Natasha Lomas reports: Google is facing a fresh privacy complaint in Europe over ads it inserts into its Gmail email service in the guise of emails. Privacy advocacy group, noyb, has filed the complaint with France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, claiming the adtech giant has breached the European Union’s ePrivacy Directive rules on direct marketing by failing to gain…
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UK: What can you do when a child’s private information has been misused?
Daniel Shaw, Meera Khunti, and Anna Seal write: Everyone has a reasonable expectation of privacy concerning their private information, whether they are an adult or a child. However, there are certain cases when a child has a reasonable expectation of privacy where an adult does not. Whilst not as widely reported as other privacy claims,…
Parliament’s top security committee to probe RCMP’s use of spyware
Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Maura Forrest report: A top-secret committee of Canadian parliamentarians has launched an investigation into the national police force’s use of spyware to conduct covert surveillance. The all-party National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), chaired by Liberal MP David McGuinty, will conduct a “framework review” of the “lawful interception of communications…
Commercial prospecting and rights of individuals: ACCOR fined 600,000 euros
From the English version site of the French data protection regulator, the CNIL: The CNIL and several other European data protection authorities have received complaints about difficulties encountered by individuals in exercising their rights with ACCOR, a French hotel group. The investigations carried out by the CNIL revealed that when an individual made a reservation…