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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Authorities may need to consider stricter approach to the use of facial recognition technologies as first GDPR fine was issued to a Swedish school.
