Last updated: October 10, 2024 Meeting in Washington: In July, Didier Reynders traveled to the US and conducted the first review of the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework with US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. (European Union, 2024) The US has implemented the key elements of the data protection framework that governs the transfer of … Read more
What did the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decide? The ECJ has restricted the use of personal data by companies. According to the court, it contradicts the principle of “data minimization” set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) if all personal data is “aggregated, analyzed and processed for the purposes of targeted advertising … Read more
Are social networks allowed to store their users’ data indefinitely for advertising purposes? This question can now be answered with “no”. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has now made a corresponding ruling on this issue. Data use contradicts the principle of data minimization The reasoning behind the judgment states: It is contrary to the … Read more
Status: 12.09.2024 07:35 With smartwatches, parents can locate their children and contact them at any time. The devices are also becoming increasingly popular among schoolchildren in Schleswig-Holstein. However, media educators and teachers criticize this. by Friederike Schneider “Real security enrichment”, “practical for parents”, “Feel safe and worry-free when your child is out and about” or … Read more
Over the past few years, Telegram has established itself as an “anti-data theft” messenger and thus as a secure alternative to WhatsApp. But it has also become a marketplace for criminals – for example with hacked data, drugs or weapons. The simple registration and the possibility of anonymous communication make Telegram attractive to criminals. Illegal … Read more
On Saturday evening, the French authorities arrested Pavel Durov, the head of the communications service Telegram. Durov promotes the messenger app as being particularly safe from surveillance, which is why opposition members in dictatorships organize on the one hand, but also extremists, drug dealers and pedophiles on the other. Whistleblower Edward Snowden calls Durov’s arrest … Read more
This article was originally published in German and has been automatically translated. The Bavarian police are to be able to carry out live facial recognition in public spaces with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) is campaigning for this. “The police urgently need more opportunities to use biometric facial … Read more
The European data protection organization Noyb has filed complaints against Elon Musk’s online platform X in eight EU countries. The “urgent procedures” under the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on behalf of affected EU citizens concern the X chatbot Grok, whose artificial intelligence is trained by default with contributions from users. Since X users … Read more
From September, we will use the digital identification card, which can make it a lot simpler to establish ourselves and make it simpler to handle our official affairs. The appliance could be downloaded from Could 18. All our vital knowledge strikes to our cell a Digital Citizenship Program within the framework of This makes it … Read more
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