After weeks of messing and insulting the intelligence of anyone who was paying attention the Irish st
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After weeks of messing and insulting the intelligence of anyone who was paying attention the Irish state grudgingly admits to the existence of 1) the principle of supremacy of European law, 2) the Treaty of Lisbon and hence the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and 3) the General Data Protection Regulation. Elsewhere itâs business / bungling as usual. đŒ
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There is such a failure within INIS that migrant communities have to arrange between themselves to return passports that were sent by INIS to the wrong person and wrong addresses https://t.co/gd8519ry10
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Pfizer Exposes Data on Hundreds of Prescription Drug Users - Infosecurity Magazine
Pfizer Exposes Data on Hundreds of Prescription Drug Users. Pharma giant misconfigured cloud storage bucket
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This week in âwell, this is awkwardâ.
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True bills itself as the social networking app that will âprotect your privacy.â But a security lapse left one of its servers exposed â and spilling private user data to the internet for anyone to find. The app was launched in 2017 by Hello Mobile, a little-known virtual cell carrier that piggybacks off T-Mobileâs network. Trueâs website says it has raised $14 million in seed funding, and claimed more than half a million users shortly after its launch. But a dashboard for one of the appâs databases was exposed to the internet without a password, allowing anyone to read, browse and search the database â including private user data.
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Itâs usually a glitch but this oneâs being described as a bungle. As somebody said six months back, no matter how much money you throw at it you canât app your way out of a pandemic.
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Software bungle meant NHS Covid app failed to warn users to self-isolate | News | The Sunday Times
The âworld-beatingâ NHS Covid app, downloaded by 19 million people, has systematically failed to send alerts telling people to self-isolate after they came into contact with infected people.Thousands
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This week developments in the Mother and Baby Homes fiasco brought clarifications (not u-turns, donât call them u-turns) in which the government acknowledged that data subjects have rights and state data controllers have obligations which must be met.
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We also saw either the Taoiseach or the Irish Times - itâs unclear from the copy - invent a new right out of thin air, the right not to be traced. During the week the Irish Times continued to publish mostly factual reporting on events as they transpired side by side with weird inaccurate opinion pieces which appeared to be informed mostly by the wishful thinking of officials in the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. As MĂĄirĂ©ad Enright observed on Twitter, we moved seamlessly from misinterpreting existing laws to inventing new ones. As happened last week, the Irish Times ended the week on a patronising and condescending note. |
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Because the Deptâs top legal advisors appear not to have known a national law canât create a âblanket banâ on GDPR rights. https://t.co/XTxHlBzZLo
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The minister, armed with a âclarificationâ from the AGâs office, who had presumably become fed up with having their reputation dragged around in the mud by his department, told us there would be two tests applied to subject access requests. The first of these is already in the law his department had been doing elaborate somersaults trying to exempt itself from. The second of these is pure fantasy.
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And to conclude on the topic for this week, the point below really wasnât made frequently enough during the entire shambolic progress of the governmentâs Bill through the Houses of the Oireachtas or in all the commentary afterwards.
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I think it's worth pointing out that unnecessarily deleting a whole database of personal information (particularly where data subjects don't want it deleted) is likely as much a breach of the GDPR as "sealing" it for 30 years.
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There's a pretty good chance it is.
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Surveillance Startup Used Own Cameras to Harass Coworkers
Employees at Verkada accessed the companyâs facial recognition system to take photos of women colleagues and make sexually explicit jokes.
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The people making surveillance tools and the police departments themselves often make the first case-studies about how their products will be misused to target women.
Exhibit A:
https://t.co/KgudB4XoYy
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Yes. I heard of a retailer that installed facial recognition tech for detecting shoplifters but managers started adding images of attractive women to the system so they'd get notified the next time they came in. https://t.co/uokoS1OX5I
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The ICO took enforcement action against Experian, giving it an enforcement notice setting out changes which are to be made to its processing operations within 9 months. Otherwise, fines are a possibility. |
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âIn the announcement last week, the Taoiseach acknowledged that the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is, of course, supreme over any conflicting laws or arrangements that the Irish state had previously constructed to address our so-called âhistoricalâ systems of abuse. He and Roderic OâGorman, the Minister for Children, have committed to ensuring the effective implementation of GDPR in this area without delay. They have further committed to legislating urgently to provide adopted people, natural mothers and relatives with all of the information they need, and to ensure respectful exhumations where necessary at unmarked burial sites.â Maeve O'Rourke in the Business Post on where we are now in relation to the Mother and Baby Homes and other records of institutional abuse.
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âI simply do not remember a time when global public communication channels have been so codified and platformitized. By this, I mean that 2020 marks the stageâquite literallyâwhen hundreds of public health agencies and government communication channels simultaneously collapsed their efforts into exactly two tightly controlled commercial marketplaces: Appleâs iOS and Googleâs Play stores.â Jonathan Albright in âThe Pandemic App Ecosystem: Investigating 493 Covid-Related iOS Apps across 98 Countriesâ.
- The Australian Competition and Consumer Commissionâs detailed research into â1,000 Mobile Apps in Australiaâ.
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