I løpet av noen uker skal Helse Sør-Øst ta i bruk en skytjeneste for å håndtere nordmenns pasientdata. Datatilsynet advarer om at USA ikke er ansett som et trygt land å sende slike opplysninger til, og ber dem sette på bremsen.
https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-meta-tracking-tools-illegal
the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) has decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates the GDPR
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The DSBs decision to declare Google Analytics illegal, also applies to the “Facebook Login” and “Meta Pixel” tools provided by Meta: If these tools are used, data is inevitably transferred to the USA, where the data is at risk of intelligence surveillance. European website operators are therefore advised not to include any tools from Meta on their websites.
https://www.wired.com/story/welfare-state-algorithms/
Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works.
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Lighthouse Reports and WIRED obtained Rotterdam’s welfare fraud algorithm and the data used to train it, giving unprecedented insight into how such systems work. This level of access, negotiated under freedom-of-information laws, enabled us to examine the personal data fed into the algorithm, the inner workings of the data processing, and the scores it generates. By reconstructing the system and testing how it works, we found that it discriminates based on ethnicity and gender. It also revealed evidence of fundamental flaws that made the system both inaccurate and unfair.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/privacy-loophole-ring-doorbell-00084979
Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home.
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It really takes the control out of the hands of the homeowners, and I think that’s hugely problematic,” said Jennifer Lynch, the surveillance litigation director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocacy group.
In the debate over home surveillance, much of the concern has focused on Ring in particular, because of its popularity, as well as the company’s track record of cooperating closely with law enforcement agencies.
Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.
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The images were not taken by a person, but by development versions of iRobot’s Roomba J7 series robot vacuum. They were then sent to Scale AI, a startup that contracts workers around the world to label audio, photo, and video data used to train artificial intelligence.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/
An internal investigation by ByteDance, the parent company of video-sharing platform TikTok, found that employees tracked multiple journalists covering the company, improperly gaining access to their IP addresses and user data in an attempt to identify whether they had been in the same locales as ByteDance employees.
According to materials reviewed by Forbes, ByteDance tracked multiple Forbes journalists as part of this covert surveillance campaign, which was designed to unearth the source of leaks inside the company following a drumbeat of stories exposing the company’s ongoing links to China.
https://www.datatilsynet.no/aktuelt/aktuelle-nyheter-2022/rad-til-deg-som-reiser-til-qatar-vm/
Alle som reiser til Qatar for å følge fotball-VM, kan bli bedt om å laste ned to qatarske apper. Appene kan potensielt brukes til å overvåke de tilreisende. Vi har laget noen råd om hva du kan gjøre i denne situasjonen.
https://therecord.media/google-to-pay-nearly-400-million-over-deceptive-location-tracking-practices/
Google has agreed to pay a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states over revelations that it continued to track users’ locations even when told explicitly not to.
The AP found that Google misled users into believing they could turn location tracking off within their account settings when in fact the company continued to collect location information within its Web & App Activity feature, which is automatically turned on when a user creates a Google account or uses an Android phone.