Get ready for some serious DoubleSpeak
Two mutually exclusive principles continue their collision course: the European demand for privacy and the US demand for access to personal data. On Monday this week the European Justice Commissioner...
View ArticleTwitter App on iOS nags users for Photos Access
Earlier this week I was in Brussels talking about Privacy at the European Parliament – which is nothing unusual, especially as today is Data Privacy Day and this week is often referred to as Privacy...
View ArticleiPhone and the FBI backdoor
Much is being written about the FBI’s court order instructing Apple to provide a backdoor into a terrorist’s iPhone. And much praise is being heaped upon Apple for its disinclination to do so. This...
View ArticleIf you don’t do anything wrong, you have nothing to fear
If you don’t do anything wrong, you have nothing to fear. I have often expressed surprise and dismay at the apathy of the British voter. It’s almost as if we have a built-in desire to believe our...
View Article#panamapapers and Mossack Fonseca’s Reckless, Feckless IT Security: Was That...
…the tight-lipped Mossack Fonseca (believed to be an industry leader) The Economist, 2012 Readers will doubtless have noticed that someone has recently loosened Mossack Fonseca’s lips, quite a lot, by...
View ArticleThe new Data Protection Regulation has been adopted
I have aggregated all you need to know about the new EU Regulation using the curation tool Pearltrees. The resource will be kept updated. EU Regulation 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulation,...
View ArticleNew Microsoft Windows 10 update non-options
We interrupt the security and quantum computing series to bring you news of Microsoft’s latest decision about how your computers will work. (Those wise or lucky enough to use Linux or Macs can sit in...
View ArticleStill in Denial of the Tough New Privacy Law GDPR?
This morning GDPR on the news, shared by Rachel Oconnell : Firms Are in Denial About Tough New EU Privacy Law: The world’s toughest privacy law will go into force in Europe 18 months from now, and so...
View ArticleLiving the Nightmare
This is the stuff of nightmares. It is a nightmare set in a shadowy world of total government surveillance, where government can spy on anyone pretty much unhindered (IP Bill), and where citizens’...
View ArticleGDPR Material and Territorial Scopes
The new EU General Data Regulation will enter into force 25 May of this year. The GDPR contains rules concerning the protection of natural persons when their personal data are processed and rules on...
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