The U.S. CLOUD Act and the EU: A Privacy Protection Race to the Bottom
Between the U.S. CLOUD Act and new European Union (EU) efforts to dismantle international rules for cross-border law enforcement investigations, […]
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Fact Check: What Mark Zuckerberg Said About Facebook, Privacy and Russia
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, is testifying before Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday to answer questions about the social network’s […]
How Mark Zuckerberg Blamed Facebook’s Problems On Openness
Facebook’s first reactions to the Cambridge Analytical headlines looked very different from the now contrite promises Mark Zuckerberg made to […]
How to check whether Facebook shared your data with Cambridge Analytica
Facebook has started the process of notifying the approximately 87 million users whose data was harvested by the election consultancy […]
GDPR no excuse for not meeting AML duties
Gambling operators will be able to meet their licensing obligations on problem gambling and anti-money laundering (AML) without breaching the […]
Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages
Facebook has said that political data firm Cambridge Analytica improperly harvested the public profile data of up to 87 million […]
Is It Time for an Data Sharing Clearinghouse for Internet Researchers?
Today’s Senate hearing with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will start a long discussion on data collection and privacy from Internet companies. […]
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica face class action lawsuit
British and US lawyers have launched a joint class action against Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and two other companies for allegedly […]
Overlap Between the GDPR and PSD2
The EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2), which took effect on January 13, 2018, puts an obligation on banks to give […]
Privacy Commissioner: Facebook must comply with NZ Privacy Act
The Privacy Commissioner says Facebook has breached the Privacy Act 1993. The Commissioner’s finding comes after Facebook refused a complainant access […]
Data Mining and GDPR Compliance
Unlike most privacy regulations in the U.S., the EU defines the term “personal data” broadly—it includes “any information relating to […]
Cyber Resiliency Considerations for the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems
This is the initial public draft of NIST’s newest guideline that provides a flexible systems engineering-based framework to help organizations […]