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Privacy complaint targets European Parliament's virus test app

By Foo Yun Chee on Jan 25, 2021 11:02AM
Privacy complaint targets European Parliament's virus test app

Saying it could be transferring data illegally to the United States.

A privacy activist filed a complaint with an EU watchdog over the European Parliament's Covid-19 testing app for its staff, saying it could be transferring data illegally to the United States. The Austrian privacy advocacy group Noybaid, led by Max Schrems it had taken its case to the ...

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