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Europes CSAM scanning plan unpicked

International coalition joins the call to ban surveillance advertising

Unregulated facial recognition technology presents unique risks for the LGBTQ community

MIT is reviewing its relationship with AI startup SenseTime one of the Chinese tech firms blacklisted by the US

Tech workers describe detentions and interrogations as they flee Russia

OneTrust raises 200M at a 13B valuation to help organizations navigate online privacy rules

Alibababacked facial recognition startup Megvii raises 750 million

18 arrested at Microsoft headquarters in latest protest over Israel tech contracts

Apple Google Microsoft WhatsApp sign open letter condemning GCHQ proposal to listen in on encrypted chats

Microsoft will put government and police contracts through independent human rights review

An EU coalition of techies is backing a privacypreserving standard for COVID19 contacts tracing

Piiano raises 9M to help businesses protect their PII

Legal fight against UK state hacking seeks crowdfunds

Apples Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the data industrial complex

Taxing your privacy

DID the Israeli company that digitally deidentifies faces in videos and still images raises 135 million

Elizabeth Warren bites back at Zuckerbergs leaked threat to KO the government

20 arrested at Microsoft headquarters in latest protest over Israel tech contracts

Americas largest companies push for federal online privacy laws to circumvent state regulatory efforts

WebKits new antitracking policy puts privacy on a par with security

Amnesty calls for human rights controls on EU digital surveillance exports

Venture capital undermines human rights

Protesters set up temporary encampment at Microsoft to pressure company on Israel contracts

Googles new TCs include a Brexit easter egg for UK users

Meta crowns Nick Clegg president of tilting at regulatory headwinds

Big tech must not reframe digital ethics in its image

Eight Chinese tech firms placed on US Entity List for their role in human rights violations against Muslim minority groups

Protesters deny planting listening devices inside Microsoft execs office company fires four workers

Silicon Valley is terrified of Californias privacy law Good

Microsoft launches formal review into alleged use of its Azure cloud in Palestinian surveillance

Gartner picks digital ethics and privacy as a strategic trend for 2019

Perspectives on tackling Big Techs market power

Libra Facebooks global digital currency plan is fuzzy on privacy watchdogs warn

DID the Israeli company that digitally deidentifies faces in videos and still images raises 13 million

Londons Met Police switches on live facial recognition flying in face of human rights concerns

No technical reason to exclude Huawei as 5G supplier says UK committee

Cytrio launches with 35M to help SMEs meet data privacy regulation demands

Court finds some fault with UK police forces use of facial recognition tech

As FTC cracks down data ethics is now a strategic business weapon

ExGoogle policy chief dumps on the tech giant for dodging human rights

Leaked Chinese government documents detail how tech is used to escalate the persecution of Uighurs

Alphabets Sidewalk Labs is developing visual cues to indicate when their tech is monitoring you

Apples CEO Tim Cook to flag trust and humanity in major privacy speech

UN warns over human rights impact of a digital welfare state

Ethyca raises 75M open sources Fides for developers to build privacy tools directly into their codebases

Amnesty International latest to slam surveillance giants Facebook and Google as incompatible with human rights

A new senate bill would create a US data protection agency

Osano makes business risk and compliance somewhat sexy again

Salesforce reportedly wont cancel its contract with border agency despite employee petition

Behavioural advertising is out of control warns UK watchdog