@WHO PI welcomes the inclusion of a provision in the #PandemicTreaty on confidentiality and privacy to reflect the role of data protection in any effective, modern public health policies. 2/5
@WHO However, we are concerned that the draft #PandemicTreaty does not adequately regulate private-sector entities including demanding that safeguards are in place to mitigate the risks of human rights harm. 3/5
@WHO We also recommend that the #PandemicTreaty draft demands a human rights-based approach to the use and adoption of digital technologies in health. 4/5
Yesterday we attended a hearing at the CNIL (the French data protection authority) following our 2020 complaint against @doctissimo, a major French health and wellness information website. Some spicy details, including a proposed €380,000 fine...
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@doctissimo The CNIL rapporteure focused on 5 points: data retention, consent, joint controllership, security and cookies - it found that Doctissimo failed on all of them when collecting and sharing the sensitive data of thousands of people.
@doctissimo Through the 684 (!) health & wellness online self-tests that Doctissimo offers, the company reached 584,000 people.
Doctissimo said only 5% of those tests collected health data, meaning 30,000 people had their data unlawfully processed.
💥 NEWS! In a landmark ruling, the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal found “very serious failings” by MI5 breaching the right to privacy from at least 2016, and that successive Home Secretaries didn't enquire into & resolve this rule breaking, despite the red flags 🚩
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We began this legal case in January 2020 with @libertyhq & welcome today’s ruling after arguing that MI5 unlawfully held and used individuals’ personal data, gathered in secret, in breach of key legal safeguards.
MI5 has already admitted it handled the public’s data improperly, with no legal right to do so & failed to disclose this to oversight bodies.
The Tribunal found MI5 knew at the highest levels that there was a serious problem but did not fix the problem or report it.
2. E2EE benefits us all, giving us all private spaces to think, explore and talk, without governments, corporations and criminals being able to spy on what we're saying.
3. We know this can be frustrating for law enforcement. But the alternative - to get rid of E2EE and make all our comms accessible - makes us all less safe. Because it means states can abuse this access, and use it to censor and persecute. Criminals can use it, too.
‼️NEWS‼️ Today we file complaints against the GPS tagging of migrants in the UK. We’re asking the Information Commissioner (ICO) & Forensic Science Regulator (FSR) to take action against this inhumane and degrading policy & practice by the Home Office.
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GPS ankle tags monitor a person’s precise location 24/7, generating a huge amount of sensitive and granular “trail data”, stored for years.
This provides deep insight into and reveals intimate details of an individual’s life.
The UK Home Office uses these tags to monitor migrants released from immigration detention. Despite the indiscriminate nature of this surveillance, there isn’t provision for judicial or independent oversight at the point where electronic monitoring is imposed.
BREAKING: Nearly 4 years after our complaint and 2 after starting their investigation, the French data protection authority CNIL finds breaches in Criteo's activities, and proposes a fine of €60 million.
Criteo is an online advertising platform claiming to have captured the "identity and interest data" of 72% of all internet users, building "the world's largest open shopper data set", allowing them to "precisely predict what inspires shoppers and drive higher engagement"
They spy on people's online browsing behaviour to try and predict their propensity to engage with specific products, and the types of ad design they would best respond to.
🆕 @NicolaKelly reports in the @guardian on @ukhomeoffice plans to surveil migrants through smartwatches, informed by our @LucieCAudibert. We’ve been investigating this latest stride in the UK’s cruel migration policies.
GPS tags are a dehumanising, invasive method of control that monitors people’s precise location 24/7.
The Home Office knows where they’ve been, when, every second of the day.