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The CNIL authorizes the storage of Social Security data at Microsoft!
The CNIL authorizes the storage of Social Security data at Microsoft!The Free Thinker - February 02, 2024
Making such a decision demonstrates to what extent the French authorities are corrupt and to what extent France is sinking into the Third World and poverty.
How is it possible that a nation like France which spends more than 300 billion euros each year on its health system cannot afford a Data Hub to secure all its health data? It's inconceivable, we have the means to do it but we are not doing it in order to offer health data to the US Big Data giants. It is extremely humiliating but it perfectly shows what the political agenda of the current regime is.
In the absence of a European service provider, the CNIL has validated the hosting of French health data at Microsoft, for a period of three years. And this, despite “the risk of communication to foreign powers”.
The CNIL has authorized the temporary hosting at the American Microsoft of a health data warehouse for research powered by Health Insurance, a first for the French guardian of digital freedoms, according to a decision published Wednesday on Legifrance.
Until now, the CNIL had never agreed to authorize warehouses supplied with data from the National Health Data System (SNDS, managed by Health Insurance), if these were to be hosted on a platform “ cloud” – dematerialized IT infrastructure – non-European.
Risk of access by American authorities
The CNIL highlighted the risk of access to data by foreign authorities, with American laws with extraterritorial reach in their sights in particular. Thanks to these laws, American authorities can require in certain cases that American cloud operators provide them with data stored there, wherever it is in the world...
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Ireland: Improper data capture by smart electricity meters
Ireland: Improper data capture by smart electricity metersEel under the Rock - Nov 15, 2022
Rights group reveals Irish government's 'smart' energy meter scheme collects more data than necessary
Privacy campaign group Digital Rights Ireland has called for an investigation into the collection of electricity consumption data by ESB Networks smart meters. The group says the semi-state company collects more data than it needs for billing purposes and customers are unaware of the data collection.
The installation of smart meters began in 2020 and has been installed in over 800 homes. The goal is to replace all meters with smart meters by 000.
Last month, ESB Networks reconfigured smart meters to collect detailed data every half hour. These data are stored in a centralized database. DRI claims that customers have not consented to this data collection. The group also questions the legal basis for the data collection and asks the Data Protection Commission (DPC), a privacy watchdog, to investigate.
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Social networks are spying on you, counter them!
Social networks are spying on you, counter them!Counterpoints - Sep 11, 2022
Social networks have become weapons of which we are the ammunition. Fortunately, we can stop the shooting.
In the previous article, we described social networks as a hyper-media, a weapon of espionage and propaganda coveted by States. A weapon of which we are the ammunition, by the data we leave behind.
We will see how to avoid spying on social networks both on their platforms and outside them.
Of course, the best way to avoid having your data stolen is to never go on social networks. We do not miss much to do without Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Tiktok. However, even as a user, one can limit the case.
Avoid mobile. A mobile application has more possibilities than a simple web page. If you accept the permissions a bit quickly, it's open bar! The app can analyze your photos, your contacts, your SMS, your calls, your GPS position.
All of these things are impossible with a simple website. Also, the site stops once the tab is closed. While apps can run constantly in the background. It is therefore better to access social networks through a web browser rather than a mobile application.
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Norway will track all food purchases
Norway will track all food purchasesDigital Dawn - June 06, 2022
The Norwegian Bureau of Statistics plans to seize several million daily receipts from grocery stores, opening a new era in state data collection.
This collection will mark a new turning point in data collection and surveillance for the SSB, as the agency now seeks to compel private companies, not just public companies, to comply with state surveillance. Given the increase in identity theft in Norway, many are concerned about the need for more data collection.
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Digital secession: how to try to escape permanent surveillance
Digital secession: how to try to escape permanent surveillanceThe mail from the strategists - May 27, 2022
Éric Verhaeghe evokes the question of digital secession, a convenient name that designates the means of escaping permanent surveillance by the digital devices that surround us. We must remember here the weight of this monitoring, here are some tips to get around it.
The mistake would be to think that digital surveillance is limited to your smartphone. Certainly, this tool is a formidable spy that allows the State to know everything about you as long as the data providers transmit the information that goes well. But we must be aware that the coronavirus epidemic has given the police the opportunity to make great progress in their surveillance projects.
In France, for example, in December 2020, decrees were passed authorizing the filing of all citizens according to their philosophical opinions. The following year, parliament passed a law allowing real-time facial recognition of people participating in a protest.
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Elon Musk buys Twitter: what impact for your personal data?
Elon Musk buys Twitter: what impact for your personal data?LeBigData – May 8, 2022
It's official: Elon Musk is buying Twitter for $44 billion. Discover the possible consequences for the social network, particularly with regard to personal data…
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Digital Market Act: all about the new EU digital law
LeBigData – May 3, 2022
The Digital Market Act is the new digital law of the European Union, aimed at combating the monopoly of GAFAM. Find out everything you need to know about this new legislation, and its implications for data privacy…
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Why oppose the creation of "My Health Space"?
Why oppose the creation of "My Health Space"?La Quadrature du Net - March 25, 2022
What is this “Space”? What's in it? Why and how to oppose it? Discover all this and keep control of your health data.
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Personal data: the USA and the EU create a new “Privacy Shield”
Personal data: the USA and the EU create a new “Privacy Shield”01 Net - March 23, 2022
The European Commission and the US government have reached an agreement in principle on a new legislative framework for the transfer of personal data. Austrian jurist Max Schrems remains circumspect.
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The CNIL specifies the right of access of employees to their personal data
The CNIL specifies the right of access of employees to their personal dataThe World - Jan 24, 2022
The right of access to personal data provided for by the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) has existed in France since the Data Protection Act of 1978. But from the entry into force of the GDPR, in May 2018 , the number of people exercising their right of access has increased considerably.
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The health data business scandal
The health data business scandalBlast - Nov 15, 2021
Epidemiological tracing, shared medical records, sensors that follow our biological rhythms in real time… This digitization has serious consequences: our health data has become a lucrative business to which the government turns a blind eye, when it is not complicit in it.
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Police wanted information, Signal messaging refused
Eel under the Rock - Nov 3, 2021
Police in Santa Clara, California asked Signal for help and wanted specific information about one of the users of the encrypted messaging service. But Signal couldn't give him any personal information for the simple reason that he doesn't have any.
