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…
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UK Information Commissioner’s Office released a New Draft Employment Guidance for Monitoring at Work
Dan Cooper, Helena Milner-Smith, and Jiayen Ong of Covington and Burling write: On October 12, 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) opened a public consultation seeking feedback on the draft guidance document on employment practices, specifically relating to monitoring at work (the “Monitoring at Work Guidance”). The guidance aims to provide practical guidance and…
Using sensitive data to prevent discrimination by artificial intelligence: Does the GDPR need a new exception?
There’s a new paper by Marvinvan Bekkum and Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius: Using sensitive data to prevent discrimination by artificial intelligence: Does the GDPR need a new exception? Abstract Organisations can use artificial intelligence to make decisions about people for a variety of reasons, for instance, to select the best candidates from many job applications. However,…
Viewing public documents is not a crime, Canadian edition
In today’s episode of “Let’s mitigate this data leak by violating the privacy of people who happened to view it,” we bring you the government of Nova Scotia and a privacy lawyer who didn’t appreciate them violating his privacy. Canadian privacy lawyer David Fraser has a story to share with you. It’s a story about…