Skye Witley reports: After nearly a year navigating the Biden administration’s efforts to push heath-care providers away from tracking technology that can associate website visitors with specific medical conditions, hospital associations alleged government agencies are still using those same tools in violation of the guidance. A quartet of hospital associations are challenging a December 2022 US Health…
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WhatsApp update stops hackers being able to find your phone by calling it
Andrew Griffin reports: A new WhatsApp feature could stop people from being found through phone calls, the company has said. The tool, named “Protect IP Address in Calls”, is aimed at letting people ensure that they do not give away unwanted information to the people who call them up. At the moment, WhatsApp calls are made in…
Why your data might already be on a Europol list
EDRI writes: You don’t have to be a civil rights defender or even an opposition voice to end up on a police list. You don’t even have to commit a crime. And yet in today’s EU, innocent people are being swept up in a police digital dragnet that risks eroding the very basis of democracy. Police forces…
EU squeezes Meta on personal data use for targeting ads
Julien Girault reports: The European Data Protection Board said Wednesday it had adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users for targeted ads without their explicit consent. The order closes off the legal basis used by Meta to freely process the personal data of…