Importance of AI, data in law enforcement suggests growing tension with privacy
Security experts believe machine learning and artificial intelligence are critical in combating crime, but the associated need for data access […]
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Why are we giving away our most sensitive health data to Google?
A ruling that transferring 1.6m patient records to Google’s DeepMind broke the law is welcome. But public debate on the […]
New Data Protection Enforcement Provisions Take Effect in Russia
On July 1, 2017, a new law took effect in Russia allowing for administrative enforcement actions and higher fines for […]
The UK Has a Dirty Secret for Spying on Encrypted Messages: Hacking
Members of the media and some politicians are near-constantly talking about accessing terrorist communications, but are ignoring one of the […]
Could Canada lose its adequacy standing?
The world has changed a lot since the European Commission gave Canada its “adequacy” standing in 2001, determining the Personal […]
Preparation for the GDPR underway in Poland
The Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs published at the end of March a partial draft of the new act on […]
Let’s sort out this profiling and consent debate once and for all.
In a post last week , I said that “ There’s a perpetuated misconception that all profiling needs consent. It […]
The battle over encryption and what it means for our privacy
A mandated ‘back door’ to our electronic devices is essentially a built-in vulnerability and there is no way to ensure […]
Data protection is a team sport: Benchmark data tells the story
This is the second article in a series on establishing program metrics and benchmarking your privacy incident-management program. By explanation: […]
How Donald Trump has nudged French CIOs still further from US cloud storage
French CIOs are looking at alternatives to storing data with US-based suppliers. Source: How Donald Trump has nudged French CIOs […]
EU privacy seal providers eagerly await official GDPR guidance
There should ideally be a pan-European accreditation for “privacy seal” providers when the General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect, […]
Belgian DPA publishes recommendation on GDPR record keeping obligation
End of last week, the Belgian Data Protection Authority published a recommendation on the records of processing activities. The full […]