Simon Sharwood reports: Australia has decided that six-year-old children need education on cyber-security, even as it removes other material from the national curriculum. A newly revised draft of the national curriculum for children aged five to sixteen, launched yesterday, added a new strand titled “Considering privacy and security” that “involves students developing appropriate techniques for…
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Google and Apple are the world’s biggest privacy regulators
Mark Scott and Vincent Manancourt report: Move over, privacy watchdogs. Apple and Google are policing the internet. It’s a claim that might make many howl. But by rolling out privacy-focused updates to their dominant mobile software, these two tech giants are doing more to change online tracking practices in a few weeks than years of…
Mass legal action against Google would ‘open the floodgates’, (UK) Supreme Court told
PA News reports: A billion-pound legal action against Google over claims it secretly tracked millions of iPhone users’ internet activity would “open the floodgates” to mass data protection claims if it is allowed to go ahead, the Supreme Court has heard. Former Which? director Richard Lloyd, supported by campaign group Google You Owe Us, wants…
Kr: Developer of AI chatbot service fined for massive personal data breach
Yonhap News reports: South Korea’s data protection watchdog on Wednesday imposed a hefty monetary penalty on a startup for leaking a massive amount of personal information in the process of developing and commercializing a controversial female chatbot. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said Scatter Lab, a Seoul-based startup, was ordered to pay 103.3 million…