EU Commission proposes making fingerprints mandatory in ID cards
Identity cards held by EU citizens will be required to include digital images of the holder’s fingerprints as part of […]
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Businesses warned over GDPR privacy policies
Some updated privacy policies many businesses have recently sent to customers may not be compliant with new EU data protection […]
Americans don’t trust tech companies on data privacy
Americans have finally started to lose faith in tech companies’ ability to protect their information, according to a survey fielded […]
Avoiding 3 GDPR Pitfalls
A recent industry report found that an overwhelming number of organizations in the U.S. and EU are unprepared for the […]
Mozilla’s approach to sponsored content aims to protect privacy
For a few months now, Mozilla and Pocket have been testing a new initiative to bring users a high-quality personalized […]
Tech firms have replaced government as biggest threat to privacy
Former CIA and former NSA chief Michael Hayden said Tuesday that technology firms have replaced the government as the biggest […]
Irish court rejects Facebook bid to delay EU data privacy case
Ireland’s High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe’s top court of a landmark privacy […]
China Claims It’s Scanning Workers’ Brainwaves to Increase Efficiency and Profits
At a factory in Hangzhou, China, production line workers are allegedly being outfitted with brain-reading hats and helmets. They read […]
A Right to Be Forgotten in Canada?
Should Canada adopt its own version of the “right to be forgotten”? The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada […]
Article 29 Working Party Releases Updated Standard Application Forms for BCRs
On April 11, 2018, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) adopted two Recommendations on the Standard Application for […]
Privacy by Design: Building a Privacy Policy People Actually Want to Read
Article 12 of GDPR mandates that privacy notices be “concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible”. Legal design is not just […]
The Romanian Draft Law regarding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
About two months before the data protection regulation is due to come into force, there was a Draft Law, designed […]