Max Schrems’ privacy group, NOYB, is targeting organisations that make it difficult for people to opt out of tracking cookies. The group launched 422 formal complaints last month, claiming that the organisations in question were violating the GDPR (General Data Protection...
The EDPS (European Data Protection Supervisor) and the EDPB (European Data Protection Board) recently released a statement calling for a ban on the automated processing of biometric data. This includes facial recognition software, fingerprints, retinal scans and voice recognition software –...
In the summer of 2018, the incident that privacy obsessives had been waiting for happened: a major data breach, by a household name, in the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) era. Ticketmaster was the victim, having learned that a cyber...
Privacy by design is a framework designed to ensure that any new process or tool is designed and built with data privacy in mind. The concept isn’t new, but it has attracted greater attention in recent years as data protection and...
