Vidhi Doshi reports: India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the validity of a giant and controversial government program to collect and store the biometric data of its billion-plus citizens, but placed new limits on how the data can be used and stored. A five-judge bench ruled that while the government’s flagship Aadhaar program has huge…
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Google proposes data privacy framework ahead of US Senate hearing
Natalie Gagliordi reports: Google has published a proposed framework for data-protection legislation ahead of an appearance Wednesday before US Senate to discuss GDPR-style safeguards for consumer data privacy. The framework is comprised of privacy practices that Google already abides by or could easily comply with. In a three-page document, Google posits that companies should be…
UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International
Press release from Privacy International Tuesday, September 25, 2018 The UK’s domestic-facing intelligence agency, MI5, today admitted that it captured and read Privacy International’s private data as part of its Bulk Communications Data (BCD) and Bulk Personal Datasets (BPD) programmes, which hoover up massive amounts of the public’s data. In further startling legal disclosures, all…
Paper Trails: Living and Dying With Fragmented Medical Records
I cannot recall in what year I first started seeing my primary care physician, but I do know that even years later, his records on me are missing a lot of my history and past exams and records. Why? Because the system that my records were generated with and stored on with my former primary…