Privacy Transformation - Issue 17
PUBLIC SERVICES CARD
Are we the wild west of data protection?
By their actions shall we know them. The handling by the Government of the public service card (PSC) saga speaks volumes for how it governs.
Right now the whole issue is of far greater importance than whether or not there were attempts to surreptitiously introduce a national identity card.
'We have to see it' - Fianna Fáil insists Govt must publish Public Services Card report
Fianna Fáil has ramped up the pressure on Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty to publish the Data Protection Commissioner’s highly adversarial report on the Public Services Card.
PRIVACY
New York, 7 other states and D.C. launch antitrust investigation into Facebook
Regulators across the country have signaled growing concerns about the breadth of Silicon Valley’s power and the tech industry’s access to vast amounts of proprietary data.
Europe Shouldn't Use Security to Justify Facial Recognition
As regulators wake up to the threat of this intrusive and flawed technology, governments and police are pushing back with an unconvincing public-safety defense.
DPC consultation on Children’s Data Protection Rights
The DPC has created a preliminary report on Stream I of the consultation on Children’s Data Protection Rights.
SECURITY & TECH
Google Responds to Rival Browser Brave's Allegation It Violates GDPR
Web browser company Brave said on Wednesday that it learned how Google works around GDPR to help its advertising partners identify European web users. According to the company, Google uses Push Pages that contain unique identifiers to share information with its partners.
‘Don’t sit on the fence’: UK regulator reiterates GDPR warning to ad tech companies
The clock is ticking for ad tech businesses that are still playing fast and loose with their compliance with the GDPR.
Apple, angry at Google, hits back at hack claims
Apple admonishes Google over its research into a security vulnerability, saying it painted an incomplete picture.
Please Regulate Us
A piece in The Atlantic penned by Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, calling for more regulation of tech firms.
An Unprecedented Cyberattack Hit US Power Utilities
Exposed Facebook phone numbers, an XKCD breach, and more of the week's top security news.
Google's New Nest Hub Max Raises Questions About How Much We Still Value Our Privacy
Many of us still have an expectation of privacy when we’re in our homes, even as we pay companies like Google to take it away.
DATA BREACHES
EU regulators criticize Facebook over latest data leak
Facebook has suffered another major data breach, exposing the personal information of 210 million Facebook users. Regulators aren't happy.
COURTS
Judge lets Facebook privacy class action proceed, calls company's views 'so wrong'
A federal judge on Monday ordered Facebook Inc to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third parties such as Cambridge Analytica access users' private data, calling the social media company's views on privacy "so wrong."
Google under antitrust investigation by 50 attorneys general
The probe, led by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton from Texas, will focus primarily on Google’s advertising and search businesses. But in their remarks, the attorneys general suggested that they may expand the investigation later.
RESOURCES
The Preliminary Draft of the NIST Privacy Framework has been published
We are delighted to announce the release of the Preliminary Draft of the NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy through Enterprise Risk Management for public comment.
We read 150 Privacy Policies. They were an incomprehensible disaster.
Like most privacy policies, they’re verbose and full of legal jargon — and opaquely establish companies’ justifications for collecting and selling your data.
The average policy took 18 minutes to finish and required a college-level reading ability.
The Usable Privacy Policy Project
The Usable Privacy Policy Project develops techniques to semi-automatically analyse privacy policies with crowdsourcing, natural language processing, and machine learning. You can explore some of the project’s privacy policy annotations which identify different data collection and use practices.
AI-powered Privacy Policies
Polisis is a unique way of visualizing privacy policies. Using deep learning, it allows you to know what the company is collecting about you, what it is sharing, and much more. You don't have to read the full privacy with all the legal jargon to understand what you are signing up for.