Privacy

ON OCTOBER 27, 2012, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote an email to his then-director of product development. For years, Facebook had allowed third-party apps to access data on their users’ unwitting friends, and Zuckerberg was considering whether giving away all that information was risky. In his email, he suggested it was…

Invasive tracking technology has been covertly installed on more than a dozen NHS landing pages about sensitive medical conditions, new research has revealed. An investigation by Cookiebot found that 60 per cent of surveyed NHS advice articles about HIV, pregnancy, mental illness, alcoholism and cancer contained tracking cookies from Google…

We’re not only being swindled out of the value of our data, we’re also quite possibly being surreptitiously swindled out of our freedom. We’re at a critical juncture in human history right now. Each month we accelerate faster and deeper into the age of technology. And, at the same time,…

In this episode, Paul speaks about the importance of Privacy by Design – a term first coined by Dr Ann Cavoukian – and how it is an essential consideration in modern privacy protection. Learn more here: https://www.ryerson.ca/pbdce/about/ann-cavoukian/ Paul Marek Founder and CEO, MiData.io Paul Marek is Founder and CEO of MiData.io (an IBM innovation…

Source: EDPB Opinion 5/2019 on the interplay between the ePrivacy Directive and the GDPR, in particular regarding the competence, tasks and powers of data protection authorities, March 2019 Main takeaways Both laws could apply to the same situation where personal data is involved – so organisations should usually comply with the tougher one (which…

“With great power, comes great responsibility.” Comic book fans will quickly recognise this quote as the words inspiring Peter Parker to become Spider-man. Others will note that Voltaire said it first. Nevertheless, as important as this quote is to history or to Spidey’s future, I think it has even greater relevance…

Facebook’s links to questions of privacy and data protection have come to the fore since the Cambridge Analytica scandal was revealed in 2018. In March of this year, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a statement about future plans for the platform’s approach to privacy. We wrote about how the statement was…

2018 has been the year of privacy.  News of Facebook’s exposure of tens of millions of user accounts to data firm Cambridge Analytica broke in March — a scandal that was only compounded by recent news that the tech giant shared even more private data through hidden agreements with other companies. Then in May,…

There is so much misunderstanding about what the GDPR is and what the GDPR does, that most of what is out there at this point is more mythology than anything else. For example, an article in Axios claimed over the weekend that ‘the notice and consent approach forms the backbone of the…

The first full length episode of the new LawBytes podcast features a conversation with UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, who leads the high profile investigation into Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Denham, who previously served as Assistant Commissioner with the federal privacy office and as the British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner, reflected on…