More on the sale of bank customers’ data in Hong Kong, reported previously on this site: Hong Kong’s government was on Friday urged to launch a probe after six banks were found to have sold the personal data of 600,000 customers to insurance companies. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said each of the banks…
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India gives RIM until Aug 31 to yield on BlackBerry
Bappa Majumdar and Paul de Bendern report: India, the world’s fastest-growing telecom market, said it would hobble Research In Motion’s BlackBerry smartphone unless the company gives it the keys to decode encrypted email and messages by the end of August. The ultimatum was issued on Thursday, hours after senior government officials and state-run telecom operators…
HK: Six banks sold customers’ personal data
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has revealed that six local banks have sold the personal information of more than 600,000 clients to unrelated third parties for marketing purposes over the past years. It said some of these institutions, which cannot be named for legal reasons, only stopped selling such data last month following a…
UK: ICO statement on Google StreetView
A spokesperson for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said: “The Information Commissioner is taking a responsible and proportionate approach to this case. Unlike some privacy commissioners abroad the Information Commissioner has no responsibility for enforcing the law on interception of communications. In the UK this is the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which is…