privacy
Instead of dispatching an officer each time, several Colorado police departments may soon dispatch a drone to respond to certain 911 calls. While the proposal has promise, it also raises uncomfortable questions about privacy. As Shelly Bradbury reported this week in The Denver Post, "A handful of local law enforcement agencies are considering using drones as first responders—that is, sending them in response to 911 calls—as police departments across Colorado continue to widely embrace the use of the remote-controlled flying machines." Bradbury quotes Arapahoe County Sheriff Jeremiah Gates sayi...
Reason
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...
Euronews (English)
The end of cash has been heralded for years—mostly by government officials eager to end the expense of minting coins and printing banknotes while pushing transactions to digital forms that can be tracked and taxed. The transformation has met varying degrees of acceptance or resistance from people around the globe. But Australians appear to be eagerly advancing down the road towards a cash-free world. Disappearing Banknotes and Coins"Cash was once a staple in the economy, but it's fast becoming a relic of the past," according to an April report on Australia's financial evolution from SBSNews. "...
Reason
French police are deploying video surveillance powered by artificial intelligence (AI) at two Paris metro stations used by fans attending pop superstar Taylor Swift'ss concerts in the city. The decree, published by the capital's Prefecture de Police earlier this week, justified the use of the controversial technique by saying that "in the current context, these concerts are events that are particularly exposed to the risk of acts of terrorism". The deployment will last a week from May 7 to 14 at the Nanterre Préfecture and La Défense Grande Arche metro stations, both of us which serve the Pari...
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Trade unions from 11 different EU countries have written to data protection authorities across the bloc asking them to investigate Amazon’s data surveillance practices, according to a letter seen by Euronews today (7 May). The union leaders, from European countries where Amazon’s warehouses employ significant numbers of workers – including Austria, Germany, Ireland and Spain – question the online marketplace’s use of surveillance and algorithmic management. They claim that the tech giant uses hand scanners, activity monitoring software, video cameras, GPS devices and other tracking technologie...
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Austrian privacy advocates filed a complaint today (29 April) against US-based software developer OpenAI over its popular chatbot ChatGPT. The group has asked Austria’s privacy watchdog to investigate, claiming the tech start-up is breaching EU data protection rules by being unable to correct false information generated by its artificial intelligence tool. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) stipulates that information about individuals must be accurate and that citizens should have full access to any personal data that a company might be holding. But OpenAI cannot say what informati...
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Online rights activists have called for a sweeping overhaul of dated online privacy rules, in a letter published on Wednesday (24 April). The EU’s ePrivacy legislation needs to protect encryption and remove Facebook-style pay-and-consent models, said an open letter to the European Commission sent by 14 organisations, including European Digital Rights (EDRi) and Access Now. EU online privacy laws, first set out in 2002 and amended in 2006 and 2009, now seem dated given the rapid evolution of the internet. But plans to reform the law to offer better online protections and new business opportunit...
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The Netherlands' data watchdog recommended that the government not use Facebook to communicate with the public if it is unclear what happens to users' personal data. Aleid Wolfsen, chairman of the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens or Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP), said in a statement released last week that people rely on the government and use social media platforms like Facebook to communicate with it. He said that government organisations should not use such platforms for communication if they do not know what is happening with people's data. Donald Trump calls Meta's Facebook 'enemy of th...
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The social media platform Telegram will hit one billion users this year, its co-founder Pavel Durov has said in an interview. Offering users mass group chat functions with so-called channels, as well as an emphasis on privacy and encryption, Telegram has 900 million monthly users making it the sixth most used app in the world behind Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, and WeChat. "Telegram is spreading like forest fire" and is expected to rise and to hit one billion users in 2024, Durov told the American conservative commentator and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an intervi...
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The EU’s incoming digital identity wallet has sparked claims on social media and by politicians that Brussels intends to strip away citizens’ privacy and exert control over their lives. The wallet, which is still in the pipeline, is an app that will let users store key information like official ID and bank details in a single, secure place. It will allow citizens, residents and businesses to prove their identity to access public and private services across Europe. The European Commission states that the wallet will provide a simple and safe way to control how much information people wish to sh...
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