There’s a lot more I’d like to know about the details of this incident, but it sounds like although Fuzhou University denies a privacy breach, their actions really do sound privacy-invasive. China Daily/Asia News Network reports: Students at Fuzhou University have recently received a questionnaire in which they were asked to respond using their real…
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Schools rush to fingerprint children before UK Freedom Bill change
Andrea Petrou reports: Fingerprinting of children has got worse, with “more and more schools falling over themselves” to get pupil biometrics, a rights group has told TechEye. Action on Rights for Children (ARCH) is wondering if the rush is because of proposed changes in the Freedom bill. Currently, schools don’t have to ask for parental…
Malaysia PM: Emails, SMSes did not violate privacy rules
Husna Yusop reports: The personal emails and SMSes on 1Malaysia and Chinese New Year (CNY) greetings that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak sent to Malaysians recently did not breach any privacy rules. In reply to Fong Po Kuan (DAP-Batu Gajah) and Teo Nie Ching (DAP-Serdang), he said when seeking for information on the…
UK businesses must ‘wake up’ to new EU law on cookies, Information Commissioner warns
From the ICO, this press release: Businesses and other organisations running websites in the UK must ‘wake up’ to the fact that EU legislation, which will require them to get consent in order to store or access information on consumers’ computers, is coming into force soon, Information Commissioner Christopher Graham will say today in a…