Tom Jowitt reports: Spyware from an Israeli firm is once again the headlines after new research allegedly tracked its use across a number of countries. Two reports on Tuesday from both Microsoft and Canadian internet watchdog Citizen Lab alleged the spyware has been been used against journalists, opposition figures and advocacy groups across at least 10 countries – including people in…
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Do Mandatory Age Verification Laws Conflict with Biometric Privacy Laws?–Kuklinski v. Binance
Eric Goldman writes: California passed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) nominally to protect children’s privacy, but at the same time, the AADC requires businesses to do an age “assurance” of all their users, children and adults alike. (Age “assurance” requires the business to distinguish children from adults, but the methodology to implement has many…
Austrian Supervisory Authority Issues Decision on the Collection of Personal Data by Credit Referencing Agency
Dan Cooper and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington & Burling write: On March 24, 2023, the Austrian Supervisory Authority (“Austrian SA”) held that a credit referencing agency (“Agency”) breached the GDPR by unlawfully processing personal data obtained from a third party in order to process it to conduct credit assessments. It decided that the Agency breached…
Fr: Geolocation of rental scooters: CITYSCOOT fined €125,000
From CNIL, France’s data protection regulator: On 16 March 2023, the CNIL imposed a fine of €125,000 on the company CITYSCOOT in particular because it disproportionately infringed on the privacy of its customers by geolocating them almost permanently. In 2020, the CNIL partly focused its investigations on several priority thematic areas related to the everyday concerns…