Tag: Microsoft
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Big Brother Awards: Reprimand for digital coercion
The German association Digitalcourage awards the annual Negative Prize – Zoom, the Ministry of Finance and Microsoft are honoured. The “data sin” is an offence that often goes unpunished. The Digitalcourage association has been drawing attention to this in Germany since the turn of the millennium and presents the Big Brother Awards to the biggest […]
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Planned regulation: EU Commission postpones mandatory screening of encrypted chats
Providers of messengers and cloud services will be allowed to voluntarily screen for child abuse content worthy of prosecution, which is to become mandatory across the EU. The Council and Commission are pushing for an extension to other crime areas. Next week, the EU interior ministers will publish a declaration on this. On 1 December, […]
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G20 in Hamburg: Data protection commissioner considers face recognition illegal
The Hamburg police have been researching facial analysis software for several years, which was then used for the first time after the G20 summit. The technology accesses the nationwide INPOL file for criminal offenders maintained by the Federal Criminal Police Office. The detection rates are meagre, but the system is still to be used permanently […]
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First child pornography, now extremism: Internet providers and police investigation authorities to use Microsoft upload filters
Material uploaded onto the Web could soon be scanned for extremist or radicalising content with an upload filter produced by Microsoft. The filter would be installed in the systems of Internet service providers (ISPs), but the necessary databases could be held by the police authorities. Two weeks ago in Washington, the international Counter Extremism Project […]