Palestinian-French lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hammouri Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against the Israeli tech surveillance company NSO Group, claiming it had illegally infiltrated his phone using controversial Pegasus spyware. He filed the complaint jointly with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Ligue des droits de l’homme (LDH). The infiltration [...]
The Supreme Court of Brazil ordered internet platforms and providers such as Apple and Google Thursday to suspend access to the popular messaging app Telegram within the country, after noting that Telegram violated Brazil Constitution by failing to comply with judicial orders. The order, released to the public on Friday, was issued by Minister Alexandre de [...]
The UK government Thursday introduced a revised version of the draft Online Safety Bill before the House of Commons, with stricter sanctions to hold tech giants accountable and criminalising acts such as cyberflashing to usher in an era of online safety. The bill requires social media platforms, search engines and other apps and websites to [...]
The Irish Data Protection Authority (DPC) Tuesday fined Meta Platforms Ireland Limited €17m for a series of data breaches affecting up to 30 million Facebook users that were disclosed to the Irish DPC by the social media company in 2018. The Irish DPC is Meta’s lead privacy regulator in the EU and opened this inquiry [...]
The Spanish Supreme Court Tuesday confirmed the decision of the national election commission, the Junta Electoral Central (JEC), which ruled in February last year that Twitter’s temporary suspension of far-right political party Vox’s account over an Islamaphobic tweet was “reasonable and proportional.” Days before the electoral campaign for the Parliament of Catalonia, Vox tweeted inaccurate [...]
The Administrative Court in Cologne Tuesday ruled that key provisions of the amended Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG), aimed at curbing online hate speech, violate European Union law on civil liberties. The ruling delivered a partial victory to Google and Meta that had challenged the new law in February last year. The new provision §3a requires [...]
The spyware company NSO Group Sunday filed a defamation lawsuit against Calcalist, an Israeli financial news portal, over a series of investigative articles alleging that the Israel police used its Pegasus spyware to remotely access, control, and extract data from phones of Israeli citizens without a warrant. Following the report by Calcalist, Israel’s Justice Ministry [...]
Russia’s media regulator, the Roskomnadzor, Sunday announced that it has written to the management of Google LLC demanding the removal of all restrictions imposed on Russian media’s YouTube channels in Ukrainian territory. The banned channels RBC, Zvezda and Sputnik have previously been criticised for disseminating false information and Russian propaganda. Google on Saturday cited “extraordinary [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ), along with Attorneys General in Minnesota and New York, filed a suit Thursday before the US District Court for the District of Columbia against a proposed $13 billion transaction between UnitedHealth Group, which owns the largest health insurer in the country, and Change, a leading healthcare technology company providing [...]
The European Commission Wednesday proposed the Data Act, comprised of harmonized rules on access to and use of data generated in the EU across all economic sectors. The Act intends to ensure fair access to data, stimulate competition in data markets and create opportunities for data-driven innovation. Key proposals of the Act include measures to [...]
