GDPR: 2 Year Anniversary
The 25th May 2020 marked two years since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 came into force in the UK. The change in law saw the biggest change in data protection law in 20 years and gave the regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the ability to impose much tougher sanctions and levy higher fines on organisations that fail to comply with data protection law.
The Cybercrime Trends and Challenges We Have Faced During COVID-19
It should come as no surprise that since the emergence of COVID-19 last year there has been a month on month increase in the level of malicious activities relating to the pandemic, with cybercriminals using it as a new hook to bait their unsuspecting victims. In actual fact, the overall level of cybercrime in general has not increased dramatically, but many threat actors have jumped at the opportunity to switch from existing lures to those relating to COVID-19.
What is the true cost of handling DSARs?
The Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) has become synonymous with protecting individuals' data privacy rights from misuse by public administrators and private enterprise.
Rethinking 'Disproportionate Effort' exemption under GDPR for web-scraping
Can Data Controllers (web-scrapers) be exempt from the requirement to provide privacy notice if doing this is high-cost and it drains company resources? If they can, how?
Stablecoins ecosystem: a promise that can be kept
The European Parliament, on 13 September 2019, issued a note wherein it observed that the introduction of a privately governed currency (here, Libra) could fundamentally challenge the current EU financial framework, conflict with EU law and tax requirements, and violate consumer rights.
Data Privacy vs Utility Fallacy
Among the many serious challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has presented businesses and individuals alike with, a long talked about and complex discussion has also arisen once again: what is worth giving up personal privacy for?
GDPR 2 Years In: Achieving GDPR Compliance 2 Years On
"Data is the new oil", is a phrase we hear too often in the modern world. Organisations across the world are transacting and storing explosive amounts of data. This data includes sensitive private data belonging to their customers.
Remote Working: The Information Governance Challenge of the Decade
Whilst having to adapt to a new normal, people around the world are experiencing firsthand the difficulties of working and even schooling from home. Not only are we trying to balance work and life over the long haul, but we are also frantically juggling work and life in real-time.
Privacy Landscape in the Middle East
Privacy landscape in the Middle East has been flourishing in the last ten years with privacy laws and regulations emerging across the region.
Centralised versus decentralised contact tracing solutions
A row has broken out between two different groups of academics on whether a centralised or decentralised system of contact tracing solution is best for preserving privacy.
Data localisation: India's step back from globalisation
Data localisation is a key aspect in the Indian government's cloud computing policy, the RBI's mandate for financial data and the successive data protection bills that have been proposed.
Coronavirus quarantine and cybercrime
The increase and global spread of cybercrime is partly linked to the amount of people being online, the increase of devices being used by each one of us and to the amount of time we spend online.
Addressing Privacy and Data Security Implications of the Coronavirus
COVID-19 arrives just as the first omnibus privacy statute in the United States, the CCPA became effective. Since its January 1 effective date, we continue to wait for finalization of the CCPA regulations and enforcement that was slated for July 1.
GDPR: Processing of employees health data within companies
This paper deals with how to solve data protection challenges and privacy approaches, since many companies are currently facing the question of how to deal with the personal health data of their employees.
The global evolution of data protection law
The introduction of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) at the beginning of the year continues a global trend of law-makers introducing new and more stringent rules for companies using individuals' data.
Facial recognition: compliance in the age of GDPR
Facial recognition is a growing phenomenon but one that presents a potential minefield for companies who are collecting and using personal information.
Battling the rise of the deepfakes
Deepfake videos are becoming commonplace. So much so that you may have come across one without realising. Today, over 15,000 deepfakes are reportedly lurking online.
Data protection tools and software
The great benefits of ever improving privacy software
Why anonymisation does not work for big data
Recently, well-publicised research by data scientists at Imperial College in London and Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium as well as a ruling by Judge Michal Agmon-Gonen of the Tel Aviv District Court have highlighted the shortcomings of outdated data protection techniques like "Anonymisation" in today's big data world.
Why employees are a threat to cyber security
The most common cyber attacks reported by UK companies in 2018 were all incidents that take advantage of employees and pose significant risks to businesses.