Questions tagged [privacy]
For questions about freedom from unsolicited observation, or the collection, use and distribution of private information.
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Do I still need to check if users are inside of EEA/UK for GDPR consent if my Android app is ONLY released in countries outside of EEA/UK?
Example:
A US user downloads the Android app from the US Google Play Store
The user does not view any consent form and begins using the app and viewing ads
The user then travels to EEA/UK and ...
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Dutch Portrait rights for persona
I'm no lawyer, so the following is to the best of my understanding.
In Dutch copyright law there's the notion of portrait rights. This law specifies certain restrictions for the author of a photo/...
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I need my twitter deleted
I have seen one similar question but it is almost two years old, and there's a bit more to it.
I created a twitter account a long time ago because I was doing live streaming on adult websites. I need ...
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Why are real estate records public? [migrated]
The government is very restricted on what information it may disclose about you and under what circumstances. For example, I can't look up your car's license plate number to find out who you are. I ...
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Is it legal to film someone and upload it to YouTube?
Is it legal to film someone and upload it to YouTube? I keep seeing videos of people throwing racial slurs or doing something bad on YouTube. I am wondering if it's even legal to post people doing ...
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Is a person masturbating in a public bathroom/office bathroom committting an offense? [duplicate]
I was always led to believe that public masturbation only covers places where there isn't an expectation of privacy that people work and hang around (i.e. parks, supermarkets, hospital) so it would be ...
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Can a university in Vietnam use COVID-19 to force students to reveal personal information?
Asking for a friend, assume "I" is said friend.
I'm a student of a university in Vietnam. My university has sent out an email to all students to fill out a Google spreadsheet, which is open ...
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Would it be legal to sequence human DNA from wastewater?
DNA can Identify Individuals
I have asked this question in the biology stackexchange. Below the law part:
I know that there are some efforts from scientists working with bladder cancer to perform ...
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Is an email private or confidential just because we say so in Canada? [duplicate]
I received an email that claimed that its contents were confidential and private, and not to be shared. Sometimes people have automatic privacy notices at the footers of their emails, which is not the ...
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What laws/regulations/statutes must LexisNexis follow regarding opt-out privileges of certain groups
One can go to LexisNexis to suppress information.
There are several options on why you want your information suppressed, but three stood-out:
I am a public/elected Official
I am a law enforcement ...
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California: Unauthorized Access to Medical Info
I took a Covid vaccine few weeks ago with Walgreens. Suddenly in the news, California states they have an electronic record of everyone's vaccine, just provide the info on a website, and you will get ...
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Can I force an interior designer to stop using photos of my home. We said no photos at the start of the project and i just found them online
interior designer, permission for photos for promotion and or online specifically denied. we like our privacy and said so.
Also, some photos online show that the home was staged with additional ...
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Is Apple's private relay feature illegal in Colombia and South Africa, and if so, why?
Apple has announced a new browsing feature designed to hide a user's browsing from others.
The article linked above said the feature is banned in:
China, Saudi Arabia or Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, ...
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Katie Hill's loss to the Daily Mail (5/2021) vs. Hulk Hogan's win over Gawker (3/2016) - why the difference in outcome?
Both Katie Hill and Hulk Hogan are public figures - both had private images involuntarily published. Both cases were consensual relations. However in Hill's case she violated job regulations having ...
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US Federal agency says a vaccine can be required. What does this mean?
The EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a US Federal agency, is reported as saying that employers can require people to take vaccines. What does required mean? Can employers fire people ...
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Does it violate HIPAA to ask if employees are vaccinated? [duplicate]
My new company requires their employees to wear a mask if they are not vaccinated from COVID-19. When I came in for my first day, earlier this week, I saw some people not wearing a mask, and I asked ...
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What are the laws on taking a photograph in someone’s bedroom and posting it online without permission from homeowner?
Someone takes a photo of themselves in their friend’s bedroom, without their friend’s knowledge or consent, and posts it online. Some of the art on the wall is handmade by the friend, and was not ...
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Is it legal to issue private road notices on public estates in the UK
This morning I parked my car around the corner in a new housing estate and walked to work. When I got back to my car, I found this stuck on the windshield...
The housing estate is completely new and ...
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Talent consent withdrawal in film in Europe
Consider the following scenario of right to erasure in film-making in Europe. Person A makes amateur live-action films, for example theater performances. Person B is in one of those performances and ...
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Privacy and GDPR on Facebook
I have a doubt regarding the privacy on Facebook and the law application.
Also lawyers That I have spoken with, seem not very sure about the matter.
In particular I would like to know if it is my ...
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Can the German Embassy go through your Whatsapp messages during Visa document verification process?
I am a Pakistani professional living and working in Germany under an "EU Blue Card" visa. I got married a little while back and to join me in Germany, my wife has applied for a Family ...
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Is there a constitutional reason why there can be no legislation requiring commercial VPN operators to register veneer IPs?
For the purposes of this question, let's simplify what VPN operators do as "they allow their customers' internet protocol (aka IP) addresses to appear as other (veneer) IPs to the counter-parties ...
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Is there a law preventing a business owner from publicly displaying your photograph and name, and a debt they say you owe?
Can a business owner post your full name and your photograph, with an amount of money they say you owe them, on the wall of their business? Does it violate any right to privacy?
Assume for the sake of ...
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Mask mandate for unvaccinated employees and privacy
Is it legal for an employer such as a public school (in the US) to impose a mask mandate on only unvaccinated employees, or would that be a violation of those employees ADA or HIPPA rights? It seems ...
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What can be done if messenger changes messages I have sent without my agreement?
I'm using one popular messenger app. I'm from Ukraine, but the messenger is registered in the UK. One year ago I sent a poll to one private group (i.e. people can join it only by invitation given by ...
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Posting pictures of a rude employee… legal?
I’m curious as to what would the legalities be if I were to post a review of a local restaurant (negative) and include a photo I took at the time of the poor service that included the extremely rude ...
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GDPR and Telecom law broken, mobile network operator refuses to disclose user of a phone number
I got today a very unnerving phone call. It was a telemarketing, but unlike any other I had before, this was automated system and it suggested it knew much more about me than my number. I'm talking ...
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UK Law Question (England): Can I Sue someone if they post a video of me on social media Without my Consent?
Scenario: Someone starts talking to you while they record you without you knowing it. You notice they're recording you and they tell you the video is going on Youtube. You tell them that this is only ...
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Encryption over handheld transceiver
I'm aware that encryption of amateur radio communications is prohibited (or rather, any technique to make the message unreadable is). Does this apply to handheld transceivers ("Walkie-Talkies&...
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Are Wix.com and WordPress.com GDPR compliant?
When signing up to Wix.com or WordPress.com there is a bundled consent practice which seems to violate Art.7(4).
Note than even no Privacy Policy mentioned in WP.com
https://automattic.com/privacy/
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Is criticizing a public figure on a private chat libel?
X is currently involved in a legal battle with said ex-wife regarding child abuse by parental alienation of his child. X, with a friend in a similar position, created a private support group on ...
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Can we provide IP address data that might not be the user's data?
We have a user who is being harassed by somebody and on our service, the harasser filled out the user's password reset form.
This created a log entry that essentially says
<Harasser's IP address&...
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Zipcar won't delete my driver's license from their records; are they legally required to?
I cancelled my Zipcar account 5 years ago.
Today I tried to re-open it. I created a new account, but it wouldn't allow me to because it said my driver's license was already in use.
I called customer ...
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Is the local police required to notify suspects of online surveillance in the state of Nevada?
Can the local police execute or facilitate online surveillance, or cell data surveillance, without notifying the subject in the state of Nevada?
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Do I need “cookie management modal” in my web application?
We have a web application (+1000 users) and we use analytics cookies and have also some cookies that are required for the application to work.
Before the user creates an account, it has to accept both ...
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Do lax and lazy cookie messages comply with cookie laws?
On a web page, I received a cookie pop-up that looked like this:
Which reads as:
We use cookies. You probably don't care. Click the button to get rid of this pointless message.
Whatever (the button)
...
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What charges does one risk if they share personal pictures without permission?
This question was inspired by something I read on another Stack Exchange website.
Basically, Mr. Johnson works at a small company Good Company. His responsibility is to manage and organise the ...
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When filing for bankruptcy, is everything filed publicly accessible via PACER?
I know bankruptcies are public records, but does that mean everything you file is public? Every debt, even personal ones? Every domain name which would otherwise be protected by registrar privacy? I ...
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Legalities of making a documentary/biography about a person's life
I just read an article about how Mike Tyson is calling for a boycott of Hulu over a documentary they are making about his life.
He says the documentary is 'unauthorized' and that an 'authorized' life ...
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How to identify whether our organization is subjected to the juridication of federal trade commission (FTC)
our organization is registered in the United States. By registering the company in the US means, are we under the jurisdiction of the FTC? or is it something else? because we are planning to get the ...
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Can an employer ask an employee about personal health matters (HIPAA) and COBRA decision in public?
Hypothetical Scenario (in the US):
Susan's employer, MoneySavers, offers COBRA to employees who separate from the company. Susan has given her two weeks' notice (she has quit her job) and will soon ...
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UK: What information are the police legally required to collect when going door-to-door, and why?
A few days ago, a police officer knocked on my door in the evening and asked whether I had noticed any disturbances in my street earlier in the day - he said it was in relation to reports that they'd ...
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How do I find out if my Internet Service Provider (ISP) was subpoenaed or released information secondary to a subpoena?
What is the best way to find out if a subpoena was served to my ISP ? Next, is there a way to find out who requested the subpoena and what information was released (if any)?
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Blackmailing from Germany [closed]
I don’t know from where I should start but I am from Arabic Sudan and my Ex BF who lives in Germany is blackmailing me with private photos and videos he threat that he with post all over and send it ...
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Would it be illegal to withdraw a disclaimer that no “National Security Letters” requests have been made *today*?
According to EFF:
By using NSLs, the FBI can directly order companies to turn over information about their customers and then gag the companies from telling anyone that they did so. Because the ...
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Can I say that I am utilizing same terms & conditions and privacy policy of this (xyz) website?
I am running a service A that uses some other service B. The company L also provides and uses the service B for themself as well for service K.
Can I say on my service website A that my service ...
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Does the United States' Fourth Amendment cover privacy violations by private corporations?
For the sake of contrast, consider the wording of the First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the ...
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Was the EncroChat Hack Legal? If not, is there a legal mechanism which could allow the evidence to be used?
Disclaimer: I am aware there are a lot nuances within law, particularly within each country, as such this question only concerns the wider EU law and UK law as these are the courts I am interested in ...
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How are corporations imprisoned?
If a corporation is criminally charged while handling privacy data wrongly (assume such a law exists if it does not) in India who is liable? Is it the chairman, deparment of privacy, employees ...
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Resume Writer asks: Who owns the copyright - me or my client?
I'm a professional resume writer (among other things). Clients regularly pay me to completely overhaul their resumes. Over the years I've amassed a large collection of well-written resumes. I would ...
