EchoLive reports: The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision that a hospice employee’s data protection rights were breached over the use of data from CCTV footage in a disciplinary investigation into unauthorised breaks. The disciplinary action against Cormac Doolin arose as a result of an inquiry into graffiti which had been carved into a…
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FTC Calls for Research Presentations for PrivacyCon 2022
The Federal Trade Commission today called for research presentations on a wide range of privacy and data security topics such as commercial surveillance and automated decision making for its annual PrivacyCon event, which will take place virtually on November 1, 2022. PrivacyCon 2022 will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders to discuss the latest…
Impending demise of Roe v. Wade puts a spotlight on a major privacy risk: Your phone reveals more about you than you think
Impending demise of Roe v. Wade puts a spotlight on a major privacy risk: Your phone reveals more about you than you think Where you’ve been and who you’ve interacted with are not difficult for governments and corporations to find out. Maskot via Getty Images Susan Landau, Tufts University When Politico published Supreme Court Justice Samuel…
Report: Amazon and 3rd Parties Collect Voice Data from Smart Speakers and “share it with as many as 41 advertising partners”
B. N. Franks writes: Despite all the bad press reported about Amazon’s smart speaker devices (see 1, 2, 3, 4) – and the high levels of biologically harmful wireless radiation they emit – people are still buying these devices and using them in their homes and businesses. In fact, they’re even being used in nursing homes, sometimes with disastrous results. Collecting user data to sell and/or…