Low-cost airline Ryanair has been accused of illegally setting up surveillance cameras to spy on its employees at Rygge Airport in Moss, south of Oslo. Agents from Norway’s Data Protection Authority raided the Irish airline’s premises unannounced to inspect the cameras, which were installed this January. “They have set up multiple cameras,” Bjørn Erik Thon,…
Month: November 2013
AU: Medical examinations used to access your private information
Leanne Nicholson reports: Private information of thousands of Australian jobseekers harvested through medical examinations and stored for profit has raised legal and applicant concerns about the protection and use of personal data. Australia’s largest publicly-listed health and risk management provider, Konekt, has collected the personal data of jobseekers since 2007 through medical examinations on behalf…
NY: Rhinebeck school officials question ability of state to protect student privacy
Parents and school district officials in New York are no longer buying the “Trust us, it’s all good” kool-aid that the state education department has been handing out. William Kemble reports: School district officials are unclear about how much information about students will be available through vendors hired by the state to organize data under…
Koh Drops Ax on Privacy Claims Against Apple
Julia Love of The Recorder reports: A federal judge has disposed of one of the most mature privacy class actions filed against a Silicon Valley company, concluding that plaintiffs’ claims against Apple Inc. were doomed by their ignorance of its policies. In an order issued Monday evening, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh granted Apple’s motion…