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September 5, 2016

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 […]

September 5, 2016

Silent revolution of passwords?

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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 […]

September 4, 2016

How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone

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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 updates International Comparative Legal Guide to Data Protection

June 27, 2016

Hunton & Williams publishes chapters of Legal guide to data protection

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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 […]

June 21, 2016

Beard is human right

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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 […]

June 3, 2016

Ghosts in the Machine: AI and FinTech

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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 […]

June 2, 2016

CJEU launches an app – CVRIA

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Recently Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) launched its very own app – CVRIA. App is free and available for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. App supports 23 EU languages and has four basic functions or sections:

A person using a selfie as their password to unlock a cell phone.

June 1, 2016

Selfie as password

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Biometrics are coming into our lives very fast. It rises both concerns and opportunities. Recently MasterCard announced a new authentication solution – selfie. Soon instead of entering a PIN or password you will be able to authorize a payment by taking a selfie.

May 31, 2016

EDPS issues opinion on Privacy Shield

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Yesterday, May 30, 2016 European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Giovanni Buttarelli, as as independent advisor to the EU institutions, published his Opinion on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. Privacy Shield is not robust enough, he says, and significant improvements are needed to withstand future legal scrutiny before the Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU).

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