From Italy’s data protection agency, this press release today: The Italian SA (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) fined the US-based company Clearview AI EUR 20 million after finding it applied what amounted to biometric monitoring techniques also to individuals in the Italian territory. The company reportedly owns a database including over 10 billion…
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VPNs: Russia Forces Google to Delete Masses of Links Amid Ukraine Invasion
Russia has been regularly fining Google, Facebook, and other U.S. platforms for not removing links that link to material that supposedly violates Russian law. But with the invasion of Ukraine, the censorship has escalated dramatically. I had started watching and testing it a bit a few days ago, too — to see what sites I…
Irish Data Protection Commission Publishes 2021 Annual Report
Marie Daly of Covington and Burling writes: On February 24, 2022, the Irish Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) published its 2021 annual report setting out its activities and outcomes for last year (see press release here and the full report here). At 120 pages long, it is detailed and specific, and in places, comes with a targeted and reflective…
Russia’s social media ban followed by a spike in demand for VPNs
Obviously, this is not just a privacy issue at this point but also about being able to access sites and information that Russia is trying to shut down, but given Moscow police have also allegedly been seizing phones to read text messages, it would not be surprising for Russia to really start monitoring and arresting…