Not
sure I understand this one.
Al
Restar reports:
The Australian court ruled that employees are allowed to refuse to provide biometric data to their employees. The ruling follows the lawsuit filed by Jeremy Lee getting fired from his previous job due to his refusal of providing his fingerprint samples for the company’s newly installed fingerprint login system.
Jeremy Lee from Queensland, Australia, won a landmark case after he was fired from his job at Superior Wood Pty Ltd, a lumber manufacturer, in February 2018, for refusing to provide his fingerprints to sign in and out of his work, citing that he was unfairly dismissed from the company.
Read
more on Z6Mag.
From
the article:
If
I were to submit to a fingerprint scan time clock, I would be
allowing unknown individuals and groups to access my biometric data,
the potential trading/acquisition of my biometric data by unknown
individuals and groups, indefinitely,” reads Lee’s affidavit.
… “We
accept Mr. Lee’s submission that once biometric information is
digitized, it may be very difficult to contain its use by third
parties, including for commercial purposes,” case documents state.
The
case of Lee is a first in Australia. While it did not change the
law, it opens a new perspective on the ownership of biometric
information like fingerprints and facial recognition and
reinterpreted privacy laws on how they will apply to data like these.
It’s
a small step, but at least it’s a step.
Twitter
Flexing its Muscles Against State Misinformation
Twitter
first announced Monday, August 19, 2019, that is updating its policy
on state media advertising. "Going forward," it said, "we
will not accept advertising from state-controlled news media
entities. Any affected accounts will be free to continue to use
Twitter to engage in public conversation, just not our advertising
products."
This
policy
is
global and not targeted at any specific nation or nations, but does
not "apply to taxpayer-funded entities, including independent
public broadcasters" (so organizations like the BBC -- were it
to advertise -- should be okay). The organizations targeted are not
banned from using Twitter to engage in organic conversation, but will
not be allowed to advertise on the platform.
The
immediate catalyst is almost certainly mainland China's propaganda
campaign against the ongoing Hong Kong protest movement, but it will
reduce the capacity of all foreign countries to manipulate public
opinion ahead of elections. The longer-term catalyst will be to help
protect the U.S. 2020 elections from foreign influence, whether that
comes from China, Russia, Iran or elsewhere.
Reading
this, I think IT will have problems complying. Perhaps we should
dedicate a lawyer to make the records and draft the notices? Can IT
explain things to the lawyer in plain English?
Actionable
takeaways from new Irish and Polish Data Protection Authorities'
guidance on personal data breach notification under GDPR
The
Irish
Data Protection Commission and
the Polish
Data Protection authority both
recently issues guidance on the notification requirements under GDPR
in the event of a Personal Data Breach.
What is "become
aware"?
- A controller should be regarded as having become ‘aware’ when they have a reasonable degree of certainty that a security incident has occurred and compromised personal data.
- Controllers should have a system in place for recording how and when they become aware of personal data breaches and how they assessed the potential risk posed by the breach.
Amazon is
passing along costs of a new digital tax to thousands of French
sellers
… The
reason the company cited was simple: a 3% digital tax passed
by the French government in July.
Amazon’s
move appears to directly conflict with the French government’s aim
of leveling the playing field between Big Tech and small and
medium-sized enterprises, and further complicates France’s effort
to rein in companies like Amazon, Facebook
and
Google.
We
covered Intellectual Property last week. Perhaps we should reopen
the debate?
Linking
Liability
Inside
Higher Education – Sci-Hub,
a repository for pirated research papers, is widely acknowledged to
be illegal. But is sharing a link to the site illegal, too?
“There
is little dispute that Sci-Hub, the website that provides free access
to millions of proprietary academic papers, is illegal. Yet, despite
being successfully sued twice by major American academic publishers
for massive copyright infringement, the site continues to operate.
Some academics talk openly about their use of the repository — a
small number even publicly
thank Sci-Hub
founder Alexandra Elbakyan for her contribution to their research.
Most academics who use the site, however, choose to do so discreetly,
seemingly aware that drawing attention to their activities might be
unwise. Just how careful academics should be about using Sci-Hub has
become a topic of concern in recent weeks, with many questioning
whether sharing links to Sci-Hub could in itself be considered
illegal. The discussion started when the team behind Citationsy,
a bibliography management tool based in Europe, tweeted that lawyers
for Elsevier, a major publisher of academic journals, had threatened
to pursue legal action if Citationsy did not remove a link to Sci-Hub
from Citationsy’s
website.
The link formed part of a blog post titled “Hacking Education:
Download Research Papers and Scientific Articles for Free.”
(Related)
…
What
the site does is not permitted, according to the law, but in the
academic world, Sci-Hub is praised by many. In particular, those
who don’t have direct access to expensive journals but aspire to
excel in their academic field.
This
leads to a rather intriguing situation where many of the ‘creators,’
the people who write academic articles, are openly supporting the
site. By doing so, they go directly against the major publishers,
including the billion-dollar company Elsevier, which are the
rightsholders.
Elsevier
previously convinced
the courts that Sci-Hub is a force of evil.
… The
‘linking’ issue was later picked up by
BoingBoing which
also pointed out that many of Elsevier’s own
publications include
links to Sci-Hub, as we also highlighted
in the past.
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student toolkit? New to me.
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