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…
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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…
Ireland’s Joint Committee on Justice Publishes Recommendations to Reform the Irish Data Protection Commission
Marie Daly of Covington & Burling writes: On Jul 22, 2021, the Irish Joint Committee on Justice (“Committee“) published a report that included a series of recommendations on the work of the Irish Data Protection Commission (“DPC“). The Committee, made up of 14 politicians from across the political spectrum and drawn from both the Dáil (the elected…
Genetic papers containing data from China’s ethnic minorities draw fire
Dennis Normile reports: When Yves Moreau, a bioinformatician at KU Leuven in Belgium, noticed a 2017 paper in Human Genetics that described the “male genetic landscape of China” based on a set of almost 38,000 Y-STR sequences, he saw a red flag. Y-STR stands for Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat polymorphism, bits of repetitive DNA often used in…