Joe Mullin writes: The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, which will…
Category: Non-U.S.
Illness Caused by Outing Ruled Work-Related
Jiji Press reports: The labor authorities have ruled that a man developed mental illness because his sexual orientation was revealed by his boss without consent, recognizing it as a work-related condition eligible for workers’ compensation insurance benefits. The man in his 20s won the judgment from the labor standards inspection office in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district…
Ie: Inquiry concerning the Department of Health
(IN-21-3-2) Date of Decision: 16 June 2023 The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has completed an inquiry into certain aspects of the Department of Health’s processing of personal data in 29 litigation files. The inquiry was commenced following public allegations in 2021 that the Department had unlawfully collected and processed personal data about plaintiffs and their…
What Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Means For Threads And For Organizations When It Comes To Data Protection
Shelly Kramer at V3B writes: In May 2023, Meta was fined a record-breaking 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for breaching the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The DPC ruled that Meta broke privacy laws by transferring Facebook EU users’ data illegally from Europe to the United States—and I believe this…