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

Behavioural advertising is out of control warns UK watchdog

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

Legal fight against UK state hacking seeks crowdfunds

Meta crowns Nick Clegg president of tilting at regulatory headwinds

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

Taxing your privacy

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

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

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

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

WebKits new antitracking policy puts privacy on a par with security

Osano makes business risk and compliance somewhat sexy again

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

Unregulated facial recognition technology presents unique risks for the LGBTQ community

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

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

Europes CSAM scanning plan unpicked

Changing how we approach data privacy to unlock economic opportunities

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

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

Europes top court unblocks more GDPR litigation against Big Tech

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

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

Amnesty calls for human rights controls on EU digital surveillance exports

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

Silicon Valley is terrified of Californias privacy law Good

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

Apples Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the data industrial complex

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

A new senate bill would create a US data protection agency

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

Perspectives on tackling Big Techs market power

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

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

InfoSum raises 65M Series B as organizations embrace secure data sharing

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

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

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

Big tech must not reframe digital ethics in its image

Alibababacked facial recognition startup Megvii raises 750 million

Googles new TCs include a Brexit easter egg for UK users

Venture capital undermines human rights

Oracles surveillance machine targeted in US privacy class action

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

International coalition joins the call to ban surveillance advertising

UN warns over human rights impact of a digital welfare state

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

Piiano raises 9M to help businesses protect their PII