Commission on Elections Executive Director Jose Tolentino Jr. promised this week that the poll body's website is now more secure and voter data breaches such as the one in 2016 will not happen again. Responding to a question from Sen. Antonio Trillanes, Tolentino said that...
In a press briefing last Monday, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque reassured the public of the constitutionality of the Philippines ID System (PhilSys) which was recently signed by President Duterte. Roque said that the PhilSys has safeguards necessary for the protection of its database, and there is...
Piriform, the company behind CCleaner, recently said that it will be rolling back the latest version of the system cleaning tool to v5.44 after receiving significant user backlash triggered by its new data collection policy. Users complained that it was not possible to deactivate v5.45’s...
Smartmatic Philippines president Jane Coo said this week that the European Commission has awarded its Cybernetica Centre of Excellence for Internet Voting a research grant that would help it improve the way elections are conducted in the country. The grant was given under EU’s Horizon 2020...
It was revealed this week that the Hyperledger Fabric V1.2 may solve some key problems of the blockchain that prevent it from being fully compliant with EU’s new data rules. In the latest release of the blockchain framework implementation, Hyperledger will be introducing the concept...
The Unique Identification Authority of India said last Sunday that parties with vested interests are taking advantage of a Google mistake to sow fears against India’s biometric database system. This was in response to the tweets of French cyber security expert “Elliot Alderson” revealing the presence...
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has compelled the federal government this week to reveal data on its cellphone spying programs by filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit this week in a US District Court in Washington. In its complaint, EPIC challenged the use, effectiveness, cost...
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FTC chair Joseph Simons and associate director for the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection Maneesha Mithal discussed before the US Congress this week the agency’s enforcement efforts and reiterated that data security and privacy are still top priorities for the agency. Simons also argued that...
It has been reported that India’s Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) recently stopped publishing raw transactional trade data of every product being imported and exported by the country. The trade database, which provided market intel for traders and businesses, also included information on...