The Octopus Card Company has admitted that it had shared personal details of its 2.4 million card holders with two partner companies involved in a reward scheme. It’s now set up a special committee to review its handling of customers’ personal information. The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Prudence Chan, said its partners will be told…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: London town halls snoop on dustbins
Rashid Razaq reports: London councils have been secretly snooping in dustbins to profile residents according to race and wealth. Officials and private contractors have conducted “waste audits” in which they check the brands and types of discarded food and read mail thrown out with the rubbish. The profiling tactics have been employed so that recycling…
APEC Cooperation Arrangement for Cross-Border Privacy Enforcement
A few days ago, I linked to a news story from ZDNet Asia about cross-border cooperation intended to boost consumer confidence in e-commerce. The FTC has now posted the APEC Cross-border Privacy Enforcement Arrangement to its site, here (pdf).
Fears over new EU snooping powers for police
Tom Whitehead reports: Britons face being snooped on by European police officers for even the most trivial matters under plans drawn up by the EU. The proposed power would allow officers from an EU country to demand information on anyone they suspect of an offence, no matter how minor or whether it is even criminal…