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…
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South Korea Issues Fines to Facebook, Netflix Over Privacy Violations
Scott Ikeda reports: South Korea has quietly developed one of the more robust sets of data protection regulations in the world, and the country recently brought these terms to bear on three of the biggest online platforms and service providers. Facebook, Google and Netflix are facing fines and actions for privacy violations, with Facebook assessed…
WhatsApp Fined $266 Million Over Data Transparency Breaches
Stephanie Bodoni and Katharine Gemmell of Bloomberg report: Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp was ordered to pay a 225 million-euro ($266 million) penalty for failing to be transparent about how it handled personal information, its first fine under beefed-up European Union data protection law. The Irish Data Protection Commission — Silicon Valley’s main privacy watchdog in Europe…
UK: Mum-of-three wins legal data breach fight against Hampshire County Council after school in Havant gives ex-partner her address
David George reports: The mum-of-three, who wishes to be anonymous, was relocated from a refuge to Leigh Park in 2016, and enrolled her children at a nearby school. But after the school disclosed to her ex-partner that the children were there, he entered the premises and then obtained the 49-year-old’s address from inside, a court…