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Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Online Advertising?

How much do you know about online advertising and its implications for your privacy? Find out with this week's quiz.

#StopSpyingOnUs , StopSpyingOnUs , quiz , Digital privacy
June 28, 2019 • LibertiesEU
Fingerprints on ID Cards: The Next Big Thing in the EU?

Last year, the EU Commission proposed making fingerprints on national identity cards mandatory.

big data , mass surveillance , Digital privacy , biometrics
June 27, 2019 • LibertiesEU
Fingerprints On Our ID Cards? A Useless And Ineffective Measure

The League of Human Rights and Liga voor Mensenrechten have lodged an appeal before the Constitutional Court against a new law requiring the introduction of digital fingerprints on identity cards.

fingerprints , identity cards , Digital privacy , Belgium , LDH , data protection , Data breaches
June 26, 2019 • Belgian League of Human Rights
(Your Data Is) Sold! Get a CLUE. Have a Laugh.

​Every time you go online, your personal information — health history, sexual orientation, browsing history and more — can be shared with thousands of companies in less time than it takes you to blink your eyes.

FixAdTech , #StopSpyingOnUs , StopSpyingOnUs , Digital privacy , online
June 21, 2019 • LibertiesEU
Behavioural Advertising: A Self-Reflection

Through real-time bidding, intimate and very detailed information about you may end up in databases owned by companies you have never heard about without you ever consenting to it.

StopSpyingOnUs , Digital privacy , Data , #StopSpyingOnUs
June 04, 2019 • LibertiesEU
Facebook Challenges Ban on Tracking Belgian Internet Users

In 2018 a Brussels court ruled that Facebook had broken privacy laws and needed to erase illegally-gathered data on Belgian users, but now the social media behemoth is challenging the decision in an appeals court. The...

Tracking cookies , Facebook , Belgium , court case , Digital privacy
March 29, 2019 • LibertiesEU
EU Agreed Over Whistleblowers Protection Rules

EU representatives from the European Parliament, the European Commission and the national governments have agreed on EU-wide whistleblower protection. While the final legal text is not yet published, press statements...

whisteblower , Digital privacy , Free Speech , transparency
March 13, 2019 • LibertiesEU
Microsoft Warns Over European Elections Hack Threat

Tech giant Microsoft has warned Europe about the growing threat of Russian hackers interfering in European elections after a hacker group targeted three major European think-tanks: The German Council on Foreign...

European elections 2019 , Microsoft , hacker , attack , Digital privacy
February 22, 2019 • LibertiesEU
More Mass Data Interception Scrutiny Needed – Fresh Report

A new study on legal safeguards against bulk surveillance regimes urges for more judicial oversight in protecting civil rights. The study by technology thinktank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung argues that the recent...

mass surveillance , bulk interception , United Kingdom , study , Sweden , Digital privacy
November 16, 2018 • LibertiesEU
Fake News Report - The Human Rights Angle

​Disinformation is all over the place. Populist politicians brand any story or news outlet that disagree with “fake news,” yet they are so often the ones behind the most mendacious disinformation.

fake news , report , Disinformation , European Commission , European Parliament , Digital privacy , journalism
October 18, 2018 • LibertiesEU
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