Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind has found Bunnings Group Limited breached Australians’ privacy by collecting their personal and sensitive information through a facial recognition technology system. The system, via CCTV, captured the faces of every person – likely hundreds of thousands of individuals – who entered 63 Bunnings stores in Victoria and New South Wales between November 2018 and November 2021. “Facial recognition technology, and the surveillance it enables, has emerged as one of the most ethically challenging new technologies in…
Read moreDANISH SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: Meta gives users more options
Meta has announced that users of Facebook and Instagram will in future be able to use the services for free and at the same time receive ads based on less personal data than before. Today, users of Facebook and Instagram face the choice between accepting behavioral marketing or paying a monthly fee not to receive marketing (a so-called consent or pay model). Such models have been criticized because behavioral marketing, as the only alternative to payment, involves extensive monitoring of…
Read morePOLISH SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: The Supreme Administrative Court confirmed that withdrawal of consent cannot be impeded
The ClickOuickNow company will have to pay a fine imposed by the President of the Personal Data Protection Office. The Supreme Administrative Court has dismissed its cassation appeal against the verdict of the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw on a complaint against a decision in which the President of the Personal Data Protection Office imposed a fine of PLN 201,559.50 on it. The judgement of the Supreme Administrative Court, which was delivered on 12 November 2024, is equal to the data controller having to…
Read moreHONG KONG SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: A 29-year-old Female Arrested for Suspected Doxxing ofAnother WomanBecause of Relationship Entanglements
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) today arrested a Chinese female aged 29in the New Territories. The arrested person was suspected to have disclosed the personal data of the data subject without her consent, in contravention of section 64(3A) of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO). The PCPD’s investigation revealed that the victim became acquainted with a man (the Man) and started an intimate relationship with him in 2021. In 2022, a female contacted the victim through a social media platform. She told the…
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