Amy Borrett reports: The regulator tasked with policing Google in Europe is under pressure to prove it’s up to the job. The non-profit Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has written to Ireland’s Minister for Justice Helen McEntee to ask if the Ireland’s Data Protection Commission is capable of acting [Read More…]
Garima reports from Chennai: Refusing to set aside the punishment given by the Tamil Nadu Medical Council in suspending him for discussing a postmortem report during TV debate, the Madras High Court has directed the doctor to stay away from medical practice for a month as held by the council. [Read More…]
Clarity in Privacy reports: On September 22, 2020, Brazil’s Public Ministry of the Federal District and Territories filed the first public civil action based on the country’s General Data Protection Law (“Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados” or “LGPD”). According to the lawsuit, a company based in the city of Belo Horizonte [Read More…]
Natasha Lomas reports: A dossier of evidence detailing how the online ad targeting industry profiles Internet users’ intimate characteristics without their knowledge or consent has been published today by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), piling more pressure on the country’s data watchdog to take enforcement action over what complainants contend is the [Read More…]