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 […]
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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Since our July 2015 update, the 2015 draft Personal Data Protection Bill was withdrawn by Cabinet Resolution and returned to […]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 […]
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 […]