Clare Baldwin and Kirsty Needham report: Health regulators in five countries are examining a prenatal test that collects the DNA of women and fetuses for research, while some doctors that promoted it and clinics that sell it say they were unaware the company that produces it also conducts research with the Chinese military. The test,…
Category: Non-U.S.
Turkey fines WhatsApp over data breach
AFP reports: Turkey on Friday joined a host of other countries in fining Facebook’s ubiquitous WhatsApp messaging service for failing to sufficiently protect user data. The 1,950,000-lira ($235,000, 200,000-euro) penality was imposed after months of confusion over whether WhatsApp had introduced its controversial new data sharing rules in Turkey. Read more on The Jakarta Post.
ProtonMail Logs Activist’s IP Address With Authorities After Swiss Court Order
There was a mini-uproar on Twitter yesterday about a Swiss business complying with Swiss law. In this case, the business in Protonmail and the uproar was because users expected them not to have the type of data that they turned over to law enforcement under a court order. Ravi Lakshmaman provides the context on The…
AU: ‘Breach of trust’: Police using QR check-in data to solve crimes
Anthony Galloway reports: The nation’s privacy watchdog has called for police forces to be banned from accessing information from QR code check-in applications after law enforcement agencies have sought to use the contact-tracing data on at least six occasions to solve unrelated crimes. There are also growing calls from backbench MPs and civil liberties groups…