Natasha Lomas reports: TikTok’s attempt to switch legal basis for targeting advertising at users in Europe looks to be in trouble after Italy’s data protection watchdog stepped in and issued a warning of legal inadequacy just days ahead of the planned privacy policy change. The user-generated video sharing platform attracted attention from privacy experts last month when…
Doctor who secretly filmed women with hidden cameras is struck off
Clare Dyer writes: A doctor who secretly filmed women with cameras hidden in bathrooms and accessed intimate images of hundreds more that were hacked from the iCloud has been struck off the UK medical register. Vinesh Godhania, 33, did not attend his medical practitioners tribunal hearing. He is serving a 32 month prison sentence, having…
Abuse survivor awarded £30,000 in damages for Ecclesiastical privacy breach
Hattie Williams reports: THE Ecclesiastical Insurance Office (EIO) has apologised to an abuse survivor, Gilo, for breaching his confidentiality, and has paid £30,000 in damages. Gilo was sexually assaulted by the late Garth Moore, a former diocesan chancellor (News, 4 December 2015). After his long struggle to tell senior church figures about his ordeal, in 2016 the…
Why Privacy Matters: A Conversation with Neil Richards
Julia Angwin writes: Hello, friends, In the wake of the Supreme Court’s jaw-dropping ruling overturning constitutional protections for abortion in the United States, there’s been a lot of discussion about how to keep data about pregnant people private. Google announced, for instance, that it would remove sensitive locations, such as abortion clinics, from the location data it stores…