Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog: Assembly Bill 1651, or the Workplace Technology Accountability Act, a new bill proposed by California Assembly Member Ash Kalra, would regulate employers and their vendors regarding the use of employee data. Under the bill, data is defined as “any information that identifies,…
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Civil society to Amazon: Terminate your contract to host dangerous U.S. DHS biometric database
From AccessNow: Today, Access Now, Immigrant Defense Project, Just Futures Law, and over 35 human rights organizations sent a letter to Amazon Web Services calling on the company to end its agreement to host the United States Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) database. The letter was sent in coordination with a protest…
PSNI data breach discovered after an officer tried to stop family trip to US
Allison Morris reports: A huge data breach that resulted in the details of 152 people being unlawfully handed over to the US authorities was discovered after a police officer wrongfully intervened to stop a family travelling to America on holiday. The Belfast Telegraph yesterday revealed that the Police Ombudsman, the Information Commissioner and the Policing Board…
The Icelandic SA: fine imposed on Harpa Concert Hall for the collection of the ID number and date of birth of a data subject
Background information Date of final decision: 8 March 2022 Controller: Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre ohf. Legal Reference: principles relating to processing of personal data (Article 5), lawfulness of processing (Article 6) Decision: infringement of the GDPR, order to comply, fine 1 million ISK (approx. 7.200 Euros). Key words: principles, lawfulness of processing, transparency, data…