Posts by Cynical Pie

UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps

Duff info

Duff info in the article - the FTT is nothing to do with the ICO, it is part of HMCTS as it is a first tier court

Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine

Re: Incedible decision by the upper tier in the first place

Not that easy I am afraid. From a DP perspective you are legally responsible for the actions of your payment processor as they are carrying out an activity on your behalf.

Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer

But but if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear....

England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion

Re: Of+

OfCom is an independent regulator so neither a government department or ministry so both are utterly pointless in this context and nothing like 1984

UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout

Re: Well

Nigel, is this your burner account?

EU's reforms of GDPR, AI slated by privacy activists for 'playing into Big Tech’s hands'

Re: Wrong priorities of GDPR

Yes the ICO isn't fit for purpose (or at least the current Commissioner isn't) but they fined BA the maximum they could under the law so I am not sure what else they could have done.

Last time I checked the ICO wasn't responsible for the pandemic and the financial crash of the aviation industry. Had there been no pandemic then the penalty would have been higher as it is based on the company profits st the time the MPN is issued

Re: Wrong priorities of GDPR

The reason GDPR fails on privacy is because it has never been about privacy, its about the lawful processing of personal data.

UK data regulator defends decision not to investigate MoD Afghan data breach

Re: Probably pragmatic

Proceeds from MPNs issued by the ICO go into the Treasury so any fine to central government is in effect pointless as it it just taking out of the Treasury backed MOD account to give it back to the Treasury

Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records

Re: Is that a joke ?

The only flaw in you suggestion is that they can't issue a MPN for 10%, the max is 4% as per the law

Sacramento cops scoured energy records to target suspected weed growers, and the EFF has sued

Re: Thermometer

No because that is in public and in plain sight or is that too simple for you to comprehend?

Re: Thermometer

Actually it wouldn't require a warrant, it would however require a RIPA Authorisation to conduct covert surveillance.

Walking down the street and observing something in plain sight, like one roof free of snow in a whole street would require neither. You would however need a warrant to enter the premises.

Re: Thermometer

Which is also a violation of rights or did you not bother to read the effing article

23andMe hit with £2.3M fine after exposing genetic data of millions

Re: Not Nearly Enough

Any monies paid go to the Treasury, or at least they did, although there was some talk a while back of ICO MPN income going to the ICO to make them in effect self funding. not sure whatever happened to that idea.

Re: Cost of doing business

Tell me you don't understand how ICO calculates fines without telling me...

The maximum MPN that can be imposed is based on company turnover and given the company was filing for bankruptcy by definition their turnover was low therefore the fine legally could not be high.

See also BA where a notice of intent for around £180m was issued but the MPN was actually far lower as due to the pandemic their profits cratered and so did the max MPN that could be imposed.

I am all for attacking the Chocolate Teapot that is John Edwards and his tendency towards inactivity, but you can't really criticise when he is constrained in what he can do by the law.

Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone

The commitment to the long con is impressive, grifters gotta grift

Trump can bluster and bluff all he wants, but iPhone manufacturing isn't coming to the US

Re: Obvious solution

Smarter than the Donald? Surely not, he's the smartest smart man ever in the history of smart men

Scottish council admits ransomware crooks stole school data

Re: Paper is very difficult to hack.

Yes paper is difficult to hack, but far easier to lose, get damaged etc etc.

Lets not portray paper as utopia, it has as many risks, they are just different to the electronic ones.

Re: Get personal data off the internet!

Newsflash...no schools or hospitals have been fined under GDPR in the UK and the only public sector bodies fined were the MoD and the Cabinet office for a combined total of about £1m.

Given the max fine for the public sector is £17m ish I would say neither fine is 'enormous', particularly when you look at the budgets of these departments

Re: Get personal data off the internet!

well if that's not a recipe for utter disaster I don't know what is...

Millions at risk after attackers steal UK legal aid data dating back 15 years

Very hard in some cases, the LA I work for has Social Care Service users who are affected by this and their ability to fill out paper forms is minimal.

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?