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Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai this week threw his support behind a European Union proposal for a temporary ban on the use of facial recognition technology in public areas while regulators assess the risks associated with the technology. On Friday, Reuters reported that the European Union is considering a five-year ban on the use of facial recognition technology in public areas in order to work out ways to prevent abuses and protect user privacy for citizens who have not given consent.
Will Dispute Over Sharing European's Data With US Continue?Facebook's sharing of data of European users with the U.S. is legal and provides enough protections, the legal adviser to the EU's top...
The Chinese company is at the heart of a security spat with the US that has also been causing some consternation in the UK.
The EU will relaunch its deadlocked effort to more closely regulate internet phone and message services such as WhatsApp, Skype and Messenger, a top bloc official said on Tuesday. read more
The European Commission said Monday it had begun a "preliminary investigation" into how Facebook and Google collect personal data and what they do with it. read more
EU officials have warned that they may not take kindly to a US encryption ban or insertion of crypto backdoor technology.
Spear phishing describes the practice of targeting specific individuals within an organisation or business for the purposes of distributing malware or extracting sensitive information. As...
The EU has fixed a flaw in the powerful yet complex eIDAS digital identification system that let people authenticate as someone else.
Researchers say they've cracked a Washington embassy and more The hacker crew behind the US Democratic National Committee breach are still at it and have infiltrated an EU country's embassy in...
The European Union hinted strongly it viewed Chinese tech group Huawei as a security risk to its roll-out of 5G networks in a report released Wednesday. read more