Charlie Osborne reports: Cybercriminals are hijacking the devices of civil rights activists and planting “incriminating evidence” in covert cyberattacks, researchers warn. According to SentinelLabs, an advanced persistent threat (APT) group dubbed ModifiedElephant has been responsible for widespread attacks targeting human rights activists and defenders, academics, journalists, and lawyers across India. The APT is thought to have…
Category: Breaches
Court Grants Dismissal of Wiretapping and Contract Claims in Putative Privacy Class Action Involving Google Privacy Settings
Kathryn Cahoy of Covington and Burling writes: A California federal district court recently granted partial dismissal of privacy claims brought by several Google users in Rodriguez v. Google, LLC, No. 20-cv-5688 (N.D. Cal.). The Rodriguez plaintiffs claimed that Google engaged in unlawful wiretapping under section 631 of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) by collecting data from…
France’s privacy watchdog latest to find Google Analytics breaches GDPR
Natasha Lomas reports: Use of Google Analytics has now been found to breach European Union privacy laws in France — after a similar decision was reached in Austria last month. The French data protection watchdog, the CNIL, said today that an unnamed local website’s use of Google Analytics is non-compliant with the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)…
NZ: Privacy Commissioner’s office looking into cleaning business’ photos posted online as ‘potential privacy breach’
RNZ reports: The Acting Privacy Commissioner is shocked by the graphic images posted by a trauma cleaning company and wants to hear from anyone who thinks the company has breached their privacy. Yesterday, RNZ revealed business Crime Scene Cleaners had been posting photos of scenes of suspected suicides, sudden deaths and assaults for nearly two…