Irish watchdog issues ‘no deal’ Brexit data transfers guidance
Businesses in Ireland have been urged to ensure that their transfer of personal data to the UK in a ‘no […]
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Irish watchdog issues ‘no deal’ Brexit data transfers guidance
Businesses in Ireland have been urged to ensure that their transfer of personal data to the UK in a ‘no […]
Data location vendor worked with GDPR regulator on data consent model, yielding 70% opt-in rates
Last August French privacy regulator CNIL cited two French location-intelligence companies (Fidzup and Teemo) as non-compliant with GDPR consent rules […]
USA Big Tech encouraged to adopt GDPR-style rules
The multinational tech conglomerate, Cisco Systems has urged tech companies in the US to embrace more regulation and to follow […]
Spain: Guide on cyber incidents establishes a “one-stop notification system”
The Government of Spain announced, on 23 January 2019, that it had issued a guide on the notification and management […]
President Trump Signs Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence
President Trump signed an Executive Order (“EO”), “Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence,” that launches a coordinated federal government strategy […]
EU orders recall of children’s smartwatch over severe privacy concerns
EU warns that ENOX Safe-KID-One smartwatches contain several security flaws that let third-parties track and call children’s watches. This is […]
Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking
When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company’s […]
Facebook to appeal German data decision
Facebook has said it will appeal a decision by Germany’s main competition authority that serves to restrict its collection and […]
How to avoid consent fatigue
Consent requests combined with the obligation of transparency aims to give back control to individuals over the use of their […]
Austrian DPA takes “result-oriented perspective” in data erasure decision
The Austrian data protection authority (‘DSB’) published, on 30 January 2019, its decision, dated 5 December 2018, on the right […]
Firms are focusing data encryption efforts in the wrong place
Businesses urgently need to review data storage infrastructures if they are to remain confident that they are meeting compliance regulations. […]