Richard Speed reports: The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has called for an end to website design practices that it claims could harm users. The regulator has singled out cookie consent banners as an example of where it will take action if it believes that consumers are being affected by harmful design. It went on…
Category: Non-U.S.
Polish Health Minister quits amid public fury over privacy breach
The Sun Daily reports: Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday that he has accepted the resignation of Health Minister Adam Niedzielski who provoked outrage by disclosing sensitive information about a doctor, reported Xinhua. On Thursday, Poland’s private broadcaster screened footage about patients in the middle-eastern city of Poznan being unable to receive painkillers…
Snapchat under scrutiny from UK watchdog over underage users
Martin Coulter reports: Britain’s data regulator is gathering information on Snapchat to establish whether the U.S. instant messaging app is doing enough to remove underage users from its platform, two people familiar with the matter said. Reuters reported exclusively in March that Snapchat owner Snap Inc had only removed a few dozen children aged under-13 from its…
Russian bill to hide the PII data of military, police, and intelligence agents
Catalin Cimpanu writes: The Russian government has submitted a bill to the Duma (the Russian Parliament) that would grant the military, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies the power to edit, anonymize, or delete the personal data of certain groups of people—presumably their own employees. At first reading, the proposed law appears to allow these agencies to freely…