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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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Google has agreed to delete billions of records containing personal information from people in the US who used its Chrome web browser. The purge of information collected from more than 136 million people comes as part of a lawsuit settlement, the details of which emerged in a court filing on Monday. The lawsuit from 2020 alleges that Google tracked users' internet activity even when they were in "Incognito" mode. French watchdog imposes a €250 million fine on Google amid dispute with news publishersGoogle vigorously fought the lawsuit until US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected a r...
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By Srinivas Kodali Doosra, a privacy-focused anti-spam app, helped Indians share a disposable secondary mobile number at public places like supermarkets, restaurants or wherever people are uncomfortable in sharing their number to stop spam. Doosra blocks all calls by default, and only allows whitelisted numbers using the settings in their app giving people control. The service has been disrupted over the last few months and the firm announced they are unsure when the services will be available again with the Department of Telecom stopping their licence. Doosra has been unable to provide servic...
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By Scot Finnie How did we get to the point where the tech industry is in the user-data business instead of the tech business? Every day, Google collects data on billions of people worldwide, according to The Regulatory Review. The dodge that users gain some benefit from ad targeting is fallacy. For example, if Google's search were decoupled from its advertising, there would be less chance for users to be misled by ignored search terms and seemingly hard-wired results. There's nothing beneficial to the user about Google's sponsored search results. That's also true of the adjacent Google ads tha...
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