Ella Fassler reports: The South Korean Ministry of Justice has provided more than 100 million photos of foreign nationals who travelled through the country’s airports to facial recognition companies without their consent, according to attorneys with the non-governmental organization Lawyers for a Democratic Society. While the use of facial recognition technology has become common for governments…
Category: Non-U.S.
ACC privacy breach claims in Korean embassy assault case
Anusha Bradley reports: The New Zealand victim of alleged sexual assault by a Korean diplomat says ACC call centre staff divulged information about his sensitive claim to someone claiming to represent the Korean embassy, and he lives in constant fear it could happen again. The man, whose case made headlines in 2020 and sparked an…
UK Supreme Court rules in favor of Google in iPhone tracking case
Daniel Cooper reports: Google has escaped the risk of a lawsuit after violating the privacy of around 5.4 million iPhone users in the UK. The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled that it cannot allow a US-style Class Action suit to be lobbed at the search giant after it deliberately created a workaround to track Safari users. The judgment,…
Progress on the Pending EU ePrivacy Regulation
Dan Cooper, Kristof Van Quathem, and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington & Burling write: According to a leaked draft, on November 4, 2021, the Council of the European Union (“Council”) and the European Parliament (“Parliament”) agreed a number of amendments to the following three chapters of the draft ePrivacy Regulation, which will replace the…