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2017-12-27 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2017 (week 31)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest for this week.

  • Corporate profits to take more hits from Ukraine cyber attack
  • New Anthem data breach by contractor affects more than 18,000 enrollees
  • Steve Bannon wants Facebook, Google ‘regulated like utilities’
  • Cnil issues first fine for data protection violations
  • ‘Anonymous’ browsing data can be easily exposed, researchers reveal | Technology
  • EU privacy watchdog: Privacy shield should be temporary
  • Amber Rudd claims “real people” don’t care about end-to-end encryption
  • Can cellphones handle vehicle-to-vehicle comms better than radio networks?
  • Once-Rejected FAA Software Upgrade May Prevent Planes From Landing on Taxiways

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: Aviation, Cryptography, Data Breach, E-Privacy Regulation, GDPR, InfoSec, Privacy, Privacy Shield

2017-12-20 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2017 (week 24)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest for this week.

  • Ransomware-as-a-service schemes are now targeting Macs too
  • Top university under ‘ransomware’ cyber-attack
  • Found: “Crash Override” malware that triggered Ukrainian power outage
  • Russia struck at election systems and data of 39 US states
  • ‘How foul-mouthed hackers messed up my life’
  • Identity theft can be thwarted by artificial intelligence analysis of a user’s mouse movements
  • Trump Puts U.S.-EU Privacy Shield At Risk
  • NGO to Israeli High Court: Block state from public biometric campaign
  • German minister calls for expanded use of face recognition software

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: Biometrics, Cryptography, GDPR, InfoSec, IOT, Privacy, Privacy Shield

2017-03-09 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2017 (week 9)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest last week.

  • ‘Cloudbleed’ post-mortem points to huge data leak, but no evidence of exploitation
  • Amazon typo knocked websites offline
  • Master spy behind Snoopers’ Charter wants to gag leakers, journalists
  • Europe’s data protection rules set a high bar for consent – and UK ICO welcomes your thoughts
  • Global cybercrime prosecution a patchwork of alliances
  • MWC 2017: ‘22,000 hackable webcams in Barcelona’
  • Ransomware for Dummies: Anyone Can Do It
  • Visa, Mastercard beef up mobile payment tech at Mobile World Congress
  • It’s Schrems, round two

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: GDPR, InfoSec, Privacy, Privacy Shield

2017-01-04 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy and the 12 recaps of 2016 (day 10)

Except for one article, all others deal with data protection and privacy laws related to the European Union. Not too surprising as the general data protection regulation and the EU/US privacyshield have been dominating the privacy news over the last year.
Apart from those major topics I will be looking at how Florida is handling data from citizens with a drivers license as well as what the Donald may have in store for cross-atlantic data transfers.
besides this, there are already some pointers to the semi-final instalment of this series which will focus on online surveillance.

In chronological order:

  • Is Ireland ready to police the data world?
  • Privacy Shield challenged by Irish privacy advocates
  • The GDPR will set the benchmark for global privacy contracting – and here’s why
  • How the ICO will be supporting the implementation of the GDPR
  • Florida May Be Breaking Law In Selling Personal Info To Companies
  • CNIL just published the results of their GDPR public consultation: what’s in store for DPOs and data portability?
  • Germany: Data Protection Officer must not have a conflict of interests
  • EU to Closely Monitor Trump on Data Transfer Compliance
  • Critics: Germany’s GDPR implementation riddled with holes, illegalities

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: GDPR, Privacy, Privacy Shield

2017-01-03 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy and the 12 recaps of 2016 (day 9)

Privacy professionals

are all lawyers

, at least that is a one-liner I have heard often enough from people within the International Association of Privacy Professionals. And yes I’m somewhat irritated about that statement.
Data protection has, if lawyers like it or not, a very large technical aspect that if not taken care of will mean that their legal work means absolutely nothing for the privacy protection of our society.
In this instalment I will be looking at data protection from a technology point of view including: the privacy aware usage of drones, biometric voice prints and how a piece of software can render them useless, health data in the hands of one of the biggest privacy violators on the web, fitness bands and their privacy impact, issues with Apple iMessage and iCloud syncing of call data.
But the legal site has it’s place too in this 12 recaps series.
Check out day 10: Legal privacy, here.

In chronological order:

  • Realizing the potential of drones, yet preserving our privacy
  • iMessage Preview Problems
  • Ad Industry to FCC on Privacy Rules: You Got It Wrong
  • Fitbit, Jawbone, Garmin and Mio fitness bands criticized for privacy failings
  • Adobe Voco ‘Photoshop-for-voice’ causes concern
  • FYI Apple fans – iCloud slurps your call histories
  • TfL to track Tube users in stations by their MAC addresses
  • IETF plants privacy test inside DNS
  • Google secures five-year access to health data of 1.6m people

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: GDPR, InfoSec, Privacy, Privacy Shield

2016-04-29 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

EU/US Privacyshield: one common goal but 180 degree difference in vision

We are registering the start of this century when social media more or less didn’t exist yet, nobody heard of big data and Edward Snowden was still a young man.
At that time it wasn’t hard to see how the European Union and the USA made a gentlemen’s agreement on the processing of personal information in the USA even though the country offered a privacy protection level nowhere close to becoming adequate according to European privacy laws (data protection directive 95/46/EC) on the promise they would behave themselves and companies could be trusted with a self-certification system on which the American FTC (Federal Trade Commission) would keep a close eye. They called it “safe harbour” which lasted for around 15 years.

The adequacy of American data protection hasn’t changed in all these years and with the expected growing protection against unlawful data processing only increasing in the GDPR it will not change in the favour of the American views on privacy anytime soon either.
So why is the privacy shield more a cloak than a protective measure?
Read my analyses here

Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: GDPR, Privacy, Privacy Shield

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