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Why We Need Collective Redress For Data Protection
This post was written by Chair Emeritus of PI's Board of Trustees, Anna Fielder. The UK Data Protection Bill is currently making its way through the genteel debates of the House of Lords. We at Privacy International welcome its stated intent to provide a holistic regime for the protection of personal information and to set the "gold standard on data protection". To make that promise a reality, one of the commitments in this government's 'statement of intent' was to enhance people's enforcement…
Why and how GDPR applies to people globally
Privacy and data protection are fundamental rights. When respected they help improve trust and reduce power imbalances. Individuals should have rights over their personal data, regardless of who holds or processes it, and effective ways to enforce those rights, through independent bodies. While not an ideal solution, GDPR gives individuals more control over their personal data. Rather than burdening individuals with managing and protecting their data, the onus will be on the companies to do so…
Why and how GDPR applies to companies globally
The European Union's new data privacy law (General Data Protection Regulation, better known as GDPR) takes effect today May 25th, 2018, after a two-year transition period. Despite some companies appearing to believe otherwise, and many articles misrepresenting its contents, the GDPR will have a significative impact beyond the European Union, and it will extend many of its data privacy safeguards to users' data globally. There are a number of reasons that explain this impact: Obligations for…
Email addresses Acxiom: dataprotection@acxiom.com Criteo: dpo@criteo.com Equifax: complaints@equifax.com Experian: customerservices@uk.experian.com Oracle: https://oracle.ethicspointvp.com/custom/oracle/dp/en/form_data.asp Quantcast: privacy.qil@quantcast.com cc: dpo@quantcast.com Tapad: privacy@tapad.com Letter for Acxiom and Oracle subject line: Right to Erasure Request I am concerned your company exploits my data. In accordance with my right[s] under the General Data…
TACD calls on Facebook to adopt same privacy standards for all consumers and give details on how to Congress
Today, the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) sent a letter to the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, urging Facebook to adopt the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a baseline standard, not just for EU consumers as it is required, but for all Facebook services. The letter comes ahead of Facebook Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zuckerberg's, appearance before congressional committee over Cambridge Analytica's misuse of customer data to interfere in the U.S. presidential election.…
PRESS RELEASE: Privacy International files complaints against seven companies for wide-scale and systematic infringements of data protection law
Today, Privacy International has filed complaints against seven data brokers (Acxiom, Oracle), ad-tech companies (Criteo, Quantcast, Tapad), and credit referencing agencies (Equifax, Experian) with data protection authorities in France, Ireland, and the UK. Privacy International urges the data protection authorities to investigate these companies and to protect individuals from the mass exploitation of their data. Our complaints target companies that, despite exploiting the data of millions of…
If Companies Can Protect User Data in Europe, They Can Protect It Everywhere
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. companies should adopt the same data protection rules that are poised to go into effect in the European Union on May 25, Public Citizen, the Center for Digital Democracy and Privacy International said today. In a sign-on letter, 28 groups are calling on some of the world's largest companies – including Facebook, Google and Amazon, as well as digital advertisers like Nestle, Walmart and JPMorgan Chase – to use Europe's impending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR…
Have companies deleted your data?
Over one month ago, Privacy International filed complaints concerning seven data brokers, ad-tech companies, and credit referencing agencies with data protection authorities across Europe. The companies named in the complaints are Acxiom, Criteo, Equifax, Experian, Oracle, Quantcast, and Tapad. The submissions set out the myriad of ways in which these companies fall short of what is required by data protection laws in the European Union and called on the data protection authorities to…
A Snapshot of Corporate Profiling
We found the image here. When we browse the internet, go to work, drive down the street, go shopping, interact with institutions, or simply move through the city, data is collected about us. Advanced profiling technologies answer questions we did not raise. They generate knowledge we did not anticipate, but are eager to apply. As knowledge is power, profiling changes the power relationships between the profilers and the profiled. In a world where everything we do becomes more and more…
#TeleormanLeaks explained: privacy, freedom of expression, and public interest
We found this here. The European Union's new privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is being tested across Europe. The first GDPR privacy case in Romania began with an investigation that was published on November 5 about a corruption scandal involving a politician and his close relationships to a company being investigated for fraud. The Romanian data protection authority (ANSPDCP) sent a series of questions to the journalists who authored the article and asked for…