European Commission has published a final report “Data Protection Certification Mechanisms: Study on Articles 42 and 43 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679”. The overall aim of the study is to support the establishment of data protection certification mechanisms and of data protection seals and marks pursuant to Articles 42 and 43 GDPR. More specific the […]
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Social networks could use friends to predict what a person would post, researchers find. A new study from researchers at the University of Vermont and the University of Adelaide found that they could predict a person’s posts on social media with 95 percent accuracy — even if they never had an account to begin with. […]
Individual choice has long been considered a bedrock principle of online privacy. If you don’t want to be on Facebook, you can leave or not sign up in the first place. Then your behavior will be your own private business, right? The new study presents powerful evidence that the answer to that question is no. […]
A joint study between Queen Mary University of London and the University of Cambridge concluded that, whilst challenging, it is theoretically possible for organizations to design blockchain applications that fully comply with recently implemented EU ‘General Data Protection Regulation’. Due to innate aspects of blockchain technology, like the immutability and inability to retrospectively remove customer […]
A survey of 145 US corporate directors of public company boards conducted by BDO USA during August 2018 has revealed that eight out of ten companies have taken steps to ensure they are complying with necessary data protection legislation. This included implemented such measures as completing a gap assessment and updating the company privacy policy. The survey […]
As businesses struggle to combat increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks, the severity of which is exacerbated by both the vanishing IT perimeters in today’s mobile and IoT era, coupled with an acute shortage of skilled security professionals, IT security teams need both a new approach and powerful new tools to protect data and other high-value assets. […]
No less than 98% of leading apps do not comply with GDPR, finds a study from Crownpeak. The study also found that 79% of the top 50 Android apps and top 50 Apple apps offer no consent solution at all. Source: Nearly all apps do not comply with GDPR, finds study
Corporate Wi-Fi networks and employee mistakes make all corporate networks vulnerable to attacks from hackers, according to Positive Technologies. The report studied 2017 audits of 22 corporate systems belonging to companies across different industries, including IT, finance, retail, and transportation. Positive Technologies researchers were able to gain full control of infrastructure on every corporate networks they […]
When you tell people you’ve been tracking them across the internet, they freak out and avoid buying your product, research at the Harvard Business School found. Source: You Can’t Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows
Businesses could do a better job at responding to Canadians’ requests to look at the personal data they hold, according a new study from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. “Given that companies collect, process, and disclose huge amounts of personal information pertaining to their users and subscribers, it is imperative that these same companies […]