The Agencia espanola de proteccion de datos (AEPD) has published an assessment on the use of biometric data from a privacy perspective. The DPA underlines that biometric data operations will have a different degree of intrusiveness and impact on the privacy of individuals depending on the technique used and other factors, therefore the impact assessment...
The State Commissioner for Data Protection (LfD) Lower Saxony has imposed a fine of 1.1 million euros on Volkswagen in accordance with Article 83 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The reason is data protection violations in connection with the use of a service provider for research trips for a driver assistance system to...
Politico reports that an unexpected effect of the struggle on the Northern Ireland protocol related to Brexit, the European Commission has banned any official coordination with British officials on key digital policy issues like policing online content, hobbling the dominance of Big Tech companies, and protecting people’s online data. This involves any exchange of documents...
The US Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of California published the press release that it entered in a non-prosecution agreement with Uber, which has admitted to concealing a massive data breach from six years ago. Uber settled any civil liability for USD 148m for all 50 States. As a result of the breach which...
“Human factors always play a significant role in data breaches.” These simple but wise words resonated in our review of a recent investigation report published by the Privacy Commissioner in Hong Kong on 13 June 2022 regarding the loss of physical files containing sensitive personal data by Town Health Medical & Dental Services Limited (“Town...
A release of the US Department of Justice reports that the US and UK intend to bring into force the Agreement on Access to Electronic Data for the Purpose of Countering Serious Crime (“Data Access Agreement”), which was signed in 2019, on Oct. 3, 2022. It will be the first agreement of its kind, allowing...
Aljazeera reports that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has fined Didi with about USD 1.2bn for “egregious” violations of data security rules, since it found that it had illegally collected customer information since 2015 and handled data in a way that endangered national security. Among the breaches sanctioned by CAC are illegal storage of...
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