Beacon AI privacy newsletter Issue 19 - 06th Nov 2020

ISSUE 19 - 06 NOV OCT, 2020

Newsletter The latest privacy news, views and announcements Join Beacon AI CEO Niamh Parker at The 2020 Entrepreneur Experience™

Good afternoon, We hope you had a great week and are looking forward to the

CorkBIC presents the 2020 Entrepreneur

weekend. Here is another exciting news roundup from the

Experience™ on November 12th & 13th. The 10th edition consists of inspiring insights from seasoned

world of privacy. Enjoy the highlights we have selected.

entrepreneurs and some of the CorkBIC Alumni

PRIVACY NEWS IN BRIEF

including Beacon AI CEO Niamh Parker.

Singapore updates data protection law to exclude user consent for 'legitimate' business purposes Singapore has updated its Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) to allow local businesses to use consumer data without prior consent for some purposes, such as business improvement and

A mix of interviews, presentations and deep dive panel

research. The amendments also allow for harsher financial

discussions will take place featuring entrepreneurs

penalties to be meted out for data breaches, above the previous

sharing their experiences, journeys, challenges, wins,

cap of SG$1 million. The changes were passed in Parliament on

losses and how we can all learn from of them.

Monday 1 November 2020, some eight years after the legislation was introduced in October 2012. The Act is administered by the

book your place

Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC).

In his speech discussing the amendments, Singapore's was a key economic asset in the digital economy as it provides

Californians consider expanding landmark data privacy law

valuable insights that inform businesses and generate

Two years ago, California became the first state to pass

efficiencies.

a sweeping digital privacy law seen as the strongest of

It will also empower innovation and enhance products, and will

its kind in the United States. Voters are now deciding

be a critical resource for emerging technologies such as artificial

whether to refine and expand that law, or leave it as is.

intelligence (AI) that hold transformative potential, Iswaran said.

If approved, Proposition 24 would update a 2018 law

Singapore's regulatory architecture, therefore, must evolve and

that gave Californians the right to know what

keep pace with these shifts, he noted. Pointing to efforts in

information companies collect about them online, the

establishing digital economy agreements, he said such initiatives

right to get that data deleted and the right to opt out of

positioned the Asian nation as "a key node in the global network

the sale of their personal information.

of digital flow and transactions".

The new measure would triple the fines for companies

The amendments to the PDPA are also aimed at ensuring its

that violate kids’ privacy or break laws on the collection

legislation regime is "fit for purpose" for a digital economy with a

and sale of children’s private information. It would

complex data landscape, the minister added.

create a dedicated state agency to enforce the new law,

Communications and Information Minister S. Iswaran said data

Source ZDnet.com

with an annual budget of $10 million. .

Source Associated Press

A Facebook Post To "friends" Can Lead To Dismissal rules French Supreme Court The Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) recently ruled that an employer can produce in court elements extracted from an employee's private Facebook account, to which it was not authorized to access, as long as (i) this production is indispensable to the exercise of its right to evidence, and (ii) the violation of the employee's privacy is proportionate to the goal pursued. The September 30, 2020 ruling 1 offered the Cour de Cassation the opportunity to clarify several aspects of its case law on the use of social networks. An employee of the company Petit Bateau was dismissed for having published on her Facebook "wall" a photograph of the new spring/summer 2015 collection that had been presented exclusively to the company's salespeople and not been made public. It should be noted that her Facebook "wall" was accessible only to her "friends", i.e. the people she agreed to have in her network. Petit Bateau, informed of this publication by a "friend" colleague, dismissed the employee for serious misconduct, blaming her for a breach of her contractual duty of confidentiality, and arguing that this breach was all the more serious as this "wall" was accessible to "friends" working for competitors. The employee challenged her dismissal and contended that she had been victim of an abusive and illicit intrusion in her private life and that, in order to access her personal page, the employer had used an unfair process. Consequently, the employee argued that the evidence of the facts invoked by the employer was inadmissible.

Now in its 25th year, Science Week 2020 will take place from November 8th to 15th - this years theme is ‘Science Week - Choosing our Future’ focusing on how science can improve our lives in the future, and in the present.

This will explore how science can help us to make positive choices that will impact the environment, our health, and our quality of life. Changes based in scientific evidence that we make today can hugely improve our future life, but also right now. The subject matter is broad and will incorporate topics such as the future of work, the future of health and wellbeing and how we will all live in a world where we have had to mitigate and adapt to the challenges facing society. #BelieveInScience

Information on events www.sfi.ie

Cork hospital fined €65k after patients' personal data found in public recycling facility

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has handed down a €65,000 fine to Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) after the personal data of 78 of its patients was discovered disposed of in a public recycling facility elsewhere in the county.The complaint was first raised with the DPC in June 2019 after a member of the public, who had discovered the documents, brought the matter to the

Source Mondaq.com

Australia Commences Wide-ranging Review of Privacy Law

HSE’s attention.The executive then reported the data breach to the DPC.The breach, an infraction of the hospital’s responsibilities under the EU’s General Data

Australia’s government has commenced a review of the

Protection Regulation (GDPR) which is understood to have

country’s Privacy Act to ensure privacy settings empower

consisted of a large number of documents, equated to the

consumers, protect their data and best serve the

personal data of 78 people and the special category

Australian economy. The review was announced as part

personal data of six of them.Special category data under

of the government’s response to the ACCC (Australian

GDPR is information of a particularly sensitive nature, the

Competition and Consumer Commission) Digital

exposure of which could be expected to significantly

Platforms Inquiry, which looked at the effect that digital

impact the rights and freedoms of data subjects or could be

search engines, social media platforms and other digital

potentially used against them in a discriminatory fashion.It

content aggregation platforms have on competition in

includes information regarding individuals’ race or

media and advertising services markets. The final report

ethnicity, religious beliefs, political opinions, biometric

was released in July 2019. Under the Privacy Act review,

(identifiable) data, sexual orientation, and health data.The

the government will seek to determine whether existing

breach at CUMH is believed to have comprised sensitive

laws effectively protect personal information and provide

health data of patients, including medical histories and

a practical and proportionate framework for promoting

future planned programmes of care.

good privacy practices.

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Source regulationasia.com

I hope you enjoyed our privacy newsletter as we look forward to the weekend. If you have any privacy queries feel free to drop me a line at niamh@beaconai.io From Niamh & the Privacy Beaconettes

Source Irish Examiner