Consent is not the ‘silver bullet’ for GDPR compliance
So let’s be clear. Consent is one way to comply with the GDPR, but it’s not the only way. Source: […]
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How to Protect Your Children’s Privacy in the Era of Online ‘Sharenting’
Want to post photos and stories about your kids to Facebook? Law professor Stacey Steinberg talks to Consumer Reports about […]
How Australia’s backdoor proposal could threaten security for the rest of the world
Australia’s Prime Minister recently suggested a proposal that would allow access to information protected by encryption. Access Now’s US Policy […]
The Behavioral Economics of Why Executives Underinvest in Cybersecurity
The digital threat landscape changes constantly, and it’s very difficult to know the probability of any given attack succeeding — […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Guardian view on data protection: a vital check on power
The UK government plans to harmonise our data protection laws with the EU’s. This is necessary and sensible, too. Source: […]
The Guardian view on a Swedish scandal: the precedence of privacy
Governments forget at their peril that they must nowadays guard their citizens’ data as carefully as they guard their physical […]
Why a Data Privacy Officer isn’t the solution for GDPR
Applying a customer identity and access management platform to your organisation could better prepare your business for GDPR. Source: Why […]
Royal Free Undertaking exposes weakness in data protection enforcement regime
The ICO’s enforcement (or lack of enforcement depending on your view) in the Royal Free/DeepMind case has divided the data […]