Luana Pascu reports: A school in Gdansk, Poland, has been fined PLN 20,000 (roughly US$5,300) by the European Data Protection Board over a biometric data processing breach that affected 680 children in the 2019-2020 school year. The school used a biometric reader to process student’s fingerprints as a form of identification and lunch payment verification, however the…
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Facebook sued for millions by Australian Privacy Commissioner over massive breach of user data
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson reports: Australia’s privacy watchdog is seeking millions of dollars in penalties against Facebook in Federal Court, alleging the tech giant exposed private information of hundreds of thousands of Australians and allowed it “to be sold” for political profiling. The unprecedented court action comes almost two years after the Cambridge Analytica scandal that saw…
Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.
Jon Schuppe reports: The email arrived on a Tuesday afternoon in January, startling Zachary McCoy as he prepared to leave for his job at a restaurant in Gainesville, Florida. It was from Google’s legal investigations support team, writing to let him know that local police had demanded information related to his Google account. The company…
Through apps, not warrants, ‘Locate X’ allows federal law enforcement to track phones
Charles Levinson reports: U.S. law enforcement agencies signed millions of dollars worth of contracts with a Virginia company after it rolled out a powerful tool that uses data from popular mobile apps to track the movement of people’s cell phones, according to federal contracting records and six people familiar with the software. The product, called…