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Questions tagged [data-protection]

For questions about the legal obligations of protecting data (personal or otherwise) and the consequences of failing to do so.

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A general question under Personal Data Privacy

Suppose X is a student body that holds a database of comments made by its members about the lecturers of ABC University. Professor Y from ABC requests X to send him a copy of all comments about him. Should X comply, and if so, how?Additionally,…
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A question about the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. UK

Suppose I get an offer to study a PhD, and in the application procedure I was not asked about a criminal record at all. According to the rehabilitation of offenders, I can choose to withhold my criminal record. If I am under the care of a…
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Does revealing my personal email address in the To field constitute/qualify as a data breach for under the Australian Privacy Act

An email address was given for contact to a "charity". The charity then decided to notify a number of individuals on the list without using the BCC field. A number of individual were not authorised to access this information. That offender was…
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Is ”data breach” a correct way to describe the Facebook scandal?

I’m reading the words ”data breach” a lot in the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal context (example). But is this a correct way to describe the scandal? The definition of data breach from the corresponding Wikipedia page is: A data breach is the…
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Is [company] breaching any data protection legislation in Canada needing my wife's details to authenticate MY account?

I created an online account in my name with a large Canadian retailer. My wife enters her credit card details to pay for the shopping. When I log in to the website it greets me with my name. When I call customer services however, they ask for the…
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Which country laws apply to user data? HQ location or Cloud data center location

Anyone here know which country laws apply to user data when a startup based in a different country (ex: UK), than where user data resides (ex: Switzerland) ? Switzerland have better privacy (not perfect) than other countries, So I am deciding to…
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Is a step by step route considered as personal data?

I would like to know whether a route between two physical places A and B, with its different step by step streets, can be considered as a personal data and should be processed as it. We don't know whether the user is going to type a direction with…
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