Foo Yun Chee reports: Airbnb and other short-term home rental companies will have to share data on the number of people using their platforms under proposed EU rules, the European Commission said on Monday, in a light-touch approach to regulating this sector. The EU executive’s proposal comes as popular tourist destinations such as Paris, Venice…
JP Morgan Wants to Make Tenant Data Available to Every Landlord
Chloe Xiang reports: On Monday, J.P. Morgan Chase announced that it was piloting a new platform called “Story,” an online real estate management that allows landlords to manage their portfolio of properties, collect rent payments, screen tenants, and view market insights including sales prices and vacancy rates. […] “It’s one thing to just enable tenants to submit…
UK: Department for Education warned after gambling companies benefit from learning records database
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to the Department for Education (DfE) following the prolonged misuse of the personal information of up to 28 million children. An ICO investigation found that the DfE’s poor due diligence meant a database of pupils’ learning records was ultimately used by Trust Systems Software UK Ltd (trading…
New Yorkers deserve more clarity on donor leak
Tim Hoefer, president and CEO of the Empire Center, writes: There’s been a lot of discussion about crime in the race for New York’s attorney general — but not the violation of law committed at the attorney general’s office earlier this year. The state never had any defensible reason for collecting these, which is why…