Joseph Cox reports: The body tasked with oversight of the IRS announced in a letter that it will investigate the agency’s use of location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones, according to a copy of the letter obtained by Motherboard. The move comes after Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren demanded a formal…
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Top EU Court Reins in Government Phone Spying
Molly Quell reports: European spy agencies can only keep bulk personal data in the event of a serious emergency, the EU’s high court ruled Tuesday. European Union privacy rules prevent governments from requiring telecommunications companies to collect and retain bulk traffic and location data unless there is a “serious threat to national security that proves…
Facebook, Belgian Data-Protection Watchdog Face Off at EU High Court
Molly Quell reports: The European Union faced some tough questions as it defended Facebook at the EU high court Monday, in a case over which country’s data-protection agency can go after the social media giant. The Court of Justice of the European Union heard arguments Monday on whether Belgium can go after social media giant…
H&M Fined €35m in Germany for GDPR Breaches Related to Staff Record Keeping
Compliance Junction reports: In Germany the data protection authority located in Hamburg has announced that H&M, the second biggest retailer in the world, is being fined €35.2 (US $41.3m) for breaching the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation in relation to the monitoring of several hundred staff member by a German subsidiary. The data protection…