Privacy Transformation - Issue 97
PRIVACY
Department of Health built secret dossiers on children with autism
The Department of Health has been secretly using private information to build and maintain dossiers on children with autism who were involved in legal actions against the State.
Related: The whistleblower exposing the Department of Health's secret dossiers
ePrivacy Regulation update - Comparison of the three EU drafts
The European institutions will now seek to agree the final text of the ePrivacy Regulation by means of trilogue (insterinstitutional negotiations) process. This article sets out the significant areas of divergence across the three proposals.
Subject Access Requests & Mother and Baby Homes
A number of survivors of mother and baby homes have raised concerns about how their requests for personal files are being dealt with by the Department of Children.
Data commission investigates complaint from former TD Maria Bailey
The Data Protection Commission has launched a statutory inquiry against Independent News and Media on foot of a complaint by former TD Maria Bailey.
UK Denying Migrants Access to Personal Data, Report Finds
The U.K. is denying thousands of migrants access to their personal information using a controversial exemption to the country’s data-protection law, in a move that advocates say violates human rights.
#SaveAnonymity: Together we can defend anonymity - Open Rights Group
In recent days, a petition has circulated online which calls for a legal requirement to provide a verified form of ID in order to open a social media account.
SECURITY & TECH
Facial Recognition: What Happens When We’re Tracked Everywhere We Go?
When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.
Instagram 'kids app' could could expose children to 'addictive algorithms', leading expert warns
Dr Bernadka Dubicka, from the Royal College of Psychiatrists said Instagram should not use 'persuasive' design techniques on young children.
Opinion: What would a privacy curriculum for future developers look like?
A professor of software engineering got in touch to ask me a question: if I had an hour to speak to a room full of undergraduates about privacy, what - in my view - are the points they would be most likely to absorb?
Background checks in dating apps aim to promote safety, but raise privacy concerns
Match Group, a leading dating-app company, is working with a nonprofit to enable Tinder users to check criminal records of potential partners.
UK NCSC Weekly Threat Report
The NCSC's weekly threat report is drawn from recent open source reporting.
DATA BREACH
USB key sent by Gsoc to garda internal affairs 'went missing after being sent in the post'
The data breach was one of 29 reported by the Garda Ombudsman over the past two years.
Data Breach: Billions of Records Exposed in Online Trading Broker Data Leak
A team of white hat hackers has identified a major data leak on online trading broker FBS’ websites. The data from FBS.com and FBS.eu comprised millions of confidential records including names, passwords, email addresses, passport numbers, national IDs, credit cards, financial transactions and more.
GUIDANCE
The “Children’s Fundamentals” – A guide to protecting children’s personal data
The closing date for the DPC's consultation on their draft guidance 'Fundamentals for a Child-Oriented Approach to Data Processing' is open until 31 March 2021.
RESOURCES
Preliminary Analysis of Potential Harms in the Luca Tracing System
In this document, researchers analyse the potential harms a large-scale deployment of the Luca system might cause to individuals, venues, and communities. The Luca system is a digital presence tracing system designed to provide health departments with the contact information necessary to alert individuals who have visited a location at the same time as a SARS-CoV-2- positive person.
CONTRIBUTE
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