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From reading a newspaper online, listening to podcasts or ordering food, we add to our digital footprints daily. But how secure is our long-term privacy?

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Press conference by Didier Reynders, European Commissioner, on the harmonization of the procedural rules of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

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In exchange for the £50 payment, the site gets the right to use and publish people's photos, voices and biographical information among others.

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What do the US, Afghanistan and the EU have in common? They’re all highly suspicious of TikTok.

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Many countries are concerned about TikTok's security and the platform's ties to China. This week, the United States Congress approved a bill against ByteDance's app.

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TikTok users monitor voting at the Capitol in Washington, as the House passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app.

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The bill in the US threatens the app's survival and casts a spotlight on the quandary that many private Chinese companies have found themselves in as they seek to engage Western markets at a time of souring US-China relations.

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Negotiations between MEPs and the Belgian presidency stretched into the early hours before collapsing at first light today (8 March).

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Differences over patients’ right to opt out of health data transmission to third parties scuppered all-night talks on the last health file of the term.

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A new report highlighted the opaque partnerships between NGOs and the tech sector over data protections.

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A sweeping study of the world’s humanitarian sector found that it’s not clear what rights the world’s most vulnerable have with their data.

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Frank Vandenbroucke is Belgium's Deputy Prime Minister and carries the health portfolio.

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Meta, which owns platforms Facebook and Instagram, is being challenged by consumer groups at the European level for its recently launched ad-free subscription version.

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A new report from an Irish civil liberties watchdog has highlighted what they term a ‘European Security Crisis’ related to the distribution of sensitive data about leaders.

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