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

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

Googles new TCs include a Brexit easter egg for UK users

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

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

Legal fight against UK state hacking seeks crowdfunds

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

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

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

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

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

Venture capital undermines human rights

Taxing your privacy

Big tech must not reframe digital ethics in its image

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

Oracles surveillance machine targeted in US privacy class action

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

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

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

Dont break up big tech regulate data access says EU antitrust chief

Europes CSAM scanning plan unpicked

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

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

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

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

Amnesty calls for human rights controls on EU digital surveillance exports

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

Silicon Valley is terrified of Californias privacy law Good

A new senate bill would create a US data protection agency

Apples Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the data industrial complex

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

UN warns over human rights impact of a digital welfare state

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

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

Meta crowns Nick Clegg president of tilting at regulatory headwinds

International coalition joins the call to ban surveillance advertising

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

Piiano raises 9M to help businesses protect their PII

Osano makes business risk and compliance somewhat sexy again

Changing how we approach data privacy to unlock economic opportunities

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

Behavioural advertising is out of control warns UK watchdog

Unregulated facial recognition technology presents unique risks for the LGBTQ community

Alibababacked facial recognition startup Megvii raises 750 million

Tech workers describe detentions and interrogations as they flee Russia

Europes top court unblocks more GDPR litigation against Big Tech

WebKits new antitracking policy puts privacy on a par with security

Perspectives on tackling Big Techs market power

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