DATE December 16, 2020 10:17 am
POSTED BY Myles Dacres
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The Outsourced DPO read an interesting story on the BBC yesterday about a new policy at Apple whereby from 14th December, developers must show what information they collect that is used to track users and what data is collected that directly relates to a user, including what data is collected...
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DATE December 15, 2020 12:52 pm
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The Outsourced DPO was speaking with a customer yesterday afternoon about representatives in the context of Article 27 of the GDPR. The situation as it stands is this. When do I need to appoint a representative? If you are an organisation based outside the EU and provide goods or services...
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DATE December 11, 2020 10:59 am
POSTED BY Myles Dacres
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The Outsourced DPO came across a story this morning that stated the Co-Op has been using Facewatch FR, a facial recognition technology, in 18 of their stores for the last 18 months. After further research, the Outsourced DPO came across an article posted on wired.co.uk https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coop-facial-recognition. The source of the...
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DATE December 10, 2020 12:28 pm
POSTED BY Myles Dacres
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France’s data protection agency, the CNIL, has hit Google and Amazon with fines for engaging tracking cookies without consent. Google has been hit with a total of €100 million for engaging cookies on Google.fr and Amazon €35M for doing so on the Amazon.fr domain under the penalty notices issued today. The regulator carried out...
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DATE December 4, 2020 2:01 pm
POSTED BY Myles Dacres
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The Outsourced DPO noticed two great stories on the BBC about emerging or soon to emerge technologies this week. These stories sparked a Teams debate amongst some of our consulting team which fortunately we recorded and may publish as a podcast soon. The first story was about Microsoft filing a...
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DATE December 2, 2020 10:03 am
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A few months ago, the consulting team at DPP discussed the new guidance on subject access requests issued by the ICO and in particular data concerning health. The Outsourced DPO produced a decision tree to help DPP clients and others determine how to treat data concerning health in subject access...
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DATE December 1, 2020 2:09 pm
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South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has slapped Facebook with a $6.1 million fine for sharing user information without consent. The Korea Communications Commission kickstarted the investigation in 2018 before ultimately handing it off to the PIPC a few months ago. According to Yonhap News, the PIPC determined that...
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