Cooper Quintin and Will explain: At EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about Street Level Surveillance technologies—the technologies used by police and other authorities to spy on you while you are going about your everyday life—such as automated license plate readers, facial recognition, surveillance camera networks, and cell-site simulators (CSS). Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created…
Catalan court gives green light to NSO indictment
As seen on Risky Business News: A court in the Spanish region of Catalonia ordered this week that prosecutors indict three executives at Israeli spyware maker NSO Group. The court found that the three executives facilitated the unlawful surveillance of 63 Catalans following anti-government protests in the mid-2010s. The executives are NSO founders Shalev Hulio and Omri…
Re-use of Patient Data in Scientific Research to Train AI Systems — Important GDPR Considerations
Séverine Bouvy of Taylor Wessing writes: In the discovery phase of scientific research, AI systems can be used to review patents and identify potential new medicines for clinical trials. If an organisation develops its own AI system internally without using patient data, the AI Act should not apply, as it would under the research exemption….
Google is now lets you delete personal info directly from Search – here’s how
Artie Beaty reports: If you find your personal information online, like your phone number, address, or email, Google is making it easier to make sure it doesn’t show up again. Several years ago, Google introduced a “Results about you” tool that lets you track your personal information online and remove it from search results. It wasn’t exactly…