AP reports: Irish regulators are slapping Instagram with a big fine after an investigation found the social media platform mishandled teenagers’ personal information in violation of strict European Union data privacy rules. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said by email Monday that it made a final decision last week to fine the company 405 million euros…
Category: Breaches
Data Broker Helps Police See Everywhere You’ve Been with the Click of a Mouse — EFF Investigation
Fog Data Science sells local police cheap access to a massive digital dragnet without well-defined rules. SAN FRANCISCO–Millions of Americans’ everyday movements can be traced by police with the click of a mouse and possibly without a warrant, thanks to a data broker that’s selling phone geolocation data to state and local law enforcement, an Electronic Frontier Foundation…
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Update: After days of tweeting to them, emailing them, and actually cursing them in email, I have finally gotten an acknowledgment and assurance that I have been unsubscribed from all their newsletters. I will leave this post up for a bit. If the emails have truly stopped, I will remove the post in due course….
NZ: Media Council finds RNZ story breached privacy
Radio New Zealand reports on its own breach of privacy: The Media Council has found RNZ breached its principles of privacy and confidentiality when a carelessly chosen pseudonym was used in a story. The ruling followed a complaint about a story, published in March. It reported a woman’s concern that her child, and other babies…