https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/aa0191cf-2107-421e-b0d4-4606e3879c7f This week we talk about good things (or good-ish things) that you might have missed from 2023! Links Companies getting disciplined Ovulation Tracking App Premom Will be Barred from Sharing Health Data for Advertising Under Proposed FTC Order ⁠https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/05/ovulation-tracking-app-premom-will-be-barred-sharing-health-data-advertising-under-proposed-ftc⁠, Facebook getting fined for data exploitation in Norway: ⁠https://dig.watch/updates/meta-fined-98500-daily-over-user-privacy-breach-in-norway⁠, CNIL fines Criteo: ⁠https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/5075/global-adtech-company-criteo-fined-eu40-million-france-unlawfully-collecting⁠, CNIL fines Doctissimo: ⁠https://edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2023/health-data-and-use-cookies-french-sa-fines-doctissimo_en⁠, Worldcoin (aspires to be World ID) has been getting some pushback from some countries: ⁠https://www.citizen.digital/news/data-protection-office-says-worldcoin-likely-to-tamper-with-data-from-kenyans-seeks-courts-intervention-n325472⁠, Governments abandoning plans, or at least held to account Kenya drops Huduma Numba and replaces it with new systems (it’s not any better and advocacy under way) but it’s still a sense of victory that they dropped Huduma Numba that caused some much controversy as highlighted by CSOs in particular through advocacy, research and litigation (which we supported led by Kenyan organisations like Nubian Rights Forum, amongst others) ⁠https://www.biometricupdate.com/202303/kenya-huduma-namba-funding-almost-entirely-cut-as-upi-digital-birth-registration-begins⁠, MI5 win: ⁠https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/5027/press-landmark-ruling-exposes-years-rule-breaking-mi5⁠, UK Supreme Court rules against Rwandan policy ⁠https://www.ft.com/content/c040946a-c294-4a89-808e-46c8b2f2f414⁠, Colombia at the UN Human Rights Committee ⁠https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5080/pis-submission-un-human-rights-committee-regarding-colombias-compliance-iccpr⁠, USA at the UN Human Rights Committee: ⁠https://ccprcentre.org/ccprpages/united-states-under-the-microscope-vast-participation-of-american-civil-society-organizations⁠, Brazil at the UN Human Rights Committee: ⁠https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CCPR%2FC%2FBRA%2FCO%2F3&Lang=en⁠, Legal protections emerging Proposed US Privacy Act: ⁠https://www.wired.com/story/government-surveillance-reform-act-2023/⁠, New data protection laws adopted (they are not perfect but they exist) in India ⁠https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/india-approves-new-privacy-law-but-is-it-really-a-win-for-citizens⁠ and Nigeria: ⁠https://kpmg.com/ng/en/home/insights/2023/09/the-nigeria-data-protection-act--2023.html⁠, Innovations Apple deciding right to repair actually matters ⁠https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23930762/apple-right-to-repair-white-house-iphone⁠ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:12:13 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://media.privacyinternational.org https://media.privacyinternational.org/lazy-static/avatars/5c7454e0-676b-43a0-8933-4867d0c1f2e6.png https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/aa0191cf-2107-421e-b0d4-4606e3879c7f All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://media.privacyinternational.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.