The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates recently approved International Association of Privacy Professionals’ privacy law specialist accreditation plan and said that lawyers can now claim the privacy specialization. According to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, a lawyer can only represent himself as a...
Privacy experts have recently voiced their concerns on the new cash transfer and payments system, PayID, saying that users need to be aware of the privacy risks that they may incur when providing their mobile number and other information during signup. Lockstep Privacy Consultant Stephen Wilson...
According to EY’s latest Global Forensic Data Analytics Survey, Singaporean and other global organizations are still largely unprepared for EU new data privacy rules which is set to take effect in May this year. The survey asked 745 executives from 19 countries, with 40 from Singapore....
It was reported that Chrome’s much anticipated fix for forced-redirect ads has been delayed until Chrome 66 which will be released in April. The feature, which was supposed to be shipped with Chrome 64, was supposed to prevent surprising and invasive browser redirects. Jerome Dangu,...
Source report that WhatsApp may be working on a new data privacy option for users to be able to comply with the upcoming EU data privacy rules. WABetaInfo, a popular WhatsApp beta-testing website says that the option will likely be extended to Facebook and Instagram...
Mozilla executive chairperson Mitchell Baker recently wrote an open letter tackling the issue of privacy in relation to India’s Aadhaar and its existing data privacy laws. Baker warned that there had already been numerous leaks, security incidents, and even occasions where private Aadhaar data had been...
A recent report called “Approaching Access” which was released by the University of Toronto showed how inconsistent telcos, dating apps and fitness trackers are in providing user data reports to their customers. Author Andrew Hilts from the Citizen Lab said that even though such businesses...
Last week, researchers at Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan said that they will be releasing an app which is capable of processing privacy policy legalese for the benefit of normal users. The website and...
The Canadian federal government was reported to have embarked with the government of Netherlands on a pilot program that will allow travelers to cross borders faster with the help of a digital profile stored in their mobile phones. The Known Traveller Digital Identity was already announced...
It was recently reported that police officers in the UK are now using a mobile fingerprinting system for identity checking on the street. The scanner is said to be able to search a database with 12 million records and confirm an individual’s name, date of...