Several popular Android phones have been found to collect and share data on a large scale, including with third parties, and users cannot opt out, according to researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Edinburgh. The study https://lnkd.in/eiVzvJj3 examined six variants of the Android operating system, namely those from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, LineageOS and … Read more
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has sent a “draft decision” to the other European Data Protection Authorities on Facebook’s legal trick to bypass the GDPR. noyb has published the relevant documents today https://lnkd.in/eQBMMg7C. In the DPC’s view Facebook can simply choose to include the agreement on data processing in a “contract”, which would make the … Read more
Total GDPR fines for Q3 2021 amounted to over $1.1bn. Twenty times higher than the combined total of Q1 and Q2 in 2021, and triple the amount handed out in 2020.
The European Parliament wants a permanent ban on the use of automated facial recognition in public areas and at border crossings. Parliament also wants a ban on private facial recognition databases, social scoring systems of citizens and behavioral data-based ‘predictive policing’. A resolution calling for this was passed with 377 votes in favour, 248 against … Read more
The Norwegian privacy regulator Datatilsynet has decided on the basis of research not to create a Facebook page because the privacy risks for users are too great. To the best of its knowledge, the regulator is the first organization to have carried out a risk analysis and a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) into the … Read more
The introduction of a corona QR-ticket necessity for access catering, theaters and events with the exception of terraces will be implemented on the 25th of September in The Netherlands following EU countries like France and Italy. The members in favour have great concerns about security, privacy, freedom of choice but think the measure is proportionate … Read more
According to the CEO the bad actor leveraged their knowledge of technical systems, along with specialized tools and capabilities, to gain access to our testing environments and then used brute force attacks and other methods to make their way into other IT servers that included customer data. Compromised information includes customer names, addresses, Social Security … Read more
In the USA 10 major data brokers have data on individuals’ demographic characteristics (from race to gender to income level) and political preferences and beliefs (including support for the NAACP, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the National LGBTQ Task Force), and on current US government and military personnel. Several of these firms also market: Americans’ geo-locations. … Read more
Today the Commission issued modernised standard contractual clauses under the GDPR for data transfers from controllers or processors in the EU/EEA (or otherwise subject to the GDPR) to controllers or processors established outside the EU/EEA (and not subject to the GDPR). These modernised SCCs will replace the three sets of SCCs that were adopted under … Read more
The European privacy regulator EDPS is launching two investigations into the use of Amazon’s and Microsoft’s cloud services by EU authorities. The reason is the invalidity of the Privacy Shield treaty between the EU and the United States. The European regulator states that when using the tools and services of major service providers, personal data … Read more