Libbie Canter of Covington & Burling writes: It’s the stuff of science fiction: adversaries extract DNA information from a cup of coffee or postage stamp and use it infer one’s most private traits. However, a recently released study entitled, “Data Sanitization to Reduce Private Information Leakage from Functional Genomics” discusses how this can be achieved,…
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Planned database of Victorians’ health information ‘trashes privacy’
Henrietta Cook reports: The private medical information of every Victorian who has used public hospitals and health services will be collected by the Health Department, stored on a database and accessed by clinicians under a controversial state government plan. The proposal, which was quietly unveiled in September, has attracted criticism from legal, consumer and public…
South Korean Regulator Fined Facebook for Privacy Violations; Social Media Giant Shared Personal Data Without User Consent
Scott Ikeda reports: South Korea’s information protection regulator has fined Facebook the equivalent of $6.1 million for privacy violations, concluding an investigation that began in 2018. The regulator says that Facebook shared the personal information of 3.3 million residents of the country with third parties without collecting proper user consent and in violation of laws…
My Phone Was Spying on Me, so I Tracked Down the Surveillants
Martin Gundersen writes: There are 160 apps on my phone. What they’re actually doing, I don’t know. But I decided to find out. This is an English translation, read the original here. Read the English version of Gundersen’s experiment on nrk.no to find out what these apps were collecting about him and what it revealed.