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To the extent that 260-page regulations can ever be said to be “famous,” Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) certainly had its moment...
... Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) certainly had its moment in limelight in 2018. When it ... that marketed itself (presumably in compliance with the GDPR) by offering to lull its users to sleep with spoken excerpts from the law. Did the GDPR live up to the year’s hype, good or bad? As Premier ...
Almost three years ago, the global domain name authority ICANN chartered a working group to consider how to build a replacement for the WHOIS...
... Europe's General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR on May 25, which will make the continued operation of ... the Board regarding how this WG will be affected by the GDPR compliance efforts." ICANN Board Cookbook With ... bringing the legacy WHOIS system into compliance with the GDPR. The ingredients of this so-called "Cookbook" proposal ...
Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in May 2018, and with it, a new set of tough penalties for companies that...
Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in May 2018, and with it, a new ... the blame on ICANN, either for their liability under the GDPR if they complied with their WHOIS obligations, or for ... protection law. Three Interim Options Finally, with the GDPR deadline hard approaching and with the work of the ...
Browser fingerprinting is on a collision course with privacy regulations. For almost a decade, EFF has been raising awareness about this tracking...
... European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which entered into force on May 25th, is intended to ... Europe-wide law. This leads to a key question: Will the GDPR require companies to make fingerprinting as visible to ... “personal data processing” and will be covered by the GDPR. What is browser fingerprinting and how does it work? ...
Europe is very close to the finishing line of an extraordinary project: the adoption of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a single,...
... adoption of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a single, comprehensive replacement for the 28 ... data” as a separate and equal right to privacy. The GDPR is intended to update and maintain that high standard of ... its enforcement. The battle over the details of the GDPR has so far mostly been a debate between advocates ...
Andrés is Technology Projects Manager for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. A Telecom and Electronics Engineer, he previously worked for Mobile...
... Everywhere, impact on technology from regulations like GDPR and CCPA, and Forensics. Andrés Arrieta ...
The company publicly announced last week that it was shutting down its Partner Categories program to “help improve people’s privacy on Facebook.”...
... part of the company’s efforts to comply with the GDPR, the new EU data protection law going into effect in ... did mention the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies to all companies that process any ... will shut off in the EU on May 25, 2018—the day the GDPR goes into effect—and at the end of September for the ...
Join EFF at the Decentralized Web Summit in San Francisco! We’ll be joining community members, builders, and experts to discuss how core civil...
... O’Brien, International Director: How do we deal with the GDPR and Data Protection in the Decentralized Web? ...
France’s data protection authority is first out the gate with a big decision regarding a high-profile tech company, and every other enforcer in...
... for breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This is about 57 million U.S. dollars. The decision ... accounts for Google services on Android devices. Since the GDPR came into effect on May 25, 2018, many companies have ... to users. The Complaints from Privacy Advocates Under the GDPR, processing of personal data is only allowed where there ...
Anyone looking at their inbox in the last few months might think that the Internet companies have collectively returned from a term-of-service...
... due to Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force on May 25th. Most companies ... terms of service to avoid breaking this new EU law. The GDPR strongly encourages clarity in "information addressed to ... out their data use. But the additional penalties of the GDPR (with fines of up to 20 million euro, or 4% of global ...
One conception of the Internet -- and rapidly-changing technology in general -- is to claim that it is beyond effective regulation, because its...
... a look at Australia's new anti-encryption law, the EU's GDPR and Article 13 and 11 of the proposed Copyright ...
Ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal last summer, consumer data privacy has been a hot topic in Congress. The witness table has been dominated...
... back. The Senate Judiciary committee held a hearing called GDPR & CCPA: Opt-ins, Consumer Control, and the Impact on ... top Democrat, Senator Dianne Feinstein, asked if the GDPR was bad for business. CDT’s Michelle Richardson responded by saying that because the GDPR is so new, we don’t yet know its effects. Richardson ...
The Senate Commerce Committee hearing on consumer privacy this morning was exactly what we and other privacy advocates expected: a chorus of big tech...
... shouldn’t adopt standards along the lines of the EU’s GDPR or California’s CCPA. None of this was surprising . ... while the company representatives present claimed that GDPR and the CCPA imposed unreasonable burdens, they all ...
A new year often starts with good resolutions. Some resolve to change a certain habit, others resolve to abandon an undesired trait. Mobile app...
... data under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and consumers have no practical option to avoid being ... into exploitative practices in contradiction to the GDPR, the report says. While the research was carried out in ...
2018 may be remembered as the Year of the Facebook Scandal, and rightly so. The Cambridge Analytica fiasco, Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony...
... On May 25, Europe’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) took effect . The law includes some of the most ... impact of the regulation has been a mixed bag. On paper, GDPR prohibits tracking unless the user has opted in. In ... like ICANN, made some privacy-positive improvements under GDPR, but did not take the opportunity to go far enough . And ...
In terms of technical approaches to protecting user privacy online, 2018 has certainly seen its ups and downs.
On a positive note, we added a ton of...
On a positive note, we added a ton of...
... industry failed after seven years. The advent of the GDPR promised better protection for those covered by it at ... optimistic about the future. With the advent of the GDPR this year, we think browser fingerprinting companies ... cookies, which are easy for users to block and remove. The GDPR unequivocally states that this kind of personal data ...
Against all the odds, but with the support of nearly a million Europeans, MEPs voted earlier this month to reject the EU's proposed copyright reform—...
... Net-savvy MEPs and activists that wrote and fought for the GDPR put their names to challenge the idea that these laws ... tradition of producing a rich supply of amendments (the GDPR had thousands). We'll need to coalesce support around a ...
Yesterday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on consumer data privacy was a welcome improvement. The last time the Committee convened around this...
... have made plans to pull out of Europe after the watershed GDPR went into effect earlier this year is proof that ... also called for stiffer financial penalties, as under the GDPR, explaining that even a $22.5 million fine is only a few ...
The way we design user interfaces can have a profound impact on the privacy of a user’s data. It should be easy for users to make choices that...
... the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by tricking the consumer into giving Google access to ... Google’s consent and transparency practices violate the GDPR. The CNIL fined Google 50 million Euros (equivalent to ...
What if we allowed some people to patent the law and then demand money from the rest of us just for following it?
As anyone with a basic...
As anyone with a basic...
... with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation , or GDPR, saying they infringe its patent. Netherlands-based ... on websites, a now-common method of complying with the GDPR, violate its patent. The lawsuit against Faktor notes ...
In a stunning rejection of the will of five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protestors this weekend, the European Parliament has...
... be drawn-out, and chaotic. Unlike EU Regulations like the GDPR, which become law on passage by the central EU ... legal challenges in Europe’s courts. Again, unlike the GDPR, which gave existing regulatory bodies the clear power ...
San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce the winners of its 2018 Pioneer Awards: fair use champion Stephanie...
... was instrumental in the bruising lobbying battle over the GDPR, the “General Data Protection Regulation” that ...
Despite waves of calls and emails from European Internet users, the European Parliament today voted to accept the principle of a universal pre-...
... is moving on; Jan Philipp Albrecht, the MEP behind the GDPR, has already left Parliament to take up a position in ...
Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal...
... their hands on it despite explicit requirements under the GDPR that a company give users a “ right to know ” what ...
Since academics and investigative journalists first reported last year that Facebook was using people’s two-factor authentication numbers and “shadow...
... their hands on it despite explicit requirements under the GDPR that a company give users a “ right to know ” what ...
We’ve all heard the expression, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” We might hope that what we do and where we go will only be known to those...
... (DPA) imposed a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) fine of approximately 20,000 euros on a municipality ... sensitive biometric information, as required under the GDPR, indicating that “consent was not a valid legal basis ...
After grilling Mark Zuckerberg for ten hours this past week, the big question facing Congress is, “What’s next?” The wide-ranging hearings covered...
... implements the EU’s General Data Privacy Protections (GDPR) for their non-European users. But if Congress tries to ...
In exactly one week, the European Parliament will hold a crucial debate and vote on a proposal so terrible, it can only be called an extinction-level...
... started enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a seismic event that eclipsed all other Internet news ...
Your rights go with you when you go online. That’s the simple premise that has guided EFF’s work for 28 years. To make this premise real in 2018, we...
... Pushing Back Against Backdoors The Year of the GDPR Congress Censors the Internet, But EFF Continues to ...
Thanks to the success of projects like Let’s Encrypt and recent UX changes in the browsers, most page-loads are now encrypted with TLS. But DNS, the...
... people to help others understand the rights that GDPR has brought to Europeans,” he said, “and to give ...
Foreign police often want to investigate a crime by gathering potential evidence from Internet companies located in another country. What if police...
... due to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). ISPs are also subject to an even stricter legal ...
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Last month, 360 cyber crime experts from 95 countries gathered in Strasbourg to attend the Octopus Conference. The event sounds like something from...
... treaty on data protection that was the forerunner of the GDPR. Currently, the CoE Cybercrime Committee (TC-Y), ...
EFF’s annual Pioneer Awards Ceremony recognizes extraordinary individuals for their commitment and leadership in extending freedom and innovation on...
... net neutrality and General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, and notably, was a centralizing force for diverse ...
Social media has a competition problem, and its name is Facebook. Today, Facebook and its subsidiaries are over ten times more valuable than the next...
... text and HTML. Europe’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), which took effect May 25, 2018, declares data ... basic right for all European citizens. In accordance with GDPR, Facebook’s newest export tool allows users everywhere ... can pass laws that mandate real data portability, as the GDPR already does in Europe. Such laws should require that ...
Facebook’s first reactions to the Cambridge Analytical headlines looked very different from the now contrite promises Mark Zuckerberg made to the U.S...
... like the EU's Code of Conduct on Hate Speech , or even the GDPR. Data is to be held in giant silos by big companies, and ...
The European Copyright Directive vote is in three days and it will be a doozy: what was once a largely uncontroversial grab bag of fixes to copyright...
... in two widely rejected proposals on the same day the GDPR came into effect, forming a perfect distraction (you can ...
Google Chrome is the most popular browser in the world. Chrome routinely leads the pack in features for security and usability, most recently helping...
... the EU ratified the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a sweeping (and complicated ) set of guidelines that ...
The U.S. government sends a lot of emails. Like any large, modern organization, it wants to “optimize” for “user engagement” using “analytics” and “...
... made the investment to remain FedRAMP, ISO 27001 and GDPR compliant. Privacy and security are our highest and ...
Note: If you have general questions or concerns or are not sure to whom your message should be addressed, please write to info@eff.org rather than...
... first product is designed to help companies comply with GDPR by quickly determining who’s who in their data while ...
(Note that EFF's Technology Projects, such as HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger, and Certbot, have a different privacy policy, available here)
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... we have entered into General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant Data Protection Addendums with third-parties ...
By Bennett Cyphers and Gennie Gebhart
Introduction
Trackers are hiding in nearly every corner of today’s Internet, which is to say nearly every...
... annoy users, and trigger regulation under laws like GDPR. Yet the largest tracking networks cover vast swaths of ... from tracking. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union gives those it covers the right ... from a “legitimate interest” or opt-in consent. The GDPR is far from perfect, and its effectiveness will depend ...
EFF and Open Rights Group today submitted formal comments to the British Treasury, urging restraint in applying anti-money-laundering regulations to...
Joint Civil Society Response to the provisional draft text of the Second Additional Protocol to...
