Ah, if it’s Thursday, Facebook must be in trouble with German data protection again. Bloomberg reports: Facebook Inc. may be fined by a German data-protection agency over a feature that uses facial-recognition software to suggest people to tag in photos on its social-networking site. Facebook introduced the feature in Europe “without informing users or getting…
Category: Laws
Kenya: Draft Data Protection Bill critically limited
ARTICLE 19 finds the Draft Kenya Data Protection Bill 2009 currently undergoing internal review and stakeholder consultation to be critically limited and calls on the Constitution Implementation Commission to revise it to be in line with acceptable international standards on the right to freedom of expression and freedom of information. ARTICLE 19 submitted its comments…
Kerry, McCain Request Final Reports on Protecting Commercial Privacy
Senators John Kerry and John McCain today requested that the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission issue their final reports on consumer privacy protections. Both agencies released draft reports identifying large holes in current privacy protections in December 2010, but have not yet issued final reports. Senators Kerry and McCain introduced legislation aimed…
Updated European law will close Patriot Act data access loophole
Zack Whittaker reports: European lawmakers have been revising and updating the data protection laws that apply to all 27 European member states, after it was discovered that the United States can use the Patriot Act to access European citizens’ data without their consent. The European Commission’s justice commissioner Viviane Reding met with German Consumer Protection…