The European Union’s high court has ruled that data capable of revealing a person’s sexual orientation (either by cross-referencing or inference) falls within the GDPR’s special categories of personal data (i.e., sensitive data), even if the data does not directly express the person’s sexual orientation.
The decision was delivered in a case questioning the lawfulness of a Lithuanian requirement from ...
A new Florida law requires state and local government agencies to report to the state’s Cybersecurity Operations Center any ransomware incident within 12 hours; and any emergency-level, severe-level, or high-level cybersecurity incident – within 48 hours.
Such reports must specify at least the following information:
The U.S. Court of Appeals of the Federal Court has held that Artificial Intelligence (AI) cannot be named the inventor of a patent, because the term “individual” in the U.S. Patent Act necessarily refers to human beings. The decision was delivered in an appeal filed by Dr. Stephen Thaler, whose application for patent protection for the products of his AI ...
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled that individuals and small businesses in Israel who use Facebook’s advertisement services may, in certain cases, assert civil claims against Facebook in Israel and under Israeli law. The governing law provision in Facebook’s terms, which provides that all lawsuits against Facebook will be asserted in California courts and under California law, is inconsequential.
The court ...
An investigative journalism report by the Turkish news website Medyascope revealed that the Information Technologies and Communications Authority of the Turkish Ministry of Transportation (BTK) has been conducting extensive surveillance of citizens’ online activities for the past 18 months. Among the data collected by the BTK, are information about the websites visited, WhatsApp interactions, and location data.
According to Medyascope’s ...
The special investigation team assigned to investigate the Israel Police’s use of spyware, found the Police’s practices to be highly under-supervised and incompliant with the law and internal procedures and policies.
The investigation into the Police’s spyware-tapping activities was launched amid investigative journalism publications by the Israeli newspaper Calcalist, alleging that the Police had warrantlessly penetrated the smartphones of individuals ...
The U.S. mobile carrier T-Mobile agreed to pay $500 million to settle a class action lawsuit. The class action was filed by consumers following a cyberattack on T-Mobile’s systems last summer, which compromised the personal data of at least 76.6 million people – currently, the largest ever carrier breach on record.
According to the settlement authorized by the court, T-Mobile, ...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission published a blog post stating that it will use the full scope of its legal authorities to protect consumers’ privacy against the over-collection, indefinite data retention, or misuse of their data.
Misuse of sensitive data such as mobile location and health information, might expose consumers to discrimination, stigma, mental anguish, or other serious harms. Such ...
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