Senay Boztas reports: A Dutch consumer privacy group has brought a class action claim against tech giants Oracle and Salesforce, alleging that their involvement in placing third party cookies to help track and target internet users with adverts breaches privacy laws. The Privacy Collective, a non-for-profit foundation, claims that the tech giants are effectively using…
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College recruitment database makes 1 million students’ GPAs, SAT scores, IDs, and other personal data publicly available
Bernard Meyer reports: We recently discovered an unsecured Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) bucket, or database, containing nearly 1 million records of sensitive high school student academic information. Included in this unsecured bucket are GPA scores, ACT, SAT, and PSAT scores, unofficial transcripts, student IDs, and students’ and parents’ names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers…
Open letter: Global privacy expectations of video teleconference providers
July 21, 2020 – The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, along with data protection and privacy authorities from around the world, have today published an open letter to video teleconferencing companies reminding them of their obligations to comply with the law and handle people’s personal information responsibly. The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a sharp uptake…
Recent Updates In Personal Data Regulation In Russia
The International Lawyers Network writes: The Supreme Court confirmed that Russian users may file a lawsuit against an American social network to a Russian court The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation reviewed a case initiated by a number of Internet users against the American social network Facebook Inc. The Russian users filed a lawsuit…