Xinhua reports: Chinese researchers have established a DNA database of Chinese volunteer soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War and their relatives, providing reliable technical and data support to help more families find their missing kin. The military medical research institute under the Academy of Military Sciences of the Chinese [Read More…]
Katy Griffin reports: A Fordingbridge man says he was “stunned” and “very upset” after discovering by chance that his medical records had been accessed and details shared without his consent. The data breach took place in 2016 but Robert Richardson found out about it more than two years later after [Read More…]
I love reading case notes from Privacy Commissioners in other parts of the world to see how they apply their countries’ regulations. There’s a new decision from New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner that will probably be of interest to parents of American schoolchildren as it involves how school personnel handled a [Read More…]
Kristof Van Quathem of Covington & Burling writes: The Council of EU Member States – one of the two main EU lawmaking bodies – recently released a new draft version of the ePrivacy Regulation (“EPR”). Negotiations on the regulation have been deadlocked for a while, but seem to be gathering new momentum [Read More…]