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An EU coalition of techies is backing a privacy-preserving standard for COVID-19 contacts tracing

A Eu coalition of techies and scientists drawn from a minimum of 8 countries, and led by way of manner of Germany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute for telecoms (HHI), is running on contacts-tracing proximity technology for COVID-19 that’s designed to evolve to the world’s strict priv…
A European coalition of techies and scientists drawn from at least eight countries, and led by Germany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute for telecoms (HHI), is working on contacts-tracing proximity technology for COVID-19 that’s designed to comply with the region’s strict priv…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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Natasha Lomas has recently written 11 articles on similar topics including :
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  2. "A unique device identifier that Apple assigns to each iPhone for third parties to track users for ad targeting aka the IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) is itself now the target of two new complaints filed by European privacy campaign not-for-profit, noyb". (November 16, 2020)
  3. "The coronavirus is proving to have an unexpected upside for the adtech industry". (May 7, 2020)
  4. "Remember Do Not Track? The tracker-loving adtech industry hopes you dont recall that decade+ doomed attempt to bake user-friendly privacy controls into browsers". (October 7, 2020)
  5. "A month after Europes top court struck down a flagship data transfer arrangement between the EU and the US as unsafe, European privacy campaign group, noyb, has filed complaints against 101 websites with regional operators which its identified as still sending data to the US via Googl". (August 18, 2020)
  6. "European data watchdogs have issued updated guidance in the wake of last weeks landmark ruling striking down a flagship transatlantic data transfer mechanism called Privacy Shield". (July 24, 2020)
  7. "The FTC has reached a settlement with Flo, a period and fertility tracking app with 100 million+ users, over allegations it shared users health data with third-party app analytics and marketing services like Facebook despite promising to keep users sensitive health data private". (January 13, 2021)
  8. "As TC readers know, the tricky trade-off of the modern web is privacy for convenience. Online tracking is how this great intimacy robbery is pulled off". (December 8, 2020)
  9. "The question of how policymakers should respond to the power of big tech didnt get a great deal of airtime at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, despite a number of investigations now underway in the United States (hi, Google)". (September 22, 2020)
  10. "European lawmakers are eyeing binding transparency requirements for Internet platforms in a Digital Services Act (DSA) due to be drafted by the end of the year". (June 25, 2020)
  11. "One of the first national coronavirus contacts tracing apps to be launched in Europe is being suspended in Norway after the countrys data protection authority raised concerns that the software, called Smittestopp, poses a disproportionate threat to user privacy includin". (June 15, 2020)
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