Archive - Privalogy

🤖 Automation and Coffee: My Journey to Remove PII from Documents

Removing Personal Data from Scanned Documents Using AI and OCR: Challenges and Solutions for Privacy and Transparency

Jul 7 •

June 2025

⏸️ Pause the AI Act? No way.

If the GDPR moved forward despite protests, why would the EU back down now on AI regulation?

Jun 30 •

😱 "16 billion leaked passwords": the massive data breach that made headlines. But is it really all that?

The largest breach in history?

Jun 23 •

🔒 Privacy or cutting-edge online services? Why not both?

For years, we’ve traded our data for “free” services. Now, a new wave of startups is proving it’s possible to offer convenience without being invasive…

Jun 16 •

🎮 Privacy in Online Gaming

How Your Data Becomes a Target on the Battlefield, and Why It Matters More Than Ever

Jun 9 •

🎭 The Boy Who Cloned a Country: The Rise and Fall of Alcasec

How a teenage Spanish hacker exposed the data of half a million people, built a cybercrime “startup,” and forced us to confront the fragility of our…

Jun 2 •

May 2025

🤖 AI-Powered Advertising: Ethics and Privacy

How to balance innovation and privacy in AI-driven campaigns

May 25 •

🧠 The Fraud That Fooled Facial Recognition: The Case That Reveals the Limits of Biometrics

Deepfakes, stolen selfies, and the failure of digital liveness detection, how a billion-dollar system was tricked and what it says about the future of…

May 20 •

🧭 How did I get started in the field of privacy and data protection?

Today’s post will be different. No technical content, no critiques, just a story.

May 15 •

⏳ Why your company needs AI literacy yesterday

The European Union made AI literacy mandatory. Meanwhile, in other countries, we're still improvising with promises and spreadsheets.

May 12 •

🚫💰 Meta, “consent or pay”? The EU isn’t buying it

Privacy isn’t for sale: The EU Court rejects Meta’s “consent or pay” model, shaking up the debate on data and user choice.

May 9 •

🚫 Are You Testing Software with Real Data? It Could Cost You Millions

Understand the Hidden Risks of Cloud-Based Test Automation and How to Protect Your Company from Fines, Data Leaks, and Headaches

May 5 •

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