data privacy

Germany tells Apple, Google to remove DeepSeek from the country’s app stores

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Germany has told Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI app DeepSeek from their app stores in the country, saying the app transfers users’ information to China illegally, Reuters reported. Meike Kamp, Germany’s data protection commissioner, told the companies that DeepSeek did not provide “convincing evidence” that users’ data was protected as required by EU […]

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A breach of a data broker’s trove of location data threatens the privacy of millions

Security /

A hack and data breach at location data broker Gravy Analytics is threatening the privacy of millions of people around the world, whose smartphone apps unwittingly revealed their location data collected by the data giant. The full scale of the data breach isn’t yet known, but the alleged hacker has already published a large sample

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EU court fines European Commission for breaching its own data privacy laws

Government & Policy /

A top court has ordered the European Union’s top executive authority to pay €400 (around $410) in damages to a German citizen for breaching its own data protection laws. In a statement, the EU General Court said the European Commission violated the citizen’s rights by transferring some of his personal data to the United States

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With 25M users, Bluesky gets a $1M fund to take on social media and AI

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Successful tech companies follow a typical pattern: from product to platform where other startups build businesses on top of theirs. To spur that, they often launch a fund. In this case, someone else is launching a fund to help fast-growing social media site Bluesky, which now claims 25 million users. On Wednesday open source and

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UK revives plan to reform data protection rules with an eye on boosting the economy

Privacy /

A new data bill from the U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) aims to revive several measures that failed to pass under the prior government, while rowing back on some controversial post-Brexit reforms proposed by Conservative ministers. The government reckons the “Data (Use and Access) Bill” (DUA) stands to boost the U.K. economy

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UK school reprimanded for unlawful use of facial recognition technology

Government & Policy /

An English school has been formally reprimanded by the U.K.’s data protection regulator after it used facial recognition technology without getting specific opt-in consent from students for processing their facial scans. The news reignites the ongoing privacy debate around the use of biometric data, particularly in school settings where children are involved. New York banned

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USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

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The U.S. Postal Service was sharing the postal addresses of its online customers with advertising and tech giants Meta, LinkedIn, and Snap, TechCrunch has found. On Wednesday, the USPS said it addressed the issue and stopped the practice, claiming that it was “unaware” of it. TechCrunch found USPS was sharing customers’ information by way of

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