Zack Whittaker reports: Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest in a long-running legal battle brougcht by LinkedIn aimed at stopping a rival company from web scraping personal…
Category: Breaches
Kāinga Ora admits serious privacy breach, apologises, launches investigation
Lane Nichols reports: Kāinga Ora has apologised for a serious privacy blunder and launched an urgent investigation after mistakenly sharing sensitive details about a tenant’s mental health with a neighbour. The tenant is a former skinhead and alleged white power sympathiser accused of terrorising his Christchurch neighbours in a prolonged campaign of intimidation and abuse….
Announce: Privacy Harms – Final Published Version (Solove & Citron)
Two resources of note this week. First, as seen on Teach Privacy, Daniel Solove’s site: I’m delighted to announce that the final published version of my article, Privacy Harms,is now out in print! Privacy Harms, 101 B.U. L. Rev. 793 (2022) (with Danielle Keats Citron) Abstract: The requirement of harm has significantly impeded the enforcement of…
Danish SA: fine proposed for Danske Bank
Seen at the European Data Protection Board: Background information Date of final decision: 4 April 2022 Cross-border case or national case: National Controller: Danske Bank Legal Reference: Article 5 (2) Decision: Infringement of the GDPR Key words: Deletion Summary of the Decision Origin of the case The Danish Data Supervisory Authority (SA) has reported Danske…