UK resumes privacy oversight of adtech, warns platform audits are coming
The U.K.’s data watchdog has restarted an investigation of adtech practices that, since 2018, have been subject to scores of complaints across Europe under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The high velocity trading of internet users’ personal data can’t possibly be compliant with GDPR’s requirement that such information is adequately secured, the complaints contend.
Other concerns attached to real-time bidding (RTB) focus on consent, questioning how this can meet the required legal standard with people’s data being broadcast to so many companies including sensitive information, such as health data, religious and political affiliation and sexual orientation.
The Government intends to give the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) sweeping new powers to carry out surveillance and intercept communications to fight cartels.
); We can t just say it s too difficult : Could criminal investigations into Ireland s mother and baby homes happen?
There have been calls for investigations following the publication of a long-awaited report this week. By Stephen McDermott Sunday 17 Jan 2021, 12:05 AM Jan 17th 2021, 12:05 AM 24,588 Views 43 Comments The site of a mass grave for children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home Source: Niall Carson/PA
THE PUBLICATION OF the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation has led to calls for criminal probes into the activities of religious-run institutions for unmarried mothers in Ireland.
The commission’s five-year investigation, published on Wednesday, found that around 9,000 children died in 18 different homes, where girls as young as 12 were admitted over seven decad