OTA Analysis Finds Most Organizations Not Ready For New Privacy Regulations
The Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance (OTA), which identifies and promotes security and privacy best practices that build consumer confidence […]
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Terms, Conditions and Considerations Under the GDPR
With the recent major GDPR cases on Facebook and Google, DPOs at smaller companies are getting worried and challenged in […]
More than half of UK businesses are not fully GDPR compliant
Research by Egress has revealed that 52% of UK businesses are still not fully compliant with GDPR regulation since its […]
Bavarian DPA investigates Blood Donation Service for website tracking
The Bavarian Data Protection Authority (BayLDA) is currently scrutinising the website of the blood donation service of the Bavarian Red […]
How long should it take to risk-score a privacy incident?
If you’ve been in the privacy world for any amount of time, you recognize there has been a marked increase […]
YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200 Million for Children’s Privacy Violations
The Federal Trade Commission has voted to fine Google $150 million to $200 million to settle accusations that its YouTube […]
NRA fined with BGN 5.1 million for personal data leakage
Bulgarian data protection authority announced that it had completed its investigation into the NRA over a breach of personal data […]
How to interpret Sweden’s first GDPR fine on facial recognition in school
The school used facial-recognition software via camera to capture and register 22 students’ participation in class. The school board claimed […]
Data Scraping – Considering the Privacy Issues
Data scraping is a general term that describes a plethora of Internet-based data retrieval methodologies, used without the permission of […]
IAB Europe issues updated GDPR-compliancy protocol
IAB Europe and the IAB Tech Lab have released the second iteration of the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF), a […]
Anonymisation does not work for big data
Recently, well-publicised research by data scientists at Imperial College in London and Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium as well […]
Facial recognition in school renders Sweden’s first GDPR fine
The Swedish DPA has fined a municipality 200 000 SEK (approximately 20 000 euros) for using facial recognition technology to […]