The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has filed a Notice of Application in the Federal Court seeking a declaration that Facebook has contravened Canada’s federal private sector privacy law. The application follows a joint investigation last year by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) and the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British…
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AU: Fair Work to rule in worker privacy case involving swipe-in app
David Marin-Guzman reports: The construction union is defending a novel workplace privacy case to fight employers allowing the sharing of workers’ personal information for marketing purposes. Builder Watpac has called on the Fair Work Commission to arbitrate a dispute with the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union after a union safety delegate and a…
BULLETIN: HIPAA Privacy and Novel Coronavirus — from HHS OCR
In light of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is providing this bulletin to ensure that HIPAA covered entities and their business associates are aware of the ways that patient information may be shared under the HIPAA Privacy Rule in…
Lawsuit in India Seeks to Shut Down Access to U.S. Journalism Website
Naomi Gilens of EFF writes: Computer security researchers and journalists play a critical role in uncovering flaws in software and information systems. Their research and reporting allows users to protect themselves, and vendors to repair their products before attackers can exploit security flaws. But all too often, corporations and governments try to silence reporters, and…