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Kashmir Hill: facial recognition software

  November 19, 2023

Broadening the Privacy Act’s notification rules

  September 1, 2022

Lawmakers Demand FBI, DHS, and Others Reveal Purchases of Personal Data That Circumvent Warrants

  August 18, 2022

Smart speed cameras could be in use within months

  August 16, 2022

Amazon Can’t Pause Battle With Student Over Facial Recognition

  August 13, 2022

Europe staves off Facebook blackout — for now

  August 13, 2022

Privacy Commissioner acts over police practice of photographing people

  August 8, 2022

Inadequate consultation with Māori over changes to digital identity

  July 26, 2022

Statistics experts fear law change may lead to unregulated data sharing

  July 20, 2022

Internal Affairs lawfully allowed to use facial recognition system – Waka Kotahi

  July 15, 2022

European, U.S. Groups Plan Salvo of Privacy Complaints Against Google

  July 1, 2022

Big Tech remains silent on questions about data privacy in a post-Roe US

  June 30, 2022

Big Tech cries foul over EU cloud-security label

  June 16, 2022

Someone broke into Auckland Central Police station?

  June 8, 2022

Remote learning apps shared children’s data at a ‘dizzying scale’

  May 27, 2022

Data governance for children: An emerging priority area for privacy professionals

  May 24, 2022

Auckland: Waka Kotahi safety camera trial monitoring mobile phone use and seat belt wearing starts tomorrow

  May 23, 2022

Govt’s data ethics panel missing in action

  May 9, 2022

Lawmakers Call For Better Facebook User Data Oversight

  May 4, 2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter Buy Exposes a Privacy Minefield

  April 28, 2022

Privacy Commissioner Joins Ombudsman And Former Government Statistician In Criticising The Data And Statistics Bill

  April 26, 2022

Class-Action Lawsuit Targets Company that Harvests Location Data from 50 Million Cars

  April 20, 2022

The Streets Have Eyes

  April 20, 2022

Employers could be unlawfully holding staff vaccination records

  April 15, 2022

Why protecting children online in UK living rooms starts 5,000 miles away

  April 14, 2022

Google Plans New Privacy Changes for Ad Tracking: “Privacy Sandbox” Being Expanded to Android, Positioning as Less “Blunt” Alternative to Apple

  March 1, 2022

Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10 billion revenue hit this year

  February 4, 2022

Doing business across borders — A global future or a splintered internet?

  February 4, 2022

FTC Rulemaking Petition to Prohibit Surveillance Advertising

  January 27, 2022

Parents suing Facebook allege it profited from kids’ biometric data

  January 9, 2022

The certainty of change: regulation in a time of political and social challenges

  December 1, 2021

Clearview AI breached Australians’ privacy

  November 14, 2021

Algorithmic tracking is ‘damaging mental health’ of UK workers

  November 14, 2021

UK Supreme Court halts billion-dollar privacy class action against Google

  November 11, 2021

Clearview AI breached Australians’ privacy

  November 4, 2021

Covid-19: Vaccine certificate data will be legally protected, and work offline

  November 2, 2021

Covid-19: High Court tells Ministry to reconsider vaccination data decision

  November 2, 2021

John Tamihere v Ministry of Health vaccination fight goes to High Court

  October 22, 2021

We Can’t Let the Surveillance Ad Industry Create the new Rules for Privacy

  October 19, 2021

China’s draft algorithm regulations: A first for consumer privacy

  October 14, 2021

Irish DPC WhatsApp decision: What do you need to know?

  October 5, 2021

When you ‘Ask app not to track,’ some iPhone apps keep snooping anyway

  September 25, 2021

International progress for domestic benefit: why the ICO convened a G7 meeting on data flows

  September 22, 2021

China’s key enforcement agencies and lessons learned from recent actions

  September 1, 2021

On the precipice: Why privacy and competition regulation face a transformative moment

  August 28, 2021

Data protection ‘shake-up’ takes aim at cookie pop-ups

  August 27, 2021

China data privacy: Big Tech will be ‘a lot less powerful’ after Beijing passes sweeping new law, experts say

  August 26, 2021

From 9 to 5 Freightways job to founding vetting startup

  August 9, 2021

Dark patterns – a new frontier in privacy regulation

  August 2, 2021

Artificial intelligence: the opinion of the CNIL and its counterparts on the future European regulation

  July 9, 2021

Riders: Italian SA says no to algorithms causing discrimination. A platform in the Glovo group fined EUR 2.6 million

  July 7, 2021

SIS spy agency’s deal to use CCTV set up under outdated laws

  July 2, 2021

European Commission adopts new tools for safe exchanges of personal data

  June 5, 2021

Seven European countries begin issuing a digital Covid certificate for travel

  June 3, 2021

Google misled customers about use of location data, court rules

  April 17, 2021

Clearview scandal exposes limits of transatlantic AI collaboration

  April 13, 2021

Likely Legal, ‘Vaccine Passports’ Emerge as the Next Coronavirus Divide

  April 8, 2021

Seeing stones: pandemic reveals Palantir’s troubling reach in Europe

  April 6, 2021

ACLU to FOIA information about national security uses of AI

  March 30, 2021

EU executive mulls tougher rules for microtargeting of political ads

  March 5, 2021

Getting on the front foot with vaccination passport

  March 4, 2021

People Are Really Mad About Facebook’s Changes To WhatsApp’s Privacy Policies

  February 6, 2021

Bluetooth Tracing and Covid-19 App: is this privacy safe?

  December 10, 2020

‘Regulation gap’ for facial recognition technology, law expert says

  December 5, 2020

Model contract clauses for sending personal information overseas

  November 20, 2020

US government launches landmark antitrust case against Google

  October 21, 2020

Google Analytics Gets A Major Privacy And Machine Learning-Focused Overhaul

  October 16, 2020

China unveils first law on personal data protection

  October 15, 2020

Facial recognition deal opens access to public and private parties

  October 12, 2020

Elizabeth Denham on the conclusion of the ICO’s investigation into the use of personal data in political campaigning

  October 8, 2020

Why Contact-Tracing Apps Haven’t Slowed Covid-19 in the US

  October 5, 2020

China has Been Doing ‘Mass Surveillance’ on Millions of Citizens in US, UK, Australia and India

  September 16, 2020

Facebook suffers blow in Australia legal fight over Cambridge Analytica

  September 15, 2020

Facial recognition technology is here. New Zealand’s law is nowhere near ready

  September 13, 2020

Surveillance program that gathered Americans’ phone data was illegal, court finds

  September 4, 2020

Police setting up $9m facial recognition system which can identify people from CCTV feed

  August 31, 2020

Palantir Says Faulty AI and Privacy Regulation Are a Risk to the Company

  August 29, 2020

ACCC alleges Google misled consumers about expanded use of personal data

  July 28, 2020

Uber Drivers Sue to Gain Access to its Secret Algorithms

  July 24, 2020

Pompeo ‘deeply disappointed’ in EU court decision to ditch trans-Atlantic data transfer deal

  July 21, 2020

ICO releases findings on the use of mobile phone extraction by police forces

  June 19, 2020

EQC error leads to information on thousands of claims leaked

  May 26, 2020

Trump Admin Gives Coronavirus Tracking Contract To Peter Thiel’s Palantir: Report

  April 25, 2020

NHS in standoff with Apple and Google over coronavirus tracing

  April 18, 2020

How to Keep Uninvited Guests Out of Your Zoom Event

  April 6, 2020

The power of data in a pandemic

  April 1, 2020

Zoom Calls Aren’t as Private as You May Think. Here’s What You Should Know.

  March 28, 2020

The Value and Ethics of Using Phone Data to Monitor Covid-19

  March 21, 2020

Facial-Recognition Company That Works With Law Enforcement Says Entire Client List Was Stolen

  February 28, 2020

No, Facebook’s is not telling you everything

  February 26, 2020

The trouble with Clearview AI, how your website watches you

  February 24, 2020

Privacy Commissioner files Notice of Application with the Federal Court against Facebook, Inc.

  February 8, 2020

ACCC finally finalises Consumer Data Right rules

  February 6, 2020

Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you — even when you’re not using Facebook

  January 30, 2020

‘It’s creepy’: The secretive company co-founded by an Australian that might end privacy as we know it

  January 22, 2020

Electrician fired for refusing to use facial scanning system wins $23,000

  December 26, 2019

Surveillance fears over plans to put sensors in state houses

  December 18, 2019

U.S. And UK Sign Landmark Cross-Border Data Access Agreement to Combat Criminals and Terrorists Online

  October 6, 2019

Plan for massive facial recognition database sparks privacy concerns

  October 1, 2019

How the West Got China’s Social Credit System Wrong

  August 20, 2019

Privacy Bill Passes its Second Reading

  August 9, 2019

Calls for backdoor access to WhatsApp as Five Eyes nations meet

  August 3, 2019

Privacy Good Research Fund

  August 1, 2019

FTC fines Facebook historic $5B for privacy violations

  July 25, 2019

WhatsApp Rushes to Fix Security Flaw Exposed in Hacking of Lawyer’s Phone

  May 16, 2019

‘Privacy focused’ Facebook puts the spotlight on groups with new design

  May 2, 2019

Australia passes social media law penalising platforms for violent content

  April 5, 2019

A New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments

  March 23, 2019

Justice Committee Report on the Privacy Bill

  March 13, 2019

Patient documents missing, reportedly lost in ‘a gust of wind’

  February 28, 2019

Digital platforms inquiry: Preliminary report

  February 19, 2019

“Data Portability” is coming to Australia

  February 19, 2019

Law Commission calls for submissions on DNA collection rules

  February 11, 2019

Finns take first steps towards European Health Record

  January 30, 2019

Woody Hartzog: Control is not the privacy solution it’s made out to be

  January 23, 2019

Australia’s encryption law threatens NZ cloud data

  December 19, 2018

NZ courts banned naming Grace Millane’s accused killer. Google just emailed it out

  December 14, 2018

Andrew Little: NZ is watching Facebook closely and will take action if needed

  November 27, 2018

The law that lets Europeans take back their data from big tech companies

  November 13, 2018

How Government algorithms are judging you

  November 13, 2018

Cathay Pacific warns 9.4 million passengers had data hacked, New Zealand helpline set up

  October 25, 2018

Public Make Submissions on Privacy Bill

  July 12, 2018

Curran: Google, Facebook ‘experimenting’ on us

  June 4, 2018

‘Demonstrated unwillingness to comply’: Facebook in breach of NZ Privacy Act

  March 28, 2018

Australia Should Strengthen its Privacy Laws and Remove Exemptions for Politicians

  March 23, 2018

Declassified: The secret briefing which shows how Kim Dotcom and Edward Snowden made spies all over the world open up

  February 7, 2018

Qihoo 360 shuts down live-streaming video platform over privacy concerns at schools

  December 22, 2017

Spies ‘unlawfully’ accessed data then refused to talk about it properly – oversight body

  December 13, 2017

Hunt for Rawshark sees police rapped again for ‘unlawful’ search of banking records

  August 28, 2017

How Peter Thiel’s Secretive Data Company Pushed Into Policing

  August 20, 2017

Amazon and WhatsApp have been scolded over their “disappointing” privacy practices

  July 25, 2017

How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful

  June 20, 2017

7 in 10 smartphone apps share your data with third-party services

  June 2, 2017

Facebook privacy: Court backs blocking parents from dead girl’s account

  June 2, 2017

Next steps on individual client level data

  May 26, 2017

Spies’ database of secrets about Kiwis ignored basic security rules and standards, report finds

  May 4, 2017

German woman sues hotel to find out name of baby’s father

  May 4, 2017

Seminar 8 May 2017: Upping the Ante – New Actors and the Consequences of Breaching the Privacy Act

  April 23, 2017

Collection of NGO client data is excessive and disproportionate – Privacy Commissioner

  April 5, 2017

Privacy Commissioner releases 2016 credit assurance reports

  March 23, 2017

Privacy Commissioner recommends data portability, brakes on data re-identification and fines up to $1 million

  February 3, 2017

Privacy Commissioner updates code of practice to allow faster emergency response

  January 31, 2017