Now the EU’s debated personal data rules are putting a damper on the police’s law enforcement. In a recent ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union prohibits police authorities throughout the EU from systematically “snooping” and collecting fingerprints on criminal suspects. The reason is the criminals’ “right to their personal data”. However, in... 

The search engine giant Google must start deleting lies about private individuals from its search results, according to a new ruling from the European Court of Justice. At the same time, the view of images is sharply sharpened. According to the ruling, private individuals generally have the right to have pictures of themselves deleted from Google’s hit list – regardless of whether they... 

Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal information. Contrary to user expectations and Facebook representatives’ own previous statements, the company has been using contact information that users explicitly provided for security purposes—or that users never provided at all—for targeted... 

The evil geniuses at Facebook are camouflaging consent provisions and manipulating users into hastily accepting their tracking terms by showing them fake notifications, a new lawsuit says. The accusations were made in a complaint filed by the European Center for Digital Rights on behalf of an anonymous Facebook user. The lawsuit, filed against Facebook Ireland Ltd. (where the social network has its... 

Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came to life yesterday, and a couple of US tech giants are already being accused of breaking the law. Non-profit noyb.eu has filed a complaint against Google, Facebook, as well as WhatsApp and Instragram, accusing them of engaging in “forced consent”, which is basically a ‘take it or leave it’ approach where-in users...