Privacy

France's data protection watchdog CNIL will from Thursday (1 April) begin conducting checks to ensure websites are in compliance with new guidelines on advertising trackers after the deadline it granted expired. EURACTIV France reports.

The threat posed by problem gambling cannot be emphasized enough, and as an initiative, GAMSTOP offers self-exclusion service to UK residents desirous of avoiding gambling for a specific period.

The Hellenic Police (ELAS) are investigating the raiding of four safety deposit boxes at a bank branch in the area of ​​Psychiko, northern Athens, which the victims said contained money, jewelry and other valuables worth more than 5 million euros.

Man wearing a protection mask in the capital, Podgorica, Montenegro. Photo: BIRN/Samir Kajosevic

On Friday it said it would consider the appeal brought by the local NGO Civil Alliance against the decision to publish the names of people undergoing self-isolation, which the alliance said violated their constitutional right to privacy.

A total of 75 signatories, including Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, have signed a letter asking social media and content-sharing platforms to preserve all data they've blocked or removed during the coronavirus pandemic and make it public for researchers and journalists in the future.

Mobile apps to track coronavirus cases in Europe should keep as much data as possible on the user's device rather than in a central server to best maintain individual privacy, an EU document says.

European countries hope that rolling out mobile apps to track coronavirus cases will make it easier to lift the lockdown orders that have crushed European and world economies.

Presenting the app, Health Minister Venko Filipce said North Macedonia was looking to use "all tools and possibilities" to combat a disease that, as of April 15, had killed 44 people.

Information Society Minister Damjan Manchevski said all data would be securely stored.

As tens of millions of people turn to videoconferencing to stay connected during the coronavirus pandemic, some applications pose security risks and create legal loopholes, the Turkish data privacy authority has warned.

Zoom Video Communications Inc was slapped with a class action suit by one of its shareholders on Tuesday, accusing the video-conferencing app of overstating its privacy standards and failing to disclose that its service was not end-to-end encrypted.

Data Privacy Day is an international event that occurs every year on 28th January. The purpose of Data Privacy Day is to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices. It is currently observed in the United States, Canada, Israel and 47 European countries.