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Britta Eder’s list of phone contacts is full of people the German state considers to be criminals. As a defense lawyer in Hamburg, her client list includes anti-fascists, people who campaign against nuclear power, and members of the PKK, a banned militant Kurdish nationalist organization. For her clients’ sake, she’s used to being cautious on the phone. “When I talk on the phone I always think, maybe I'm not alone,” she says. That self-consciousness even extends to phone calls with her mother. But when Hamburg passed new…

European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium, February 1, 2023 REUTERS/Yves HermanEuropean Union plans to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) face another stumbling block after lawmakers failed to agree on a basic set of proposals, according to four people familiar with the matter. The bloc's highly anticipated AI Act is widely expected to be put to a vote at the European Parliament at the end of March, at which point individual nations will begin negotiating final terms of…

A blood glucose control system with the help of a smartphone and a meter that is fixed to the skin.Ute Grabowsky | Photothek | Getty ImagesThe internet of things to remote monitor and manage common health issues has been growing steadily, led by diabetes patients.About one out of every 10 Americans, or 37 million people, are living with diabetes. Devices such as insulin pumps, which go back decades, and continuous glucose monitors, which monitor blood sugar levels 24/7, are increasingly connected to smartphones via…

European Union regulators on Wednesday hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for privacy violations and banned the company from forcing users in the 27-nation bloc to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity. European Union regulators on Wednesday hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for privacy violations and banned the company from forcing users in the 27-nation bloc to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity. Ireland's Data Protection…

Digital Personal Data Protection Bill frames out the rights and duties of the citizen on one hand and the Obligations to use collected data lawfully. The Digital Data Protection Bill, which the Central government is working on, is likely to be introduced in the upcoming Budget Session of 2023-24.The Bill is currently in its draft stage and has been placed in the public domain for consultation. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill is legislation that frames out the rights and duties of the citizen (Digital Nagrik)…

The government’s move to relax data localization requirements in the proposed data protection law is set to help companies maintain parity in the cost of running their businesses in India, said industry stakeholders. The draft of the new bill,…

TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based tech giant ByteDance, is used by over 1 billion people worldwide every month.Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesTikTok on Friday denied that it used specific location data to track certain U.S. individuals, pushing back against a Forbes report that alleged the Chinese-owned video app was planning on carrying out such monitoring.On Thursday, Forbes published an article alleging TikTok, which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, planned to use its app "to monitor the personal…

Pfefferkorn also encourages asking your school to perform an audit of its monitoring software, which could reveal what kind of content the algorithm is tracking and how. An audit might reveal whether the software is truly effective or is picking up on false alarms. Encourage your school to document and inform parents of exactly what they track, how they store, and when they delete student data. Ask if you can have your child’s data deleted, or at least see what has been collected.Act Like You’re Being Watched, Even After…

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has often criticised WhatsApp. This time he called the messaging platform a ‘surveillance tool. The Telegram founder has urged the users to stay away from the Meta-owned…

The government’s plan to switch to GPS-based road tolling from FASTags may face logistical…