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NHS Digital and the Home Office: the relationship The outgoing head of the UK’s Health and Social Care Information Centre (“NHS Digital”) claims to have repeatedly been pressured by the Home Office to provide them with the personal data of immigrant patients. [...]
New WhatsApp feature WhatsApp has announced a new feature, “Status”. With Status, WhatsApp users will now be able to use GIFs, photographs and videos to update their status. The feature will make provision for multiple updates which a user’s contacts [...]
On February 13, the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 passed both Houses of Parliament after two previous attempts to establish such notification obligation were unsuccessful. This means that Australians will need to be notified [...]
If it weren’t for the hyphen, one might say – finally! While it remains to be hoped that social media posts stay with the truth, this article discusses so-called fake news – a phenomenon that currently plagues us and is alleged to have influenced the [...]
The decision that the jurisdiction to issue search warrants concerning foreign data centers lies with the local authorities and not with U.S. courts still stands. In July 2016, a U.S. federal appeals court had ruled that Microsoft is not obliged to grant [...]
"Do they even have Data Protection rules in Russia” is a question that – in variations – we often encounter during our professional routine. The answer is always the same, as Russian law does protect Personal Data. The changes made to the Federal [...]
Apple store employees accused of having accessed and shared female customers’ photos. According to the Australian newspaper, The Courier-Mail, there have been reports of employees in the Apple Store in Carindale near Brisbane, Australia secretly having ta [...]
On July 26, 2016, following the adoption of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield decision on July 12, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) held a press conference[1] with a view to express its opinion regarding the adoption of the Commission’s decision regarding t [...]
