Sam Biddle reports: The legal research and public records data broker LexisNexis is providing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with tools to target people who may potentially commit a crime — before any actual crime takes place, according to a contract document obtained by The Intercept. LexisNexis then allows ICE to track the purported pre-criminals’…
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Yandex fined 2 million rubles for failing to give FSB users data
(Machine translation): MOSCOW, 19 June. /TASS/. The World Court in Moscow imposed an administrative fine on Yandex, the largest Runet site, finding it guilty of repeatedly failing to provide the FSB of Russia with information about users of the Yandex.Services service, which is necessary for searching for people or ensuring the country’s security. As TASS clarified on Monday…
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…
NAIC’s New Privacy Protections Recipe
Ann Young Black and Patricia Carreiro of Carlton Fields write: In April and May, the NAIC Privacy Protections Working Group held the first three of its biweekly calls to discuss its recipe for a new privacy model, “Insurance Consumer Privacy Protection Model Law #674.” During the meetings, the working group considered whether the recipe needed…