Catherine Wycherley
AnalysisMiddle East Focus: Dubai International Finance Centre’s 2020 Data Protection Law
While nations across the world battled the COVID-19 pandemic last summer, Dubai International Finance Centre managed to issue a new data protection law. PrivSec Report takes a closer look at the legislation and its significance in the region
NewsICO welcomes the free flow of personal data from the EU and EEA to the UK for six months under trade agreement
The trade deal announced last week between the European Union and United Kingdom has been welcomed by the Information Commissioner.
ReportThe data protection and privacy trends to watch out for in 2021
PrivSec Report looks forward to the new year and what it could mean for the privacy and data protection worlds.
FeatureSecure foundations: an interview with Zoë Rose
PrivSec Global speaker Zoë Rose talks us through her journey into cyber security and her thoughts on common enterprise mistakes.
NewsUK businesses face aggregate costs of up to 1.6 billion if no adequacy decision post-Brexit transition period, report finds
The cost to UK businesses of not receiving an adequacy decision from the European Commission could total between £1 billion and £1.6 billion, according to a new report by think tank New Economics Foundation and UCL European Institute.
FeatureAll at (Priva) Sea? Brexit and Data Protection
PrivSec Report looks at some of the issues facing data protection professionals impacted by Brexit as the end to the transition period draws near.
FeatureFrom terrorism to Trojans
PrivSec Report speaks to Neil Sinclair, National Cyber Lead at the Police Digital Security Centre, about his journey from the danger zone of international terrorism to the no man’s land of cyber security for SMEs.
FeatureFive key questions on privacy for Biden’s administration
The newly elected President Biden faces a host of issues to grapple with, not least of them the global pandemic, which has become heavily politicised, as well as preoccupying US media and citizenry throughout much of the election period.
FeatureUS privacy: a new world?
PrivSec Report looks at the current landscape in the US for privacy and assesses the prospect of a federal privacy law.
NewsLegal action brought against ICO over alleged Adtech GDPR breaches
UK privacy campaigners The Open Rights Group (ORG) yesterday announced their intention to bring legal action against the UK data protection regulator.
NewsSingapore updates 2012 Personal Data Protection Act
Singapore passed amendments to its Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) on Tuesday, in the first comprehensive review of the Act since its 2012 enactment.
NewsUber faces landmark GDPR court challenge over alleged firing of drivers by algorithm
A trade union on Monday filed a complaint in the Amsterdam District Court accusing Uber of “robo-firing” drivers by algorithm
NewsFacebook’s lead European regulator investigates Instagram’s processing of children’s data
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched two statutory inquiries into the processing of children’s data on Facebook-owned social media platform, Instagram.
FeatureCOVID-19 FOCUS: Contact tracing in Ireland
As countries across the world grapple with tracking the virus while protecting data and privacy, Ireland’s contact tracing app has had a better reception than most. PrivSec Report looks at the Irish app’s development and privacy journey.
FeaturePlease mind the (cyber skills) gap
Amid the furore around a withdrawn UK government-backed cyber skills advertisement this week, Privsec Report takes a look at the messaging and what it says about cyber security recruitment.
NewsICO probes Klarna after newsletter emailed to customers in error
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK is probing an incident in which payment service provider Klarna sent an email to customers who had not opted in to receive it.
NewsReport finds privacy and data protection shortcomings in some government measures to address Covid-19 pandemic
Shortcomings in the protection of privacy and data protection in some legislative and technical measures taken by governments to combat Covid-19 have been identified in a report published this week by human rights organisation the Council of Europe.
NewsEnd-to-end encryption could pose threat to children, warns US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and Japan
Certain uses of encryption technology pose challenges to public safety, including to highly vulnerable members of society such as sexually exploited children, according to a statement issued earlier this week by the United States Department of Justice and signed by six other nations.
FeatureBrazil’s new data protection regime
As the LGPD finally came into effect last month, PrivSec Report explores the new law and the impact it could have on the Brazilian data protection ecosystem and culture.
NewsEuropean privacy laws to blame for continued self-harm content, says Instagram
Content that breaks Instagram’s own rules on promoting and glamourising eating disorders and self-injury can still be found on the platform, an investigation has revealed.