#dataprotection

*** Rule of law and privacy ***

“Even though there is no single definition of the rule of law, there is a common understanding that the rule of law aims to guarantee protection of and respect for human rights.”

With these words, @Supervisor@social.edps.europa.eu Wojciech Wiewiorowski, , opened his lecture on “Rule of Law and Privacy” at the ELSA Alumni Annual Meeting.

In his speech, he highlighted the fundamental role of privacy in safeguarding individual dignity, freedom and autonomy, and explained why its protection is essential for a democratic state governed by the rule of law.

The Supervisor emphasized: “In the digital age, protecting privacy is not merely one of the consequences of the rule of law. It is one of the conditions that makes the rule of law possible.

Respect for privacy should therefore be regarded not only as a legal obligation, but also as an essential prerequisite for the functioning of a democratic society.

#Privacy #RuleOfLaw #DataProtection #FundamentalRights

"Usually, the GDPR permits processing for specific purposes (e.g. retention for tax records or fraud prevention). However, the agreed Article 88c (or Article 88bis) legitimises an entire technology. Regardless of the purpose for which it is used, any AI system could lawfully take any personal data by default. For example, the proposed Article would also permit the training and use of AI for manipulation, disinformation, the generation of nude images or killer drones, and indeed any other questionable purpose. Many processing operations that were so far illegal could suddenly become legal – just because they are done “in the context” of an AI system. For example, data processing for personal advertising purposes (without consent) is currently illegal in the EU. Now, however, advertising could suddenly become legal if it is personalised using AI technology. Max Schrems: “It’s like saying anything goes – no matter what you do – as long as it’s done with AI. If something is illegal in an Excel spreadsheet, it's legal if done with an AI agent. It’s utterly absurd to give preferential treatment to a high-risk technology over every other computer system.”" https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-approve-digital-expropriation-europeans-ai-companies #EU #GDPR #AI #BigTech #DataProtection #DigitalExpropriation #DigitalOmnibus

FYI: Ireland fines Google €403m over location data flagged in 2018: Ireland's DPC fined Google €403m over location data used in ads, as the EU Council drafts a legitimate-interest basis for AI training with no right to object. https://ppc.land/ireland-fines-google-eur403m-over-location-data-flagged-in-2018/ #Google #Privacy #DataProtection #Ireland #DPC

🟠 DATA BREACH ALERT NIUS - 6K accounts exposed Compromised data: Email Addresses, Names, Physical Addresses, Credit Cards Check if you're affected and what to do: https://www.yazoul.net/breaches/breach/nius-breach-6-090-credit-cards-addresses-exposed-2025 by Yazoul AI #DataPrivacy #DataProtection #Privacy

Dear all, As you may know, when you register/pay to RENT a domain on the old internet, you are not sovereign. You are bound by force to rules/limitations to the TLD* on which you rent your domain name. When we bought fairtech.ngo, We did read https://pir.org/our-impact/ngo-ong-policy/ It seemed our objective match what is asked. We just received an email from our registrar (middle man) that himself receive an email from pir.org, owner of .ngo. They cordially let us know that our website do not comply with their rule and restriction. We write them, letting them know that FairTech.ngo is a crowdfunding for an upcoming NGO and it's ending the 1st October. If it succeed we will do register the ONG. Otherwise we will remove it. We will see in the following days if the domain is shut/censored (so nobody anymore qill be able to see the website) Wait and see.. SIDE NOTES We have to be clear, we were expecting that kind of maneuver. it's why FairTech.ngo try to exist what we could advise is to join asap the SimpleX group that is listed at the bottom of the page contact on the web page FairTech.ngo *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLD #censorship #dataprotection

For the 1st time, after 30y of using the internet, I created a folder in my email inbox specifically for emails informing me that my data has been leaked on some platform. There were so many in the last 2y that I’m now going to start collecting them. The worst part is when it’s data from gov platforms or companies where you can’t provide false information, airlines, hospitals etc. When are we going to start punishing the entities that collect our data and fail to secure it? #dataprotection

What is PII? The term comes from United States federal practice. The most cited formulation appears in NIST Special Publication 800-122, published April 2010, which frames PII as information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, either alone or combined with other linkable information. Does it land different within GDPR ? #GDPR #privacy #data #EU #EDPD #dataprotection

How many analytics and advertising companies can you actually share your website data with? I just ran across a cookie banner listing over 2,000 different partner companies, including over 1,000 advertising networks and 300 analytics companies. #dataprotection

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#Synology #DataProtection #APM tip Connecting to the #DP device via #SSH in case you need it goes via port 57. ssh -oKexAlgorithms=diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 -oHostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-rsa -oCiphers=aes128-cbc adminaccount@DP_MGM_IP_ADDRESS -p 57 Once logged in, it will present you with the following actions. #selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab

“Claude is exposing a wealth of users’ chats and creations in Google search results, meaning anyone can dig through conversations or other material that people used Claude to make but may not have realized were publicly available for strangers to see. The exposed data includes an AI-powered therapy app that someone appears to have vibe-coded, notes on meetings, and a dashboard someone made apparently to analyze medical billing data. Exposed chats reportedly include private cryptocurrency wallet keys and personal information like peoples’ addresses Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Like other chatbots, Claude lets people share their conversations with others by creating a publicly accessible link of the chat. People may do this to send the full text of a conversation to their friends or coworkers in a group chat, for example. But they may not realize Google is also surfacing these links in search results, making them available to essentially anyone.” https://www.404media.co/tons-of-peoples-claude-chats-and-creations-are-exposed-on-google #AI #GenerativeAI #Anthropic #Claude #DataProtection #Privacy #Google

Privacy is about so much more than just keeping information secret. Privacy is also about being asked for permission before others use technology to interfere with our lives. And about having a "no" accepted. As long as some believe that they can do anything their technologies are capable of, without respecting other people's boundaries, those technologies will always be a problem rather than a solution. -- #privacy #DataProtection #IrresponsibleTech

https://www.europesays.com/africa/348794/ Data protection key to fighting corruption, says ICPC #accountability #AntiCorruption #DataPrivacy #DataProtection #Governance #ICPC #MusaAliyu #NDPC #Nigeria #PublicTrust

🆓 Webinar Gratuito: "Fundamentos de Ciberseguridad" 🏁Miércoles 29 de Julio 2026. De 11:00 am a 11:45 am (UTC -05:00) 🎇 Registro libre: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhDJsMv0TvBqyTnjSepFwV68dhpsoyWTELZ7v1lZw7HoUGdw/viewform #dataprotection #ciso #gdpr #malware #threatintelligence #ransomware #cloudsecurity #zerotrust

Please stop posting about how you're running a slop machine on local hardware under the privacy hashtag! The technology is built on massive privacy violations, no matter where it's running! If someone claims that running their slop machine locally is privacy-friendly, their notion of who has a right to privacy is obviously limited to themselves! -- #privacy #DataProtection #LLMs #SlopMachines #StopTheSlop #Slopposition #AI [sic!]

Apple has patched a critical Hide My Email vulnerability that exposed users' real email addresses for over a year following media reporting. #Apple #HideMyEmail #Privacy #Cybersecurity #DataProtection

A friendly reminder: When you're building some tech for others to use, please start thinking about privacy before you write even one line of code! Believe me, treating privacy as one of the last boxes you have to check before your tech goes live almost always causes trouble. And it probably will make everyone involved - including you - miserable. Building privacy-respecting tech gets easier the sooner you start thinking about it. -- #privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #ResponsibleTech

Hive Systems published their 2026 password table. The table illustrates the maximum time required to brute force a password based on various lengths and complexities. Brute force: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack Website: https://www.hivesystems.com/password-table Blog: https://www.hivesystems.com/blog/are-your-passwords-in-the-green #HiveSystems #Password #InfoSec #BruteForce #PasswordTable #Security #Data #DataProtection #CyberSecurity #PasswordManager #Cracking #Privacy #Passphrase #OpSec #Passwords

Next time you hear someone complain about how "privacy brought nothing but those pesky cookie banners", please remind them that those banners wouldn't be necessary if companies weren't so eager to track everything we do online. Ah, and please tell them that many of those banners are intentionally designed to be as pesky as possible just to nudge everyone to click "accept". -- #privacy #DataProtection #PrivacyMyths

#datenschutz #privatheit #privacy #grundrechte #dataprotection #humanrights #history #geschichte Merke: Installierte Infrastruktur hat eine sehr viel längere Lebenszeit als jede Regierungsform. Und lässt sich jederzeit schnell ausbauen und erweitern. Brave new world...