslysun/Shutterstock
The EU looks set to ban some of the most concerning forms of artificial intelligence (AI), such as the “social credit” surveillance system used in China, according to draft AI regulations published by ... |
| 22.04.2021 | EU Is Cracking Down On AI, But Leaves A Loophole For Mass Surveillance | AI can be biased. aslysun/Shutterstock |
| 31.03.2021 | Vaccination certificates won’t end lockdown. Prosocial approaches will | Covid-19 immunity and vaccination certificates are being held up as golden tickets to the new normal.
Israel, the country leading the way on vaccination rates, has a green pass program to help its citizens return to public spaces such as gy... |
| 04.03.2021 | Five Reforms the FTC Can Undertake Now to Strengthen the Agency | Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on TechTank.
The Federal Trade Commission is a small but resilient federal agency with an outsized influence on the commercial marketplace. It fights fraud and deception, protects consumer pri... |
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| 28.01.2021 | Period apps are a privacy nightmare - should you still use them? An expert explains the risks | Period-tracking apps collect incredibly intimate data about their users.
They also have a track record of shaky privacy practices.
Insider spoke to an expert about what happens to do your data – and whether you should use the apps
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| 28.01.2021 | Are vaccine providers selling your health data? There’s not much stopping them. | When the city of Philadelphia announced its “unique public/private partnership” to create a mass vaccination clinic with an upstart nonprofit called Philly Fighting COVID in early January, it seemed like an objectively good thing. The clini... |
| 24.01.2021 | Period apps are a privacy nightmare – should you still use them? An expert explains the risks | Period-tracking apps collect incredibly intimate data about their users.
They also have a track record of shaky privacy practices.
Insider spoke to an expert about what happens to do your data – and whether you should use the apps
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| 19.01.2021 | Europe is working on a common framework for ‘vaccine passports’ | The European Union is preparing the ground for vaccine passports. A common approach for mutual recognition of vaccination documentation is of the “utmost importance,” the commission said today, adding that it wants “an appropriate trust fra... |
| 11.12.2020 | Europe urged to block Google-Fitbit ahead of major digital policy overhaul | The European Commission must block the Google -Fitbit merger as a matter of democratic imperative, prominent academic and author Shoshana Zuboff has warned.
The Harvard professor who wrote the defining book on surveillance capitalism has be... |
| 27.11.2020 | No Google-Fitbit merger without human rights remedies, says Amnesty to EU | Human rights NGO, Amnesty International, has written to the EU’s competition regulator calling for Google’s acquisition of wearable maker Fitbit to be blocked — unless meaningful safeguards can be baked in.
The tech giant announced its inte... |
| 19.11.2020 | ‘Extreme Vetting’ | The Trump Administration’s Endless Privacy Infringements | In a year where a united front is needed by the entire globe, the US Government seems intent on ramping up his attacks against the civil rights and liberty of migrants by increasing government access to their private information.
Earlier th... |
| 11.11.2020 | Revealed: How The EU Funds Global iPhone And Facebook Surveillance | The European Union is using public money to fund surveillance training for non-EU partners, leading ... [+] to a furious reaction from privacy-focused nonprofits. getty |
| 31.10.2020 | The UK privacy watchdog's ruling against Experian is a warning to data brokers that hoover up personal details | The ICO served credit agency Experian with an enforcement notice, ordering it to change the way it handles its data broking business.
Data broking is the process of companies acquiring people's data, assigning it to a profiled dataset, and ... |
| 18.10.2020 | ISPs Are Monitoring IPTV Pirates’ Activities, Court Documents Reveal | Blocking of regular piracy websites has been a feature of anti-piracy enforcement in Europe for almost 15 years.
The way these blocks are achieved is broadly similar, with entertainment industry companies filing “no-fault” injunctions again... |
| 08.10.2020 | Dangerous permissions and hidden trackers in your period app | Since the term was coined in 2016, femtech, a sub-sector in health technology dedicated to creating solutions that address female wellbeing continues to gain traction and attract VC funding globally. In Africa, however, the space is still v... |
| 06.10.2020 | Europe’s top court confirms no mass surveillance without limits | Europe’s top court has delivered another slap-down to indiscriminate government mass surveillance regimes.
In a ruling today the CJEU has made it clear that national security concerns do not exclude EU Member States from the need to comply ... |
| 03.09.2020 | Fourteen Places Have Passed Local Surveillance Laws. Here’s How They’re Doing. | As protests against police brutality have continued nationwide, Madison, Wisconsin, and New York City have joined 12 other localities that have established procedures for deciding when and how local police can surveil residents. These kinds... |
| 25.08.2020 | Tortures and Enforced Disappearances: The Bloody History of Bangladesh’s Elite Paramilitary Force | On May 3, 2020, Bangladeshi photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol was found blindfolded with his limbs tied in Benapole town, close to the Bangladesh-India border. He had been missing for 53 days.
In the days to come, Kajol was detained on s... |
| 04.08.2020 | Google-Fitbit deal to be scrutinized in Europe over data competition concerns | In a set-back for Google’s plan to acquire health wearable company Fitbit, the European Commission has announced it’s opening an investigation to dig into a range of competition concerns being attached to the proposal from multiple quarters... |
| 22.07.2020 | UK firms are selling invasive spy tech to repressive governments around the world | UK companies are marketing and selling spy tech to countries accused of using such technology to abuse human rights.
Official 2020 data analysed by Business Insider showed firms were licensed to sell surveillance kit to Pakistan, Oman, and ... |
| 19.06.2020 | Oracle’s BlueKai tracks you across the web. That data spilled online | Have you ever wondered why online ads appear for things that you were just thinking about?
There’s no big conspiracy. Ad tech can be creepily accurate.
Tech giant Oracle is one of a few companies in Silicon Valley that has near-perfected th... |
| 19.05.2020 | With the pandemic, African governments have an excuse to censor the Internet | Share this article:
For a continent with a long history of dictatorship and control, the massive freedom afforded by the Internet seems to be irksome for most African governments. As they recognise the importance of the Internet, a number o... |
| 18.05.2020 | The technologies the world is using to track coronavirus — and people | This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series: AI and Surveillance.
Now that the world is in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic, governments are quickly deploying their own cocktails of tracking methods. These include ... |
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| 07.04.2020 | Yet another study finds that Android security is total crap | A new study of Android apps has found that thousands seem to contain hidden backdoors that facilitate secret behavior, in what is but the latest reminder of how aggressively the Google Play Store continues to be targeted by sketchy app deve... |
| 02.04.2020 | Using AI responsibly to fight the coronavirus pandemic | Mark Minevich Contributor
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| 27.03.2020 | Telco metadata grab is for modelling COVID-19 spread, not tracking citizens, says EC | As part of its response to the public health emergency triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission has been leaning on Europe’s telcos to share aggregate location data on their users.
“The Commission kick-started a discussio... |
| 20.03.2020 | What are the rules wrapping privacy during COVID-19? | In a public health emergency that relies on people keeping an anti-social distance from each other to avoid spreading a highly contagious virus for which humans have no pre-existing immunity governments around the world have been quick to l... |
| 17.03.2020 | U.S. Diplomacy Is a Necessary Part of Countering China’s Digital Authoritarianism | Editor's note: This article is part of a series of short articles by analysts involved in the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, among others, highlighting and commenting upon aspects of the commission's findings and conclusion.
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| 12.03.2020 | Beware of What You Download! Tech Giants Sought Lawmakers Help to Protect Data From Health Apps | Tiziana Celine, Tech Times 12 March 2020, 02:03 pm
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Apple and Google have announced that they would not permit apps that aren't from recognized from establishments like governments or hospitals to avoid health information. ... |
| 10.03.2020 | Adtech giant Criteo is being investigated by France’s data watchdog | Adtech giant Criteo is under investigation by the French data protection watchdog, the CNIL, following a complaint filed by privacy rights campaign group Privacy International.
“I can confirm that the CNIL has opened up an investigation int... |
| 25.02.2020 | Facebook’s latest ‘transparency’ tool doesn’t offer much — so we went digging | Just under a month ago Facebook switched on global availability of a tool which affords users a glimpse into the murky world of tracking that its business relies upon to profile users of the wider web for ad targeting purposes.
Facebook is ... |
| 16.01.2020 | Is your SIM registration data in the wrong hands? | My first 9Mobile SIM was registered with a roadside agent. I submitted my fingerprints, a photo of my face, address, full name, date of birth, state of origin, and everything that can be used definitively to identify me.
A few weeks later a... |
| 14.01.2020 | 50+ организаций потребовали от Google разобраться с предустановленными приложениями на Android | Александра Кукуть 14 января 2020, 14:07 50+ организаций потребовали от Google разобраться с предустановленными приложениями на Android
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| 09.12.2019 | Amazon is getting free access to NHS medical data | As fear mounts in the UK at the prospect of the NHS being sold in part or in whole to the US, the government has decided to give Amazon access to National Health Service data for free.
The arrangement means that Amazon will be able to acces... |
| 30.09.2019 | The People v Big Tech: Nigerian takes Truecaller to court for alleged violation of privacy rights | To enforce his right to privacy as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution, one Daniel John filed an application against True Software Scandinavia AB, the Swedish parent company of Truecaller. Filed in 2017, the suit is a class action in whi... |
| 17.09.2019 | South African court declares state surveillance unlawful and invalid | Share this article:
Some weeks ago, Techpoint reported that the South African government had admitted to conducting mass surveillance on foreign communications and within the country to intercept electronic signals for data gathering.
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