Nicolas Vaux-Montagny reports: A French court ordered home furnishings giant Ikea to pay some 1.1 million euros ($1.3 million) in fines and damages Tuesday over a campaign to spy on union representatives, employees and some unhappy customers in France. Two former Ikea France executives were convicted and fined over the scheme and given suspended prison…
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Western Australia Police refuse to apologise over COVID-19 app privacy breach
Tom Livingstone reports: Western Australia Police are standing by a decision to access personal data from the state’s COVID-19 contact tracing app in their investigation into the assassination of former Rebels bikie boss, Nick Martin. WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson told Nine Radio’s 6PR the investigators’ actions were lawful and he “expected officers to do everything possible to bring…
Digital ad industry accused of huge data breach
Zoe Kleinman reports: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is suing a branch of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and others over what it describes as “the world’s largest data breach”. The IAB Tech Lab, based in New York, develops digital ad industry standards. IAB members include Facebook, Google and Amazon. The case brought by…
Any EU Country Can Bring Privacy Case Against Facebook, Court Rules
Molly Quell reports: Ireland, where Facebook has its European headquarters, doesn’t have a monopoly on bringing allegations of privacy violations against the social media giant, the EU’s top court held on Tuesday The Court of Justice of the European Union found that, in some cases, national data watchdogs can initiate proceedings against tech companies, despite the one-stop-shop…