Pham Du reports” Untold hours of private camera footage from bedrooms, changing rooms, toilets and massage parlors in Vietnam have been hacked and put on sale online. Minh Hung read the description of a private Telegram group which invited him to join: “A group specialized in hacking into private cameras of families and shops in…
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Harry wins 15 claims in phone-hacking case against Mirror publisher
Sean Coughlan reports: Prince Harry has won 15 claims in his case accusing Mirror Group Newspapers of unlawfully gathering information for stories published about him. A judge has ruled in his favour on almost half of the sample of 33 stories used in his claims of phone hacking and other methods. A High Court ruling…
Complying with DPDP 2023
Diwakar Dayal reports:Complying with DPDP 2023 Since 2017, India has worked on developing its own laws on the right to privacy. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, India’s version of Europe’s GDPR, gives Indian citizens the right to protect their own data. In August of this year, both the lower and upper houses of…
German Data Protection Authorities Publish Paper on Cloud-Based Digital Health Applications
Lars Lensdorf, Dr. Dr. Adem Koyuncu, and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington and Burling write: Digital health apps are increasingly used in practice. They raise various questions under regulatory and data protection and data security laws. On November 6, 2023, the German Conference of the Independent Data Protection Supervisory Authorities (Datenschutzkonferenz, DSK), a national body…