data protection
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ByteDance: TikTok failed to bar users it suspected to be under 13
12 year old Lianna Riedel Frank had more than 10.000 followers on TikTok. Her account was only banned after the Danish Broadcasting Corporation reported on her. ByteDance: TikTok failed to bar users it suspected to be under 13 TikTok says it is for users 13 years and older. But insiders report, the video-sharing-app instructed content moderators not to block children on the platform. Conspicuous videos were escalated to a team in Beijing instead.
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L'App unique: France goes it alone on digital contact tracing
The French approach to contact tracing makes the country at odds with EU partners L'App unique: France goes it alone on digital contact tracing The European Commission wants to make Corona-tracing apps work across borders ahead of the summer holidays. But the French app has been excluded.
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Data protection: Facebook pauses election day reminders in the EU
Analogue reminders: German posters from the EU elections in May 2019 Data protection: Facebook pauses election day reminders in the EU The social network likes to nudge its users to go to the polls. But after concerns from European data protection authorities, Facebook announces it will stop the feature.
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Interview: Searx, the web search engine that respects your privacy
Protest in Berlin: Fuck off Google! Interview: Searx, the web search engine that respects your privacy Search engines can be privacy friendly, decentralized and non-commercial. We spoke to Adam Tauber, main developer of the free software search engine Searx. In our interview he talks about free information, filter bubbles and servers without logs.
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: Großbritannien: Datenschutzbeauftragte rügt Krankenhäuser
Sensible Daten: Zu den medizinischen Dokumenten, die auf der Plattform ausgetauscht werden sollen, gehören etwa Röntgenaufnahmen. : Großbritannien: Datenschutzbeauftragte rügt Krankenhäuser Bei den Ermittlungen gegen einen großen Krankenhausverband in Großbritannien liegen erste Ergebnisse vor: Die Datenschutzbeauftragte schreibt in einem Bericht, dass die ungefragte Weitergabe der Daten von 1,6 Millionen Patienten an die Google-Tochter DeepMind teilweise rechtswidrig sei – und belässt es doch bei einer Ermahnung.
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: TiSA-Leaks: Fundamental rights shall be levered out for free trade – also in the internet
: TiSA-Leaks: Fundamental rights shall be levered out for free trade – also in the internet The free trade agreement TiSA is a danger for the internet. New leaks we publish in cooperation with Greenpeace show clearly that privacy, net neutrality and IT security are under threat. Moreover, the US want to privatize censorship. An overview of the most important issues.
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: Leak shows: Trade treaty TiSA could undermine national data protection regulations
Countries involved in the TiSA negotiations - via know-ttip.eu : Leak shows: Trade treaty TiSA could undermine national data protection regulations Klick für deutschsprachige Version The secretly negotiated trade treaty TiSA – short for „Agreement on Trade in Services“ – jeopardizes privacy protection in international data transfers. That demonstrates a leaked draft from the TiSA negotiations, which we received in journalistic partnership with Associated Whistleblowing Press through its Spanish platform filtrala.org. Data protection regulations, like the […]
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: Afrikanische Union verabschiedet Rahmenkonvention zu IT-Sicherheit und Datenschutz
: Afrikanische Union verabschiedet Rahmenkonvention zu IT-Sicherheit und Datenschutz Weitgehend unbemerkt von der Öffentlichkeit hat die Afrikanische Union (AU) diesen Sommer eine umfassende Rahmenkonvention zu den Themen Datenschutz und IT-Sicherheit verabschiedet (African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection). Ende Juni hatten die 54 Staats- und Regierungschefs auf einem regulären Gipfeltreffen die Konvention beschlossen. Die Konvention muss jetzt von 15 Mitgliedsstaaten ratifiziert […]