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UK police ask rape victims for social media content on mobile phones

Campaigners have pledged to fight a move by British police to ask crime victims to hand over their mobile phones and social media passwords to investigators.

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Breakfast With Belle: We want your questions for MEP Eva Kaili

Breakfast With Belle is headed to Greece to interview MEP Eva Kaili- and we want to put YOUR questions to her. Comment or tweet with the hashtag #BreakfastWithBelle and stay tuned to see if she answers your question.

USA

FEMA put 2.3M disaster survivors at risk of identity theft, watchdog says

Survivors of the 2017 California wildfires, hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria were among the millions whose privacy was violated, the inspector general's report says.

World

Study finds state-run websites are violating EU privacy laws

A recently published study from Denmark has shown that state-run websites are selling personal data to advertising companies.

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World

Raw Politics full episode: Brexit delay

Watch Wednesday night's full episode of Raw Politics

USA

Euroviews. It's time for Congress to protect Facebook users, since Facebook won't

The company's inability or unwillingness to change its ways makes America, and Americans, less secure.

World News

Google tracks your every move

Google’s smartphone services store users’ locations even when privacy settings are adjusted to shut these features off, according to a report by the Associated Press.

World News

How worried should Facebook be after its market collapse?

Facebook's profit warning brought a record US stock market dive, but despite major challenges over privacy and fake news the social media giant remains... a giant.

World News

Facebook: Five things to know after fortunes shift

Facebook shares lost as much of a quarter of their value on Wednesday after executives said that profit margins would plummet for several years. Euronews takes a look at how this happened.

United Kingdom

Cliff Richard wins court case against BBC

British pop singer Sir Cliff Richard has won a privacy case against the BBC. He has been awarded the equivalent of €220,000 euros in damages ( $260,000 US dollars).

World News

Euroviews. EU digital trade proposal opens data protectionism loophole | View

The European Commission should revise its proposed rules for cross-border data flows to clearly prohibit unjustified barriers done in the name of "privacy."

World News

Facebook bug made some private posts public, affecting as many as 14M

Facebook bug made some private posts public, affecting as many as 14M users.

World News

US newspaper websites blocked in EU after missing GDPR deadline

European users were met with an error message when trying to access websites

World News

Europe's new data protection laws pose problems for small businesses

SME's face dilemma over stored data and raised costs to adminster personal databases to compy with GDPR legislation, but the EU is attempting to reassure them that they won't be hard-hit...and is facing some scepticism.

World

New EU data rules stop us being 'naked'

New EU rules come in this week, which aim to give us more protection - when it comes to our personal data. GDPR should make it easier for us to access information that companies hold about us. After all the scandals we've seen of - like Cambridge Analytica - many will be welcoming it.

Belgium

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook and your privacy

Mark Zuckerberg's visit to the European Parliament coincides with the introduction of the EU's new rules on data protection, which requires companies to give European citizens greater control over their personal data. But some believe that all publicity is good publicity.

Europe News

Zuckerberg comes to Europe to answer Facebook criticisms

The social media boss will be questioned by the heads of the political groups in the European Parliament in a session that will be livestreamed to the public.

World News

Fingerprints may be added to all EU ID cards — but at what cost to data privacy?

The European Commission on Tuesday proposed new laws that would see fingerprinting and other biometric elements made compulsory for all EU ID cards, but at what cost to citizens' data privacy?

USA

Zuckerberg emerges unscathed from Congress grilling over Facebook flaws

The Facebook CEO revealed his own data had been breached during the second day of questioning by US senators

USA

Zuckerberg says sorry to US Senate over Facebook data breach

The social media website founder also pledged to work with government on regulation if necessary