Privacy lawyer Kathryn Dalziel recently warned that the use of facial recognition software in New Zealand supermarkets will only lead to legal action and end up costing taxpayers money. Speaking on Foodstuffs’ use of the technology in their locations to curb shoplifting, Dalziel added that the...
It was revealed this week that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Privacy Commissioner are investigating Google due to reports which say that the search giant is collecting data from Android smartphone users who unknowingly pay their telecom service providers for the...
It was revealed in a letter by Sen. Ron Wyden to the FCC last week that a company called Securus is able to track any phone in the country within seconds by using data obtained from LocationSmart, a data aggregator which is said to have...
Facebook announced last Monday that it has suspended around 200 apps that may have abused user data in a comprehensive review of apps that had access to a large amount of user data prior to the company’s change in policy in 2014. Facebook VP of...
Around 100 IBM executives are reportedly headed to Capitol Hill this week to urge policy makers not to adopt a European-style privacy regulation in the US. Christopher Padilla, IBM’s vice president of government and regulatory affairs says that the GDPR may only be suited to Europe...
The AIB banking group was recently accused of spying on its customers via social media when it made signing a consent form seeking various permissions mandatory for those applying for mortgages. Customers of AIB and its subsidiaries, EBS and Haven, have apparently been required to consent...
The International Standards Organisation (ISO) recently announced that it will be developing a set of preventative international guidelines that will ensure that privacy is built into the design of consumer products or services. The new ISO project committee, ISO/PC 317, Consumer protection: privacy by design for...
Addressing the graduates of Duke University last weekend, Apple’s Tim Cook was seen to have thrown a jab at Facebook’s practices when he said that his company rejects the notion that getting the most out of technology means trading away one’s right to privacy. Known to...
Google Canada's head of public policy this week rejected claims that the search giant is failing to transparently and securely manage data. Google says that the allegations of the chair of the Council of Canadian Innovators Jim Balsillie were overly prescriptive and denied selling the personal...
It was reported this week that New Zealand’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner had awarded its new Privacy Trust Mark to the RealMe and Trade Me’s Transparency Reporting websites as parts of its Privacy Week. The privacy watchdog says that those given the Mark is...