Jon Brodkin reports: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai refused a Democratic lawmaker’s request to immediately address a privacy scandal involving wireless carriers, saying that it can wait until after the government shutdown is over. A Motherboard investigation published last week found that T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are still selling their mobile customers’ real-time location…
Category: Govt
Brazil Creates a Data Protection Authority
Isabel Carvalho and Rafael Loureiro of Hogan Lovells write: On 14 August 2018 Brazil approved its new General Data Privacy Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais or “LGPD”) – a comprehensive law that closely mirrors the European Union’s General Data Privacy Regulation (“GDPR”). Although the LGPD significantly expands Brazil’s data protection framework and…
Austria’s Post Office under fire over sharing data on political allegiances
The Local (.at) reports: Austria’s national post office found itself under fire on Tuesday for collecting and selling information about customers’ political allegiances in what privacy campaigners say bears similarities to the Facebook data-sharing scandal. According to the investigative journalism website Addendum, the Austrian Post sold the names, addresses, age and gender of around three million customers…
Border Patrol and the TSA allowed to secretly spy on everyone’s social media accounts
Joe Cadillic writes: The U.S. Border Patrol (CBP) and the TSA claim they need to secretly spy on everyone’s social media accounts so they can understand a person’s relationship with their friends, family and the government. According to a DHS report published last month, nothing can stop the Border Patrol or the TSA from secretly…