Facebook sparks fresh privacy concerns
Facebook is being taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission after allegations of misleading and deceiving the public. Seven years after the...
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Cyprus has dealt with 740 GDPR complaints since regulation enforced
Cyprus has dealt with 740 complaints related to data protection in the two years since the GDPR regulation came into force and has issued some...
Coronavirus: Education minister seeks to allay data protection fears
Education minister Prodromos Prodromou on Wednesday said no rights had been violated in the implementation of the ministry’s distance learning programme. He was speaking after...
CCTV: a question of privacy
CCTV cameras in public places are a fact of life in the UK. Not so in Cyprus. Is that about to change? By Elias Hazou...
‘Big Brother’ not quite here yet, new survey shows
Cyprus ranks average in a new survey on privacy protection and the state of surveillance, scoring a 3.0 overall for having ‘some safeguards but with...
Privacy concerns after video of verbal racist attack goes viral (Updated)
Police said on Monday they were examining video evidence and CCTV footage of a verbal racist attack by three Greek Cypriot women against a Russian...
Police association say missing persons cases were hindered by data restrictions (Updated)
The police association on Thursday rebuffed criticism over its members’ handling of a missing person’s case, which ended up being murder, possibly the work of...
Jeweller’s shop fined for training CCTV cameras on neighbouring cafe
A fine of €500 for breaching personal data laws was imposed on a jeweller’s shop for installing cameras which were able to record the movement...
Hospital fined €5,000 for loss of patient file
A fine of €5,000 was imposed on the Makarios Children’s Hospital in Nicosia for the loss of a patient’s file, according to a decision of...
Supreme Court reserves judgment in Eleni Loizidou emails case
The Supreme Court on Monday said that it would reserve its ruling to the appeal filed by daily Politis against an injunction forbidding it from...
