BBC reports: An inquiry is under way after official correspondence about procedures for when the Queen dies was accidentally leaked by the Welsh government. The correspondence and a security pamphlet marked “official sensitive”, was emailed to a member of the public. Read more at BBC. Well, from reading the full article, PogoWasRight learned that something…
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UPDATE: CNIL orders three controllers to comply with GDPR after decision that using Google Analytics is illegal
noyb reports: Only two weeks after the groundbreaking decision by the Austrian Data Protection Authority that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) ordered three French websites to comply with the GDPR. All these decisions are based on noyb’s 101 model complaints which were filed after the…
Murder probes get data-privacy ground rules from EU Court of Justice
Bloomberg reports: Murder investigators in the European Union avoided a blanket ban on the use of suspects’ phone records even as the bloc’s top court confirmed a prohibition on the retention of swathes of citizens’ communications data. The EU Court of Justice said on Tuesday that EU law “precludes the general and indiscriminate scooping up…
PSNI officer allegedly took photograph of suicide victim’s body
Allison Morris reports: A referral to the Police Ombudsman by former chief constable George Hamilton led to a grim discovery that resulted in two serving officers being investigated for sharing pictures of a dead body. A file on the two officers, under investigation for a raft of offences, has now been sent to the Public Prosecution…