Dan Cooper and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington & Burling write: On March 24, 2023, the Austrian Supervisory Authority (“Austrian SA”) held that a credit referencing agency (“Agency”) breached the GDPR by unlawfully processing personal data obtained from a third party in order to process it to conduct credit assessments. It decided that the Agency breached…
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Fr: Geolocation of rental scooters: CITYSCOOT fined €125,000
From CNIL, France’s data protection regulator: On 16 March 2023, the CNIL imposed a fine of €125,000 on the company CITYSCOOT in particular because it disproportionately infringed on the privacy of its customers by geolocating them almost permanently. In 2020, the CNIL partly focused its investigations on several priority thematic areas related to the everyday concerns…
Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
Reuters reports: Tesla assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees…
CBP wants more information to surveil and control air travelers
Ed Hasbrouck writes: Today the Identity Project and allied civil liberties and human rights organizations submitted comments objecting to a proposal by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to require all travelers on international flights to or from the US to provide an address in the US, two phone numbers, and an email address, and prohibit or recommend that airlines not…