How Private Investigators Use the Internet to Track You?
Internet contains unimaginable amounts of data. So how hard it would be to track down you? And how to find what data is there about you on the internet? Full article
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EU’s efforts to regulate FinTech may open new opportunities
European Union’s lawmakers are known to trying regulate everything new or what’s not working as they wish. In many cases it backfires and leads to over-regulation and stagnation of innovation. However, it’s efforts to regulate financial markets may have been opened new opportunities for global FinTech industry looking for universal standards. FinTech companies may use clearly defined regulatory framework to create save environment and gain consumer […]
Darknet: Where Your Stolen Identity Goes to Live
This article tries to shed some light on how identity theft and the second life of stolen identities. Stolen identity information is freely available on Darknet. Unfortunately, there is little individuals can do to protect themselves from identity thieves lurking on the Darknet to do them harm. For organizations, the best strategy is to educate […]
Microsoft expands right-to-be-forgotten filtering for Bing in Europe
Recently Microsoft has revealed that it is expanding the coverage of “right to be forgotten” mechanism in Europe. Microsoft will now use location signals such as IP addresses to delist URLs on all versions of its search engine Bing. If someone in France successfully requests delisting of a URL on Bing, in addition to delisting […]
Silent revolution of passwords?
The problem now is wide reuse of the same password for different services, as it is much easier for people than to remember tens of different passwords. However, reuse of passwords may lead to bad consequences – hack of one account may allow attacker to accesses also other accounts. Reuse of passwords was reason for recent […]
How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone
There are tech companies out there selling spy tools to governments. Those tools let governments to spy on their citizens. Actually, everyone can by spy tools if they can afford them. And there is no check on who’s buying those tools and how they are used. Full article
Hunton & Williams publishes chapters of Legal guide to data protection
Hunton & Williams has published chapters of the third edition of the book The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Data Protection 2016. The guide is comprehensive worldwide legal analysis of the laws and regulations relating to data protection. Published chapters include review of new EU General data protection regulation, as well as laws of Belgium, China, France, Germany, United […]
Beard is human right
Last week, on 14 June 2016, the European Court of Human Rights (“Court”) in the case of Biržietis v. Lithuania decided that overall ban on beards in prisons violates human rights of inmates. The applicant is Lithuanian national, Mr Rimantas Biržietis who lodged a case in Court against Republic of Lithuania arguing that a prohibition on […]
Ghosts in the Machine: AI and FinTech
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is hot topic – AI software AlphaGo in March defeated the world champion in Goand game such making a mark in AI history. There is no doubt that AI will change industries and our jobs – including finances. So Baker and McKenzie in their recent survey report “Ghosts in the Machine: Artificial intelligence, risks and […]