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EU privacy body urges anonymization of location data for COVID-19 tracking

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has revealed steering for the use of location data and contacts tracing equipment supposed to mitigate the affect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Europe’s data coverage framework wraps round all such virtual interventions, which means there are criminal requiremen…
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published guidance for the use of location data and contacts tracing tools intended to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Europe’s data protection framework wraps around all such digital interventions, meaning there are legal requiremen…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  2. "The European Unions lead data protection supervisor has recommended that a ban on targeted advertising based on tracking Internet users digital activity be included in a major reform of digital services rules which aims to increase operators accountability, among other key goal". (February 10, 2021)
  3. "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)
  4. "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)
  5. "Confusion over an update to Facebook-owned chat platform WhatsApps terms and conditions has triggered an intervention by Italys data protection agency". (January 14, 2021)
  6. "A number of UK computer security and privacy experts have signed an open letter raising transparency and mission creep concerns about the national approach to develop a coronavirus contacts tracing app". (April 29, 2020)
  7. "The coronavirus is proving to have an unexpected upside for the adtech industry". (May 7, 2020)
  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. "Googles plan to end support for third-party cookies in the Chrome browser and its Chromium engine is under investigation by the U.K.s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)". (January 8, 2021)
  10. "Privacy concerns that have been driving app users to alternative chat apps like Signal and Telegram in recent weeks, since Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced a T&Cs change, appear to also be generating some uplift for end-to-end encrypted email providers". (January 14, 2021)
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