What You Don’t Know About How Facebook Uses Your Data
Facebook tracks even nonusers as they surf the web, and House members grilled Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, about the […]
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User Privacy Isn’t Solely a Facebook Issue
During Congressional hearings about Facebook’s data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, Mark Zuckerberg drew an important […]
Why ISO 27001 is integral to data protection compliance
With the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)’s compliance deadline looming, any organisation that processes EU residents’ data will likely […]
Five things we learned from Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook hearing
The CEO’s privacy is as vulnerable as ours, and the social network faces a regulation battle. His data was sold to […]
Data Protection Impact Assessment
Article 35 of the GDPR provides for Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA). According to Article 35(1) a DPIA is required […]
The Guardian view on Grindr and data protection: don’t trade our privacy
The idea that people’s HIV status and physical location should be used by advertisers is unsurprising in the tech world […]
Exporting the EU Privacy Regime Through Trade Instruments?
On January 31, 2018, the European Commission endorsed horizontal clauses on cross-border data flows, data protection and privacy in trade […]
Is Software More Vulnerable Today?
This note from ENISA provides an overview on the reasons for the growing number of disclosed vulnerabilities and the impact […]
I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes.
Using a tool that Facebook offers its users, our columnist found out more than he wanted to know about the […]
Privacy Goes Global: An Interview With Tim Harty
In the United States, we’ve been talking about privacy for at least a century. In December 1890, the Harvard Law […]
Fragmented U.S. Privacy Rules Leave Large Data Loopholes for Facebook and Others
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony will discussways to keep people’s online data private, which I’m interested in as a […]
Consumer groups file FTC complaint against YouTube for collecting kids’ personal data without parental consent
A coalition of 23 consumer groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission charging YouTube with violating the Children’s […]