Iain Wilson writes: In our blog In defence of privacy and the judiciary we discussed how the press had misreported the decision in HRH the Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 1810 and, with the assistance of the government, had weaponised that misreporting to lobby for the reform of privacy law. We are now seeing a…
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Israeli Ministry Illegally Shared Biometric Images of Millions With Unknown Agency
Josh Breiner and Bar Peleg report: The Population and Immigration Authority illegally shared in the past seven years the facial images of millions of Israelis with an unnamed government agency. The actions of the Interior Ministry division were disclosed in an official report published last week by Roy Friedman, the head of the Israel National…
Ie: Hospice worker’s rights breached during investigation into unauthorised breaks, court upholds
EchoLive reports: The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision that a hospice employee’s data protection rights were breached over the use of data from CCTV footage in a disciplinary investigation into unauthorised breaks. The disciplinary action against Cormac Doolin arose as a result of an inquiry into graffiti which had been carved into a…
UK: ICO fines facial recognition database company Clearview AI Inc more than £7.5m and orders UK data to be deleted
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Clearview AI Inc £7,552,800 for using images of people in the UK, and elsewhere, that were collected from the web and social media to create a global online database that could be used for facial recognition. The ICO has also issued an enforcement notice, ordering the company to…