Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: With enforcement on children’s data privacy ramping up around the world, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has issued a detailed report on the fundamental principles of such data privacy, as well as some helpful suggestions to controllers on how to improve. The key principles: FLOOR OF PROTECTION: Online service providers should…
Category: Govt
FTC Finalizes Order Banning Stalkerware Provider from Spyware Business
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an order banning a stalkerware provider and its CEO from the surveillance business to settle allegations the company secretly harvested and shared data on people’s physical movements, phone use, and online activities. In a complaint first announced in September 2021, the FTC alleged that Support King, LLC, which did business…
Federal Study Acknowledges Failures in Police Surveillance Oversight
Federal Study Acknowledges Failures in Police Surveillance Oversight For years researchers have called out the Wiretap Report for being outdated and incomplete By: Alfred Ng There are major flaws in how the federal government monitors police surveillance of Americans, a new government report found, representing the first time the federal court system has acknowledged its…
Asylum seekers, families allegedly threatened after Australian immigration data breach
Ben Doherty reports: The personal details of nearly 10,000 people seeking asylum in Australia – unlawfully posted online by the Australian government – were accessed by people in foreign countries, including China, Russia, Egypt, and Pakistan, and from masked anonymous locations. New documents show the information was allegedly used to threaten asylum seekers, and to…