B.C. Police Officers Claim Privacy Rights Violated when WhatsApp Texts Accessed
Five police officers in Nelson, B.C. have just launched a constitutional challenge in the B.C. Supreme Court claiming that their privacy rights were violated during an investigation into their WhatsApp messages. They were accused of swapping inappropriate content on their personal smartphones.
Ticketmaster Data Breach – Repercussions
Ticketmaster acknowledged in May that hackers stole 560 million customers’ data for ransom. In a a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing on May 20th, the company confirmed unauthorized activity. Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, said it had “identified unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment.”
TikTok – Privacy Enforcement in the U.S. and Canada is a Struggle
The FTC recently announced that it is referring its investigation into TikTok to the Justice Department, with allegations that the social media app is violating children’s privacy regulations.