By Lesley Fair It’s FTC 101. Companies can’t tell consumers they will use their personal information for one purpose and then use it for another. But according to the FTC, that’s the kind of digital bait-and-switch Twitter pulled on unsuspecting consumers. Twitter asked users for personal information for the express purpose of securing their accounts, but…
Category: Breaches
Israeli Ministry Illegally Shared Biometric Images of Millions With Unknown Agency
Josh Breiner and Bar Peleg report: The Population and Immigration Authority illegally shared in the past seven years the facial images of millions of Israelis with an unnamed government agency. The actions of the Interior Ministry division were disclosed in an official report published last week by Roy Friedman, the head of the Israel National…
Ie: Hospice worker’s rights breached during investigation into unauthorised breaks, court upholds
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…
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…