Latest Posts

September 22, 2016

UK government breached personal data security 9,000 times in a year, watchdog reveals

UK’s National Audit Office (NAO) has found that government has breached personal data security nearly 9,000 times in a year. Most of breaches – about 6,000 – are on HMRC. NAO found that 17 largest departments recorded 8,995 data breaches in years 2014-2015, but reported to the Information Commissioner (ICO) only 14 incidents. Although not […]

September 22, 2016

The geographical scope of application of the right to be forgotten

No CommentsData protection

Michel Reymond has published a paper “Hammering Square Pegs into Round Holes: The Geographical Scope of Application of the EU Right to Be Delisted” where he explores the extraterritorial effects of the decision of Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) in so called Google Spain case. In that case CJEU recognized “right to be forgotten” or, according Michel […]

September 21, 2016

Facebook’s privacy case referred to European Court of Justice

No CommentsData protection

There is a new developments in a privacy case brought by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems against Facebook. Facebook has questioned the right of Schrems to bring a Europe-wide class action. Now, Austria’s Supreme Court referred the question to the European Court of Justice (CJEU). Read full story

September 21, 2016

Dutch police seize VPN provider’s servers without any explanation

No CommentsData protection

Dutch police have seized two servers belonging to Switzerland-based VPN provider Perfect Privacy. The VPN provider claims that Dutch police haven’t informed or contacted them about the reason servers were seized and about seizure they were informed by their hosting provider. Despite the seizure of servers, Perfect Privacy promises that no user data was compromised. Full story

September 20, 2016

Teen sues parents for publishing her childhood photos on Facebook

No CommentsData protection

A teenage girl in Austria is suing her parents requiring them to remove her childhood photos from Facebook.

September 20, 2016

The Shadow Brokers publish NSA spy tools

No CommentsData protection

A hackers group that calls itself the Shadow Brokers recently published on web and made accessible to everyone sophisticated hacking and surveillance tools. They claim that those tools come come from breach of NSA. Released hacking tools exploit vulnerabilities in software that the vendor doesn’t know about (so called “zero day vulnerabilities”) and thus haven’t […]

September 16, 2016

Spotify forces users change their passwords – because other companies keep getting hacked

No CommentsData protection

Spotify is making some users reset their passwords and the reason is – other websites keep getting hacked. There have been numerous huge data breaches affecting tens of millions of users. Situation is even worse because of the fact that many people re-use their passwords across many services. So breach of one service where password was re-used compromises other sites […]

The DoJ is predicting terrorists' use of the Internet of Things.

September 15, 2016

DoJ is trying to predict how terrorists will use the Internet of Things

No CommentsData protection

It is estimated that by year 2020 there will be anywhere up to 50 billion internet-connected devices and 20% of them will be cars and or trucks. Such rapid explosion of use of connected devices explodes comes with security risks. Therefore US Department of Justice, together with other agencies, is evaluating and trying to predict those risks […]

A small box with buttons used for surveillance purposes.

September 14, 2016

Stingray manuals detail how police can spy on phones

No CommentsOther

Manual of Harris Corp.’s surveillance device shows how police can spy on phones. Stingray devices can track phone’s connection to the simulated tower, information about its location, and certain “over the air” electronic messages sent to and from them. And that’s at minimum. Full story

«‹ 2 3 4 5 ›»