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Civil liberties, privacy and democratic institutions
ICO records distinguish enforcing a service's minimum age from protecting younger users who are admitted. Default settings and subsequent data use require their own evidence.
New Canadian guidance addresses vendor assessment before a service is adopted. A completed questionnaire and responsibility for the resulting data use are not the same thing.
Canadian consultation comments distinguish confirming a customer's identity from defining the information a customer permits a service to use. The two controls cannot be read as substitutes.
The ICO's final storage and access guidance covers several technologies and purposes. A dated claim about banners cannot establish every site's wider handling of information.
A September ICO commentary connects wearable technology with accessibility. A recording indicator that exists and an explanation someone can perceive are different design questions.
Canada's privacy regulator is investigating IDScan.net. Its announcement raises two different evidentiary questions: how information was protected and what affected people were told.
