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A piece of data may be classed as personal data in the hands of one organisation but may not be classed as personal data in the hands of another. It all depends on what purpose the organisation is processing the data for. Therefore, it is important that the purpose for which the controller is using […]
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The Metropolitan Police Service have failed to respond to Subject Access Requests (SAR’s) for personal data quick enough, the ICO has revealed. The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued two enforcement notices to the Met Police after the regulator learned that backlog of over 1,700 requests for copies of data from UK citizens had been left
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Children will be put at risk if Facebook’s plans to encrypt its services go ahead, according to the NSPCC. Chief Executive Peter Wanless has warned that the social media giant is putting privacy and secrecy before accountability. Facebook has announced it will soon be using end-to-end encryption on its 1.3 billion-user Messenger service, meaning not
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A new device has been developed that can allegedly unlock and extract data from new hi-tech Smartphones and iPads. The new gizmo has been developed for the police and intelligent agencies by the Israeli forensic and data extraction firm Cellebright. It means that secretive agencies such as MI5 and the FBI will be able to
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The British intelligence agency MI5 been unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years. At a judicial review of the spy agency’s activities, lawyers for privacy watchdog group Liberty said that MI5 had acknowledged internally that data was being mishandled. The spy agency did not store data correctly and kept it for too long. The intelligence services have
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Microsoft has deleted a facial recognition training database with 10 million images of 100,000 people amid speculation that it could have allegedly breached GDPR laws. As privacy and ethical concerns continue to spiral with the increased use of facial recognition technology, the huge collection of images was pulled by the tech giant after an investigation
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California is the world’s fifth largest economy and will soon enforce strict new privacy laws. The new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), goes into effect on January 1, 2020. Some of the best new technology companies are based in California, so it’s no surprise that the state’s gross domestic product rose by $127 billion
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives individuals the right to ask for their data to be deleted and organisations do have an obligation to do so, except in the following cases: the personal data your company/organisation holds is needed to exercise the right of freedom of expression; there is a legal obligation to keep that data; for reasons
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Apple has unveiled a new login service, which will restrict advertiser’s access to consumer data. When the iOS 13 upgrade is introduced, users will be able to quickly access apps and websites using the Sign-in with Apple feature. The new privacy-enhancing element was unveiled at this week’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in California. The feature
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A U.S. judge has ordered Facebook to turn over internal records regarding data privacy and access to user data. The directive is part of an ongoing Federal Trade Commission investigation into the social network’s privacy practices. The ruling in the state of Delaware involves an investor lawsuit seeking company records to investigate potential wrongdoing and
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