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EDPS releases comments on the proposed European Health Union package

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has issued its formal comments on a package of three legislative proposals for a European Health Union. The EDPS welcomes a European unified approach to tackle cross-border health threats while respectin...

Telecom operators in Austria and Germany give governments access to users' location data for COVID-19 tracking

According to the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), two telecommunications companies in Germany and Austria have granted their governments access to customers' phone data in an effort to track the COVID-19 outbreak. German-bas...

Facebook and Google in discussion with US White House over data location sharing in the context of coronavirus pandemic

According to Wired, Google and Facebook are 'discussing plans with the White House to share collective data on people's movements during the coronavirus pandemic'. In order to evaluate the spread of the virus as well as to assess the effectiveness of...

EDPS releases its 2019 annual report

In its newly released 2019 Annual Report, the EU's EDPS provided insights into all EDPS activities in 2019, which was the last year of a five-year EDPS mandate. EDPS activities focused on consolidating the achievements of previous years, assessing th...

British authorities release updates data protection impact assessment template and guidance for surveillance cameras

In the UK, the Surveillance Camera Commissioner (SCC) and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) have released a new surveillance camera specific data protection impact assessment (DPIA) template. The new template and associated guidance notes r...

US state Iowa passes new Data Privacy law

CNIL opens privacy investigation into Clubhouse app

According to Bloomberg, the French data protection authority CNIL has opened an investigation into the social media app Clubhouse following a complaint. France24 reports that the inquiry will seek to determine if European data protection rules apply ...

Israeli firm NSO develops Coronavirus tracing software

Israeli firm NSO has developed a new software product for tracking the history of movement Coronavirus patients. The data analysis tool works by checking a patient's SIM card against other SIM cards that may have been close to them within a two week ...

USA waives health privacy penalties in addressing coronavirus outbreak

According to CNET, doctors in the USA can now use Facebook Messenger and FaceTime to diagnose patients, without worrying about violating privacy laws, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The Trump administration has annou...

Researches show that external attackers can identify the operation system, browser and application of HTTPS traffic

A group of researchers from Ariel University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have published aresearch showing that external attackers (who are able to eavesdrop on the network traffic of a device from the network side) can identify the operati...

Nigeria shuts down? loan apps for privacy violations

The Federal Government of Nigeria has shut down seven digital lending apps for privacy violations. Officers from various agencies carried out raids on the offices of the loan apps, following complaints by consumers about their unfair debt recovery pr...

Croatian DPA fines company 20 million euros over GDPR breach

According to the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the Croatian data protection authority has fined 20 million euro a credit institution for violating the EU's GDPR. The authority stated that the company breached Article 15(3...