Paigambar Mohan Raj reports: Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) has released the findings from its investigation into Worldcoin (WLD). The investigations began in January 2024 and aimed to uncover if the project breached any privacy laws. According to the report, ‘The PCPD carried out 10 covert visits during the…
Category: Non-U.S.
Who’s a “potential terrorist or violent extremist threat”? Plans to exchange information about “future” criminals
From Statewatch: EU member states have finalised a set of “non-binding” criteria for assessing when someone may be labelled a potential terrorist or violent extremism threat. The intention is to feed European databases such as the Schengen Information System (SIS) and the Europol Information System (EIS), as well as Europol analysis projects such as “Hydra”…
Dutch DPA issues guidelines on data scraping
Joke Bodewits of Hogan Lovells writes: On 1 May 2024, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued guidelines on data scraping used by private organisations in relation to GDPR principles including ‘lawfulness’. The guidelines could affect the way GenAI business should govern their data scraping processes. However it is questionable whether these guidelines will persevere…
Telemarketing: the Privacy Guarantor sanctions Enel Energia. The company had not protected its databases from access by abusive brokers
Seen at GPDP: Telemarketing: the Privacy Guarantor sanctions Enel Energia The company had not protected its databases from access by abusive touts The Privacy Guarantor has imposed a fine of over 79 million euros on Enel Energia for serious shortcomings in the processing of personal data of numerous users in the electricity and gas sector, carried out…