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Data breach exposes Wonga customers in the UK and Poland

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Lawsuit alleges that Bose headphones spy on users

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Study finds gaps in GAEN contact tracing apps privacy protection

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Colombia covid information apps break national data protection law

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UK government announces shift from centralised system to local contact tracing

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Public-Private Partnerships on Technology in Peru: A Government without horizon

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UK outsources contact tracing to Serco

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ORG action leads UK DHSC to drop coronavirus data retention period from 20 years to eight

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UK Test and Trace system accused of breaching privacy

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Content Creators Working for the Algorithm

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UK government releases coronavirus-related technology company contracts

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Faculty wins £400,000 UK government contract to analyse social media data

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Pakistan fails to remedy security flaws in COVID-19 tracking system

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Hungarian government suspends some aspects of GDPR

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Australian app finds slow takeup over privacy concerns

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Parliament grants Israeli government three more weeks of mobile phone surveillance

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Online hub collects projects using personal data to combat COVID-19

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US waives HIPAA violation penalties to enable new technologies 

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UK HSC waives patient confidentiality for any coronavirus-related reason

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Germany grants Federal Ministry of Health exceptional powers

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Germany: GDPR laws changed to allow processing of personal data

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Italy: Telcos turn over anonymised location data to aid contact tracing

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49% of Americans consider it unacceptable for companies to share smart speakers' audio recordings of their customers with law enforcement for criminal investigations

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UK denies data protection rights to EU citizens seeking post-Brexit registration

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UK police chiefs stop sharing data with immigration authorities in defiance of government policy