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We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this...
... honoring such requests . Even EU citizens covered by the GDPR will need to request the deletion of their entire ...
For many years now, EFF has argued that pervasive online behavioral surveillance, which powers the exploitative data broker industry as well as some...
... is, of course, not Meta’s choice. They sidestepped the GDPR using Terms of Service trickery for as long as they ... announcement , recent court interpretations of the GDPR, as well as the incoming Digital Markets Act (DMA), have ... a $1.3 billion fine already levied against it for another GDPR violation). Opt-in consent to collect, retain, ...
Esta é a terceira parte de uma série em andamento de cinco partes. A primeira parte, a introdução, é aqui. A segunda parte, sobre a quebra de...
... da UE. O Regulamento Geral de Proteção de Dados (GDPR) da União Europeia proíbe a vigilância para fins de ...
The net’s long decline into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four” isn’t a mystery. Nor was it by any means a forgone...
... Existing data-protection laws like the CCPA and GDPR already require online service providers to turn over ...
In a preliminary victory in the continuing fight against privacy-invasive software that “watches” students taking tests remotely, a French...
... by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for processing people’s personal data. Under the GDPR, processing of personal data must be authorized by law, ... had no lawful basis among those provided for by the GDPR and was disproportionate to the intended purpose, i.e. ...
Argentinian telecommunications providers have made strides in their commitments to protecting users’ data privacy, but the gains are uneven—they are...
... Governance Model based mainly on compliance with the EU GDPR, and is the only featured ISP that reported on how the ...
Targeted advertising’s days may be numbered. The Wall Street Journal and Reuters report that the European Data Protection Board has ruled that Meta...
... European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ). This is a big step in the right direction: voluntary ... to target ads. This sleight of hand takes advantage of the GDPR concept of “ contractual necessity ,” in which the GDPR allows data processors to collect and use information as ...
Privacy and online free expression are once again under threat in India, thanks to vaguely worded cybersecurity directions—promulgated by India’s...
... from detection—compared to 72 hours under the EU’s GDPR to notify data breaches—an onerous requirement for ...
Spanish Internet Service Providers (ISPs) continue to fall short of robust transparency about their data protection and user privacy practices, with...
... Spain’s data protection legislation (which incorporates GDPR obligations). They have also fallen short of other parameters that build on GDPR's transparency rules for user data processing. For ...
Over the past few years, data brokers and federal military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies have formed a vast, secretive partnership to...
... analysis, and right-to-know requests through laws like GDPR have revealed relationships between a handful of apps ... Martin Gundersen of NRK Beta filed requests under the GDPR’s Right to Know in order to trace how data about his ...
The executive body of the European Union published today a legislative proposal (text) that, if it became law, would be a disaster for online privacy...
... the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. This new proposal suggests the EU may head in a ...
Computer scientists often build algorithms with a keen focus on “solving the problem,” without considering the larger implications and potential...
... little bit in that direction slowly but surely. Laws like GDPR, CCPA, they're trying to slowly nudge us in this ...
Democracies are in many ways like the internet. In both cases, it may take a thousand cuts to demolish their foundation, yet each cut contributes...
... that such orders should be issued in compliance with the GDPR and respect the prohibition of mandated monitoring, we ...
Lawmakers looking for a starting place on privacy legislation should pass on The Uniform Law Commission’s Uniform Personal Data Protection Act (UPDPA...
... while the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) covers both government and private entities, many state ...
Brazil’s biggest internet connection providers continue to make strides towards better protection of customer data and greater transparency about...
... to Brazil’s new law, the EU General Data Protection Act (GDPR)-inspired regulation that took effect last year. Oi and ...
Indonesia’s Constitutional Court dealt another blow to the free expression and online privacy rights of the country’s 191 million internet users,...
... States. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) does not allow companies to disclose data voluntarily ...
Last year, the EU introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA), an ambitious and thoughtful project to rein in the power of Big Tech and give European...
... by the EU’s landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - a benchmark for global privacy regulations - which ... and kept consistent with the E-Commerce Directive and the GDPR. Content removal regimes can be balanced with speech and ... on automated filtering obligations, respecting the GDPR and making a realistic assessment about the capabilities ...
EFF Legislative Intern Suzi Ragheb wrote this blog post
Antitrust has not had its moment since the 1911 breakup of Standard Oil. But this past year,...
Antitrust has not had its moment since the 1911 breakup of Standard Oil. But this past year,...
... EU, data privacy standards have been established by the GDPR in 2016, codifying it as a fundamental right with high ...
This is the third post in a series about recommendations EFF, EDRi, CIPPIC, Derechos Digitales, TEDIC, Karisma Foundation, and other civil society...
... biometric data than required by competing laws such as the GDPR , the EU Law Enforcement Directive , and the Council of ...
EFF has joined European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), and other civil...
In Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability, we took a thorough look at the privacy implications of various kinds of...
... actually have. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a powerful , far-reaching , and comprehensive (if ... of interoperability, prompting two questions: Does the GDPR mean that the EU doesn’t need interoperability in order to protect Europeans’ privacy? And Does the GDPR mean that interoperability is impossible, because there ...
Virtual worlds are increasingly providing sophisticated, realistic, and often immersive experiences that are the stuff of fantasy. You can enter them...
... put our fingers on. Data protection laws, like the GDPR, require that personal data collected for a specific ...
Special thanks to former legal intern Hinako Sugiyama, who was a lead co-author of this post.
Technology users around the world are increasingly...
Technology users around the world are increasingly...
... data under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) refers to things that are "online identifiers." GDPR guidelines specifically mention that cookie identifiers ...
Last week, the New York Times highlighted the Trump 2020 campaign’s use of deceptive web designs to deceive supporters into donating far more money...
... for email opt-ins. Likewise, the European Union’s GDPR has banned the use of pre-selected checkboxes for ...
WhatsApp users have recently started seeing a new pop-up screen requiring them to agree to its new terms and privacy policy in order to keep using...
... by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. The GDPR prevents WhatsApp from simply passing on user data to ... violates the “coupling prohibition” under the GDPR. The Problems with Messenger Monetization Facebook has ...
Episode 005 of EFF’s How to Fix the Internet
Abi Hassen joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss the rise of facial recognition...
Abi Hassen joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss the rise of facial recognition...
... The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) European Parliament’s Personal Data Protection Fact ... Hassen: Like I think that the European counterpart, the GDPR, is something that is at least putting a stake in at a ... that take really interesting because you mentioned the GDPR, and I think one of the things that makes the GDPR so ...
Visa, the credit card network, is trying to buy financial technology company Plaid for $5.3 billion. The merger is bad for a number of reasons. First...
... tool, which was apparently introduced in mid-2018 (after GDPR went into effect in Europe), is useful—for users who ...
EFF turned thirty this year. In our three decades of work, we’ve seen huge shifts in the way technology and the Internet help, harm, and otherwise...
... each and every one of us, and privacy laws like the GDPR, and the passage of the Copyright Directive in the EU, ...
Update (10/29/2020): Our discussion of interoperability measures was altered to acknowledge that, while this is contemplated in the leaked document,...
... of users and explaining how this complies with the GDPR, the EU’s privacy rules Gatekeepers will have to ...
We're proud to announce a new updated version of The State of Communications Privacy Laws in eight Latin American countries and Spain. For over a...
... the EU's 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Since 2018, several countries, including Barbados and Panama have led the way in adopting GDPR-inspired laws in the region, promising the beginning of ... In fact, the privacy protections of Brazil ’s new GDPR-inspired law took effect last week, on September 18, ...
During the Article 17 (formerly #Article13) discussions about the availability of copyright-protected works online, we fought hand-in-hand with...
... a decision based solely on automated processing under the GDPR. EFF represents the interest of Internet users in the ...
ETICAS Foundation’s second ¿Quien Defiende Tus Datos? (Who Defends Your Data?) report on data privacy practices in Spain shows how Spain’s leading...
... under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s data privacy law that sets ... practices and conduct. In light of the adoption of the GDPR, this year’s report assessed companies against several ... earning partial credit in 2018. The implementation of the GDPR has had a positive effect on privacy policies at only ...
With numbers of COVID-19 infections soaring again in the United States and around the world, we have to learn how to manage its long-term...
... do not. Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), an employee's personal data concerning their health ... or release personal data. In the European Union, under the GDPR, consent can't be a valid legal ground to process the ...
It’s not enough to say that the Internet is built on interoperability. The Internet is interoperability. Billions of machines around the world use...
... laws, including the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). ...
With the passage of last year's Copyright Directive, the EU demanded that member states pass laws that reduce copyright infringement by internet...
... Meanwhile states are also required to uphold the GDPR, which safeguards users against mass, indiscriminate ... impossibility of squaring the Copyright Directive with the GDPR's rules protecting Europeans from "general monitoring," ...
As the EU is gearing up for a major reform of key Internet regulation, we are introducing the principles that will guide our policy work surrounding...
... already have a right to data portability under the GDPR, this right comes with limits. It is not encompassing ... shared. This means that key principles underpinning the GDPR and other applicable legislation—such as data ...
This blog post is co-authored with Least Authority, a Berlin-based tech company committed to advancing digital security and preserving privacy as a...
... name? No. In line with Europe’s data protection law, the GDPR, the app minimizes the amount of personal data it ...
In their efforts to contain the spread of the pandemic, governments around the world are rolling out body-worn devices (“wearables”) to assist in...
... subject to Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies in Liechtenstein . As a general rule, ... when their employer tells them to strap it on. Under the GDPR, consent can't be freely given if there is a clear ...
Twitter greeted its users with a confusing notification this week. “The control you have over what information Twitter shares with its business...
... users differently depending on whether they are subject to GDPR. Previously, anyone in the world could opt out of Twitter’s conversion tracking (type 1), and people in GDPR-compliant regions had to opt in. Now, people outside of ... and Facebook is a new phenomenon. For people protected by GDPR, type-1 data sharing remains opt-in, and type ...
For most of us, social media has never been more crucial than it is right now: it’s keeping us informed and connected during an unprecedented moment...
... are notoriously inaccurate and prone to overblocking. The GDPR provides users with a right not to be subject to ...
A data privacy bill in Washington State has gained momentum. The bill, 2SSB 6281 (also known as the Washington Privacy Act, or WPA), has received...
... Cambridge Analytica scandal and Europe’s adoption of the GDPR , legislators across the U.S. are newly interested in ... Act (CCPA) or the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe. While 2SSB 6281 addresses some issues, such ... far short of the protections provided by the CCPA and GDPR. Washington can—and must—do better. After passing ...
The European Union’s controversial new copyright rules are on a collision course with EU data privacy rules. The GDPR guards data protection, privacy...
... are on a collision course with EU data privacy rules. The GDPR guards data protection, privacy, and other fundamental ... that steer clear of automated filters that violate the GDPR by censoring and discriminating against users. Platforms ... plead their case. Can’t See the Wood For the Trees: the GDPR There’s something awfully familiar about the idea of ...
Last week, we responded to recent changes Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring made to the security and privacy of their devices. In our...
... compliance with privacy legislation like HIPAA and GDPR. Implementation Scheme Suggestion Readers not interested ...
The bad news is that Twitter has disclosed a failure to protect users' phone numbers, again. The good news is that Twitter users can take steps to...
... is unchecked, too.) Unless you are in the EU, where the GDPR requires that features like this be opt-in, these are ...
Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Council of Europe's "Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to the Automatic Processing of...
... laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as similar laws in Canada, Australia, India, ... as a term, at least before companies started sending those GDPR update e-mails in 2018. And because the U.S. model of ... authors paid little attention to compatibility with the GDPR. But, looking at the two side-by-side , what is clear is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...