Significant developments on adequacy findings between Japan and Europe
On 25 April 2018, Japan’s data protection authority published draft guidelines relating to adequacy findings for international personal data transfers […]
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Draft EU CLOUD Proposal—Enabling Law Enforcement Access to Overseas Data
To strengthen cross-border cooperation in investigations,the European Commission has proposed legislation allowing EU Member State authorities to access, directly from […]
Deeper Dive: Drive Incident Response Preparedness & Response Improvement
One of the most important metrics in our report is the incident response (IR) timeline, which tracks the average time […]
Cross-border data transfer
The European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation will go into force May 25, after six years of preparation. It […]
FCC Defers Cambridge Analytica Investigation to FTC
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has said the FCC does not plan to investigate reports that Dish, Tivo and ComScore may […]
European Commission rolls out its proposal for a so-called eEvidence law
After many months of discussion and a public consultation, the European Commission presented its proposal for a “Regulation on cross-border […]
EU Commission sets new rules for whistleblower protection
Recent scandals such as Dieselgate, Luxleaks, the Panama Papers or the ongoing Cambridge Analytica revelations show that whistleblowers can play […]
Chinese jaywalkers receive their fine immediately through SMS
Facial recognition technology is really starting to become a big deal in China. It wasn’t that long ago when Chinese […]
Data firm leaks 48 million user profiles it scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, others
A little-known data firm was able to build 48 million personal profiles, combining data from sites and social networks like […]
Singapore to Test Facial Recognition on Lampposts, Stoking Privacy Fears
In the not too distant future, surveillance cameras sitting atop over 100,000 lampposts in Singapore could help authorities pick out […]
In these three countries, employee consent may be the only way to transfer their data
Before a deep dive into the issues of employee data processing and transfer, it is worth examining the requirements for […]
Artificial intelligence, data protection and the future of inventions
In 1997, chess champion Garry Kasparov lost his reign to supercomputer Deep Blue. At that time, many felt Deep Blue’s […]