Fitbit-based life insurance is a potential privacy and security nightmare
John Hancock is the first US insurance company to ditch traditional life insurance policies entirely in favor of “interactive life […]
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EU warns Facebook it faces sanctions over ‘misleading’ T&Cs
European Commission has warned Facebook it will face sanctions unless it changes what it calls its “misleading” terms and conditions. Facebook […]
Forget the new iPhones, Apple’s best product is now privacy
Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as […]
Why we must remember where informed consent comes from
In an excellent IAPP podcast interview by Angelique Carson, Woody Hartzog makes the compelling point that informed consent was originally […]
The majority of businesses are failing to comply with GDPR
Some 70% of businesses worldwide failed to address requests made from individuals seeking to obtain a copy of their personal […]
How to comply with the right to erasure
Now that the General Data Protection Regulation has come into force, organizations need to be able to process requests to […]
Most businesses still failing to comply to GDPR
New research has discovered that companies around the world are still not getting GDPR basics right. Cloud data specialist, Talend, […]
Managing a data hack: the dos and don’ts
Panic is not an effective data security tool. When your company’s defences have been breached and your confidential information is […]
European consumers organisations launching collective GDPR actions
In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, four European Consumers Organisations launched on 30 May 2018 to coordinate collective […]
Will the UK Meet the EU Adequacy Test?
Unless there is a political earthquake (some would say a miracle) Brexit will happen on 29 March 2019. Many fear […]
UK’s new terror laws could violate ‘fundamental legal rights’
New terror laws proposed by the UK government could violate “fundamental legal rights” by giving police the power to delay […]
Browsers aim to thwart tracking
New protections in Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers aim to prevent companies from turning “cookie” data files used to […]