San Jose, Calif. (KTVU) – It’s almost a year since Europe implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law, which regulates how companies can process, use, store or exchange data belonging to citizens living in the EU. Microsoft published usage stats of its privacy dashboard to highlight a high level of interest in exercising control...Read More

Google tracks a lot of what you buy, even if you purchased it elsewhere, like in a store or from Amazon. Last week, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a New York Times op-edthat said “privacy cannot be a luxury good.” But behind the scenes, Google is still collecting a lot of personal information from the services you use,...Read More

Human rights are murky in the digital age, but a tweak in how we use data could change that. Almost half a decade ago, I spent nearly two years working in marketing for an iconic American brand. We tracked sales and leads, obsessed over Facebook analytics, and planned events around our customers’ interests. Our information was...Read More

Richie Etwaru is equal parts zen monk, business artisan, technology geek, and socio-economic historian. Recently I had the chance to sit down with him for a one-to-one interview in which we discussed human rights, data privacy, business ethics, Hu-manity.co, and what it feels like for a human data ethicist to take on the healthcare industry.Read More

A woman’s job application is rejected because of a recruiting algorithm that favors men’s résumés. A girl dies by suicide after graphic images of self-harm are pushed up on her feed by social media algorithms. A black teen steals something and gets rated high-risk for committing future crime by an algorithm used in courtroom sentencing, while a white man...Read More

While you’re sleeping, your iPhone stays busy harvesting data WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) – It’s 3am. Do you know what your iPhone is doing? Mine has been alarmingly busy. Even though the screen is off and I’m snoring, apps are beaming out lots of information about me to companies I’ve never heard of. Your iPhone probably...Read More

A couple of weeks ago, one famous lawyer blogged about an issue frequently discussed these days: the GDPR, one year later. “The sky has not fallen. The Internet has not stopped working. The multi-million-euro fines have not happened (yet). It was always going to be this way. A year has gone by since the General...Read More

Multiple sources and emails also describe SnapLion, an internal tool used by various departments to access Snapchat user data. Several departments inside social media giant snap have dedicated tools for accessing user data, and multiple employees have abused their privileged access to spy on Snapchat users, Motherboard has learned.Read More

The best part of the internet was that it was to be free. Unfortunately it is moving further from Free everyday. As a DPU Member, you get a voice in defining your value.Read More