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LinkedIn fined €310M by Irish DPC

October 29, 2024
LinkedIn has been fined €310 million (~$335 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for being out of compliance with Articles 5 and 6 of GDPR regarding how it processes data for targeted analysis and behavioral processing. The complaint was made by the French Data Protection Authority to the DPC, which has jurisdiction over the company. Concerns include that consent obtained by LinkedIn from third party vendors was not freely given by users to the company.
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Covert tracking – no problem for LocationX, a big one for us

October 29, 2024
Little-known US tech company Babel Street has a shadowy platform, LocationX, which can scarily select an area around any designated location in the world, identify mobile devices coming in and out of that area, and see where they’re going. Think health or abortion clinics, political rallies, religious sites, government offices or police stations and why the ability to follow those who have been there is a privacy nightmare. Atlas Data Privacy Corporation filed a lawsuit against the company for warrantless surveillance.
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Children’s Privacy: Nudity-reporting feature added to iMessage for kids

October 29, 2024
Now beta testing in Australia (because it has new, stricter child abuse laws), Apple’s new iMessage feature provides children with a warning when inappropriate images or video are detected being received or sent. This includes messages received via iMessage, AirDrop, FaceTime and Photos and provides users with a message asking, ‘Do you want to report this’ and the ability to alert Apple.
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