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Technological development has always outpaced privacy concerns, but never more so than in the past decade. Collection and centralization of personally identifiable information (PII), tracking of movements and digital surveillance are all at unprecedented levels. Regulations and laws are only just beginning to catch up to the ability of both governments and private entities to deploy these capabilities.

 

What exactly is there to worry about? The mass collection and centralization of data by giant multinationals such as Facebook and Google is as good of a place to start as any. Two decades of vacuuming up the personal data of users of various online services has created the most impressive marketing capabilities in history, but these profiles have astounding potential for damage when they are used the wrong way or fall into the wrong hands.

 

Unauthorized information that is captured in data breaches tends to find its way to massive “combo lists” that are sold and traded on the dark web. Social security numbers are added from this breach, home addresses and phone numbers from that one, personal health information from yet another. Soon, a frighteningly complete profile of millions of individuals is available to anyone willing to pay the asking price.

 

These are just the established data privacy issues. The emerging ones are even worse. High-quality facial recognition technology is just beginning to roll out across the public places of some countries. Artificial intelligence is not only making mass facial recognition possible, but magnifies the power and reach of any application that involves capturing and sorting information: scanning pictures, analyzing speech, sifting through text and location data. This threatens to not only shatter anonymity and privacy, but allow for highly advanced impersonation and take the concept of “identity theft” to new levels.

 

Some businesses chafe at the trouble and added expense of new and emerging data privacy regulations, but they are vital to both protecting rights and privacy and instilling confidence in end users. Customers want to be able to submit their payment information without worry about data breaches and identity theft, use services without wondering what is being done with their personal information and use devices without fear of surveillance or having location data tracked. The need for meaningful safeguards only grows greater as technological capabilities increase.

 

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Amnesty International Investigation Identifies the World’s Most Privacy-Invasive Contact Tracing Apps

June 30, 2020
New report reveals serious privacy and human right issues in contact tracing apps from 11 countries, with some going so far as to track user GPS locations in real time. Read More
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Open Letter From Major NGOs Asks Google to Cut Pre-Installed Apps That Enable Data Exploitation

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How Serious is Huawei’s Claim That Hongmeng OS is Going to Be Faster, Have Comparable Privacy to iOS?

July 15, 2019
Huawei claims that not only will they benchmark its Hongmeng OS against Apple iOS when it comes to data privacy and security, it will also be 60% faster than Android and MacOS. Read More
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Allegations of Google’s Hidden Web Tracking Pages Raise New Privacy Concerns

September 19, 2019
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Your Privacy Might Not Be Dead, but How Can You Get It Back?

April 24, 2018
Corporations and governments have access to more of your personal information than ever. Just existing in the digital world leaves a footprint that can be used to track and market to you with, and more commonly, without your permission. But all is not lost in the fight for personal privacy. Read More
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New UN Report Warns of Misuse and Abuse of Technology in Digital Welfare State

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New UN report warns that digital welfare technologies used by many governments could be used to “surveil, target, harass and punish” the poor and vulnerable instead. Read More
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The Dangerous Implications of Amazon Ring Creating a Nationwide Surveillance Network with Law Enforcement

September 24, 2019
Arising concerns that Amazon Ring might use its Ring doorbells product to create a gigantic surveillance network through existing 400 partnerships with local police departments and law enforcement agencies. Read More
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As Amazon Ring Partners With Law Enforcement on Surveillance Video, Privacy Concerns Mount

November 29, 2019
Privacy concerns are mounting over Amazon Ring’s partnerships with U.S. law enforcement which allows the police to share surveillance videos with anyone they want. Read More
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PrivacyOps: Reimagining Privacy Compliance

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PrivacyOps is an emerging framework that reimagines how to efficiently implement and operationalize privacy management throughout an organization in an agile manner. Read More
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