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WhatsApp Vulnerability Exposes 3.5 Billion Users' Phone Numbers
https://cybersecuritynews.com/whatsapp-vulnerability-exposes-3-5-billion-users/
#GAFAM #WhatsApp #Security #Privacy
WhatsApp Vulnerability Exposes 3.5 Billion Users' Phone Numbers
https://cybersecuritynews.com/whatsapp-vulnerability-exposes-3-5-billion-users/
#GAFAM #WhatsApp #Security #Privacy
1/4 🚨 The Digital Omnibus proposals are here - and our rights and protections online are officially under threat 🚨
The proposals published today endanger the very core of EU's digital protections for people - the #GDPR, #ePrivacy and the #AIAct.
Weakening these safeguards would entrench #surveillance, profiling and algorithmic #discrimination in every aspect of society 🙅🏾
Read our press release for more details: https://edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/
2/4 What do the #DigitalOmnibus proposals mean for our #DataProtection and #privacy?
🚩weaken ePrivacy rules, opening the door to constant tracking of phones, cars, and smart devices
🚩 reopen and hollow out the GDPR, allowing corporations to mark their own homework
🚩create a digital environment where state actors and corporate powers – especially Big Tech - gain more freedom to collect and exploit personal information
I know it's more about case law and deference between European and national courts than about legal standards embodied in Directives and Regulations, but would not the Solange II decision require in some way that when the EU dissolves the protections of GDPR and AIA, national rights protections would be under some obligation to kick in again? At least in Germany?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solange_II
#Privacy #EU #EC #SolangeII #ArtificialIntelligence #BVerfGE
🛑 TACD - The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, a coalition of 70+ leading consumer and digital rights groups from the United States and Europe, is deeply concerned about the European Commission’s upcoming “Digital Omnibus Package.” What is billed as a technical effort to “simplify” digital rules risks dismantling the very protections that make Europe’s digital framework a global model, with repercussions at a global scale. https://tacd.org/streamlining-or-deregulation-tacd-sounds-alarm-on-eu-digital-omnibus/
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#GDPR #privacy #AI #competition
🛑 TACD - The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, a coalition of 70+ leading consumer and digital rights groups from the United States and Europe, is deeply concerned about the European Commission’s upcoming “Digital Omnibus Package.” What is billed as a technical effort to “simplify” digital rules risks dismantling the very protections that make Europe’s digital framework a global model, with repercussions at a global scale. https://tacd.org/streamlining-or-deregulation-tacd-sounds-alarm-on-eu-digital-omnibus/
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#GDPR #privacy #AI #competition
#PatrickBreyer warns that the #EU is pushing through a more intrusive version of #ChatControl, disguised as “ #riskmitigation.” This proposal could force #serviceproviders to #scan all #privatemessages, including those on #endtoendencrypted services, and use #AI to #massscan #chat texts for suspicious keywords. Breyer urges EU governments to block this proposal and protect #digitalfreedom and #privacy. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-2-0-through-the-back-door-breyer-warns-the-eu-is-playing-us-for-fools-now-theyre-scanning-our-texts-and-banning-teens/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Democracy is at the heart of Europe.
But democracy needs care, especially when 70% of Europeans fear foreign interference in elections.
Today we present the European Democracy Shield and the EU Strategy for Civil Society.
Together, they'll make our democracies stronger, support independent media, and empower people and civil society to play an active role in shaping Europe’s future.
Because empowered, engaged, and informed people are the heart of our democracy💪
What is #democracy worth without #citizens' #privacy rights? Abandoning parts of the #GDPR for #BigTech undermines democracy and opens the door to 1930s-style #dictatorship and mass #surveillance. Wasn't the EU founded precisely to ensure this would never happen again? Honor your humble foundations or ther is no more need for the #EU.
https://noyb.eu/en/open-letter-digital-omnibus-brings-deregulation-not-simplification
#PatrickBreyer warns that the #EU is pushing through a more intrusive version of #ChatControl, disguised as “ #riskmitigation.” This proposal could force #serviceproviders to #scan all #privatemessages, including those on #endtoendencrypted services, and use #AI to #massscan #chat texts for suspicious keywords. Breyer urges EU governments to block this proposal and protect #digitalfreedom and #privacy. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-2-0-through-the-back-door-breyer-warns-the-eu-is-playing-us-for-fools-now-theyre-scanning-our-texts-and-banning-teens/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Might want to check this out before you go to the next #NoKings or any other, protest, and have someone in your group running #Rayhunter.
@eff
#CoolTool #Surveillance #Privacy #CellularSpying #Stingray
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
Might want to check this out before you go to the next #NoKings or any other, protest, and have someone in your group running #Rayhunter.
@eff
#CoolTool #Surveillance #Privacy #CellularSpying #Stingray
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
Lloyds Bank used data on account usage of staff who hold their bank accounts with Lloyds to assess whether they should get the pay rise demanded by their union.
So, if you're banking with your employer your privacy can be breached if it is in the commercial interest of your employer?
so, I'm sure this will prompt a legal challenge over invasion of privacy;
& a lot of Lloyds (and other bank workers banking with their employers) may be swiftly changing their accounts?
Lloyds Bank used data on account usage of staff who hold their bank accounts with Lloyds to assess whether they should get the pay rise demanded by their union.
So, if you're banking with your employer your privacy can be breached if it is in the commercial interest of your employer?
so, I'm sure this will prompt a legal challenge over invasion of privacy;
& a lot of Lloyds (and other bank workers banking with their employers) may be swiftly changing their accounts?
#Chatcontrol: The #DanishCouncil presidency is shifting its stance on the #CSAM proposal, moving away from mandatory detection orders and instead supporting voluntary detection. This change comes after opposition from several #EU countries, including #Germany, due to #privacy and #security concerns. https://www.euractiv.com/news/danish-presidency-backs-away-from-chat-control/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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