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Real time bidding, programmatic advertising and privacy risks

Our Vlog this week covers adtech and real time bidding (RTB). Real-Time Bidding is a set of technologies and practices used in programmatic advertising that allow advertisers to compete for available digital advertising space in milliseconds, placing billions of online adverts on webpages and apps by automated means. In a nutshell, our fingerprint generates a
August 30, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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Sweden’s first GDPR fine

A School in Sweden has been charged by the Swedish DPA a fined of 200 000 SEK (approximately 20 000 euros) for using facial recognition technology to monitor the attendance of students in school. 22 students’ participation in class was captured by a camera using facial-recognition software. This trial was conducted to determine if it
August 28, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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Fingerprinting and what it means for privacy?

This week we discuss device fingerprinting. Firstly though we want to know do you feel safe against online identifiers? Do you frequently delete cookies? It’s time to up your game and here’s why… what is fingerprinting? Beyond cookies or pixels, there are other techniques of identification and monitoring on the Internet. While it can be
August 23, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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Apple to protect children’s privacy

Even though it could devastate their businesses, Apple has decided to change the rules it has for kids apps. Under the new rules, kids apps on Apple’s App Store will be banned from using external analytics software — invisible lines of code that collect extremely detailed information about who is using an app and how.
August 21, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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AI and GDPR fines

In this week’s vlog, we went through the fines under the GDPR and the role of Artificial Intelligence in this context. One of the most talked about fines under GDPR so far, has been Facebook’s £500,000 fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office & this was for serious breaches of data protection law. The ICO’s investigation
August 16, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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FACEBOOK LIKE BUTTON ECJ RULING

The Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU’s highest court, has ruled that an operator of a website that features a Facebook ‘like’ button can be a data controller jointly with Facebook. What happened? The EU Court of Justice weighed in on a dispute after an online fashion retailer was accused of violating
August 14, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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A fine of 180K euros for GDPR data breach imposed by CNIL

Active Insurances, has been fined by France’s data protection authority, the CNIL. The amount is 180,000 euros against Active Insurances, CNIL has said that “breached its obligation to secure personal data provided for by Article 32 of the [EU] General Data Protection Regulation.” A customer alerted the CNIL in 2018 that he was able to
July 31, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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ICO intents to fine Marriott more than £99 million for data breach

Following an extensive investigation, the ICO has issued a notice of its intention to fine Marriott International £99,200,396 for data breach under the GDPR. The U.S. hotel group is the second firm to face a massive GDPR fine. Marriott notified the ICO of a cyber incident in November 2018. A variety of personal data contained
July 26, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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Is effective AI regulation possible?

On our Youtube channel this week, we are discussing how AI is currently regulated, challenges and what the future could look like! One of the main challenges of AI is avoiding discrimination in its application and results, which requires one to apply several controls on the datasets used for training and the ethical and general
July 19, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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British Airways data breach fine set at £183m based on GDPR

British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m data breach of its security system. The GDPR imposes stiff fines on data controllers and processors for non-compliance. On the one hand a company can either be fined up to €10 million, or 2% of the worldwide annual revenue of the prior financial year. On the
July 10, 2019 Comments (0) Share