Asha Barbaschow reports: Remember that facial recognition startup found being used by law enforcement agencies around the world last year? Well today, Australia’s Privacy Commissioner has ruled they breached the country’s privacy laws. It was ruled Clearview AI breached Australians’ privacy by scraping their biometric information from the web and disclosing it through a facial…
Category: Breaches
Run a credit check without consent in Norway and it may cost you
Suppose a company ran a credit check on you despite the fact that you had no relationship to that company and had not requested nor consented to any credit check. What do you think the government would do to the company, if anything? Well, if you are in Norwary, the Norwegian DPA might fine that…
Dutch watchdog slams tax office fraud list as privacy breach
Mike Corder reports: A Dutch data protection watchdog issued a damning report Friday about the country’s tax office, saying it breached privacy law for years by keeping a list of potential fraudsters. It was another blow for the scandal-plagued Dutch tax office, which already is embroiled in the fallout from a discredited effort to root…
Inadequate access controls that permit access to non-patients’ data? That will cost you.
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority recently fined the Høylandet Municipal Council 41,000 euros ($47,565.00) because image files containing health data about people with no connection to the municipality were accessible to staff at the health clinic, and the council still did not implement appropriate access controls after they became aware of the problem. Read more…