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Privacy & Data

Singapore's 3 days and Malaysia's 72 hours are not the same deadline

Both look like the same breach-notification window, but the clocks start at different events. Singapore's three days begin when your assessment ends, and the Act sets no limit on the assessment. Malaysia's binding circular starts at the breach itself — while the regulator's own guideline starts it at awareness, in every worked example on the facing page.

4 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Privacy & Data

The Thomson Reuters C-Track Breach May Include Sealed Court Records

Files left C-Track in March, were found on 30 June and disclosed on 3 September. The remedy offered is credit monitoring, which does nothing about a sealed file.

4 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Privacy & Data

500,000 New ID Documents a Day Is Not a Historical Breach

A dark-web service advertised documents from an identity verification firm and claimed half a million new ones daily. Two researchers found their own licences in it.

3 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Privacy & Data

Norway's Minister Described a Use Rule. The Coverage Called It a Ban.

Karianne Tung says the aim is to stop the equipment being used to monitor people in public. That describes a conduct rule, which is a different instrument from a product ban.

2 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Privacy & Data

A Question a Minute Across 225 Agencies Is Six Each Per Day

The company says the tool answers a question every minute and that officers at 225 agencies rely on it daily. Those two sentences are about six questions per agency per day.

1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Privacy & Data

What an ID number's check digit actually proves

The last character of most identity numbers is computed from the ones before it, using a published formula anyone can apply. It catches typing errors, which is what it is for. It does not tell you the number was ever issued to anybody.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Privacy & Data

Roblox May Check Filipino Ages Against the National ID System

Facial estimation, document checks and national ID verification are being discussed as though they were the same measure. One of them puts the state in the authentication path for a game.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Privacy & Data

41% of Britons Say They Would Hold Back Criticism of Officials

Polling for the Center for Democracy and Technology finds two thirds of British adults would not trust any government with access to encrypted messages. Buried further down is a measured chilling effect: 41 per cent say they would hold back criticism of officials.

31 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Privacy & Data

Strong Opposition to Licence Plate Cameras Went From 20% to 31% in a Year

The crossing from support to opposition is the reported result. The number that actually moved is strongly oppose, which grew by more than half in a year, while strong support fell.

30 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Privacy & Data

Brazil Fined TikTok $30m. The Deletion Order Is the Expensive Part.

The regulator found processing without a legal basis across guest sessions as well as logged-in accounts, and ordered erasure of data on an estimated eight million children. Nobody has defined what erasure means once a model has learned from it.

30 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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