From Stanford Medicine: Any armchair detective knows that DNA left at a crime scene can be a valuable way to identify a perpetrator — either by comparing the collected DNA with criminal DNA databases or with genetic samples collected from suspects or “persons of interest.” Some criminal databases, however, retain DNA profiles found at the…
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Lithuanian DPA: Fine Imposed on a Sports Club for Infringements of the GDPR in Processing of Fingerprints of the Customers and Employees
The State Data Protection Inspectorate (SDPI) has carried out an investigation into processing of biometric personal data in a sports club and imposed a fine in the amount of EUR 20,000 on VS FITNESS UAB for the identified infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The fine was imposed for infringements of the provisions…
ProtonMail, DuckDuckGo, others ask EU & US regulators to ban surveillance-based advertising
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A group of privacy-first tech companies, including the likes of ProtonMail, DuckDuckGo, Vivaldi, Tutanota, and Startpage, have published an open letter today asking EU and US regulators to take action and ban surveillance-based advertising. Surveillance-based advertising refers to a common practice in the advertising industry where companies amass large quantities of personal…
High Court Notice To Centre, State On Data Leak Allegations Against TrueCaller
The Press Trust of India reports: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Union and Maharashtra governments, among others, over a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that claimed Truecaller mobile application “shared” user data, breaching the law of the country. A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni was hearing…