Fiona Hamilton, George Greenwood, and Paul Morgan-Bentley report: Health professionals are failing to tell police about child rape victims because they fear it will breach data protection requirements, one of the country’s most senior police officers has said. Simon Bailey, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for child protection, said [Read More…]
A blog by Michael Murray, ICO’s Head of Regulatory Strategy. This first blog will explore the Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) standard. What is a DPIA and what’s in it for me? All organisations in the scope of the Children’s Code are obligated to complete a DPIA. So, if you [Read More…]
Many data breaches result in privacy concerns due to data access or exfiltration. But here’s a case where a school’s incident response is causing a new set of privacy concerns. The original incident was covered on DataBreaches.net, and it appears that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has not disclosed anything significant since then. [Read More…]
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On May 11, 2021, Senators Edward Markey (D-MA) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (the “Bill”). The Bill, which would amend the existing Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), would prohibit companies from collecting personal information from children ages [Read More…]