What to Do if Your Email Is Hacked
If a scammer has swiped your password and is using your account to spew spam, take action and add measures […]
GDPR News
Australian bill to create back door into encrypted apps in ‘advanced stages’
The Australian government is pushing ahead with controversial legislation it says will create “back doors” into encrypted communication services – […]
Protecting Your Privacy Beyond Facebook
Safeguarding information about what you do online goes far beyond trying to lower your profile on one internet service. Legally, you […]
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 […]
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 […]