I missed this, progress on the new EU directive on data protection and implications on Safe Habor on the excellent Panopticon blog. To summarize seems they need to trash what has already been created and start again. Germany in the driving seat now, I think, which means there should be some action. Nevertheless excepted completion Continue Reading
Angela pushing for protection of EU data
I really like this. It came out last week just when I was mentally preparing to travel up to Mora for Tjejvasan on Tuesday 😉 Angela wants to try and keep EU data in the EU boundaries, especially personal data. Concerns voiced by experts talk about the amount of work involved to redo all the Continue Reading
Google autocomplete and personal integrity
Wow, Germany courts have done it again! They are so good at protecting the personal privacy of their citizens! Read on, it connects to an individual’s ‘right to be forgotten’. Google have been been over-ruled concerning how the ‘autocomplete’ function in the search dialog works. Basically this is generated by what other users have been Continue Reading
So which law applies?
Now this is a really interesting legal case. Facebook has a marketing and advertising business established as a separate legal entity in Germany. In December 2012, the Schleswig DPA issued orders against Facebook Inc. in the U.S. and Facebook Ltd. in Ireland, in which the DPA demanded that Facebook allow its German users to use Continue Reading
Dilemmas – increased Internet surveillance in wake of Oslo tragedy
This is the dilemma, to increase surveillance in the name of personal safety or to not do this as it violates our right to personal privacy? Remember what happened after the terror attacks on the twin towers in New York? A whole host of privacy invading legislation was passed in the U.S., that now requires Continue Reading
Your right to opt-out of Google's Street View service
I love what is going on in Germany during a few months now, in that almost 250,000 Germans have told Google to blur pictures of their homes on the Street View service. Which is quite right. The EU directive on data privacy gives the data subject the right to consent to any personal information being Continue Reading
New privacy laws in Germany
Interesting developments in Germany. They are passing laws that: 1) restrict data mining (on social networking sites) of potential candidates for jobs; and, 2) privacy in the workplace in favour of the employee Read more here…
Privacy commissioners vs. Google
Oh dear, Google is in trouble…. they have been -surprise, surprise- criticized by privacy commissioners around the world on their privacy, or lack of privacy practices 😉 Read more at The New York Times. btw. I need to thank Jack for his tweet on this 🙂
Naked protests at Berlin airport
I must take my hat of to the German’s and their protest the use of the so-called “nacktscanner” (naked scanners). Members of the Pirate Party stripped down to their skivvies last Sunday and converged on the Berlin-Tegal airport. They posted a video of their protest to YouTube, with soundtrack provided by Muse’s song “Uprising.” The Continue Reading
Missile data, medical records found on discarded hard disks
Researchers bought 300 drives from eBay, other auction sites, second-hand stalls and car boot sales….. and just read what they found…