Rakesh Kumar reports: The government introduced the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, 2023, on Thursday to ‘safeguard’ citizens’ data. This is the third version of the bill, the work on which has been going on since 2017. It was the year when the apex court of the country ruled that privacy is a fundamental right…
Category: Non-U.S.
Spyware maker LetMeSpy shuts down after hacker deletes server data
Zack Whittaker reports: Poland-based spyware LetMeSpy is no longer operational and said it will shut down after a June data breach wiped out its servers, including its huge trove of data stolen from thousands of victims’ phones. In a notice on its website in both English and Polish, LetMeSpy confirmed the “permanent shutdown” of the…
ICO reprimands NHS Lanarkshire for sharing patient data via WhatsApp
From the U.K. Information Commissioner: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to NHS Lanarkshire, following staff’s unauthorised use of WhatsApp to share patients’ personal data over the course of two years. Between April 2020 and April 2022, 26 staff at NHS Lanarkshire had access to a WhatsApp group where patient data was entered…
ICO statement on Meta
From the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office: Stephen Almond, ICO Executive Director of Regulatory Risk, said: As a digital regulator, we pay close attention to how companies operate internationally and how people’s rights are respected. We’re aware of Meta’s plans to seek consent from users for behavioural advertising in the EU, to the exclusion of the…