Paul Day and Paresh Day report: An independent study lead by an academic group in Spain has shown that what personal information can be collected by pre-installed programs on new Android mobile devices is expansive and faces little oversight. The investigation by the public Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, IMDEA Networks Institute and Stony Brook…
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Facebook sends 30-page response Turkish data protection authority
BARIŞ ŞIMŞEK reports: The Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) has seen new developments in the investigation it launched against Facebook as part of its “data security breach” and “data abuse” research. In response to the information KVKK officials requested about Facebook’s data processing system, Facebook sent a 30-page plea to the organization. The authority is…
NZ: Privacy Commissioner John Edwards reappointed
From the office of New Zealand’s privacy commissioner, some welcome news: John Edwards has been reappointed by the Government to serve another term as Privacy Commissioner. Mr Edwards was appointed in December 2013 and began in the role in February 2014. His reappointment will take his term as Privacy Commissioner to 2024. The Privacy Commissioner…
Dutch Data Protection Authority Sets GDPR Fines Structure
Joke Bodewits and Benjamino Blok of Hogan Lovells write: On 14 March 2019, the Dutch data protection authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, DPA) announced (in Dutch) its fining structure for violations of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Dutch law implementing the GDPR (Implementation Act). The GDPR sets two levels of administrative fines that…