This weeks collection of latest privacy, data protection and cyber-security news and interesting articles. Enjoy the reading!
A motor industry employee has been sentenced to six months in prison in the first prosecution to be brought by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under legislation which carries a potential prison sentence.
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Recently Facebook published latest (Q3) user and revenue update, having the overall users base drop (in Europe and US, mainly).
While the drop of users, when compared to total numbers, is small, it is strong signal that users in Europe are not happy with some of Facebook’s practices. More specifically, the drop-in user count is attributed mostly to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal in early 2018 when it was revealed Cambridge Analytica had harvested the personal data of millions of people’s Facebook profiles without their consent and used it for political purposes. It has been described as a watershed moment in the public understanding of personal data usage and precipitated a massive fall in Facebook’s stock price and calls for tighter regulation of tech companies’ use of data. This serious breach of privacy no doubt caused some users to simply stop using Facebook.
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United Kingdom’s data protection authority ICO fined Facebook with maximum penalty of £500,000 for lack of transparency and failing to protect users’ information.
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There is a new developments in a privacy case brought by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems against Facebook. Facebook has questioned the right of Schrems to bring a Europe-wide class action. Now, Austria’s Supreme Court referred the question to the European Court of Justice (CJEU).
A teenage girl in Austria is suing her parents requiring them to remove her childhood photos from Facebook. She claims that publication of those pictures has intimidated her and violated her privacy.
Girl has repeatedly asked parents to remove her pictures from social network but without success. So she decided to bring the case to court once she turned 18.