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…
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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…
South Korean regulator fines TikTok over mishandling child data
Cho Mu-Hyun reports: Video sharing platform TikTok has been fined by a South Korea regulator for mishandling child data. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC), the country’s telecommunications watchdog, said it has fined the company 186 million won — around $155,000 — for failing to protect users’ private data. Read more on ZDNet.