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Privacy International: Human rights organisations file formal complaints...
Privacy International, Press release: Privacy International, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Bahrain Watch and Reporters without Borders...
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GigaOm: Fear of lock-in dampens cloud adoption
Data portability — the ability to move your information between clouds (or in and out of clouds) with relative ease — is a key concern of companies considering a cloud move. It’s become a truism to say...
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Workplace Privacy and Monitoring: The Quest for Balanced Interests
Paper by Adriana R. Levinson, in Clev. St. L. Rev. 377 (2011). Abstract We can see in 2001 that 77 percent of employers were engaged in monitoring. This may have increased slightly or decreased...
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Costa Rica gets information privacy law
Insidecostarica.com informs that Costa Rica now has its own laws on the storing, sharing, and access of personal information, after Law #8968 was published in the official Gazette last Tuesday. Under...
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Reding on pseudonymous data: We should encourage companies to use pseudonyms...
Commissioner Viviane Reding intervened in the Justice Council on March 8, 2013, on matters related to the adoption of the Data Protection Regulations. She referred among other things to the issue of...
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Forrester: Most “private clouds” aren’t really clouds at all
Computerworlduk.com wrote about private clouds and how they are not exactly … clouds. If an enterprise data centre has a highly virtualised environment, a web portal for business users to request and...
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Going back to basics
Being in the process of writing my thesis, I have realized how important it is to stop from searching through the whirling flux of current information and new developments in the area of privacy and...
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EU committee approves sharing of public data
According to thetelegraph.co.uk, the EU council’s so-called ‘Coreper’ committee backed Commission plans to open up public sector information such as geographical data and statistics to be re-used for...
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“Purpose limitation”, explained by the Article 29 WP
On April 2, Article 29 WP published its Opinion on “purpose limitation”, one of the safeguards which make data protection efficient in Europe. Purpose limitation protects data subjects by setting...
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So what is it that an iPhone can’t do? Because now it can read fingerprints,...
Wired published today one of those stories that make me flinch for a couple of seconds and wonder where is technology going to stop, which is its final purpose and does it really have such a purpose?...
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Free access to recent research papers on cyberspace law
Thanks to the Digital Commons Network, all of you pdpechoers have free access to these new papers: E-mail in the Workplace and the Right of Privacy Kevin J. Baum Keeping the Internet Neutral?: Tim Wu...
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Harvard Business Review: The Value of Big Data Isn’t the Data
Kristian J. Hammond wrote an interesting piece on the real value of big data in the Harvard Business Review blog: “It is clear that a new age is upon us. Evidence-based decision-making (aka Big Data)...
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The Chrome mobile app asks for permission to audio/video record ‘at any time,...
Will the real Big Brother please stand up? The update for the Google Chrome mobile app for Android needs to obtain the permission of the user to a new clause in the Terms and Conditions for its...
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MEPs to discuss US surveillance of EU citizens’ data
Political group leaders will discuss the recent revelations of a secret US programme to gather user data from internet companies such as Google and Facebook and the implications for EU citizens’...
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Why be upset?! National security exemptions for personal data processing are...
The Rapporteur for the EU Data Protection Regulation in the European Parliament, MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht, relesead today a concise and clear opinion on the link between US Surveillance leaks and the...
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FastCompany.com: “DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU’LL BE 285 DAYS FROM NOW AT 2 P.M.?...
The world of big data does not stop to amaze us. Apparently, data scientists are now able to even predict the future. This is a story published on FastCompany.com about Sadilek and Krumm’s paper titled...
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The future data protection law in Brazil could provide for all data to be...
According to zdent.com, <<as the Brazilian government attempts to create the country’s first set of regulations around data and Internet governance, Facebook and Google have expressed concerns...
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14 years ago. The “Get over it!” famous remark
I debated with… myself during the past days how should I begin the “General Conclusions” section of my thesis and I finally decided that I should start it with McNealy’s famous words: “You have zero...
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OECD Guidelines, “refreshed” after 33 years
OECD published this week the revised version of the 1980 privacy Guidelines. According to the OECD website, “two themes run through the updated Guidelines. First is a focus on the practical...
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LIBE Committee votes all the amendments of the General Data Protection...
According to a press release of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament, “a major overhaul of current EU data protection rules, to put people in control of...
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