Ameya Karve and Yoolim Lee report: Singapore’s privacy regulator imposed a S$10,000 ($7,311) penalty on ride-hailing company GrabCar Pte for a personal-data breach incident last year and raised the alarm on repeated violations by the unit of Grab Holdings Inc. In August 2019, an update of Grab’s mobile application exposed the [Read More…]
Shaun Nichols reports: Facebook has been reportedly asked to stop sending data from Ireland to the US, on orders from the EU. This is according to a report from the Wall Street Journal, which said that Irish eyes won’t be smiling come this Fall after a preliminary order to suspend data [Read More…]
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed last year against Google and the University of Chicago Medicine involving complex privacy and other issues related to the use of patients’ de-identified electronic health record data. But the court left the door open to filing an amended complaint. “The [Read More…]
Daniel Ziffer reports: Intimate data about the private lives of millions of Australians will be analysed and monetised by a partnership between a New Zealand company and a subsidiary of the world’s biggest retailer, Amazon. Smart meters deliver information about household power use and are being installed at a rate [Read More…]