Stephanie Reinders Folmer and Richard van Schaik of DLA Piper write: The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, “Dutch DPA“) issued a fine of EUR 725,000 for a company unlawfully processing fingerprints of its employees for attendance and time registration purposes. Under the GDPR, biometric data (e.g. fingerprints) processed for the purpose of identifying a natural person…
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AU: ‘Publisher’ Google ordered to pay $40k in damages for defaming Melbourne lawyer after court ruling
Updated: This is the type of opinion that I thought we might only see from an EU court, but apparently it is not the first time this has happened in Australia. Karen Percy reports: Google has been ordered to pay $40,000 in damages to a Melbourne lawyer after a Supreme Court of Victoria ruling found…
Texas Still Won’t Say Which Nursing Homes Have COVID-19 Cases. Families Are Demanding Answers.
by Lomi Kriel, Vianna Davila, ProPublica, and Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune. This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. As elderly and vulnerable citizens continue to die from COVID-19 in closed-off long-term…
Hearing Tuesday: EFF, ACLU, and Cybersecurity Expert Ask Court to Unseal Ruling Denying DOJ Effort to Break Encryption
Seattle, Washington—On Tuesday, April 28, at 9 am, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Stanford cybersecurity scholar Riana Pfefferkorn will ask a federal appeals court to embrace the public’s First Amendment right to access judicial records and unseal a lower court’s ruling denying a government effort to force Facebook to break the…