Apple to US Congress: “We are radically different” on privacy
Apple has responded to a letter from Congress asking it to detail its data security and privacy issues, saying that […]
August 2018
Businesses urged to create Brexit contingency plans for data transfers
EU data protection law puts restrictions on the transfer of personal data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). Businesses […]
Crypto-Security – the Good, the Bad, and the McAfee
If you’ve been following the news over the past few days then you might have noticed our coverage on reported […]
Latest bits on privacy and cybersecurity
Collection of latest research, publications and reports on privacy, data protection and cybersecurity.
Homeless shelter plans to ID clients with facial recognition
Agencies have struggled with how to identify clients that don’t have official ID, and one Calgary shelter thinks it might […]
GDPR court decisions still only a trickle: there might be a deluge yet
Court decisions relating to privacy since GDPR came into force have not exactly been pouring out. But some key decisions […]
More than 1,000 U.S. news sites are still unavailable in Europe since GDPR
Websites had two years to get ready for the GDPR. But rather than comply, about a third of the 100 […]
French court orders Twitter to change smallprint after privacy case
A Paris court on Thursday ordered Twitter to change its smallprint, according to a consumer group which accused the tech […]
PayPal, Square vulnerabilities impact mobile point-of-sale machines
Security flaws in mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) devices from vendors including Square, SumUp, iZettle, and PayPal have been disclosed by researchers. […]
The United States finally starts to talk about data privacy legislation
Despite the US Commerce Secretary’s condemnation of Europe’s GDPR in May, there are signs that federal and state governments are […]
5 Lessons Learned on Data Breach Management
The GDPR mandates controllers and processors to have technical and organizational measures in place to ensure an appropriate level of […]
10 ways China watches its citizens
From tracking the activity of mobile app users to setting up a social credit scorecard, the world’s most populated country […]