Questions tagged [privacy]
For questions about freedom from unsolicited observation, or the collection, use and distribution of private information.
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Is it legal for tax company to fail to protect my tax info from former spouse?
I file taxes with H&R Block. I divorced in 2016. My ex-spouse logged into H&R Block 4/13/19 and was able to view my 2016 and 2017 taxes. An H&R Block associate instructed me to contact ...
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Is Facebook exempt from requiring consent for its “Like” button? [on hold]
I've been reading this EU court case which involves a website embedding the Facebook "Like" button.
The court's answer was that "The consent of the data subject obtained under Article 7(a) of ...
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'Right to be forgotten' denied due to insufficient identification
I registered for a free online service with fake data while being underage.
Years later I request to have the account deleted, using the e-mail address I registered with. However, to identify me as ...
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Is there a general business equivalent of “stage names” or “pen names”
And by that I mean: a situation where an individual can conduct their general business activities privately within a proprietorship under a fictitious "pseudonym" or via proxy? Though I'd imagine if ...
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Access to sensitive information of employees as a fellow employee
I'm a programmer who works closely with an engineering firm to create tools for the automation of business processes.
One of which I'm working on currently requires that have the access (although I ...
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Concealing Medical Conditions from Employer
If an employer asks an employee or prospective employee to fill out and sign a health declaration form (very common in the medical field) like this.
If the employee is afraid that revealing their ...
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Storing health data [duplicate]
I am working on a bootstrapped side project aimed at digital nomads that lets you input your personal blood test data and track results over time, across countries.
My business entity is based in ...
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Is it okay to store user locations?
I know it might sound quite bad. But here I explain the whole situation.
I'm developing a mobile application based on visiting different places. And I would store in some database (surely AWS) all ...
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EU Cookie Law: Consent required in addition to accepted privacy policy
According to iubenda [1], a cookie consent is required in mobile apps too, though I did not see many apps following this advice yet. The realization of such a cookie consent on web sites is typically ...
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Is it a violation of GDPR law to email personnel gathered from hunter.io?
I'm a web developer working on a project for a client. The project is a directory of sustainable companies (enviromental-friendly companies). The project is only launching now.
The companies listed ...
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Is it a breach of UK law to film without permission in a swimming pool? [duplicate]
At the leisure centre I work at I caught someone filming in a busy pool with a goPro.
I have been wondering whether this was merely a despicable and insensitive act on their part, or a straight up ...
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Is name and shame legal on Facebook?
On Facebook, there are various landlords communities. I have seen landlords post messages such as:
Do not rent your property to this person, first name, last name, how this person looks like and etc.
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Gawker vs. Hulk Hogan sex tape case and the 1st amendment
I'm a little confused about this case. Doesn't being recorded in your own home, or someone elses for that matter, require consent? Isn't there a reasonable expectation of privacy when you're not in ...
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Can a sysadmin ever read emails or PMs on his server, when secrecy of correspondence is in the constitution?
There is another question here that asks something similar, but apparently it refers to the US, where secrecy of correspondence doesn't seem to exist, at least according to this article on Wikipedia: ...
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How the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) impacts a non-Californian business?
January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect.
The CCPA applies to any business anywhere in the U.S. or the world that does business in the state of California.
Could ...
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In case of using what communication channels a person does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy?
In what scenario(s) a person doesn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy?
sending a traditional letter or parcel via the U.S. post
using work email account for sending private emails
making a ...
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Is it illegal to masturbate inside public toilet behind closed door out of view from the public?
I suspect someone is doing that but it is hard to catch him because it is illegal to install surveillance camera in the toilet.
Putting that aside, is this act that should be done in private at home ...
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Is information only about financial transactions personally identifiable in terms of GDPR?
I am creating application where you can manage your incomes/expenses e.g. on eBay. Main functionality is:
create new item and specify price you've payed to get it
set price that you've
All other ...
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Should all gdpr related documents be translated to all official EU languages?
I wrote application localized in Ukrainian language , which is not one of the official European Union languages. Since I reside in the EU territory I need to comply with gdpr. This application is ...
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Recording Conversations at Work
We have a problem employee who we found out is recording phone conversations with other employees, including their manager, without knowledge or consent. The employee is in the US state of Georgia, ...
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Is geocoding an IP address but not storing it considered processing under GDPR?
As a data controller who intends to be GDPR compliant, if someone visits my website a request is made to my server with their IP address.
If I geocode the IP address to get the visitor's country and ...
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Can I legally live stream or publish a Stratego game video without permission?
I play imperfect information games, such as Stratego. Live streaming and publishing on YouTube / Twitch is a thing nowadays. On gaming sites, people use avatars that do not directly identify their ...
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Facial Recognition Data of Minors
I have a cool app a couple of high school librarians use. It's pretty simple: students scan their IDs when they enter and leave the library. Librarians then can then see who's in the library at any ...
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Do Bitcoin nodes need consent to store EU citizen's personal data?
The Bitcoin blockchain stores data about bitcoin users. This includes:
There bitcoin address, which is linkable to their identity via blockchain analysis
Transactions they have made
This would seem ...
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Would revealing/storing whether or not an EU customer uses a service violate the GDPR?
Some web services will notify the user if the account name they are entering exists or not. However, I am wondering if this would be legal? For example, if someone entered the email address of someone ...
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Should I have a privacy policy on my personal website?
Assuming I have a personal website that I maintain, without offering users the possibility to log in, nor giving them the option to post any content of their own, should I design a privacy policy?
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In what languages do I make the legal pages of my website
I have a website in Spanish as the main language (and other languages) but with users from many countries and languages, and I want to know if according to the law I am obliged to present legal pages ...
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Does an admin have the right to read private messages in social media and apply TOS?
In online communities (like forums, social networks, platforms like Stack Exchange, etc.), can a user be banned because of something they have written in a private message? If so, when does the ...
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Can a woman sue a person who informs her child about the abortions she has had?
If an adult has knowledge of how many abortions that a woman has had in her lifetime and that adult was to inform a child of that woman about her abortions and this leads to that child suffering ...
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Should I be concerned my vpn server provider is based in the U.K.?
I understand in this age that there are several uses for vpns.
As such I did some research and decided to use nord as they seemed popular and claimed to not log.
However when I connect to certain ...
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Privacy Policy for my App - asked by Client's Legal Department
My company has a B2B mobile app on iOS/Google Play. Our app links to our privacy policy on our corporate website which is encouraged/required by iOS/Android these days.
My Client needs to make sure ...
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Is it sufficient to provide a privacy policy only in english language?
Regarding GDPR, is it sufficient for a gaming app available in some commercial app store to provide a privacy policy only in english language?
Is a translation necessary for every country of the EU ...
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Must an American company comply with Australian surveillance law?
So there is a law called Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018 that was recently made law in Australia. From what I have heard about it, it allows the ...
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Is lawyer going to be prosecuted if it is proven that he/she certainly knew that his/her client is guilty but continued to deny it in court? [duplicate]
If, say, during the process a client, who is accused of committing a murder, admits that he did it to the lawyer and demonstrates some undeniable proofs, like video of him committing a murder in a ...
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Is this privacy statement from a solicitors in line with GDPR?
I'm in the process of buying a house and have paid for a survey to be done on the property.
I have received a contract from the solicitor who will be conducting the survey for me and will provide me ...
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Would it be legal to send an active electronics device through the postal system?
The active device would be a low power electronic device that is designed to log any attempt either failed or successful to view or tamper with the contents of a parcel from the time it leaves the ...
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Getting one company to delete my personal information
As a customer of Resumeble.com's resume-writing service, I uploaded a copy of my MA diploma. Later, when I wrote to them and told them to delete all of my data containing information from documents I ...
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Possible legal steps for psychological damage caused by a company
A friend of mine studies at an American university in the UAE. Recently, he was literally escorted out of the campus building on the premise that it was winter break.
It is a common notion that the ...
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Leaving company and wiping personal data
I am new here please help and answer my question.
In case you are leaving the company, you worked for, if you wipe your personal data such an email you logged on or data like the logs of the websites ...
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What are the types of authority required for the release of medical records?
I am filling out medical records release in the United States. I noticed that the signature requires the patient's signature or a person authorized to sign. It also states that if not the patient, ...
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Is it proper to use “I” in a privacy policy?
I am creating a privacy policy for an app that I have developed by myself. Since there is no other person legally responsible, is it ok if I use the word "I" in the privacy policy?
Extra info:
This ...
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Help regarding revenge site/cyberstalking/cybersquatting [closed]
I am a victim of cyberstalking and cybersquatting by an ex. After I terminated our very short 3 month relationship, this person contacted my significant other, my separated spouse (unwanted, and they ...
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Consent to be recorded in public [duplicate]
I'm a little confused as to how the law is applied to this question. On the one hand, the right to privacy only extends to your home or immediate surroundings in places like public restrooms (the ...
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Can 3rd party websites share my personal information without my consent or knowledge?
I have stumbled across a few websites:
https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/
https://www.familytreenow.com
https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com
www.truthfinder.com
that contain a lot of detailed ...
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Is it really possible to use Google Analytics without consent, and if so, why exactly?
I'm asking about the GDPR and the European Union. Lots of websites claim that it is possible to use Google Analytics without asking for the user's consent. Even some answers here suggest that it is ...
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Oregon v Newcomb: warrantless searches for animal welfare
Oregon v. Newcomb:
A dog is personal property under Oregon law. However, Oregon law simultaneously limits ownership and possessory rights in ways that it does not for inanimate property. Live ...
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GDPR: Do I have to mention MailChimp in the privacy policy of a website if the registration form is only linked?
If I use MailChimp to send out newsletters and on my website I link to the registration form hosted on the MailChimp server, but don't embed it, do I need a MailChimp section in the privacy policy of ...
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Does GDPR apply to location data collected by apps?
I've just been reading this article in the New York Times which expounds on the business practices of mobile apps which collect your location data and use it/sell it.
The article gives examples of ...
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Fee for Subject Access Request to GCHQ, Data Protection Act 2018
When making a Subject Access Request to GCHQ I was told that I would have to pay a fee for this Request. The GDPR does not allow for such a fee, while the UK Data Protection Act does(Part 4 – Chapter ...
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Organizational rights to access users' emails?
An administrator over the Google Apps (Gmail) account within my organization had some concerns about a user and discovered some problematic emails.
The user was suspended and Google Apps access ...
