Year: 2018

Okay so it was the final decision is that a breach cannot be hidden. If an organisation reports a breach to the Swedish SA it is public data, although it seems more specific to IT or security angle. I haven’t read the complete ruling yet… Kammarrätten har beslutat att Datainspektionen (DI) måste lämna ut en Continue Reading

I came across this pub_FRA published by FRA (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights). It’s target audience is non-legal, but IMHO there is too much detail here to be of interest to a non-legal individual, which is the alleged target audience. Nevertheless, I think it is a great read, although I’ve not read it all Continue Reading

There is an interesting court case going on in Sweden whereby the Swedish Press had made a case (5200_18 DI and journalist case_publicity vs privacy (1)) against the Datainspektion (Swedish SA) to publish all breaches submitted by Swedish companies.  This is still in progress. Sweden, as you will know from my blog have a very Continue Reading

OMG Forbes has got it see article, you know that information and security are NOT the same. Maybe the author of the article actually read my latest book. Filip (co-author) says that the use of ‘data protection’ over ‘Privacy’ compliance hadn’t helped at all in the EU. But I guess we do want to be Continue Reading

Well this article is not directly privacy, but it does give some insight into how the EU Comission deals with unfair competition. However there is one word in data privacy laws which has a commonality with anti competition, and that is CHOICE.

I saw this article in my LinkedIn feed (Sebnem Erener) voiced her opinion on this. IP address IS personal data. Identification does not only mean the name, address, location of a person but also potential identifiability, linkability and inference. Any information that is useful in tandem with other data points to identify individuals is personal data. Continue Reading

It has been interesting watching the action now being made to claim the rights of the data subject as stipulated in the GDPR. On average there seems to be for the larger businesses around 10 SARs requests, although, to say on average is not correct in that we are only one month into the aftermath Continue Reading

It seems that the clash on freedom of information and the GDPR in Sweden has finally hit mainstream knowledge. Sweden’s open society is clashing with EU privacy law, and regulators are frustrated While the General Data Protection Regulation will this week come into effect across the European Union, some companies in Sweden have nothing to Continue Reading

I took a beautiful long lunch with a client today, DPO lady in insurance sector, on an island outside of Stockholm. It was really a cool conversation when we discussed the latest. It seems that the Swedish SA (Datainspektion) graced with a new set of teeth is set on using them! “Datainspektionen startar nu sin Continue Reading

I received this tip from one of our clients last week. It is a GDPR sleep aid in the App Calm, for those of you that use it. I use it normally for Mindfulness. Now, last night I tested it, and it works! They have a great commentator which reads out the GDPR text, well Continue Reading