opinion

July 6, 2017

Compensation for Breach of the General Data Protection Regulation

This paper looks at Article 82(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) providing data subjects with rights to compensation […]

July 5, 2017

The world has changed a lot since the European Commission gave Canada its “adequacy” standing in 2001, determining the Personal […]

July 5, 2017

In a post last week , I said that “ There’s a perpetuated misconception that all profiling needs consent. It […]

June 29, 2017

Organisations should take steps to improve their oversight of the use of open source code in software deployed within their […]

June 29, 2017

In January 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology published its Privacy Risk Management Framework , helping to further […]

June 29, 2017

In further production from the group’s June plenary session , the EU’s Article 29 Working Party, the collection of data […]

June 29, 2017

Far from the heady statements made at the time that the draft GDPR was first proposed, that we would soon […]

June 29, 2017

UK IT Pros Better Prepared for GDPR than EU/US Counterparts. Spiceworks study shows there’s still plenty of work to be […]

June 29, 2017

Setting common guidelines for data flows is crucial both to protect the goods and services that already depend on big […]

June 28, 2017

After a previous revision caused an uproar, the company chose its words more carefully–and made sure to let customers opt […]

June 27, 2017

Regulators will always be playing catch-up with technology. By the time regulators do act to protect consumers, it’s generally more […]

June 27, 2017

Smart meters can reveal when someone is home – or how long they shower – and standards should be set […]