Seattle Pushes Forward as Data Privacy Leader
Seattle’s citywide privacy program is often recognized as a current leading effort among municipal governments to guard collected data, but […]
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Newly Released Surveillance Orders Show That Even with Individualized Court Oversight, Spying Powers Are Misused
Once-secret surveillance court orders obtained by EFF last week show that even when the court authorizes the government to spy […]
Unfairness By Algorithm: Distilling the Harms of Automated Decision-Making
Analysis of personal data can be used to improve services, advance research, and combat discrimination. However, such analysis can also […]
Challenges ahead for the European Data Protection Board
The retiring Chair of the EU Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, who is the President of France’s […]
Swisscom data breach: 800,000 customers affected
Swisscom has revealed its customer data systems have been compromised and information belonging to roughly 800,000 customers has been stolen. […]
The Guardian view on internet privacy: it’s the psychology, stupid
The ease with which giant databases can be queried and cross-referenced makes privacy vanish on the internet Privacy is necessary […]
Public Hearing on the Thai Personal Data Protection Bill
Since our July 2015 update, the 2015 draft Personal Data Protection Bill was withdrawn by Cabinet Resolution and returned to […]
Why Every Company Should Consider Creating a “Cyber No-Fly List”
A cyber no-fly list can use deeper context and intelligence about digital traffic, asking, for example, “Is this traffic from […]
How to implement GDPR transparency requirement?
Vasiliki Antoniadou on WP29 guidance for the implementation and interpretation of the GDPR transparency requirement via its recently published guidelines. […]
European Commission and Article 29 Working Party Urge Respect for International Law in Data Cases
Territoriality will continue to be one of the most vexing problems for data regulation in 2018. One aspect of this […]
New U.S. defense bill targets drones, raises potential privacy and security concerns
The National Defense Authorization Act of 2018 (NDAA), signed into law in December 2017, did not only authorize United States […]
Security bill will enable Canada to disable computers located abroad
Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (“CSE:) wants to give the public broad reassurances that it will not use its growing array of […]