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 […]
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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 […]
Meltdown-Spectre: Malware is already being tested by attackers
German antivirus testing firm AV-Test has identified 139 samples of malware that seem to be early attempts at exploiting the […]
Analysis of Spain’s Personal Data Protection Draft Act
On 10th November 2017, the Council of Ministers passed the Personal Data Protection Draft Act (Draft) seeking to conform Spanish law to the GDPR. The […]
Andrea Jelinek elected new WP29 chair
The Article 29 Working Party has elected Andrea Jelinek, head of Austria’s data protection authority, as its new chairwoman. Jelinek […]
GDPR: Lawful bases for processing
In 2016, the Westin Research Center published a series of articles identifying our analysis of the top 10 operational impacts […]
FTC issues a Privacy & Data Security Update (2017)
US Federal Trade Commission has published their report “Privacy & Data Security Update (2017): An Overview of the Commission’s Enforcement, […]
Data breach notification to become mandatory in Australia from 22 February 2018
Privacy compliance will become even more important for all companies in Australia now that the mandatory data breach notification scheme […]
Misunderstandings, Panic and Priorities in the Year of the GDPR
It is finally here. This is the year of the GDPR. A journey that started with an ambitious policy paper […]
Security, privacy weaknesses pervade state and local education websites
At a time when concerns about cybersecurity and privacy are growing, among the most insecure websites are state education departments […]
ENISA issues a report on emerging technologies and security challenges
ENISA has produced the first version of a report that provides an overview of key emerging technologies and their associated […]
Australia: Notifying individuals about an eligible data breach
When an entity experiences a data breach, its first step should be to contain the breach where possible and take […]