For the moment compliance is voluntary. I’m interested to see how the Australians intend to compel international service providers to comply in future…: […] Fitzgerald said TOLA has “positively” impacted […]

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people […]

I too have experience of changing roles. For one startup I’m the DPO, focused on data privacy issues and spending most of my time on working with customers and suppliers […]

I like this analogy…: […] The walls are tall at 30 feet. Only governments, criminal associations, and ultra-skilled individuals have 31-foot ladders. When walls reach 33 feet, these players will […]

TL;DR understand what insurance you’re actually purchasing…: The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has launched its first-ever advice on cyber insurance, as well as outlining the seven key questions that […]

Perhaps fittingly, a Web-streamed court hearing for the 17-year-old alleged mastermind of the July 15 mass hack against Twitter was cut short this morning after mischief makers injected a pornographic […]

Like a lot of families, we have ‘Find My iPhone’ turned on so when the inevitable happens and someone leaves their device(s) on a bus/taxi/train we can all see where […]

As an example of making a negative sound positive, this is a classic Trumpian move…: In the wake of the Schrems II decision invalidating the the EU-US Privacy Shield, the […]

There’s a lot to digest here, both in terms of the detail and also direction of travel. From a data privacy perspective, you should plan now to keep data on […]

When building critical infrastructure, diversity of suppliers is a significant risk factor. The problems of removing Huawei from the UK network (probably a decade’s worth of work) show what over […]