With the Privacy Shield under fierce criticisms, there is now consideration for the European Commission to grant “adequacy” to an individual US state – California with it's CCPA. Read More
EU Policy Correspondent at CPO Magazine
Jennifer Baker has been a journalist for almost 20 years, the last 8+ focussing on EU tech policy. She is a campaigning reporter on digital civil liberties, in particular the right to privacy and online freedom of expression. A recognised expert on data protection, she has spoken at the Global Privacy Summit, given evidence to European Parliament groups and last year was named by Onalytica as one of the world’s top 100 influencers on data protection.
UK data protection watchdog argues that personal data has monetary value and wants powers to seize assets for criminal cases, including data, under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA). Read More
Major concerns have been voiced about conflict of interest given that the proposed digital commissioner, Thierry Breton, was the former CEO of Atos and his portfolio will significantly overlap Atos' commercial interests. Read More
With the new European Commission tipped to put forward a comprehensive AI policy in the first 100 days of office, a German expert group has recently published a report on its position. Read More
Deepfakes are becoming more effective with the advances in machine learning, CGI, and facial mapping technology. Humans will be increasingly unable to trust the evidence of their own eyes. Read More
While U.S., U.K. and Australia called on Facebook not to deploy end-to-end encryption, many privacy advocates had voiced their support to protect users’ privacy and rights to express freely. Read More
European Court of Justice ordered Facebook to take down similar content that has been previously ruled as defamatory, raising concerns over freedom of speech for internet users. Read More
European Court of Justice recently ruled in favour of Google over a €100,000 fine imposed by French regulators for refusing to apply ‘right to be forgotten’ requests worldwide. Read More
International digital rights NGO, Access Now, called to strike down the Privacy Shield agreement after the third annual review of the framework between U.S. and Europe. Read More
EU is trialling facial recognition technology through ADDS, Automatic Deception Detection System, which will use AI to assess visitors’ facial expressions and behavior before granting entry permit. Read More
