The Straits Times reports: Indiana sued Chinese-owned short-video sharing app TikTok on Wednesday over allegations that it is deceiving users about China’s access to their data and exposing children to mature content. The office of Indiana Attorney-General Todd Rokita, a Republican, said the popular app, owned by ByteDance, violates the state’s consumer protection laws by…
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Meta’s behavioral ads will finally face GDPR privacy reckoning in January
Natasha Lomas reports: Major privacy complaints targeting the legality of Meta’s core advertising business model in Europe have finally been settled via a dispute resolution mechanism baked into the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The complaints, which date back to May 2018, take aim at the tech giant’s so-called forced consent to continue tracking and…
NZ: Case note 232044: Disclosure of information likely to cause significant likelihood of serious harassment
Another case note from the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner’s Office: A woman made a request to a health agency for the access logs of her records. She said she was worried about people looking at her file who shouldn’t be doing so (employee browsing). The agency released the access log to the woman with the…
Kenya’s Hustler Fund is raising data privacy concerns
Faustine Ngila reports: An easy mobile-loan scheme that catapulted president William Ruto’s rise to power in Kenya only a few months ago has quickly turned into a lightning rod for data privacy concerns. The Hustler Fund is Ruto’s $410 million loan project meant to lift millions of Kenyans out of poverty through his bottom-up economic model. In a country…