41% of Canadian companies had sensitive data exposed
Report estimates that almost 87 per cent per cent of Canadian companies suffered at least one successful breach Source: Study […]
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AI Reads Privacy Policies So You Don’t Have To
Polisis, a machine-learning-trained tool, automatically produces readable charts of where your data ends up for any online service. Source: Polisis […]
Swedish DPA criticizes proposed data retention reform
The Swedish data protection authority (‘Datainspektionen’) published, on 31 January 2018, its opinion on the Ministry of Justice’s report on […]
Ireland publishes Data Protection Bill
The Government published, on 30 January 2018, the Data Protection Bill 2018 (‘the Bill’) to give further effect to the […]
Commission lobbies for police access to website owners list
The European Commission has suggested that law enforcement authorities could soon have restricted access to the WHOIS database that identifies […]
The GDPR: Your best friend (but you know that)
For those on the margins of the privacy community, there is a narrative that repeats about the EU General Data […]
Many UK’s Data Protection Bill exemptions are expanded, unexplained and some permit unlawful processing
The political kerfuffle over the Government’s Brexit machinations makes it timely to point out that the European Commission’s negotiating document […]
Europe’s new data protection rules export privacy standards worldwide
Europe wants to conquer the world all over again. Only this time, its killer app isn’t steel or gunpowder. It’s an […]
GDPR: Will It Transform U.S. Corporate Titans?
If you follow the breathless coverage of the recent stock market swings, you might imagine that CEOs are glued to […]
US Data Breaches Hit All-Time High
In 2017, ITRC counted 1,579 U.S. breaches, up 45 percent from 2016. That doesn’t reflect every U.S. data breach last […]
What Do Data Scientists and Data Engineers Need to Know about GDPR?
Andrew Burt on the implications of GDPR on data collection, storage and use for any organization dealing with customer data […]
It is time to overhaul Canada’s data protection
Opinion: A draft position by Canada’s privacy commissioner on the right to be forgotten shows how our inadequate laws are […]