Personal data belonging to up to 21,000 TalkTalk customers could have been used for scams and fraud
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC £100,000 after it failed to look after its customers’ data […]
GDPR News
EDPS publishes Opinion on the proposal for a Regulation establishing a single digital gateway and the ‘once-only’ principle
The successful implementation of an EU-wide once-only principle to enable the lawful exchange of data across EU borders depends on ensuring […]
Transferring personal data outside the EU: Clarification from the CJEU?
Legal analysis of opinion of Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) regarding agreement between Canada and the European Union […]
Airlines Are Giving Your Face to Homeland Security
Cameras photograph travelers, capture their data, and scan it against databases. Even the feds say there’s a risk it could […]
Google Prepares For Europe’s New Privacy Rules
From search and Gmail to AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick and Analytics, Google says it will comply with the General Data Protection […]
Data sanitization isn’t what you think it is, but a new group hopes to change that
A new alliance of IT and security professionals wants to promote best practices and spread awareness of a standard definition. […]
GDPR – sorting the fact from the fiction
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham separates fact from fiction regarding GDPR and financial penalties. Source: GDPR – sorting the fact from […]
Member states ask for new EU data retention rules
Several EU member states want to include new rules allowing for data retention in a draft privacy bill. Source: Member […]
Mistakes, misuse, mission creep: Biometric screening must end
If identity thieves or stalkers target us, we can change our credit card numbers and even our names, but we […]
Gartner: Five Trends in Cybersecurity for 2017 and 2018
Gartner presents five trends in cybersecurity for 2017 and 2018 here . It notes that folks with cybersecurity skills have […]
The Pregnancy Panopticon
There are a staggering number of applications for Android and iOS which claim to help people keep track of their […]
The Man Who Wrote Those Password Rules Has a New Tip: N3v$r M1^d!
Bill Burr’s 2003 report recommended using numbers, obscure characters and capital letters and updating regularly. As his advice is overturned, […]