How France built a surveillance apparatus over two centuries that digital rights groups and UN experts are critiquing, ahead of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics
PARIS — Liberté. Egalité. But mostly: sécurité. — It all started with Napoléon Bonaparte. Twitter: @laukaya , @clothildegouj , and @laukaya Forums: r/privacy and r/france Twitt...
How France built a surveillance apparatus over two centuries that digital rights groups and UN experts are critiquing, ahead of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics
PARIS — Liberté. Egalité. But mostly: sécurité. — It all started with Napoléon Bonaparte. Twitter: @laukaya , @clothildegouj , and @laukaya Forums: r/privacy and r/france Twitt...
TikTok announces Project Clover, outlining its plan to charm European regulators, including keeping user data on servers in Europe and allowing an audit
BRUSSELS — TikTok has launched its European counteroffensive to assuage politicians' fears over Chinese surveillance.
A look at cybersurveillance startup Altrnativ, started by Eric Leandri, disgraced Qwant search co-founder, who was lauded as France's digital privacy defender
This story is part of the series Leaked: The Altrnativ world of cybersurveillance. Read the rest. Tweets: @laukaya , @antoanetaroussi , and @sophieintveld Tweets: Laura Kayali / @...
Italy fines Apple and Google €10M each for “aggressive” data practices and not providing users with clear enough information on commercial uses of their data
Apple and Google have been fined €10 million apiece by Italy's competition and market authority (AGCM) …
France fines Google $593M for failing to comply with a 2020 order to negotiate in good faith with publishers for displaying article snippets in Google News
Leading French startup association files a privacy complaint against Apple alleging that the latest iOS is collecting users' data without their permission
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Leading French startup association files a privacy complaint against Apple alleging that the latest iOS is collecting users' data without their permission
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France is pushing for changes to EU's upcoming tech regulations so that member states will have expanded powers to punish bad behavior and police more content
Paris wants member states to have more power to act against illegal content — France is pushing for the EU's upcoming regulations …
France is pushing for changes to EU's upcoming tech regulations so that member states will have expanded powers to punish bad behavior and police more content
Paris wants member states to have more power to act against illegal content — France is pushing for the EU's upcoming regulations …
EU proposes two bills governing tech giants, focused on illegal content and anticompetitive behavior, to empower regulators to levy large fines or break them up
Proposed bills would be the bloc's most ambitious internet laws since GDPR — European officials want new powers …
Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ashton Kutcher, and others join a 24-hour freeze of Facebook and Instagram accounts for #StopHateForProfit
Kim Kardashian West announced that she will freeze her Instagram and Facebook accounts on Wednesday because the platforms …
Facebook launches paid online events in 20 countries with waived fees during COVID-19, says Apple is hurting SMBs by refusing to waive its 30% cut on iOS
Facebook Inc. joined a growing list of developers to publicly criticize Apple Inc. over its revenue-sharing policy for in-app purchases …
TikTok announces plans to set up its first data center in Europe with a $500M investment in Ireland and says data from European users will be stored there
TikTok, the embattled video-sharing app that's found itself at the center of Washington-Beijing tensions, is setting up its first data center …
US District Judge says WhatsApp's malware case against NSO Group can move forward, rejecting NSO's claim that it qualified for foreign official immunity
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Dozens of tracking apps for smartphones are being used or developed to help contain the pandemic, despite concerns about security, privacy, and effectiveness
literally dozens gathering info on people's location or contacts to curb the virus. Can they help? What are the pitfalls? Will people use them? @natashanyt @Aaron_Krolik & I take a...
At the Munich Security Conference, Zuckerberg says harmful content should be regulated with a system somewhere between existing frameworks for telcos and media
MUNICH (Reuters) - Online content should be regulated with a system somewhere between the existing rules used for the telecoms …
As the EU debates new rules for its digital economy, including AI regulations, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and others head to Brussels to meet key lawmakers
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai have journeyed to Brussels as the European Union drafts regulation for A.I. and the digital economy.
At the Munich Security Conference, Zuckerberg says harmful content should be regulated with a system somewhere between existing frameworks for telcos and media
Google refuses to pay publishers in France, first to apply EU's copyright law, will only show headlines and thumbnails, unless publisher asks to add previews
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