The idea of global vaccination and health data being stored in centralized systems has many privacy experts freaking out. As the first vaccines against COVID-19 roll out, governments and institutions across the world are scrambling to figure out how to provide proof that someone has been vaccinated. Paper certificates, PDFs, wristbands and mobile apps have […]
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated the Privacy Shield, the international treaty that covered the transfer of data from the European Union to the United States. The Court stated that the transfer of data to the United States is not safe for European citizens, and for this reason […]
One of the email encryption providers like SwitchMail encrypts all incoming emails by default. However, a ruling by the Cologne Regional Court is now forcing the company to install a function with which investigators can monitor individual mailboxes and read emails in plain text. In the summer, the Hanover Regional Court decided that email encryption […]
According to VoetbalTV, a commercial and legitimate interest can co-exist within the AVG. The judge agrees. “The prior exclusion of a certain interest as a legitimate interest is contrary to European case law.” “Proportionality and subsidiarity were not part of that assessment. Nor did the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) weigh up the interests at […]
South Korea’s privacy watchdog (PIPC) has fined Facebook millions for providing users’ personal information to companies. According to the data protector, the data of at least 3.3 million local Facebook users would have been shared without permission with up to 10,000 companies. Personal data such as relationship statuses, work experience and education were shared with […]
Vodafone got a Euro 12,250,000 fine on account of having unlawfully processed the personal data of millions of users for telemarketing purposes. This decision marks the final step in a complex proceeding that the Garante had initiated. Following hundreds of complaints and alerts submitted by users against unsolicited phone calls made by Vodafone and/or the […]
Only 47 of 359 apps use Google and Apple’s more privacy-friendly exposure-notification system, which restricts apps to only Bluetooth data collection. More than six out of seven COVID-19-focused iOS apps worldwide are free to request whatever privacy permissions they want, with 59 percent asking for a user’s location when in use and 43 percent tracking […]
Google loses their appeal on the 50 million euro GDPR fine imposed on it in January 2019. Google said the French DPA has no legislation on her as it is headquartered in Ireland. Read more about this here: https: / /www.adexchanger.com/privacy/google-loses-its-appeal-on-50-million-euro-gdpr-fine/
A report by the Committee of Supervision of the Intelligence and Security Services shows that bulk data sets collected according to the ISS Act 2017 have sometimes been fully (or largely) incorrectly declared ‘relevant’ so that they can be kept for longer than eighteen months. “. Bulk datasets are datasets of which the majority of […]
The Ministry of Justice and Security is investigating whether Google complies with the privacy rules. This is done with the help of a data protection impact assessment (DPIA). Expected completion of this DPIA is in the autumn. The wish arose from education where digitization took place at breakneck speed, not knowing whether these parties that […]