From EPIC.org: Senator Franken has received a response from Uber about the the ride-sharing company’s privacy practices. Last month, Franken asked Uber to answer ten questions about the company treats use of passenger data. Specifically, Franken questioned Uber’s use of the “God view” tool, which allows the company to track individual customers in real time. Uber failed to answer…
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Personal Data Protection in Poland – Important Legal Changes
Ewa Kacperek and Jakub Baczuk write: On 7 November 2014 the Polish Parliament passed the Act on the Facilitation of Business Activity which substantially amends the existing Act on Personal Data Protection. As we previously reported, this new Act requires an administrator for information security to be given an independent position within the data controller’s organization. Additionally,…
Justice Department redacts reasons for redacting policy on text message snooping
JPatBrown writes: Last year, in response to a FOIA request from the ACLU regarding the Obama Administration’s policy regarding intercepting cell phone text messages, the Justice Department released 15 pages of documents – all of which had been completely redacted by b(7) and b(5) exemptions. In response, MuckRock’s Michael Morisy requested the processing files for the case, which just…
Dutch privacy watchdog asks Facebook to postpone new privacy conditions
DutchNews.nl reports: Dutch privacy watchdog CBP is launching an investigation into Facebook and is asking the company to postpone its new privacy policy, the NRC reports. The social media giant said recently that from January 1 2015 it will use data and photos from Facebook profiles to send advertisments to allied services such as WhatsApp…