Nicholas Shepherd and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington & Burling write: On 30 November 2018, the Austrian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) decided that the website of an online media publisher – which offers users a choice between consenting to advertising cookies or paying for a subscription – gives users a free choice that is compatible with the requirements of…
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Is California’s DNA Retention a Violation of Privacy Rights?
Ian Lopez reports: A new privacy battle is shaping up over DNA retention, and California is the battleground. That’s after a group of social justice organizations brought suit over the state’s “failure to automatically expunge” genetic information collected from individuals who are arrested but never convicted of a crime. To decode the case and its…
Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers
Joe Cadillic had sent me a link to this story back on December 22nd, and it was so disturbing that I put it aside to see if the government would refute it or say, “Hey, we just had a brief psychotic break here, but we’re rescinding this all and it’s all good now.” But they…
Jury Awards $853,000 to Woman After Leak of Confidential Medical Information
Robert Storace reports: A Bridgeport Superior Court jury has awarded $853,000 to a former Connecticut resident whose medical records were released to her former boyfriend without her knowledge. At an earlier stage, the Connecticut Supreme Court used this case to state in a matter of first impression that a violation of medical privacy under a…