Category: GDPR

Does the collection of biometric data by employer violate privacy? For the first time in Australian history, an employee was fired for refusing to submit biometric finger scanning data required by his employer. The employee believes that he had been wrongfully terminated. After he was denied an unfair dismissal claim by an Australia’s Fair Work

Google blocks Huawei access to Android after blacklisting due to some security and privacy concerns The Trump administration adds Huawei to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Entity List via executive order, thereby blacklisting the company as far as U.S. corporations are concerned.  The world’s second biggest smartphone maker, Huawei, has been barred by Google from

A complaint from the Big Brother Watch instigated an investigation into HMRC’s Voice ID service. The ICOs investigation mainly dealt with the voice authentication for customer verification on some of HMRC’s helplines since January 2017. Customers were given insufficient information when it came to how their biometric data would be processed. Biometric data is considered

The Dutch data protection authority has recently published its fining policy for violations of GDPR and the Dutch law implementing GDPR. When it comes to cookies, the Dutch DPA’s conclusion is that it is not compliant with GDPR for website pop-ups to block users from access to the site unless they consent to the use

EU Parliament agreed to interconnect a series of border-control, migration, and law enforcement systems into a gigantic, biometrics-tracking, searchable database of EU and non-EU citizens called the Common Identity Repository (CIR). Combining biometric samples of persons to enable biometric identifications, the Common Identity Repository would combine biographical identities of persons (name, gender, date of birth)

A data breach has taken place in the system that allows EU citizens in the UK before Brexit to apply for settled status in order to continue to live and work there afterwards. Details of hundreds of EU citizens requesting their stay in the country have been accidentally disclosed. Administrative error has been identified as the reason

The US is lagging behind when it comes to privacy and the role of big data tech giants. 5G networks, IoT, artificial intelligence and other related technologies are all based on a massive processing and transfer of personal data, between both devices and countries. The latter are deemed as a global scenario for these purposes.

What should UK business do when it comes to GDPR if no deal Brexit actually takes place? At first glance, no deal Brexit should not pose a major problem for UK businesses. The UK applies GDPR and will continue to apply it, either directly or based on Data Protection Act 2018. There are no major