SAN FRANCISCO – The Department of Justice, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), today announced that Edmodo, LLC (Edmodo) has agreed to a permanent injunction and a $6 million civil penalty in connection with its online educational platform, as part of a settlement to resolve alleged violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA),…
Category: Breaches
FTC Says Genetic Testing Company 1Health Failed to Protect Privacy and Security of DNA Data and Unfairly Changed its Privacy Policy
The Federal Trade Commission charged that the genetic testing firm 1Health.io left sensitive genetic and health data unsecured, deceived consumers about their ability to get their data deleted, and changed its privacy policy retroactively without adequately notifying and obtaining consent from consumers whose data the company had already collected. As part of a proposed settlement with the…
Banks, Institutions Pay Over N200m Fines for Exposing Privacy Rights of Nigerians
Victor Enengedi reports: A total sum exceeding N200 million has been collected by the Federal Government from at least seven banks and various other institutions. The Federal Government collected these payments from these financial institutions as a consequence of their infringement upon the data privacy rights of Nigerian citizens. Read more at Legit. (If I’m…
Privacy commissioner finds 2 B.C. police departments improperly accessed critic’s data
Akshay Kulkarni reports: B.C.’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has found two police departments improperly accessed the personal information of a Victoria man who previously filed freedom-of-information requests with them. Blogger Stephen Harrison, who regularly files FOI requests with the Victoria and Saanich police departments on Vancouver Island, uses the data for…