It was recently reported that Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Craig Latimer and other election experts in Florida are pushing for the enactment of a broad new public records exemption for the latest session. Brevard Supervisor Lori Scott said that there are incidents where “shaming mailers” run...
In a recent interview , chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology Joseph Lorenzo Hall ridiculed the proposal of top Justice Department official Rod Rosenstein on encryption. The deputy attorney general had been advocating for the use of “responsible encryption” as a common...
A recent report by market research company Forrester found that a lot of organizations are still not ready for the EU GDPR which will be coming into force May this year. Forrester says that only a quarter of organizations across the bloc may be ready for...
A report called "The True Cost of Compliance with Data Protection Regulations" by the Ponemon Institute recently established that the costs of compliance is less than non-compliance. It is said that smaller companies with 5000 employees or less will bear the brunt of compliance costs....
In a recent interview, Halifax privacy lawyer David Fraser said that the implications from using readily available DNA testing kits can be life changing, and not all users may be ready for the fallout. Fraser points out that most users readily agree to the terms and...
Last Thursday, Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) announced that breach reporting, which is included in the revisions to the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), may be tabled in the Parliament around next year. It is said that the UBER breach last year that exposed the...
Tory minister Matt Hancock was recently ridiculed for launching an app that had a gaping privacy hole which allows it to access photos in the user’s device even if it is denied permission. Hancock, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, was also...
Speaking at a privacy conference last Wednesday in Toronto, Auditor General of Canada’s privacy coordinator said that the deletion of data is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to avoid a data breach. Also the access to information officer at the AG, Cameron Fraser...
The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) recently reported that the first round of public consultation on the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) has concluded and around 68 respondents expressed support for the proposed mandatory breach notification rule. The changes, which were announced last July, sought to...
A recent report by IBM called the Future of Identity revealed that a user’s choice of authentication is heavily influenced by factors such as age, location and value of services involved. In a survey consisting of 3977 adult subjects from around the world, IBM established that...