Japan warns Line over insufficient data protection
published : 26 Apr 2021 at 20:02
9 The logo of free messaging app Line is pictured on a smartphone and the company s stuffed toy in this photo illustration taken in Tokyo in 2014. (Reuters photo)
The Japanese government on Monday ordered messaging app provider Line Corp to take measures to properly protect customers information after such data were found accessible by a Chinese affiliate without user consent.
The administrative guidance, which also requires a report from Line by late May, was issued as the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry judged the app operator failed to provide a sufficient surveillance system to protect the secrets of communications as required by law.
Gov t warns Line over insufficient data protection
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Japan gov t was to give personal data on students at 30 nat l universities to private firms The Mainichi © The Mainichi House of Councillors lawmaker and Japanese Communist Party member Tomoko Tamura, right, is seen asking questions to Minister for Digital Transformation Takuya Hirai at a House of Councillors Cabinet Committee on April 20, 2021, at the National Diet in Tokyo. (Mainichi/Kan Takeuchi)
TOKYO The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology tried to hand an outside party records containing personal information on students at 30 national universities across the country who applied for exemptions from school fees in fiscal 2020, it emerged at an April 20 House of Councillors Cabinet Committee.
South Korean users seek to sue Facebook over leaked user data
A group of Facebook users in South Korea is pushing to sue the tech giant for passing users information to other companies without their consent, judicial sources said.
According to the sources, the local law firm Jihyang and the Jinbo Network Center, a civic group advocating for people s information rights, are gathering plaintiffs willing to participate in a mass legal action by the end of May.
In November last year, the country s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said Facebook violated the country s law by providing personal information of at least 3.3 million of the total 18 million users here to third parties from May 2012 to June 2018.
S Korean users aim to sue Facebook over leaked user data
S Korean users aim to sue Facebook over leaked user data
Last Updated: Tue, Apr 20th, 2021, 10:01:39hrs
Seoul/New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) A group of Facebook users in South Korea is pushing to sue the tech giant for passing users information to other companies without their consent, judicial sources said.
According to the sources, the local law firm Jihyang and the Jinbo Network Center, a civic group advocating for people s information rights, are gathering plaintiffs willing to participate in a mass legal action by the end of May.
In November last year, the country s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said Facebook violated the country s law by providing personal information of at least 3.3 million of the total 18 million users here to third parties from May 2012 to June 2018.
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