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This week's acronyms: MEPs on tour, an MLA reprimanded, GCHQ and the NCSC are A-OK with client-side   July 24 · Issue #190 · View online This week’s acronyms: MEPs on tour, an MLA reprimanded, GCHQ and the NCSC are A-OK with client-side scanning for CSAM, the LGMA is writing the CCTV rules. 😼 Nick Royle @NickARoyle Rovers' fan Daniel Fulham was held for 2 days in Bulgaria solely on the basis of facial recognition technology. The Irish government wants the gardaí to use this tech. The Met are already testing it in London. @ICCLtweet @liamherrick @BigBrotherWatch https://t.co/BqCSbCWIRm https://t.co/Tjjtbc1giF 12:51 PM - 22 Jul 2022 The people to be governed by the rules are writing the rules. That’s never gone wrong before. Ossian Smyth, Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, said he hoped to be in position to finalise the code by the end of the summer with a view to the new law being put into effect later this year. “I want it to happen as soon as possible,” he said. The Local Government Management Agency is drafting the code of practice for councils concerning the application of the Circular Economy Act 2022, signed into law this week by President Michael D Higgins. CCTV to be used to prosecute littering and illegal dumping – The Irish Times www.irishtimes.com – Share The intention is to install cameras in black spots, not in a ‘covert’ but in a visible way, says Minister As ever, it appears no thought has been given to what will happen once the cameras are installed. Might the illegal dumpers take their dumping activities elsewhere? Might there be a less intrusive way of achieving the purpose of reducing illegal dumping which doesn’t involve surveillance technologies at all? Zeynep Şentek @zsentek Wow. As ordered by a Turkish govt agency, internet service providers in Turkey provide hourly activity logs of all users, complete with user's full name, IP, name of website/app opened, what time it was opened and for how long. Insane mass surveillance, jaw-dropping investigation https://t.co/AFQzZFjBFw 10:11 AM - 21 Jul 2022 Muffett said: “It’s weird that they frame abuse as a ‘societal problem’ yet demand only technological solutions for it. Perhaps it would be more effective to use their funding to adopt harm-reduction approaches, hiring more social workers to implement them?” The discussion paper from Levy and Robinson is not the first time the pair have waded into controversial policy areas. In 2018 they argued for a so-called “ghost protocol” solution to encryption, where GCHQ would be able to silently add itself as another recipient of messages sent to and from a target device UK cybersecurity chiefs back plan to scan phones for child abuse images | GCHQ | The Guardian www.theguardian.com – Share Heads of GCHQ and NCSC say client-side scanning could protect children and privacy at the same time The Croatian DPA fined a telecoms company €285,000 for failing to implement adequate technical and organisational security measures, the lack of which facilitated a data breach in which the personal data of about 100,000 people was accessed. — Bad news for Google in Denmark. In a verdict published last week, Denmark’s data protection agency, Datatilsynet, revealed that data processing involving students using Google’s cloud-based Workspace software suite — which includes Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar and Google Drive — “does not meet the requirements” of the European Union’s GDPR data privacy regulations. — The ICO sanctioned an SDLP MLA for failing “to obtain explicit consent to use an individual’s personal data for the purposes of electronic marketing, which includes political campaigns.” “If San Francisco does obtain footage from one of these private cameras, they are able to share it with law enforcement agencies that are out of state or federal agencies for any criminal or administrative investigation,” said Saira Hussain of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “And so in this post-Roe landscape … we’re concerned about that footage potentially being used to criminalize people in their own states.“ From ‘Crime-Obsessed San Francisco Flirts With ‘Police State’ Crackdown’ by Eileen Grench for The Daily Beast. “The EU lawmakers are due to meet the Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon on the last day of their visit. The Irish privacy watchdog has been at the centre of the polemics related to the delays in applying the EU data protection rulebook, as most Big Tech companies are under its jurisdiction. “If Helen Dixon is not interested in coming to LIBE, LIBE will come to Helen Dixon,” a European Parliament official told EURACTIV, pointing out that last year Commissioner Dixon asked to be heard by the committee to respond to claims about her work made in a previous hearing. However, she eventually declined to participate based on the meeting’s format.” From ‘MEPs to visit Ireland in September over data protection enforcement’ by Luca Bertuzzi for Euractiv. “The software company Telenav is developing in-car advertising, touting its “freemium” model popularized by streaming services such as Hulu and Spotify, in which, in exchange for free services, drivers will be flashed with ads. In a post on its website titled “Why in-car advertising works,” Telenav’s case amounts to “advertising is worth it to the consumer” while disregarding safety and privacy. In this auto surveillance-commerce world, Telenav says there is a large opportunity to capitalize on the $212 billion commuters spend while out driving.” From ‘Opinion: California must put privacy before automakers’ profits’ by Justin Kloczko for The Mercury News — Endnotes & Credits The elegant Latin bon mot “Futuendi Gratia” is courtesy of Effin’ Birds. As always, a huge thank you to Regina Doherty for giving the world the phrase “mandatory but not compulsory”. The image used in the header is by Krystian Tambur on Unsplash. Any quotes from the Oireachtas we use are sourced from KildareStreet.com. They’re good people providing a great service. If you can afford to then donate to keep the site running. Digital Rights Ireland have a storied history of successfully fighting for individuals’ data privacy rights. 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This week’s acronyms: MEPs on tour, an MLA reprimanded, GCHQ and the NCSC are A-OK with client-side scanning for CSAM, the LGMA is writing the CCTV rules.

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The people to be governed by the rules are writing the rules. That’s never gone wrong before.

The intention is to install cameras in black spots, not in a ‘covert’ but in a visible way, says Minister

As ever, it appears no thought has been given to what will happen once the cameras are installed. Might the illegal dumpers take their dumping activities elsewhere? Might there be a less intrusive way of achieving the purpose of reducing illegal dumping which doesn’t involve surveillance technologies at all?

Heads of GCHQ and NCSC say client-side scanning could protect children and privacy at the same time

The Croatian DPA fined a telecoms company €285,000 for failing to implement adequate technical and organisational security measures, the lack of which facilitated a data breach in which the personal data of about 100,000 people was accessed.

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Bad news for Google in Denmark.

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The ICO sanctioned an SDLP MLA for failing “to obtain explicit consent to use an individual’s personal data for the purposes of electronic marketing, which includes political campaigns.”

• “If San Francisco does obtain footage from one of these private cameras, they are able to share it with law enforcement agencies that are out of state or federal agencies for any criminal or administrative investigation,” said Saira Hussain of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “And so in this post-Roe landscape … we’re concerned about that footage potentially being used to criminalize people in their own states.“ From ‘Crime-Obsessed San Francisco Flirts With ‘Police State’ Crackdown’ by Eileen Grench for The Daily Beast.
• “The EU lawmakers are due to meet the Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon on the last day of their visit. The Irish privacy watchdog has been at the centre of the polemics related to the delays in applying the EU data protection rulebook, as most Big Tech companies are under its jurisdiction. “If Helen Dixon is not interested in coming to LIBE, LIBE will come to Helen Dixon,” a European Parliament official told EURACTIV, pointing out that last year Commissioner Dixon asked to be heard by the committee to respond to claims about her work made in a previous hearing. However, she eventually declined to participate based on the meeting’s format.” From ‘MEPs to visit Ireland in September over data protection enforcement’ by Luca Bertuzzi for Euractiv.
• “The software company Telenav is developing in-car advertising, touting its “freemium” model popularized by streaming services such as Hulu and Spotify, in which, in exchange for free services, drivers will be flashed with ads. In a post on its website titled “Why in-car advertising works,” Telenav’s case amounts to “advertising is worth it to the consumer” while disregarding safety and privacy. In this auto surveillance-commerce world, Telenav says there is a large opportunity to capitalize on the $212 billion commuters spend while out driving.” From ‘Opinion: California must put privacy before automakers’ profits’ by Justin Kloczko for The Mercury News

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Endnotes & Credits

• The elegant Latin bon mot “Futuendi Gratia” is courtesy of Effin’ Birds.
• As always, a huge thank you to Regina Doherty for giving the world the phrase “mandatory but not compulsory”.
• The image used in the header is by Krystian Tambur on Unsplash.
• Any quotes from the Oireachtas we use are sourced from KildareStreet.com. They’re good people providing a great service. If you can afford to then donate to keep the site running.
• Digital Rights Ireland have a storied history of successfully fighting for individuals’ data privacy rights. You should support them if you can.

Find us on the web at myprivacykit.com and on Twitter at @PrivacyKit. Of course we’re not on Facebook or LinkedIn.

If you know someone who might enjoy this newsletter do please forward it on to them.