privacy
Lifting lockdown: the emerging role of the contact tracing app
The NHSX contact tracing app is currently being trialled on the Isle of Wight, but has the government picked the best approach for privacy and effectiveness?
Covid-19 and contracting for AI: don't skip the fine print in the rush for solutions
AI is different. Contractual mistakes now could have critical and expensive consequences, both in terms of human health and business viability
Xiaomi is tracking users through browser and other apps, security researchers claim
The Chinese firm is currently among the world's top four smartphone manufacturers by market share
Fairphone partners with /e/OS for a privacy-enhanced version of its FP3 smartphone
/e/OS is a 'de-Googled' fork of Android with trackers removed
Privacy experts express serious concern at NHSX COVID-19 contact tracing app
A letter signed by over a hundred privacy experts and academics following a meeting of the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee as they debate the app, has been published with almost 200 signatories
Covid-19: the race to create privacy-focused contact tracing tools
As authorities seek technological solutions to the pandemic, experts fear the consequences for civil liberties
How to mitigate the privacy issues of video conferencing platforms
Legal experts from Kemp Little explain what individuals and organisations should do to mitigate some of the many privacy concerns inherent in some of the major video conferencing platforms available today
Zoom promises to resolve security and privacy issues in its video-conferencing service
The company says users are utilising the app in myriad unexpected ways
Zoom hit with class-action lawsuit for allegedly sharing user data with Facebook
The lawsuit claims that Zoom has violated the California's Consumer Privacy Act
Do we really want Palantir embedded in the NHS?
Beware bad policy made in haste because of coronavirus, say campaigners
Google is indexing invite links to private WhatsApp groups
WhatsApp's private links aren't so private any more
Avast to close Jumpshot data-analytics firm following claims it sold anti-virus users' web-browsing data
Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek claims he made the decision following a review instigated after he joined seven months ago
Google to whack third-party tracking cookies - but you'll have to wait until 2022
Google shifts position on tracking cookies and announces plans to tackle 'browser fingerprinting'
Privacy International demands Amazon, Google and other cloud companies reveal use of 'cloud extraction' technology
Privacy pressure group calls for 17 cloud giants to 'protect customer data from legal backdoors'
California's new consumer privacy law comes into effect this week
The landmark California Consumer Privacy Act offers Californians several basic rights
ECJ opinion backs Facebook over data privacy 'standard contractual clauses'
Advocate general Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe backs standard contract clauses, but warns they require ongoing scrutiny
European Court of Justice Privacy Shield legal opinion to be published on Thursday
ECJ advocate general also considering whether EU's standard contractual clauses provide sufficient protection for European consumers
Apple's iPhone 11 Pro is tracking users who disable location services
The behaviour is against Apple's own privacy policy
Google in deal to transfer full medical records from US healthcare company, claims whistleblower
Google denies whistleblower claims that it plans to "mine patient information" and "sell or share data with third parties"
Apple slammed by developers over 'anti-competitive' privacy changes to iOS 13
App makers claim that Apple's tightened privacy permissions won't apply to Apple apps
Facial recognition begins creeping roll-out across London with installation on Kings Cross estate and Canary Wharf set to follow
Question marks over GDPR opt-outs for facial recognition surveillance systems springing up across London
Netherlands' government: Staff shouldn't use Office due to privacy problems over telemetry
Report recommends against using Office Online or Office mobile apps over exfiltration of data
'Highly intrusive' facial recognition trials should be suspended, urge MPs
MPs question legal basis for facial recognition trials conducted by police forces
Microsoft Office 365 banned by schools in Germany over privacy fears
And Apple and Google are no better, warns the data protection registrar of the state of Hesse
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