Kentucky senator Danny Carroll said this week that he will be withdrawing a bill that critics say would “eviscerate” the state’s open records law. The Republican lawmaker said he will be pulling the bill Wednesday over concerns raised by the Kentucky Press Association and others, saying...
European Court of Justice Advocate General Maciej Szpunar said last Thursday that Google can choose not to extend “right to be forgotten” rules globally. In a preliminary opinion on the case involving the US search giant France’s data privacy regulator CNIL, Szpunar said that the court...
A 20 year old German man recently admitted responsibility for the leak of German politicians', journalists', and celebrities' personal information on Twitter. Last Tuesday, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA, or Federal Criminal Police Office) said that the man had acted alone and was motivated out of "anger over...
KPMG global chair of consumer and retail, Willy Kruh said in an interview this week that consumers in UAE seem to be more comfortable sharing their personal data with companies compared to the global average. This is despite losing a total of $1.1 billion (Dh4.04bn)...
The Securities and Exchange Board of India is reportedly in the process of crafting new data privacy rules governing foreign portfolio investors. The move is said to be prompted by the conflict in regulations with several countries, particularly Canada and the EU, which account for...
Privacy campaigners criticized Austria’s National Post Office this week for allegedly collecting and selling the personal data of around three million of its customers to companies that will be using it for marketing purposes. It also reportedly made around 2.2 million profiles that included the potential...
Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion said this week that its online services in Hong Kong has been suspended until it addresses the security loopholes that have been found in its systems. TransUnion Hong Kong branch CEO Neona Wang also informed lawmakers that the company had hired...
Security researcher Justin Paine revealed this week that he had found an unprotected ElasticSearch server which contained real-time GPS coordinates and bus route information from 27 transportation agencies in India. Paine said that the collected data was different for each transportation agency. Some servers for bus...
Japan recently announced that it will be collecting a departure tax from both foreign and Japanese travelers over two years old, or those in transit with stays exceeding 24 hours. The money will be used to fund facial recognition systems which are expected to expedite immigration...
A user on the Whonix forum recently accused privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo of fingerprinting its users using Canvas DOMRect API which creates unique geometry measurements on target browsers. However, DDG CEO Gabe Weinberg clarified that they have not been doing any fingerprinting or any collection or...