Ireland’s data protection regulator has moved a step closer to a ruling that could halt EU-US data transfers from Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram, according to an updated draft shared with other EU regulators on Thursday, Reuters reported. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued an interim injunction in 2020 to block the mechanism Meta uses to […]
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The EU and the US agreed “in principle” on a new data transfer agreement
The European Union and the United States announced on Friday that they had agreed “in principle” on a new framework for cross-border data transfer, providing relief to tech giants such as Meta and Google. According to CNBC, for more than a year, officials on both sides of the Atlantic have been working on an agreement […]
France: Fines of € 150 million on Google and € 60 million on Facebook for their cookies
Cnil, the French privacy authority, has imposed heavy fines of € 150 million and € 60 million respectively on Google and Facebook for their practices on cookies, digital crawlers used specifically for targeted advertising. The amount of the fine imposed on Google is a record in all categories of sanctions imposed by the Committee on […]
Israel, China, Singapore use surveillance tech to track Covid-19
From Israel to South Korea to China, governments around the world are using technology to track the coronavirus outbreak as they race to stem its spread. But how long will it last and is this an infringement of privacy, rights groups have asked. In China, government-installed CCTV cameras point at the apartment door of those under […]
Singapore to make contact tracing tech open source
Medical staff walk to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases building at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore on January 31, 2020. Roslan Rahman | APF | Getty Images Less than a week after launching an app to track potential exposure to the coronavirus, Singapore is making the technology freely available to developers worldwide. The […]