Essex school reprimanded after using facial recognition technology for canteen payments

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“Handling people’s information correctly in a school canteen environment is as important as the handling of the food itself. We expect all organisations to carry out the necessary assessments when deploying a new technology to mitigate any data protection risks and ensure their compliance with data protection laws. “We’ve taken action against this school to

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ICO statement in response to Google announcing it will no longer block third party cookies in Chrome

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"We are disappointed that Google has changed its plans and no longer intends to deprecate third party cookies from the Chrome Browser. “From the start of Google’s Sandbox project in 2019, it has been our view that blocking third party cookies would be a positive step for consumers. “The new plan set out by Google

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CrowdStrike: the Privacy Guarantor starts investigations into the effects of the IT block

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CrowdStrike: il Garante privacy avvia accertamenti sugli effetti del blocco informatico Il Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, sulla base delle notifiche di data breach ricevute, ha avviato accertamenti sulle conseguenze che il recente blackout dei sistemi informatici potrebbe aver prodotto sui dati personali degli utenti, in particolare nell’utilizzo dei servizi pubblici. L’evento è

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New flyers on data protection and freedom of information

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Datum 23.07.2024 Der Flyer "Das Recht auf Datenschutz - Ein Schnelleinstieg in die DSGVO und das BDSG" erklärt die rechtlichen Grundlagen des Datenschutzes. Es werden u.a. der Geltungsbereich, die Ausnahmen und die persönlichen Betroffenenrechte dargestellt. Diese Publikation ist der Nachfolger der bisherigen Flyer "Datenschutz ist ..." und "Meine Rechte". Unter www.bfdi.bund.de/flyer-datenschutz steht die deutsche Version

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Sexual and gender-based violence: Council lists four individuals and two entities under the EU’s Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime

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Today the Council approved additional restrictive measures against four persons and two entities under the European Union's Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime. The listed individuals and entities are responsible for serious human rights abuses worldwide, including torture and systematic and widespread sexual and gender-based violence. Today's listings include the chief of staff of the Syrian

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