Anna Oberschelp de Meneses and Kristof Van Quathem of Covington & Burling write: On July 17, 2018, the Portuguese Supervisory Authority (“CNPD”) imposed a fine of 400.000 € on a hospital for infringement of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The decision has not been made public. Earlier this week, the hospital publicly…
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Ca: Administrators won’t remove camera pointed at school bathrooms
Jack Julian reports: Education officials in Cape Breton are refusing to remove a video camera pointed at the entrance of two student bathrooms, despite objections from Nova Scotia’s privacy commissioner. The camera was one of several at the Rankin School of the Narrows in Iona that was streaming live images to the internet last year because no one set the…
Health privacy advocates worry DeepMind will break its promise not to share health data with Google
Christina Farr reports: DeepMind, the Alphabet subsidiary focused on health and AI, announced in a company blog post on Tuesday that its health group will be absorbed by Google. That news comes just days after Google disclosed plans to form a new, centralized health unit at its Silicon Valley, California headquarters led by David Feinberg,…
EFF Unveils Virtual Reality Tool To Help People Spot Surveillance Devices in Their Communities
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched a virtual reality (VR) experience on its website today that teaches people how to spot and understand the surveillance technologies police are increasingly using to spy on communities. “We are living in an age of surveillance, where hard-to-spot cameras capture our faces and our license plates, drones in…