Privacy

As organizations continue to collect large quantities of data, including personal information about individuals, many are asking whether privacy is becoming a competition issue. International regulators are increasingly looking at the intersection between privacy and competition law, especially given that digital competition operates differently from bricks-and-mortar retail stores. This brownbag…

IT’S NO SECRET that companies like Facebook and Google scoop up personal information to serve users ads. But if anything became clear this year, it’s that consumers have a lot more to learn about what happens to their data online—how it’s gathered, who gets to look at it, and what it’s worth. American corporations…

Freight trains take time to build steam. That’s your metaphor for what’s to come in 2019 for the General Data Protection Regulation. “I think people were expecting a massive fine on Day One,” said Forrester principal analyst Fatemeh Khatibloo, “[but] these investigations take time.”Data protection authorities (DPAs) across Europe have…

The following is an open letter from The Privacy Commissioner of Canada to Minister Bains, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, regarding the state of privacy and data protection here in Canada. With GDPR setting new standards and the US stirring with some radical laws of their own,…

U.S. tech giant Google said Wednesday it would appeal the €50 million fine for privacy violations issued by the French data protection authority earlier this week. “We’ve worked hard to create a GDPR consent process for personalized ads that is as transparent and straightforward as possible, based on regulatory guidance…

For Data Privacy Day, let’s commit to a culture of privacy by design, nurtured by a knowledgeable team that can execute an effective operational compliance program. This past May, you heard an awful lot about the GDPR, which is short for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. For one brief,…

As stated by CRTC: “Canada’s new anti-spam law was passed in December 2010 and, following a Governor in Council order, it entered into force on July 1, 2014. The law will help to protect Canadians while ensuring that businesses can continue to compete in the global marketplace. On January 15, 2015, sections…

Privacy regulators in Poland, Ireland, and the UK urged to act against online ad auctions following new evidence about massive leakage of highly intimate data about web users. Panoptykon Foundation filed a new complaint with the Polish Data Protection Authority today, joining the ad auction complaints already being examined in…

SCL Elections, formerly known as Cambridge Analytica, has been fined £15,000 by a British court for failing to comply with an enforcement notice from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office — a criminal offense. The firm pleaded guilty at Hendon Magistrate’s Court, Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced on Wednesday. SCL…

Does your company have consumer data it isn’t legally authorized to possess? Don’t be too quick to answer. Many ethical, lawfully managed businesses do have such data — and it comes from a surprising source: their customers, who inadvertently share the personal data of their family, friends, and colleagues. The…