Josh Horwitz reports: China’s National People’s Congress on Friday passed a law designed to protect online user data privacy and will implement the policy from Nov. 1, according to state media outlet Xinhua. […] The law states that handling of personal information must have clear and reasonable purpose and shall be limited to the “minimum…
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Zoom incompatible with GDPR, claims data protection watchdog for the German city of Hamburg
Jude Karabus reports: The acting Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has officially warned the city’s Senate Chancellery not to use the on-demand version of Zoom’s videoconferencing software. Referring to the European Court of Justice Schrems II decision of July 2020, Ulrich Kühn claimed the software violates the EU General Data Protection Directive (GDPR) as…
Au: OCR Labs granted accreditation as first private ‘trusted’ government ID operator
Aimee Chanthadavong reports: Australian-based OCR Labs has become the first accredited non-government operator that provides digital identity services to the private sector under the federal government’s Trusted Digital Identity Framework (TDIF). By becoming an accredited provider, OCR Labs now ensures its private sector customers, such as those in banking, finance, and telecommunications that are using…
Dutch education IT crisis averted as Google agrees to ‘major privacy improvements’
Tim Anderson reports: Google has agreed to “major privacy improvements” following a threat to ban the use of Google Workspace in education by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA). In May the DPA warned that eight out of ten “high data protection risks” in Google’s productivity suite, Workspace, still remained despite the company’s response. Now, after what…