Does Canadian Privacy Law Matter if it Can’t be Enforced?
While the U.S. relies on binding enforcement of privacy policies alongside limited sector-specific rules for children and video rentals, Canada’s […]
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How one country blocks the world on data privacy
The GDPR is the world’s toughest standard for data privacy. But nearly a year later, its chief enforcer — the […]
EU GDPR in five years: Ten bold predictions
Though obviously no-one can predict the future, it is great fun thinking of what will have happened to privacy regulation […]
Even ticking a box does not necessarily mean consent is freely given
Digiday spoke to Giovanni Buttarelli, European data protection supervisor, to hear whether media and advertising businesses have done enough to […]
‘Privacy Is Becoming a Luxury’: What Data Leaks Are Like for the Poor
The last few years have featured some of the largest and most potentially damaging data leaks in history, like the […]
Can Facebook Ever Be Fixed?
From many scandals in 2018 to an actual spyware app the company paid users to download to downright disastrous security […]
How to achieve digital governance?
Digital governance is corporate oversight of technologies that use personal or sensitive information, make autonomous decisions or exercise human-like responsibilities. […]
How to address new privacy issues raised by artificial intelligence and machine learning
Artificial intelligence and machine learning present unique challenges for protecting the privacy of personal data. For this reason, policymakers need […]
Data Is the New Opex
As the industry transforms itself, instead of being a line item on the capital expense (capex) side of the house, […]
De-Identification Should Be Relevant to a Privacy Law, But Not an Automatic Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
The most important definition in any privacy law is the scope of information that is covered by that law. A […]
Surrendering privacy for survival
Americans at the lower end of the economic ladder suffer from an ever-growing privacy divide, impacting more than just their […]
Forget about defining a DPO; define the data protection committee instead
Data protection professionals and organization management officers share a common question: Who should the data protection officer be? Some argue […]