SypherPrivacyTalks - July 2024 - Week 31
by Sypher | Published in News - July 31, 2024
Welcome to #SypherPrivacyTalks — Your news and article roundup. Bringing you the top privacy & compliance stories of the week.
Google's plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome crumbles
🍪Google is no longer planning to stop supporting third-party cookies - the online identifiers used by the advertising industry to track people and target them with ads based on their online activities.
This announcement comes more than four years after the option was introduced as part of a wider controversial proposal called the Privacy Sandbox. Ad giant pledges to protect privacy as critics say monitoring continues… read more
Elon Musk’s X under pressure from regulators over data harvesting for Grok AI
🤖 Elon Musk's X platform is under pressure from data regulators after it emerged that a default setting on the app allows users to consent to their posts being used to build artificial intelligence systems … read more
EU Commission’s GDPR review finds enforcement issues
🕵️♂️ The European Commission has found serious enforcement problems with the GDPR and called for clearer guidelines to strengthen data protection in member states, in a report published on 25 July.
This is the Commission's second report on the application of the EU's GDPR, a landmark data protection regulation that governs how personal data is handled in the European Union... read more
CrowdStrike could have a European-size data problem on its hands
💥While CrowdStrike is already facing criticism for bricking 8.5 million PCs worldwide, it could be facing repercussions in the UK and Europe for potential GDPR breaches.
“No one disputes that huge amounts of personal data have been affected in the CrowdStrike incident, and the questions that will be asked in the coming months will focus on what harm was caused to the individuals in question and who—if anyone—will be liable,” says Jon Baines, senior data-protection specialist at Mishcon de Reya, a London law firm… read more
School receives statutory reprimand for using facial recognition technology
👁️ The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a legal warning under the UK's GDPR to an academy school in Essex, in relation to how it introduced and operated facial recognition technology (FRT) to take cashless canteen payments from students.
There are some key takeaways from the ICO's action, some of which extend beyond schools and into a wider business and retail context… read more
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