Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: Senior executives at a French spyware firm have been indicted for the company’s sale of surveillance software to authoritarian regimes in Libya and Egypt that resulted in the torture and disappearance of dissidents. While high-tech surveillance is a multibillion-dollar industry worldwide, it is rare for companies or individuals to face legal…
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Delhi High Court Refuses To Stay CCI Probe Against WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy
Shreya Argawal reports: The Delhi High Court has refused to stay the Competition Commissionof India’s (CCI) enquiry against WhatsApp’s new privacy policy. A vacation division bench of Justices Anup Jairam Bhambhani and Jasmeet Singh was hearing an appeal by WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook Inc against a single bench order declining to interfere with…
Privacy Power: EU Court Nixes Easy Access to Driving Records
Cain Burdeau reports: The European Union’s high court kept in line with the bloc’s tight privacy laws on Tuesday with an order for Latvia to stop making people’s driving records easily available to anyone seeking them. By making people’s past driving offenses available to the public upon request, Latvia is violating the right to privacy, the European…
Demand for personal banking info to get F1 race ticket refund prompts privacy concerns
Leah Hendry reports: Formula One fans who have waited more than a year to get a refund for their cancelled 2020 Canadian Grand Prix tickets are now being asked to fork over personal banking information to get their money back. Michelle Savoy bought race tickets for her son as a Christmas present in 2019. When…