Zen Soo reports: China’s internet watchdog said Friday it had found Bytedance’s Douyin, Microsoft Bing, LinkedIn and 102 other apps were engaged in improper collection and use of data and ordered them to fix the problem. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said that the 105 apps violated laws by excessively collecting and illegally accessing…
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UK: ICO fines contact-tracing service for using personal data for marketing
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The ICO has fined a company for sending direct marketing emails to people who provided their personal data for contact tracing purposes. Tested.me Ltd (TML) of St Albans, provides digital contact tracing services which work by offering people a QR code to scan when arriving at businesses’ premises. The company…
Months before the coup, Myanmar army ordered intercept spyware
Reuters reports: In the months before the Myanmar military’s February 1 coup, the country’s telecom and internet service providers were ordered to install intercept spyware that would allow the army to eavesdrop on the communications of citizens, sources with direct knowledge of the plan told Reuters. The technology gives the military the power to listen…
Facebook Loses Bid to Block Ruling on EU-U.S. Data Flows
Sam Schechner reports: Facebook Inc. lost a bid to block a European Union privacy decision that could suspend its ability to send information about European users to U.S. computer servers, opening a pathway toward a precedent-setting interruption of its data flows. Ireland’s High Court dismissed Friday all of Facebook’s procedural complaints about a preliminary decision on data flows…