David Pierson of the Los Angeles Times reports: Representatives of six major technology and communications companies, including Google, Apple and AT&T, told lawmakers Wednesday that they support federal laws that would safeguard user privacy—if those laws aren’t as stringent as rules recently introduced in Europe and California. The executives, who also represented Amazon, Charter Communications…
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Aadhaar: India’s top court upholds world’s largest biometric ID program, within limits
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…
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…