Italy’s data protection authority, the Garante, launched a contest titled “Easy privacy information via icons? Yes, you can!” seeking creative ideas to make information notices simple, clear and understood through icons. Notices informing users how their data will be used and seeking consent can oft...

An investigation by national newspaper NRC alleges the Dutch National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security used fake accounts to track politicians, activists and religious leaders, NL Times reports. Internal documents and conversations with stakeholders determined intel would reveal who ind...

The Centre for Information Policy Leadership submitted comments in response to the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam’s Draft Decree on Personal Data Protection, according to Hunton Andrews Kurth's Privacy & Information Security Law Blog. In its comments on the proposed privacy law, the CIPL...

Concerns have been raised over the use of QR codes to check in to venues during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. In a letter to New South Wales Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello, NSW Council for Civil Liberties Secretary Michelle Falstein wrote the codes could...

An Hangzhou court made its final judgment in China's first lawsuit over the use of facial recognition technology, the South China Morning Post reports. The court upheld its original ruling in the case in which it ordered Hangzhou Safari Park to delete the facial image of a citizen who sued the zoo f...