Who Is Policing the Location Data Industry?
Google and Apple have tried to crack down, but location data brokers are moving to a new way to collect your whereabouts that’s much harder to detect.
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Why ‘Ghost Assets’ are Killing your GDPR Compliance
IT teams need full visibility into every device, software installation, and user, as well as the ability to document all of the IT resources.
We are GDPRbuzz now!
I joined 3 of my projects – DataProtection.news, DataProtection.blog and DPO.guide – into one: GDPRbuzz and narrow my focus on GDPR and EU data protection.
German court rules CEO to be held personally liable for data privacy violations
German court decided that a CEO was personally liable for a data privacy breach after they hired a detective to investigate possible criminal acts by the plaintiff.
Why It’s So Hard to Regulate Algorithms
Algorithms are increasingly employed by government agencies – from informing criminal sentencing and detecting unemployment fraud to prioritizing child abuse cases and distributing health benefits.
Is Momentum Shifting Toward a Ban on Behavioral Advertising?
Targeted advertising based on people’s online behavior has long been the business model that underwrites the internet.
Nonprofit Websites Are Riddled With Ad Trackers
Such organizations often deal in sensitive issues—and many are feeding data about website visitors to corporations
Is the Cookie Web Tracker Dying?
The internet’s original data collection tool is still ubiquitous, even as the web moves away from it
Latest bits on privacy and cybersecurity #11
Collection of articles, documents and research on data privacy and cyber-security that caught my eye. Hope, you’ll find them useful and interesting.
Facebook Rolls Out News Feed Change That Blocks Watchdogs from Gathering Data
The tweak, which targets the code in accessibility features for visually impaired users, drew ire from researchers and those who monitor the platform.
How To Prevent Data Mining and Protect Your Privacy
Even though data mining has its fair share of bright sides, wrong information in the wrong hands can lead to quite a few security issues. Hence, protecting your online privacy is of utmost importance.
What Does It Actually Mean When a Company Says, “We Do Not Sell Your Data”?
Experts say the privacy promise—ubiquitous in online services and apps—obscures the truth about how companies use personal data