In 1995 the US and EU started working on a cross border data transfer agreement. First came Safe Harbor (2000). In 2015 the EU Court of Justice invalidated this agreement in what is known as the Schrems I decision. In 2016, the US and EU agreed, in principle to Privacy Shield, a replacement for Safe […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We are now a step closer to an agreement announced in principle last year, to replace the now thrown out Privacy Shield. Privacy Shield was the (at least) second try to come up with a solution to sharing data across the pond while protecting EU citizens’ privacy. The last agreement got struck down by the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ukraine Starts Using Clearview Facial Rec to Detect Ruskies Ukraine is using Clearview’s facial recognition tech to identify Russian operatives trying to infiltrate the Ministry of Defense. Clearview has over 2 billion photos scraped from Russia’s social media service VKontakte. They are not sharing with Russia. That likely makes Clearview a high priority hacking target […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. and the E.U. have been struggling for years over data flow of E.U. residents to the United States. Curiously, their big complaint is that the NSA is a spy agency and they intercept communications. The way the E.U. constructed GDPR, their intelligence agencies are exempt from complying with the law – but ours […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is not a done deal yet, but it is a very interesting development and one, if it holds, that could have significant impact on a lot of countries, including the U.S. Over the last few years, a number of countries have enacted laws that allow their intelligence apparatuses to override many privacy laws and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Deleting All Call Detail Records (CDRs) Acquired Since 2015 While the NSA is not providing a lot of details about what went wrong, the NSA is saying that it is deleting all CDRs acquired since 2015 because of technical irregularities that resulted in it receiving data that, likely, would be illegal under the current […]
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