In this week’s Data Privacy News ….. A Privacy Minefield - How will businesses adapt to new Contact-TRacing rules? ……. UK Facial Recognition technology breaches privacy rights …….Google to auto-delete users’ data …….and, Sir Elton John’s ex-wife Renate files privacy injuntion +++MORE!Read More
Police involment in a private landlord's facial recognition trial has led a regulator to call for government intervention. BBC Radio 4's File on 4 has learned that South Yorkshire Police shared three photos of serious offenders and one of a vulnerable missing person with Sheffield's Meadowhall shopping centre.Read More
The Chief Executive Officer of Travelex has finally broken his silence concerning a ransomeware attack that forced the firm to suspend services across 30 countries. Staff working for the foreign exchange company had to revert to using pen and paper when a cyber attack halted travel money sales at banks and supermarkets on New Year’s...Read More
BREXIT -- It’s a word that keeps the eyes of UK citizens glued to the latest news … OR, it simply draws a huge groan from a deeply frustrated British population.But what will the UK’s departure really mean for UK businesses and citizens? Many think the EU’s GDPR will no longer apply - or is...Read More
By virtue of it's name, the CCPA is implicitly designed to protect the privacy interests of "Consumers". But the big question on the lips of many business owners is... Are employees also "Consumers"?Read More
Facebook exposed passwords in plain text | Hundreds of millions of Facebook users affected. Facebook has been jeopardising the security of hundreds of millions of its users’ accounts by storing their passwords in a plain text. Passwords should always be encrypted in an unreadable format, but the social media giant admitted last week that hundreds...Read More
Would be naive to believe that Mark Zuckerberg built a social network that somehow morphed into what is basically a surveillance system?Now, Zuckerberg has plans to reshape the company to provide messaging services that serve as “fortresses of privacy”.Rather than simply being a network that connects people who want to ‘share’ their lives with the...Read More
Facebook probe: NY governor orders investigation into Facebook’s data collection from other apps | An “outrageous abuse of privacy” says NY governor, Andrew Cuomo. It appears that the spotlight is intensifying its focus on Facebook in the latest in a series of condemnations of the tech giant’s data collection and usage practices. Facebook already faces...Read More
