Did you know that your Ring doorbell video footage could be part of police surveillance? Ring saw search warrants increase 33 percent in 2022 from the previous year. The lack of legal controls on what police can ask for, and judges failing to properly scrutinize these warrants, opens the door for even indoor home footage […]
De Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) intensiveert haar toezicht op de gemeente Eindhoven. De AP heeft signalen dat de gemeente datalekken niet of niet op tijd meldt, verplichte scans op privacyrisico’s achterwege laat en persoonsgegevens van burgers te lang bewaart. Het door Eindhoven overgelegde verbeterplan heeft de zorgen van de AP niet weggenomen.
De Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) en de Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) op Facebookpagina’s door de overheid zijn als samenvatting bijgesloten in een kamerbrief door Staatssecretaris van Huffelen. Het onderzoeksrapport DPIA concludeert dat overheidsorganisaties moeten stoppen met het gebruik van Facebook-pagina’s als Facebook geen maatregelen neemt om de hoge gegevensbeschermingsrisico’s te verhelpen. De Nederlandse […]
The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs has recommended states that the executive order is too vague, and leaves US courts — who would be the sole interpreters of the proposed EU-US Data Privacy Framework — wiggle room to approve the bulk collection of data for signals intelligence, and doesn’t apply […]
The ChatGPT tool is based on a web crawler which collects for every bit of connected data, by which it will turn up and propogate proprietary information. But at the same time developers love to cut & paste production jsons/xmls into public-free-pretty formatters/validators or unintentionally share that with their AI Assistant. And office employees type […]
The EDPS – European Data Protection Supervisor states in an opinion that in order to act as a controller, the entity / involved party must determine the purposes & essential means of the processing. “Essential means” are closely linked to the purpose and the scope of the processing.On the other hand, “non-essential means” concern more […]
The Italian privacy regulator has ordered a popular AI chatbot to cease processing data on domestic citizens after breaking GDPR rules. The ‘virtual friend’ app tries to improve users’ emotional well-being and help users understand their thoughts and calm anxiety through stress management, socialization and the search for love,” but doesn’t seem to comply with […]
Public bodies should take into account the possible sensitive nature and large amounts of data processed by publicbodies. But how to guarantee the fundamental right to the protection of personal data? The EDPB therefore underlines the need for public bodies to act in full compliance with the GDPR when using cloud-based products or services. In […]
C-154/21.Österreichische PostEvery person has the right to know to whom his or her personal data have been disclosed.A citizen requested Österreichische Post, the principal operator of postal and logistical services in Austria, to disclose to him the identity of the recipients to whom it had disclosed his personal data. The post gave petitioner only the […]
Meta was fined with €390M (210 million and €180 million fines for Facebook and Instagram) and accused the company of lacking proper legal grounds to process millions of Europeans’ with its data-fueled advertising model. Meta trongly disagree with the DPC’s final decision, and believes to fully comply with GDPR by relying on Contractual Necessity for […]