Highest reported breaches ever according to ICO annual report
UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently released its annual report for 2017 – 2018. One of the most obvious […]
GDPR News
International Privacy Experts Adopt Recommendations for Cross-Border Law Enforcement Requests for Data
The International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications has adopted new recommendations to protect individual rights during criminal cross-border […]
To keep or not to keep: data retention challenges and solutions
The GDPR does not specify exact data retention timescales, and the reason for this – when you stop to think […]
Under GDPR, publishers are adopting consent management platforms
More publishers are feeling under pressure to adopt a consent-management platform to be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation. In […]
This powerful new “face search” engine could be a privacy nightmare
Cybersecurity firm Trustwave has released an open source tool to find accounts of large volumes of people across social media […]
India wants localization of cloud storage data in possible blow to big tech firms
A panel working on the Indian government’s cloud computing policy wants data generated in India to be stored within the […]
Proposed UK surveillance laws give police power to access electronic devices
Proposed laws would also compel Facebook, Apple and Google to assist in decrypting private communications Law enforcement agencies would gain […]
Google tracks your movements, like it or not
Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]