From the Information Commissioner’s Office: TikTok could face a £27 million fine after an ICO investigation found that the company may have breached UK data protection law, failing to protect children’s privacy when using the TikTok platform. The ICO has issued TikTok Inc and TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited (‘TikTok’) with a ‘notice of intent’…
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Research: A digital mask to safeguard patient privacy
Yahan Yang, Junfeng Lyu, Ruixin Wang, Quan Wen, Lanqin Zhao, Wenben Chen, Shaowei Bi, Jie Meng, Keli Mao, Yu Xiao, Yingying Liang, Danqi Zeng, Zijing Du, Yuxuan Wu, Tingxin Cui, Lixue Liu, Wai Cheng Iao, Xiaoyan Li, Carol Y. Cheung, Jianhua Zhou, Youjin Hu, Lai Wei, Iat Fan Lai, Xinping Yu, …Haotian Lin Nature Medicine,…
Jamal Khashoggi’s wife to sue NSO Group over Pegasus spyware
Daniel Boffey reports: The wife of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is preparing a lawsuit in the US against the spyware maker NSO Group, claiming she was targeted with the Israeli company’s Pegasus software. Hanan Elatr, 52, is also planning to sue the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for their involvement in the alleged…
Indonesia finally passes personal data protection law
Eileen Yu reports: Indonesia finally has passed its personal data protection law that has been in discussions since 2016. The government believes the new Bill will be critical amidst a spate of data security breaches in the country. Indonesia’s House of Representatives earlier this month approved the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, paving the way…