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Almost 30 data leaks are reported every day, according to the latest available figures from the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA). Organisations that lose private data from citizens get away with it without being...
It seems that privacy is not a concern to E-stonia, where data protection laws allow government agencies to access users' personal data, which ICT companies retain despite EU law.
Opinion shapers don’t just develop new ideas that may become social rules. They also create new information on how existing rules are being applied in practice - something called democratic accountability. To do so they need privacy - here is why.
The American company Airbnb has ended the practice of processing Dutch national identification numbers (BSN) at the insistence of the Dutch data protection authority. Airbnb now automatically extracts the BSN from all...
In this episode we explain that without privacy, we would have fewer new ideas and fewer new rules. Privacy allows opinion shapers and social innovators to shake things up and change majority views.
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Max Schrems, an Austrian lawyer who overturned the Safe Harbour agreement by suing Facebook and changed how personal data transfer of European users can take place to the US, has founded an NGO called None of...
Privacy frees us from the constraints of social control. Because of this, it gives us the freedom to think critically, question social rules and debate ideas that might be considered controversial.
Germany is considering legal changes to force operators of car and house alarm systems to help police and other security agencies to spy on potential terrorists. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, a conservative,...
Before allowing police and other bodies to tap into mobile phones and internet records in the UK, a new independent watchdog has to be set up, the Home Office has announced. It agreed to introduce new safeguards after...
Governments tell us that if we have nothing to hide, we have nothing to fear from mass surveillance. Why is this misleading and devious argument so powerful? How can we beat it?
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