Indu Bhan reports: Lenders, including SBI, PNB and HDFC Bank, on Tuesday vehemently opposed any disclosure of their “highly confidential and sensitive” inspection and risk assessment reports under the Right to Information Act, saying this would amount to invasion of right to privacy of their lenders and customers, shareholders and employees. The Reserve Bank of India…
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S.Korea fines Google, Meta billions of won for privacy violations
Soo-Hyang Choi and Joyce Lee report: South Korea levied tens of millions of dollars in fines on Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google and Meta Platforms (META.O) for privacy law violations, authorities said on Wednesday. In a statement, the Personal Information Protection Commission said it fined Google 69.2 billion won ($50 million) and Meta 30.8 billion won ($22 million). The privacy panel…
Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania Consider Data Privacy Legislation
Jeffrey M. Csercsevits reports: State governments are continuing to propose and adopt legislation that requires businesses to implement policies and procedures to ensure privacy rights for consumers. Businesses operating in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania should prepare for the potential dawning of a new day. […] The Michigan legislature is currently considering the Consumer Privacy Act…
Privacy and Paternalism: The Ethics of Student Data Collection
In February 2021, MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing launched a specially commissioned series that aims to address the opportunities and challenges of the computing age. The MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) series features peer-reviewed, freely available cases by topic-area experts that introduce readers to a range of questions about…