Facebook says police and government agents' requests for users' information as well as takedown demands are increasing

The European Union is working to adopt a new regulation that will introduce tougher export controls for technologies which can be used to spy on citizens.  

The new rules, which were proposed last year, are up for a plenary vote early next month in the European Parliament, where they are expected to pass.

Facebook und der Datenschutz, schon „immer“ gab es da Streitigkeiten. Facebook benötigt Daten, um richtig zu funktionieren, das deutsche Datenschutzrecht macht dies Facebook aber gar nicht so einfach. So schritt auch das Bundeskartellamt ein, als es um die missbräuchliche Ausnutzung einer marktbeherrschenden Stellung ging. Dazu liegt nun eine vorläufige rechtliche Einschätzung des Bundeskartellamtes vor, das nach aktuellem Stand davon ausgeht, dass Facebook marktbeherrschend ist. Daraus resultiert dann auch die weitere Einschätzung, dass diese Marktbeherrschung missbräuchlich genutzt wird.

For 2018, we’re not selling directly to folks in the EU.

Long term, I’m hopeful that the GDPR will get sorted out in a way that protects consumers’ rights, and still lets businesses use off-the-shelf tools and policies to provide services to the EU. Hopefully the situation improves quickly and we can revisit that policy in 2019.

A Dutch security firm recently fell victim to a well-executed attack that allowed hackers to take control of its servers and intercept clients' login credentials and confidential data.

London’s Metropolitan Police believes that its artificial intelligence software will be up to the task of detecting images of child abuse in the next “two to three years.” But, in its current state, the system can’t tell the difference between a photo of a desert and a photo of a naked body.

In an effort to make facial recognition technology more appealing to members of its clicky commerce club, social ad network Facebook on Tuesday said it will begin notifying people when they appear in the pictures posted by other people, sometimes.

The Chair of the National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) issues formal notice to the company WHATSAPP to legally transfer its users’ data to FACEBOOK, especially by obtaining their consent.

In Jordaniens Camps werden Geflüchtete per Iris-Scan registriert und fortan identifiziert. Ablehnen können sie das nicht. So wird die EyeHood-Technik marktreif gemacht.

Often marketed as "Beat the Boss phones", the tiny feature phones can be bought for around £20 to £30 online on sites including Amazon, Ebay and Gumtree. On the inside, they can change hands for up to £500.

The phones, which can be as small as lipsticks, are popular with prison inmates due to their discreet size and lack of metal, which allows them to beat metal detectors.

Half of Britons see one of the UK's largest tabloids, The Sun, as a negative influence on society, according to a new poll.

The YouGov survey, published on Monday, commissioned by the campaign group Stop Funding Hate, comes amid concerns the media is stirring up anti-Muslim, anti-migrant, and anti-EU sentiment.

Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbidden terms at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee the budget, according to an analyst who took part in the 90-minute briefing. The forbidden terms are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”

In some instances, the analysts were given alternative phrases. Instead of “science-based” or ­“evidence-based,” the suggested phrase is “CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes,” the person said. In other cases, no replacement words were immediately offered.

Fewer than one in four people in India have a smartphone, but in a country of more than 1.3 billion, that's about 300 million. And as of February 2017, 200 million of them are on WhatsApp - texting, voice messaging and video-calling each other - making India the messaging service's biggest market.

But India's WhatsApp habit has a dark side too. Misinformation, disinformation, rumours and false messages can go viral. In at least two cases, fake messages spread on WhatsApp have led to mobs lynching innocent people.

Google moved to strip from its news search results publications that mask their country of origin or intentionally mislead readers, a further step to curb the spread of fake news that has plagued internet companies this year.

The bright Muggles at Botnik Studios trained predictive keyboards (one for narration, one for dialogue) on all seven Harry Potter books and produced a brand-new chapter about the young wizard. And great sizzling dragon bogies, is it awful.

In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.

Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.

For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze

Zhu Long, co-founder of pioneering Yitu Technologies, whose facial-recognition algorithms have logged 1.8 billion faces and caught criminals across China, says AI will change the world more than the industrial revolution

one eye-popping statistic from the report stands out. According to Facebook, the company restricted video of a school shooting in Mexico 20,506 times after receiving a request from Mexican law enforcement. In context, that number is massive: the company only restricted content for violating local law a total of about 28,000 times, meaning the video accounted for 72 percent of restrictions in the first half of 2017. In the second half of 2016, by contrast, the company only restricted content about 7,000 times — meaning takedown requests quadrupled in the category. In Mexico, during that same 2016 period, Facebook agreed to restrict content only 25 times.

A couple and their 10-year-old boy taking a cruise from Mobile, Alabama to Mexico on Carnival Cruise Line says they found a hidden camera in their stateroom. The small camera was tucked inside the cables behind their TV.

Uber set up a covert unit tasked with stealing competitors' secrets and engaging in undercover surveillance, a letter published by a US court on Friday has alleged.