Feds forcing mass fingerprint unlocks is an “abuse of power,” judge rules
According to a new ruling issued last week by a federal magistrate in Oakland, California, the government can’t get a […]
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Democrats aren’t buying Big Tech’s latest privacy proposal
Discussions involving data privacy have heated up in Congress, and new federal legislation now seems inevitable. A leading technology policy […]
Nine cyber predictions for 2019
Without a doubt 2018 will be remembered as the year of GDPR – among the cyber security community at least. […]
UK government gives advice to online businesses in case of no-deal Brexit
The UK government has issued guidance for online businesses and service providers on how to operate in the European Economic […]
Irish Data Protection Advisory Releases Guidance on Data Consequences following ‘No Deal Brexit’
Guidance on what should happen with transfers of personal data to and from the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, following […]
Business fined after data subject access request failings
A business that failed to respond fully to a data subject access request and later ignored an enforcement notice served […]
The Internet Is A Privacy Disaster. But We Still Don’t Know How To Talk About It.
We know our data has been left vulnerable, or sold, or misused. But do we really understand what that means […]
Lawsuit against weather app sign of things to come?
Last week , the office of the Los Angeles City Attorney, Mike Feuer, filed a complaint against The Weather Channel […]
BYOD and GDPR: Managing the compliance conundrum
Today’s employees want the freedom to work from any location and any device at any time of day. These individuals […]
Facebook staff discussed cashing in on user data
Proposals to charge firms for data said to have been revealed by badly redacted court papers Facebook staff discussed charging […]
EU court advised to limit scope of ‘right to be forgotten’
Search engines should not be forced to alter their search results for users outside of the EU when complying with […]
Beware Big Tech’s Data Privacy Doublespeak
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty inveighed against big tech companies abusing people’s data at a privacy conference in Brussels. Now IBM […]