Posts by Cynical Pie

Law firm 'didn't think' data theft was a breach, says ICO. Now it's nursing a £60K fine

Wrong, the DPA2018/GDPR allow the ICO to impose Monetary Penalty Notices up to 4% of turnover depending on the incident concerned hence the £20m MPN imposed on British Airways that went nowhere near the Courts

UK data watchdog seeks fresh blood as more complaints lie unanswered for up to a year

Re: Response, or meaningful response?

But not enough to issue a £190m MPN because of (drum roll) THE LAW

Re: Response, or meaningful response?

Perhaps if you knew the law you would realise they couldn't fine BA £190m in the end.

MPNs (they aren't fines and this is an important distinction to make) are based on turnover at the point the MPN is issued.

As the arse had fallen out of the Aviation industry due to the pandemic by the time the MPN was issued the fine was reduced as BA's turnover was significantly reduced.

By all means criticise the ICO as the current incumbent is a charlatan who is more interested in soundbites than actual meaningful action, but at least criticise them for something they have done wrong rather than doing what the law allows them to do.

Trump fires NSA boss, deputy

Re: It's like the Stalin Purges of the 1930's

or the competence...

Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder

Re: This AI malarkey

Elon isn't a pimp, he's just playing the long con like the Tango Turd

Re: This AI malarkey

Donny is that you or is it your pimp Vlad?

UK watchdog investigates TikTok and Reddit over child data privacy concerns

While this is welcome I wish John Edwards would show as much enthusiasm for actually enforcing the laws his is paid handsomely to look after rather than advocating for AI and new technologies even where they are pointless and have no tangible benefits.

Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands

Re: A petty irrelevance.

Honest, Blue, hard-working truly Great British passports.... made in the EU

Tired techie botched preventative maintenance he soon learned wasn't needed

My preciouusssss... Oh... TOKEN ring...

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

Re: Age verification

Not the Jacquard Loom perhaps but I remember a school friend who's dad had a newsagents who did a roaring trade in renting magazines for the discerning gentleman to teenage boys for a small deposit (no pun intended) and a daily rental fee

Employee sues Apple over 'spying' claims tied to mandatory devices

I am struggling to see what the issue is in relation to Apple requiring employees use their tech when working... I would assume Dell Staff use Dell PCs/Laptops and HP Staff would use HP devices and it seems a fairly obvious thing to do/expect (with certain caveats i.e. iDevice cannot do a certain thing so another device is required to fulfil that task)

The access to personal devices is an overstretch mind unless they suspect said employee is doing something shonky using their own device

Hardware barn denies that .004 seconds of facial recognition violated privacy

Re: Alexa, please explain...

Au contraire. In the UK there may be the expectation that you will be caught on CCTV but the use of FRT without notification is a clear case of unauthorised processing, particularly by a private entity, and so whether it takes 0.004 of a second or 4000 seconds to process the image its still unlawful.

Also for the purposes of DP law the data is still 'collected' even if the whole lifecycle of the process from collection to disposal is a fraction of a second.

Of course the easiest solution is proper signage but why would a multi million/billion AUS$ business bother with that as it will cost them to put the signs up and eat into their profit.

Watchdog finds AI tools can be used unlawfully to filter candidates by race, gender

Not that the chocolate fireguard that is John Edwards will actually do anything about it

Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking menu to add profanity, wingdings, removes allergen info

Re: His attempts to hide his trail

Gruella surely? Yeah just leaving... won't let the door hit me on the way out etc etc

Floppy discs still run a U.S. metro? Japan steps in with 'project kill floppy'

Re: There is obsolete, and then there is obsolete.

Ah the 'Trigger's Broom' school of maintenance :)

Ryanair faces GDPR turbulence over customer ID checks

Re: "losing entire holidays"

Actually under GDPR as the 'home' authority for Ryanair the Irish DPA is the one responsible for all regulatory issues across the EU so the other national authorities will defer to them.

It would operate the same with an Irish customer of Air France making a DP complaint - any regulatory action would be dealt with by the CNIL, the French DPA.

On the plus side...

As this is the Irish regulator they might actually do something other than issue a fake punishment (aka a reprimand) which is akin to a stern telling off for a 5 year old that the ICO are currently doing rather than enforce the law

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – for chump change

Re: Recurrence

I suspect both

Re: Recurrence

And littering is a civil rather than criminal offence so its up to local authorities to deal with littering

The fingerpointing starts as cyber incident at London transport body continues

Re: Questionable position

I call bull poo on this if it is UK based as any FOI officer worth their salt knows that's likely to be a breach of s46 of FOI and the Records Management expectations. The ICO has issued penalties for poor records management.

IF this is true then its obvious why they are an ex-FOI Officer

Re: Pick one

Or as someone who has made breach notifications to the ICO more likely they have a suspicion personal data has been compromised but there is nothing to confirm one way or the other and so they are erring on the side of caution and made their notification to the ICO on the basis it was with further details to follow in order to ensure they met the statutory 72 hr reporting requirement.

I have done that but then we have subsequently been able to go back to the ICO with further information etc demonstrating that personal data wasn't compromised and so that was the end of it.

New Zealand minister OKs Kim Dotcom extradition to US

Re: not you too

Kim, is that you?

Sam Altman wants a US-led freedom coalition to fight authoritarian AI

And I am sure the US would only use AI for positive reasons... honest Guv... I have some magic beans you might want to see...

Europe's largest council could face £12M manual audit bill after Oracle project disaster

Re: Hmm.

Sack everyone? What even the Social Workers and the Street Cleaners etc etc..

Sack the muppets who swallowed the absolute balls being spouted by the Spivs.... I mean consultants who then failed to do proper due diligence as part of the procurement maybe but everyone?

Outback shocker left Aussie techie with a secret not worth sharing

Spiders...

I'd have blamed the spiders!

Innocent techie jailed for taking hours to fix storage

Re: Innocent techie?

fortunately it wasn't, its was in a country with a bit of common sense in a system that was designed with sole purpose of enriching lawyers

McDonald's not lovin' its AI drive-thru experiment with IBM

Probably more flavour than your average Dirty Ron's

Command senior chief busted for secretly setting up Wi-Fi on US Navy combat ship

Re: No networks ...

Upvote for the NCIS reference and a refreshing beverage for the mention of JAG

Was there no one at Microsoft who looked at Recall and said: This really, really sucks

Re: Doomsday virginity

CUNPUTS?

Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield

It begs the obvious question...

Why?

What is the point?

OpenAI slapped with GDPR complaint: How do you correct your work?

Re: OpenAI claims to be true

MS is responsible for many abominations but how they are responsible for an AI model owned by another company intrigues me.. do tell?

City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout

Re: So if I stop paying my council tax

Unlikely as Council Tax will almost certainly be on Northgate which isn't an Oracle system (breathes sigh of relief) but is I believe part of Capita....

We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners

Shiz like this was why when our old HP printer died 2 or 3 years back we went with a Canon one (from Aldi's 'Aisles of Wonder' one Saturday morning).

Its still not keen on 3rd party cartridges but works eventually.

Also Canon don't force as much bloatware on you when setting stuff up as HP do and it works far better wirelessly with our phones and tablets than the HP one ever did

San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks

Re: "best in the US"

To be fair the BART system is San Francisco is really good and a very quick and cheap way to get into the city, especially from SFO

The UK Digital Information Bill: Brexit dividend or data disaster?

Re: Growth & innovation

This is one of BoJo's gifts and something everyone in the IG sector has seen coming.

It won't cut 'red tape' it will increase it and costs along with it.

Another benefit of Brexit that is nothing more than shuffling the deckchairs on the Titanic

Spam crusade lands charity in hot water with data watchdog

Re: RNLI vs chuggers

'The British state is perfectly able to fund an adequate sea rescue service. Fortunately for it, the charity-funded RNLI gives it perfect cover for not bothering' See also Air Ambulances

Data watchdog tells off outsourcing giant for scanning staff biometrics despite 'power imbalance'

Despite the lack of published guidance the ICO's position on biometrics has been clear since I worked there in the early 2000's - dont use it if there are more proportionate or reasonable options.

In this case its clearly disproportionate

UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims

While the Post Office are clearly at fault I find it interesting that Fujitsu seem to be getting pretty much a free pass for the absolute trash they designed and provided.

Yes I know the system is only as good as the spec and what was requested etc etc but its inconceivable that Fujitsu didn't know the system was an absolute car crash and didn't work as intended.

CompSci academic thought tech support was useless – until he needed it

Re: Depends.

To be fair after a night on the ale with a curry/kebab chaser you might not want to light a match in a domestic 'powder room' either :)

Manchester's finest drowning in paperwork as Freedom of Information requests pile up

As they are asking for a comment/opinion it wouldn't be a valid FOI request anyway - it has to be for recorded information.

In my experience (FOI/DP is my day job) the Information Governance Team probably have responses they want to send but senior managers are basically being obstructive and wanting a different response so they are arguing the toss and delaying stuff.

Also they probably don't think it should be disclosed therefore aren't even looking for the information.

Biden urged to do something about Europe 'unfairly' targeting American tech

Re: Shall we go back in History

The United States has done more to uplift the human condition than any other nation on the face of the planet.... hmmm has it though? Has it really?

The printing press, the industrial revolution, sanitation systems, gunpowder, the computer, the jet engine... All invented/developed outside of the US and all have done way more to facilitate human development.

America and folk like you Dostoevsky (nice European name there) need to realise is that human development has been happening for many hundreds of years, not just since 1776

Re: Don't know whether to laugh or cry

Donald... did you forget your frog pills again?

Europe inches closer to insisting gig workers are treated as employees

Re: Not difficult

Another one of those benefits of brexit we were promised...

Magic beans anyone?

Unite the union claims Vodafone and Three merger is about 'corporate greed'

They're a phone company, its a given that their service is way south of effing terrible

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

Re: A repeating pattern of ones and zeroes

If you squint you can just see the head of the Great A'Tuin

Re: Have they tried

guts... nuts... its a fine line with some users :)

The 15-inch MacBook Air just nails it

Re: Cost as reviewed?

Or you could read the article as it is mentioned

Buggy app for insulin-delivery device puts diabetes patients at risk of hypoglycemia

We are... And don't call me Shirley :)

US warns Iranian terrorist crew broke into 'multiple' US water facilities

So you're telling me password isn't a secure password?

who would ever have guessed... ***goes and changes to 'Password1' as no one will guess that***

Meta goes to war with FTC over right to profit from kids' personal data

At a wild guess I'd say cash and the ability to buy off large parts of the legislature