The latest crisis that rocked the Greek government shows the bloc?s surveillance problem goes beyond the notorious NSO Group.
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Big Brother is everywhere
Category Archives: privacy
老大哥在看着你。(Big Brother is watching you)
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But Big Brother won’t know who he’s watching
The city of Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday banned the use of facial-recognition technology by city departments — including local police — as well as public-facing businesses such as stores, restaurants and hotels.
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Big Brother is watching you
“The race to embrace invasive tools underscores a simple dynamic at play during the current global pandemic: Public health concerns are trumping the desire to protect individuals’ privacy online and in the real world, even in the home of the General Data Protection Regulation, Europe’s sweeping privacy rules. …
“Pointing to a wave of new surveillance powers approved nationally and EU-wide in 2015- 2017, following a wave of terrorist attacks, critics argue that regulators are green-lighting practices that will be almost impossible to unwind once the pandemic has passed. …
“According to European Commissioner Breton and other top officials urging telecoms operators to hand over data, privacy can be respected because the data concerned is anonymized and aggregated.
“But that is a little reassurance, according to privacy experts who point out that an individual’s identity can easily be deduced from just a handful of anonymized mobile phone location data points.”
European countries are hollowing out hard-fought privacy standards as they embrace tech solutions to fight the coronavirus.
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Mixed signals from ECJ on “right to be forgotten”
A recent pair of cases out of the European Union have provided new insight into the reach of the EU's regulation of the internet. Both cases revolve around whether an EU member state's court can order an internet company to take down or de-list information online and whether that power extends beyond the EU.
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America lagging Europe? Not possible
Must be more treasonable noticing of seditious facts.
Seriously, this is important and people need to pressure Congress to do the right thing.
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