AP reports: Irish regulators are slapping Instagram with a big fine after an investigation found the social media platform mishandled teenagers’ personal information in violation of strict European Union data privacy rules. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said by email Monday that it made a final decision last week to fine the company 405 million euros…
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NZ: Media Council finds RNZ story breached privacy
Radio New Zealand reports on its own breach of privacy: The Media Council has found RNZ breached its principles of privacy and confidentiality when a carelessly chosen pseudonym was used in a story. The ruling followed a complaint about a story, published in March. It reported a woman’s concern that her child, and other babies…
Google sued over access to millions of NHS blood tests
Gareth Corfield reports: A Google-owned artificial intelligence company may have gained access to NHS blood test results without patients’ knowledge, according to a High Court lawsuit over 1.6m people’s health records. DeepMind, which was bought by Google in 2014, may have been handed the results of blood tests that were “processed by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation…
India’s Parliament Committee To Hear Twitter, IRCTC On Data Privacy
IANS reports: Parliamentary panel on Communications and Information Technology headed by Shashi Tharoor has summoned Twitter and IRCTC over data privacy. As per the Lok Sabha the step was ‘to hear the views of the representatives of Twitter India on the subject of Citizens Data Security and Privacy’. The committee will hear the views of…