Andy Gregory of The Independent reports: British spies unlawfully retained people’s intercepted data for nearly five years, a landmark tribunal has ruled, with judges criticising “widespread corporate failure” at M15 and the Home Office. Under laws dubbed the Snoopers’ Charter by privacy campaigners, UK intelligence agencies are empowered on national security grounds to impose tight surveillance on collecting people’s data and intercepting their…
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UK: A shadowy Army unit secretly spied on British citizens who criticized the Government’s Covid lockdown policies
Glen Owens reports: A shadowy Army unit secretly spied on British citizens who criticised the Government’s Covid lockdown policies, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Military operatives in the UK’s ‘information warfare’ brigade were part of a sinister operation that targeted politicians and high-profile journalists who raised doubts about the official pandemic response. They compiled dossiers on…
Home Depot did not comply with privacy law when it shared data with Meta, Canadian privacy watchdog says
Marsha McCleod reports: Home Depot Canada did not comply with federal law when it shared data from e-mail receipts with the social media giant, Meta, without its customers’ consent, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada said Thursday, after the release of an investigation by his office that also served to warn other businesses that may be…
Ireland DPC sends Meta data transfer case to EU for Article 65 dispute resolution
Jedidiah Bracy reports: The fate of Meta’s data transfers to the U.S. could hinge on an Article 65 dispute resolution mechanism in the EU, after Ireland’s Data Protection Commission was unable to resolve objections from other EU data protection authorities to its draft enforcement decision. Politico reporter Vincent Manancourt originally broke the news, which was then confirmed…