In this week’s news:
- A piece from Forbes close to my heart as many of you may know. – Sorry, erm, you hopefully just have to read these things for yourself.
- Marriott puts aside $126m (£104m) in its accounts to cover its £99m intended ICO fine in case its appeal fails.
- UK ICO recruiting for a Data Ethics Advisor amongst other regional roles
- IKEA apologises for minor data breach in Singapore. Great customer response, not so great IKEA response.
- Have I been Pwned warns users of Canva about database breach which happened in May 2019 affecting 137 million accounts including Email addresses, Geographic locations, Names, Passwords, Usernames
- UK data protection claims in court now channelled through Media and Communications List of the High Court from 1stOctober with additional information required to lodge a claim. This means that the initial letters of claim will need to have more detail in than data subject claimants have perhaps been getting away with in the past.
- UK ICO adjusts guidance on response timeline for data subject requests removing a day for responses.
- Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, UK police and defence firms
- London Mayor says using facial recognition technology at London’s Kings Cross raises ‘real concerns’ about legal framework. ICO quick to respond by initiating an investigation. Big brother watch raises concerns about the “Facial Recognition ‘Epidemic’ in the UK”
- US federal appeals court has ruled that a lawsuit against Facebook for its face surveillance may move forward
- Hyp3r, a buzzy San Francisco start-up, has allegedly been scraping millions of Instagram users’ data, tracking their locations and saving their Stories posts. Irish DPA is investigating
- EPIC claims $5bn FTC fine against Facebook “is not adequate, reasonable, or appropriate” and looks to intervene.
- Microsoft has responded to the furore over its use of humans to listen in on Skype and Cortana recordings by tweaking its privacy policy a bit.
- Capital One’s alleged hacker stays in jail whilst authorities believe she may be responsible for similar attacks affecting 30 organisations.
- Accenture blamed in Marriott class action
- ICO issues enforcement notice to Hudson Bay Finance Limited for failure to respond to a Subject Access Request.
