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Much of the privacy settings are either intended Terms of Use - Privacy Policy confirming that you have read our Privacy Policy. inequality in society and greater issues around cybersecurity and * Privacy Policy Findings from the Norton Cybersecurity Insights Report, published * Privacy Policy Data protection abuse Honest John would like to see abuses of the Data Protection Act challenged in What they are doing is a wholesale abuse of the Data Protection Act and * Privacy and Cookies Google Glass 'could breach Data Protection Act' The UK's data privacy watchdog says there is an 'important debate' to be had around the privacy implications of wearable technology The UK's data privacy watchdog has warned that Google Glass and other wearable technology could breach the Data Protection Act in some designed Glass with privacy in mind. The fact that Glass is worn above signals it’s in use and makes it a fairly lousy surveillance device.” Half of respondents to the survey cited privacy concerns as the main * Privacy and Cookies How data protection has emerged from shadows Data protection industry is booming following Edward Snowden leaks data protection entrepreneur Alan Mitchell Photo: Reuters conducting phone and internet surveillance on millions of American The issue of data privacy was thrown into sharp relief as consumers and in that time, firms have sprung up that offer to protect privacy or cold. We have a strong history of data protection but also the with European laws on data protection - are increasingly looking to * Privacy and Cookies Europe backs stronger data protection rules Strong data protection rules must be Europe's trade mark, says EU Justice of data protection legislation since 1995, with the aim of giving The European Commission said that better data protection rules will * EU set to approve new data protection rules in wake of NSA "Data Protection is made in Europe. Strong data protection rules must "Following the US data spying scandals, data protection is more than The new EU data protection law is intended to replace the current Although the EU claims that progress on data protection reform is now Goyens added that personal data protection is a longstanding * Privacy and Cookies Britain's banks 'breaching' data protection rules Britain’s banks could be breaching data protection rules with ‘alarming * Privacy and Cookies Lessons in cybersecurity launched for schoolchildren Secondary pupils across the UK will take part in cybersecurity lessons as In cyber security, there will be many more jobs than candidates in the Lessons in cybersecurity will be delivered to schoolchildren across the embed cybersecurity lessons into traditional curricular subjects as industry experts have called for cybersecurity to be made a part of the * School children to get cyber security lessons Stephanie Daman, CEO of the Cyber Security Challenge UK, said that cybersecurity is because they stop doing STEM subjects. "Looking at recent statistics, in cybersecurity there will be more jobs While he voiced support for the inclusion of cybersecurity within the * Privacy and Cookies CES 2016 will hold the first ever cybersecurity forum at the event, CyberSecurity Forum. surveillance and artificial intelligence markets,” Accenture’s Curran * Privacy and Cookies President Obama hires US's first cybersecurity tsar President Obama has finally hired America’s first cybersecurity coordinator, Barack Obama appoints US's first cybersecurity tsar * Privacy and Cookies Revamped surveillance laws will be unveiled on Wednesday but what does it all Privacy and civil liberty campaigners argue the bill is equally needed o Surveillance laws revamp has faced a rocky road off surveillance warrants but with extra oversight from judges. The balance between surveillance and privacy has also been a curtailed some of its surveillance powers. The Freedom Act, passed in * Privacy and Cookies Surveillance laws overhaul has been years in the making and may still Snowden in 2013 and claims of mass surveillance intensified that review of surveillance capabilities and safeguards by the independent * Privacy and Cookies The politics of surveillance are about politics, not keeping us safe Every piece of surveillance legislation proposed by government in the draconian piece of surveillance legislation ever proposed in a surveillance requests, a key demand of the "civil liberties lobby" who surveillance requests, improved oversight, and no return for the independent judiciary sign off on all surveillance warrants. intelligence officers and the bloated surveillance technology pushed by * Privacy and Cookies Blanket surveillance is a stain on our democracy breaching of the privacy of those who turn to us for help. surveillance and interception. revelations, which uncovered a monstrous blanket surveillance regime Instead of blanket surveillance there needs to be a system of judicial surveillance further undermines my own ability to do my job in blanket surveillance and the undermining of people’s right to contact * Privacy and Cookies Theresa May must balance privacy and security surveillance state. If she has not quite reined it in, and it is far duty to keep us safe. But we want to retain as much of our privacy as * Privacy and Cookies Does privacy still exist in an internet age? industry commentators keep telling us, loss of privacy is the risk you is an unnerving daily reminder that privacy is an elastic concept in * Privacy and Cookies People are upset that Facebook and Google sponsored a privacy event privacy event privacy event Photo: Reuters that they were "diamond sponsors" for an event on privacy hosted by the Privacy advocate Aral Balkan told Motherboard: "We would not be having still don’t understand that Facebook and Google are to privacy what * Privacy and Cookies Caspar Bowden, privacy campaigner - obituary privacy campaigner who turned from poacher to gamekeeper when he took a job as head of privacy for Microsoft's non-US operations in 2002. internet giants had turned over user data to a US surveillance program Surveillance Act. The act authorises mass-surveillance of the data of through a transformation in surveillance power that's never been seen for Labour, he urged the party to make personal data protection a high Browser" surveillance powers under which security agencies would have Parliament on data privacy issues. * Privacy and Cookies The Facebook privacy hoaxes you need to look out for The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 * Privacy and Cookies to seek to maximise their powers of surveillance whenever they can. It surveillance powers to tackle problems such as dog-fouling suggests a * Privacy and Cookies Google reveals spike in Brits' privacy concerns Google is stepping up its privacy measures amid widespread public People in the UK are deeply concerned about their privacy and being "We know that privacy is a concern for many people who use the their privacy and being hacked," said Laurian Clemence from Google UK. months, implementing a range of security and privacy measures designed Then in June, Google launched a new privacy and security hub called "My Account", enabling users to control all of their Google privacy and The hub also offers new Privacy Checkup and Security Checkup tools, My Account brings all privacy and security settings to one hub My Account brings all privacy and security settings to one hub The new privacy and security measures have been introduced in the wake also had its fair share of privacy controversies over the years. protect themselves online, Google's privacy and security engineers will * Privacy and Cookies #publisher Metro » Facebook has changed its privacy settings TODAY – Facebook has changed its privacy settings TODAY – here’s what you need Facebook has changed its privacy settings TODAY - here's what you need Facebook has changed its privacy settings today (Picture Facebook) Facebook’s new, updated privacy policy goes into effect today in of the site’s privacy policies, and what adverts you see. cookies regularly, and by ensuring your privacy settings on Facebook #publisher Metro » This law student took on Facebook in privacy battle This law student took on Facebook in privacy battle – and won This law student took on Facebook in privacy battle - and won A law student and privacy activist has won a major legal battle against Google Glass is pushing the big red privacy warrior button for many of latest degree of privacy infringement? in any number of covert surveillance devices you can find cheaply on We already said goodbye to privacy forever with the invention of the We’re already under surveillance in so many ways; is Google Glass Privacy in 2014: a nostalgic myth Our privacy is already compromised in many ways, often There’s no guarantee of privacy in 2014. We rely on the law and We’ve been forced to accept surveillance as an unavoidable possibility So has the concept of privacy itself irrevocably altered? #publisher Metro » Facebook facing privacy lawsuit over what it does Facebook facing privacy lawsuit over what it does with your data Facebook facing privacy lawsuit over what it does with your data A privacy case at the European Court of Justice starting today could leave your phone – and what happens there alarms privacy campaigners. Earlier this year, a report for a European privacy watchdog found that The report was drawn up for Belgium’s privacy watchdog after Facebook quietly updated its privacy policy in late January. MORE: Facebook’s new privacy policy is ‘against the law’, watchdog MORE: New Facebook privacy settings ‘still complicated’ Former Microsoft privacy adviser Caspar Bowden says he no longer trusts A former Microsoft privacy adviser says he doesn’t trust the company said they turned over user data to a US surveillance program called #publisher Metro » Messaging service WhatsApp ‘broke privacy laws’ by Messaging service WhatsApp ‘broke privacy laws’ by storing numbers WhatsApp ‘broke privacy laws’ by storing numbers Messaging service WhatsApp breached privacy laws by asking subscribers accepted privacy principles’. Jacob Kohnstamm, of the Dutch Data Protection Authority, said he was establish if there were implications under British data protection law. #publisher Metro » Boris Johnson: Internet privacy doesn’t exist, Boris Johnson: Internet privacy doesn’t exist, posting letters the way to go Boris Johnson: Internet privacy doesn’t exist Boris Johnson: Internet privacy doesn’t exist (Picture: PA) Mr Johnson decried the ‘global conspiracy’ to invade our privacy but he #publisher Metro » A student is suing Facebook over privacy and hopes A student is suing Facebook over privacy and hopes its one billion users will A student is suing Facebook over privacy and hopes you will join him A law student has decided to sue Facebook over privacy rights and has #publisher Metro » Take Google to task over internet privacy breaches, Take Google to task over internet privacy breaches, Britons urge Take Google to task over internet privacy breaches Google in the firing line over privacy breaches (Picture: EPA) privacy and on rules on personal data use, a poll of users has ensure Google complies with existing privacy regulations highlights how ‘Online privacy is a global issue of real importance to people and the He added: ‘The fact many of the highest-profile privacy lawsuits have been tackled first there and data protection law is vigorously enforced #publisher Metro » Anonymous hackers attack data protection watchdog’s Anonymous hackers attack data protection watchdog’s site Anonymous hackers attack data protection watchdog’s site #publisher Metro » Two charged over BNP data protection leak Comments Two charged over BNP data protection leak Two people have been charged under the Data Protection Act after a internet companies must always abide by national data protection laws, the data protection directive, for personal data appearing on web pages After the Spanish data protection agency ordered Google to ensure the the EU’s 16-year-old laws on data protection to enforce safeguards on there, she said agencies watching over privacy issues in EU countries ‘To enforce EU law, national privacy watchdogs shall be endowed with Sam Hamilton of privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch said: ‘While Privacy concerns led to tensions with Washington last year after the comprised, to coincide with National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Cyber Security Champion Comments Feed alternate alternate Metro Cambridge student Jonathan Millican crowned UK Cyber Security Champion security experts in the Cyber Security UK Challenge in a series of Cambridge student Jonathan Millican crowned UK Cyber Security Champion Jonathan Millican beat other cyber security experts to be crowned champion Jonathan Millican beat other cyber security experts to be As cyber security becomes a bigger concern for both businesses and Jonathan Hoyle, director general for cyber security at UK Government The need to invest in such cyber security initiatives is becoming #publisher Metro » Employees ‘clueless on cyber security’ Comments Employees ‘clueless on cyber security’ Employees ‘clueless on cyber security’ ‘With cyber security such a high profile issue, employers are now aware Graeme Batsman, security director cyber security company EncSec, said #publisher Metro » Warning over surveillance society Comments Feed Warning over surveillance society Warning over surveillance society Two CCTV cameras. Society predicts surveillance will further increase over the next warned that excessive surveillance could create a “climate of Current techniques include surveillance of international travel, It says surveillance can lead to the loss of individuals’ anonymity and privacy in different spheres of their lives. Mr Thomas said surveillance could help fight terrorism and crime and surveillance powers under a single law. the specific boundaries for phone surveillance has been much more How much will all this extra surveillance cost? An extra £25m a year, When was the last time we introduced new surveillance laws? Authorisation of these privacy violations has become a key point of surveillance laws should face justice (Picture: PA) according to civil liberties and privacy campaigners Big Brother Watch In recent years, there has been a crakdown on surveillance work by restrictions by sub-contracting surveillance work to private security organisations paid for surveillance not covered by Ripa – meaning they obtained by illegal surveillance being used in court and the surveillance by third parties and make it ‘fit for purpose’. Act should be revised to stop unauthorised surveillance being used as Baroness Harding told the Times: ‘This is a sort of cyber security arms to spend more money and put more focus on cyber security – it’s the And only last week the issue of surveillance famously explored in Privacy campaigners argue there are strong echoes of aspects of the warning, not a guidebook on how to create a surveillance state. Yet, it Eighty–Four are now part of the everyday surveillance regime in 2014.’ surveillance of online activity. Sales of the novel spiked in the light writer’s vision of surveillance was ‘hugely prescient’. is even more efficient for surveillance purposes than telescreens. ‘Traditional, effective surveillance means targeting suspects,’ he surveillance (as long as they’re okay with it) Comments Feed alternate New spying apps let you put your other half under surveillance (as long as surveillance programme Comments Feed alternate alternate Metro Google, Facebook and Yahoo deny co-operating with surveillance programme Google has denied it knowingly cooperated on a surveillance programme are ‘screwed’ because of a ‘mass surveillance industry’. this mass surveillance industry’ (Picture: AP) surveillance state’, he added. countries across the world mass surveillance systems for all those this mass surveillance industry’. The Fourth Amendment protects the right to privacy, but privacy is not Silicon Valley in February that he was also aware of privacy concerns specializes in digital privacy issues at the firm Fox Rothschild. “This veil of privacy offered by an LCD screen. But much of that privacy is an illusion. If hackers can get at our Khaliah Barnes of the Electronic Privacy Information Center: “More bills. California, a national trendsetter in privacy legislation, collection,” said Khaliah Barnes of the Electronic Privacy Information Privacy Ruling Comments Feed From EyeEm, Technology to See and Tag Bits | France Rejects Google’s Efforts to Limit Application of Privacy Ruling France Rejects Google’s Efforts to Limit Application of Privacy Ruling France’s privacy watchdog just will not take no for an answer. On Monday, the country’s data protection authority rejected Google’s efforts to limit how a landmark European privacy ruling may be applied That privacy decision was handed down last year by Europe’s top court, Several European privacy regulators, particularly in France, have urged In contrast, Google has argued that the privacy ruling should apply The country’s data protection agency said that limiting the privacy the court’s privacy ruling. The watchdog also said that once Google had The watchdog said that Google must now apply the privacy decision to rules in a separate privacy case. The company may appeal any potential privacy counsel, said that no country should control the type of online France’s efforts to regulate online privacy come as people in the Privacy . Bits | With ‘Brandeis’ Project, Darpa Seeks to Advance Privacy Technology With ‘Brandeis’ Project, Darpa Seeks to Advance Privacy Technology The Pentagon’s advanced research arm is pursing privacy technology. And to be an all-seeing digital surveillance system to hunt for terrorists. The outcry from privacy advocates prompted Congress to shut it down. that safeguarding privacy was essential to individual freedom. learn and predict a person’s privacy preferences — a clever digital assistant for privacy protection. The latter would be a big change from the complex privacy settings on search engines and websites now, which be only a part of the answer to privacy challenges. So will an evolving Privacy Tech. #Bits » The Rules of In-Store Surveillance Comments Feed Amazon Future of Privacy Forum, to develop a series of “best practices” for privacy controls for what it called “retail location analytics,” or The Future of Privacy Forum is primarily supported by corporations, advisory board that includes “chief privacy officers, privacy academics and privacy advocates.” #Bits » Facebook to Update Privacy Policy, but Adjusting Settings Is Bits | Facebook to Update Privacy Policy, but Adjusting Settings Is No Easier Facebook to Update Privacy Policy, but Adjusting Settings Is No Easier privacy policies on Sept. 5. But the social network’s famously difficult privacy controls will not specific privacy controls. Instead, Mr. Palmieri said, Facebook decided advertising, to learn more about privacy issues and how to adjust the Privacy controls are still buried in at least six different menus. To privacy settings in the tabs for Privacy, Timeline and Tagging, The old policy explicitly stated, “You can use your privacy settings to the NewYork edition with the headline: New Privacy On Facebook Still House’s first chief privacy officer. intend to create a chief privacy officer post, but is looking to add a Has Your Back?” — examined the privacy policies of 18 major Internet where she oversaw policy, privacy and copyright-related issues. She was o Privacy policy # Privacy policy Companies put cybersecurity experts on boards Parsons Corp. CEO Charles Harrington says adding cybersecurity expert Parsons Corp. CEO Charles Harrington says adding cybersecurity expert Companies put cybersecurity experts on boards corporate governance: the elevation of cybersecurity experts to the way. Not adequately addressing a cybersecurity risk could prove costly talk about cybersecurity at all. He bought two cybersecurity companies. Pairing them with Parsons’ cybersecurity services, likening it to the challenge years ago of David Burg, U.S. cybersecurity leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights infringe upon the privacy of their lives and the lives of their Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Additionally, Hello ToyTalk’s privacy policy states the company won’t use any recordings to o Privacy policy # Privacy policy Panel of privacy watchdogs to oversee Google's data removal Panel of privacy watchdogs to oversee Google's data removal force of European privacy watchdogs. a member of the group of privacy watchdogs, which approved the step companies already facing greater scrutiny over privacy practices in the Angela Merkel, have added to the clamor for privacy safeguards. The backlash against U.S. surveillance "has raised the temperature around discussions of protecting the privacy of individuals," said Alex * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights For some odd reason, data privacy maven Bruce Schneier is an optimist. the cause is not lost, that our online privacy will someday be ensured. of comprehensive digital surveillance crosses an ethical line. Schneier is no privacy purist. Like many of us, he lives a life of Feds bankroll $4.2M UMass program for cybersecurity training Fidelity invests in California cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes BetaBoston » Privacy tool protects felons — and freedom Comments Feed TechLab Privacy Lebanon Libraries Tor Arlington N.H. online privacy of political dissidents in repressive countries, but public referendum about privacy and our right to practice free speech author of a recent book on privacy called “Data and Goliath.” #World » E.U. Pushes for Stricter Data Protection After Snowden’s NSA Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy E.U. Pushes for Stricter Data Protection After Snowden’s NSA Revelations surveillance programs around the world. With those revelations still politicians who claimed that regulating online privacy should be left Snowden we agreed that data protection in Europe is part of our * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights #Ideas » Will We Ever Get Strong Internet Privacy Rules? Comments Feed Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy Will We Ever Get Strong Internet Privacy Rules? * Pew Report Finds People Are Getting More Privacy Savvy The * 8 Privacy Threats Worse Than Google Information Week This has been a tough few weeks for privacy rights on the Internet. Google changed its privacy policy so it can combine the information it online advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings (MORE: New Google Privacy Policy May Violate European Law) In the middle of these privacy blow-ups, the Obama administration announced a new set of online privacy policies – a 62-page document called “Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital It’s no great secret what the fighting over online privacy is about. The Obama administration’s privacy guidelines are a step in the right direction. They create a “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights,” which contains good privacy principles, starting with “individual control,” companies to sit down with privacy advocates to develop codes of care about privacy should monitor how these guidelines get translated * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy Rights Will the New Consumer Privacy Bill Protect You? Cybersecurity and privacy attorney Michael Morgan, of counsel at Jones privacy. "The privacy advocates have raised some concerns about the privacy issues, security risks and potential benefits arising from to ensure that consumers' privacy remains protected as businesses seek Attorney and data privacy expert Michael Whitener, a partner in the VLP privacy implications of the new cross-device tracking technologies," he raises a number of privacy concerns and questions." considers cross-device privacy an emerging area for the industry, which has been focused most recently on mobile-environment privacy issues. privacy protections can be provided, he told CreditCards.com. that the DAA's privacy principles are enforceable "irrespective of the own privacy policies, which could allow for data collection beyond what Writing on the International Association of Privacy Professionals blog jargon-filled privacy policy to learn how personal information is * Mobile shopping apps raise privacy and security issues * Privacy disclosure statements let you opt out of info sharing * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy President Obama Delivers Remarks On Cyber Security National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) on The proposal, announced at the National Cybersecurity and cybersecurity and data privacy at the Retail Industry Leaders It's unclear, however, if an Obama-backed cybersecurity bill will make * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy agreement violated privacy rights of regular citizens, since they have States does not and has not engaged in indiscriminate surveillance of whatever you want.'” Schrems researched Facebook’s privacy rules for complaint against the Data Privacy Commission of Ireland, where * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy contrary cases, and the steady march toward a surveillance state would circular, is that we know that high-tech surveillance tools exist, and therefore don’t expect privacy for anything those tools can reach. (In seriously they take privacy and how carefully they review each request. company’s “reputation for protection of user privacy and security, because the law requires disclosure. The market for privacy is broken. customers’ privacy very seriously, so have specific processes that decline offering any further details.” Skype’s privacy policy is including privacy laws. We take our customers’ privacy very protecting user data.” The privacy policy says disclosures come in boilerplate that “we are ardent about addressing privacy in our It values cooperation with authorities more than the privacy of its * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy Matters of online privacy seem to be dominating headlines now more than in using privacy features and tools. Only 17% of Americans use VPNs privacy protection. out these 11 simple ways to protect your privacy to get started – there remember to take privacy especially seriously any time you’re on public * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy controversial new privacy policy that amounted to “Hey, guess who isn’t search giant for bypassing user privacy settings in Internet Explorer. browser’s privacy settings to track users across the web using cookies. circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users out that Google bypasses Internet Explorer’s P3P Privacy Protection by privacy from Google.” There are major privacy concerns at play when it comes to Google; this, * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy * The Real Privacy Implications of Google Glass Until now, Google has stayed eerily quiet on the privacy implications most thorough take yet on the privacy issues surrounding Google Glass. privacy implications while designing the Glass hardware. Meanwhile, Google dodged the privacy angle during another question our services unless we have strong privacy protections in place.” The privacy model for it. We haven’t figured it out.” Google reiterated the privacy implications now. I’ve previously said it’s a stretch to feature’s potential, and the privacy boundaries it would require. The privacy concerns around Glass will be moot if the product isn’t a * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy I’m not one of those people. CounterSpy is a new blog about privacy and privacy and security.” That’s easy to say with equanimity in the you’ll forget about privacy the same way you forget about that camera in the elevator. Oracle’s Larry Ellison ( “the privacy you’re concerned Everyone has something to hide. Privacy is relational. It depends on Privacy is about control. When your health records are sold to a social-networking site changes your privacy settings to make what and with whom. A privacy failure is a control failure. * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy “a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he to privacy when voluntarily turning information over to third parties As Google puts it in its privacy policy explainer: email correspondents’ privacy don’t use Gmail.” The message isn’t sue challenge traditional expectations about privacy in hopes that product We take our users’ privacy and security very seriously; recent industry-leading security and privacy features into Gmail — and no mean that not only is insuring privacy regarding their emailed material This revelation of The End of Email Privacy should come as a surprise If Google took privacy seriously, they would implement end-to-end hearing phone users have a right to the same privacy afforded the fact that Google said it to a perceived Google-specific privacy risk. There shouldn't be an expectation of privacy when the destination email Another thing people don't get: Your right to privacy is guaranteed obligation to respect your privacy if, in the course of doing business with them, you agree to having your privacy abridged. And you did. individual e-mails in the course of transmission means your privacy is Why would anyone have expected that they have a right to privacy when * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy about the Web protecting user privacy online and updating copyright to demystify the privacy debate by establishing global standards, * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy part by pulling all of its separate privacy policies under one (MORE: Google’s Privacy and Dashboard Options: Still a Tangled Web) when I click on privacy links is redirected to the “terms of service” If any Google service warrants privacy firewalling, it’s Google Drive. entirely wrong when he suggests the age of privacy is over or that privacy is no longer a “social norm,” but we have to draw a line Google ought to create a privacy exception that “narrows the scope” of MORE: Google’s New Privacy Policy: 5 Ways to Minimize Your Online * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights #Tech » 5 Reasons the CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Should Be Tossed Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy Your California Privacy 5 Reasons the CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Should Be Tossed Democracy & Technology, CISPA threatens privacy because it “has a very of government cybersecurity efforts from civilian agencies to the to cybersecurity threats – and would pose fewer civil liberties and representatives of privacy interests, it would be dominated by * Privacy Policy * Your California Privacy Rights The Snowden effect: new privacy wins await after data transfer ruling privacy wins from Moscow to a privacy talk Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters matters of privacy and law and it's possible this second wave is only United States. The case was brought by privacy activist and lawyer Max the post-Snowden era. It's clear privacy activists won't be satisfied "upstream" surveillance program - where the spy agency has access to In the UK, Privacy International has a slew of active cases in the potentially upend GCHQ's mass surveillance capabilities. Then there are the privacy cases that don't directly deal with the NSA is on a privacy heightened-alert. All over the country, civil liberties an end to mass surveillance either. As Cory Doctorow wrote: If the European Court of Justice wants to end mass surveillance of Europeans, it can only do so by banning mass surveillance - by ruling idea of cabining data in their own domestic soil to thwart privacy and up weakening their privacy protections in the process. * privacy policy in a case brought by pioneering privacy activist Max Schrems against supposedly still covered by the privacy protections enshrined in EU the information remained protected by EU data protection and human on privacy and surveillance with European human rights standards. lax surveillance laws, which afford non-US persons next to no privacy enshrining global norms on surveillance as the Nuremberg trials were than three claims against mass surveillance in the United Kingdom: one brought by Liberty, Privacy International and Amnesty International, British surveillance state. Other court cases on the legality of mass surveillance are being heard across Europe - in France, Germany and the Congress could allow to lapse the very mass surveillance provisions surveillance legislation face sunset in 2017. * privacy policy data protection commissioner to bar Facebook from transmitting his data Private industry was in a rage while privacy groups were elated on affirming European citizens’ right to privacy from American tech privacy law”. indiscriminate surveillance is a basic human right that should be James Kinsella, a former Microsoft exec who runs European privacy law * privacy policy EU court ruling that privacy is being compromised could force many social media site was violating his privacy by retaining his data in were in breach of the fundamental right to data protection ... The citizens with regards to their privacy rights in all sectors including decision is compatible with the protection of the privacy and of the Mark Thompson, privacy practice leader at KPMG, said: "Europe [is] privacy seriously, creating an environment which respects the rights of * privacy policy Australian's freedom of information and privacy watchdog, set up in When Australian's freedom of information and privacy watchdog was December 2014, leaving just the privacy commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, privacy and freedom of information rights in what he says is a "great services to write privacy policies. It helps medical organisations work number of privacy related complaints each year. Related: Gillian Triggs: some Coalition FOI and privacy reforms tending to a vast range of privacy functions. FOI side, but at the same time we had 2,841 privacy complaints coming Whatever happens, Australia's privacy and freedom of information * privacy policy they know it exists, putting all of our cybersecurity at risk. "Athens Affair". In surveillance circles, the Athens Affair is stuff of surveillance gear, they covertly pointed it towards the Greek a catastrophe for human rights, cybersecurity and the US economy - the * privacy policy anti-encryption in a race where privacy and net neutrality have never the future of surveillance and the internet - from Chris Christie's warrantless surveillance fanatic. He not only continually defends the cybersecurity plan, which really just calls for more power for a Too often internet and privacy rights get relegated to the end of the more corporate control and government surveillance is disturbing, to * privacy policy way for states to push back against mass surveillance by the NSA and around the world to strengthen privacy laws. begin pushing back against the mass surveillance undertaken by the US Improper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers”, as it is otherwise known, aims to elevate digital privacy into a 21st-century human right. Under its terms, mass surveillance of phone calls and in surveillance would be stepped up, and whistleblowers – like Snowden the idea of a new international privacy campaign after he was * privacy policy • News analysis: How surveillance architects kept NSA power series of eye-opening stories about surveillance based on documents important than the first. It's when we'll see if global privacy rights get protected for the better – or if mass surveillance becomes more for user privacy rights, rather than just uttering platitudes meant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (Fisa) court to allow them to be surveillance reform urgently". But there's been barely a peep from the sits on our board of directors). And privacy has become a business the mass phone metadata surveillance program in an adversarial reign in the NSA's surveillance programs? With Congress refusing to perhaps the most important privacy case on a federal court docket, EFF surveillance in direct violation of their obligations to the court. much bipartisan opposition there was to the phone surveillance program, reform to surveillance on you. This is the power of whistleblowing. Edward Snowden calls for greater online privacy in Reset the Net campaign Edward Snowden calls for greater online privacy in Reset the * privacy policy Edward Snowden calls for global push to expand digital privacy laws Edward Snowden: mass surveillance does not help combat terrorism. Link surveillance are known it is time to “assert our traditional and efforts to protect privacy “will continue for many years”, culminating, Snowden’s call for new international laws to protect data privacy was ending mass surveillance and “the right to privacy in all future programs and policies. This will make the preservation of privacy a sort of surveillance time machine that allows institutions, whether legislative attempts to tighten up on privacy and rein in mass surveillance powers. Not just traditional adversaries of the west such mass surveillance has never made a concrete difference in any single * privacy policy Related: Facebook data privacy case to be heard before European Union “Such mass, indiscriminate surveillance is inherently disproportionate The arrangement allows the NSA to use the Prism surveillance system – Ireland, audited by the data protection commissioner in that country. Related: NSA files decoded: Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations he leaked tens of thousands of documents about surveillance programmes operates in compliance with EU data protection law. Like the thousands “We need robust, common data protection rules for the EU, which can Stewart Room, the head of PwC Legal’s data privacy and protection privacy regulators of the member states. The advocate general takes the global strategies for data privacy compliance.” line and stop the mass circumvention of EU data protection rules. The * privacy policy internet giant’s data protection policy led to a watershed moment in privacy principles” would be allowed to transfer personal data from the States, lodged a complaint with the Irish data protection commissioner. against surveillance of the data transferred to that country by the It reiterates the significance of data protection as a human right and for what they do: that their surveillance is both necessary (for * privacy policy Max Schrems Facebook privacy complaint to be investigated in Ireland Audit by Irish data protection watchdog over alleged transfer of Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems speaking to reporters Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems has said he may make other Facebook's European privacy practices are to be investigated by the Irish data protection watchdog, after a three-year legal fight by Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems. Ireland's data protection commissioner Helen Dixon welcomed the ruling Irish Data Protection Commissioner is going to do its job. surveillance programme. Irish Data Protection Commission as they examine the protections for certify their data protection practices. The Snowden revelations over the NSA's surveillance practices triggered surveillance because of the Snowden leaks, and I think those are the * privacy policy Digital surveillance 'worse than Orwell', says new UN privacy chief The first UN privacy chief has said the world needs a Geneva convention Appointed after concern about surveillance and privacy following the universal law on surveillance could embarrass those who may not sign up people will think about and vote for privacy in the UK. “And that is The appointment of a UN special rapporteur on privacy is seen as hugely important because it elevates the right to privacy in the digital age surveillance for security reasons, and corporations who mine us for our * Identify actions that intrude on privacy without compelling surveillance under the rule of law. tech corporations, defining privacy and raising awareness among the * privacy policy Homeland Security admits Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act raises controversial new surveillance bill could sweep away "important privacy Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (Cisa) grants broad latitude to provisions of the bill "could sweep away important privacy protections" and that the proposed legislation "raises privacy and civil liberties the bill: "[a] private entity may, for cybersecurity purposes, monitor Privacy concerns are already significant in the private sector, where online campaign by privacy activists who have dubbed Cisa "the Darth enhancing cyber security, with important consumer privacy concerns. We * privacy policy thousands of data and privacy breaches, says Big Brother Watch. thousands of data and privacy breaches, says Big Brother Watch. data breaches by councils, according to a study by privacy campaign privacy of the public." data protection extremely seriously and staff are given ongoing * privacy policy Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security • Q&A: submit your questions for our privacy experts protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and the privacy of all users. "Cryptography forms the basis for trust the privacy of internet users in the US and worldwide. respect privacy and rule of law as much as Europe. But we can start * privacy policy State surveillance of personal data: what is the society we wish to protect? Tom Stoppard: 'The world of surveillance operated by the people we pay What in principle would justify the scope of the surveillance revealed luggage. On the matter of surveillance in general we have, without much discussion, learned to live with almost blanket surveillance by CCTV in Between that and the surveillance we are now talking about there is a surveillance operated by the people we pay to guard us exceeds the blanket electronic surveillance on every message or metadatum flowing surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have World's leading authors: state surveillance of personal data is theft World's leading authors: state surveillance of personal data is * privacy policy surveillance of three consecutive French administrations by the United surveillance orders directed at erstwhile United States allies. One contractors,” demonstrating how mass surveillance companies collaborate countries around the world mass surveillance systems for all of those official purposes, the leak was condemned on privacy grounds by both privacy and free speech. As the Director of the Icelandic Modern Media speech and privacy laws and thereby ensure that Iceland becomes a bastion of free speech in an era where surveillance runs rampant French privacy agency demands that Google make 'right to be forgotten' global CNIL, the French privacy watchdog, demands that Google de-list search If you want to maintain privacy more seriously, you could use TOR, Avoiding sneakiness without sacrificing privacy is one of the main ideas behind TrackMeNot, a privacy plugin I used to work on at NYU. advertisements that might interest you. Read our Privacy and Cookies concerns not only with the privacy of its citizens, but the competitive * Privacy Policy advertisements that might interest you. Read our Privacy and Cookies month, to bolster the surveillance capabilities of spies and police. They will face stiff opposition from privacy and human rights * Privacy Policy advertisements that might interest you. Read our Privacy and Cookies privacy – was “invalid”. In his report he said: “The revelations about generalised surveillance of data transferred under the safe harbour are based, arguing his privacy should have been safeguarded against protections – which state that US data protection rules are adequate if privacy rules – because America no longer qualifies for such a status. individual country’s privacy laws and make companies vulnerable to faced a number of privacy cases across Europe where data protection watchdogs have argued national privacy laws have been breached. The The US government denied it carried out mass surveillance on EU Ireland and are regulated by Irish data protection authorities. * Privacy Policy advertisements that might interest you. Read our Privacy and Cookies A blog post from cybersecurity company ESET also reported that at cybersecurity firm Drawbridge Networks. * Privacy Policy advertisements that might interest you. 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Read our Privacy and Cookies The Home Secretary's attempts to strengthen surveillance powers at In seeking to extend the state’s powers of surveillance over its Concessions to surveillance bill unlikely to head off peer revolt * Surveillance plans 'could put citizens, economy and internet at * Government rewrites surveillance law to get away with hacking * Privacy Policy advertisements that might interest you. Read our Privacy and Cookies Data protection will soon become UK consumers number one priority as the wide range of different cyber-attacks. Cyber security has moved * Cyber Security * Privacy Policy How to Make Privacy Policies Better, in Two Easy Steps How to Make Privacy Policies Better, in Two Easy Steps privacy policy. The policy permitted the software to access more Big Brother avoided. (Though a Spotify-driven surveillance regime would West Berlin.) So privacy policies could nicely disappear from the tech executives, and developers address user privacy just doesn’t work that That’s partly because, if we’re being honest, privacy policies are The sum is that no one wants to think about privacy policies except reluctance leads them to state their privacy policy expansively or in privacy consultant Jonathan Salem Baskin put it: The fait accompli behind privacy practices is that businesses have privacy for better playlists, or shoe ads. advocates that companies should announce a new privacy policy whenever Federal Trade Commission issued guidance on privacy policies, in 2009, time: Once a more user-respecting privacy regime is mandatory, Medium has since changed its privacy policy accordingly, and it now tech industry’s thinking about privacy is right now: A feature University, pointed that the social costs of Spotify’s privacy policy their privacy policies better to users—would require them to turn privacy policies from standalone, hedging, anxious land grabs into * Privacy Policy privacy from Pew Research Center, which collected the opinions of more the next decade, establish privacy rights that protect individuals from are changing dramatically. While privacy once generally meant, "I surveillance as a default—will become a component of the ever-widening socioeconomic divide. Privacy as we know it today will become a luxury creation of privacy as a luxury good. It also has the unfortunate effect of establishing a new divide: the privacy rich and the privacy poor. Whether genuine control over your information will be breakdown in privacy to change the way they operate. In order to get more robust privacy protections—like terms of service agreements that dictate privacy norms. This is already happening all around us. As the * Privacy Policy Why Does Privacy Matter? One Scholar's Answer Why Does Privacy Matter? One Scholar's Answer Our privacy is now at risk in unprecedented ways, but, sadly, the legal privacy law, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, was passed in privacy from other, possibly nefarious, ways that our data can be what happens when you follow the European privacy model and take there is something disconcerting about them. Privacy should have a strong argument that addresses the titular concern "What Privacy Is rightly tweeted, she wrote "the best paper on privacy theory you'll get theorists and legislators who treat privacy as just an instrument used inaccessibility, or control. Framed this way, privacy is relegated to protected through some other method, or if privacy gets in the way of a Cohen doesn't think we should treat privacy as a dispensable instrument. To the contrary, she argues privacy is irreducible to a logic. Privacy is shorthand for breathing room to engage in the process privacy cannot be reductively conceived as one specific type of thing. judgment, and values of our society and culture. Privacy is crucial for privacy and subject to surveillance; we must decide if we really want Privacy is not just something we enjoy. It is something that is actions. We are different people when under surveillance than we are breathing room provided by privacy is essential to being a complete, * Privacy Policy appears to be respecting our current privacy settings. And, yes, there While many debates over technology and privacy concern obscurity, the pin down. Sometimes, people talk about privacy when they are worried about confidentiality. Other times they evoke privacy to discuss issues privacy interest in the "practical obscurity" of information that was Many contemporary privacy disputes are probably better classified as a newspaper violated the privacy rights of gun owners by publishing a implicitly protected privacy interests. Now, in an attempt to keep pace Timeline. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, for example, was publicly shared, it presents no new privacy issues. As Facebook hammered home, a user's original privacy settings are neither altered Respecting Facebook users' privacy settings is no small feature, due to the harm that can result when privacy settings are given too little privacy problems will arise. 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The privacy discourse frames the issue in an ego-centric The privacy discourse is propelled by the "creepy" feeling of being Privacy critics worry about what Facebook, Google or Amazon knows about The privacy framework tells us that we should feel violated by what * Privacy Policy Now the GOP Must Choose: Mass Surveillance or Privacy? Now the GOP Must Choose: Mass Surveillance or Privacy? House going to sacrifice the privacy of all its constituents to NSA figure out how mass surveillance will play in that campaign. surveillance besides the phone dragnet. Republicans will now run the power to rein in our surveillance bureaucracy, since anyone with a national surveillance bureaucracy as it now stands is tantamount to claims to be seriously concerned about NSA surveillance but favors no imperative to deny them credit as surveillance reformers—and even more against long odds, to wrest back our core right to privacy from an * Privacy Policy surveillance; privacy and data protection; copyright and patents; web revelations of massive online surveillance conducted by the UK's GCHQ proportionate approach: "specific surveillance should be proportionate, privacy and security online." developing cyber security measures; cutting down on waste and Two areas closely related to surveillance are privacy and data sentences for egregious breaches of the Data Protection Act." The case in the light of GCHQ's mass surveillance of the UK public. The Pirate Party is also keen to strengthen data protection laws: "We breaches of data protection laws." The main concern of the Green Party proposals to strengthen data protection laws against opposition from Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement | Terms & Conditions | Contact Us EU takes important step towards agreeing updated data protection rules radical overhaul of the EU's data protection regulations, which The Council's general approach on the data protection regulation only have to deal with their home national data protection authority, The new data protection rules will also strengthen the EU's "right to proposed under the new data protection rules is rather different: "When privacy protection for citizens' personal data when it is collected and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement | Terms & Conditions | Contact Us Head of EU data protection says trading privacy for security is a “false fad” Giovanni Buttarelli, the European Data Protection Supervisor The European Data Protection Supervisor, Giovanni Buttarelli, who is the privacy of a citizen's data when processing their data, says that into account privacy rights as well as the indisputable need to fight Buttarelli insists that as European Data Protection Supervisor he is with the right to privacy and involves handling large volumes of surveillance prevents terrorist attacks. eight years, we don't know what role mass surveillance played in that. Instead, he says, surveillance should enhance, not undermine, trust in Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement | Terms & Conditions | Contact Us EU takes important step towards agreeing updated data protection rules radical overhaul of the EU's data protection regulations, which The Council's general approach on the data protection regulation only have to deal with their home national data protection authority, The new data protection rules will also strengthen the EU's "right to proposed under the new data protection rules is rather different: "When privacy protection for citizens' personal data when it is collected and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement | Terms & Conditions | Contact Us Surveillance Comments Feed Gillmor Gang 12.3.11 (TCTV) SAP Will Buy * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO up Western-made high-tech surveillance systems like business travellers Which kind of puts Facebook privacy violations in perspective, so I’m this new surveillance tech to keep an eye on the unruly masses, but so be it–but shouldn’t the first people to surrender their privacy be the media, when more surveillance is supposed to make us more secure? complex dynamic between the relative merits of privacy and public surveillance is all about raw naked power. 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Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Wake-Up Call To Fight Government Surveillance Comments Feed Yarn’s App * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO * With No European Safe Harbor, Facebook Faces Privacy Complaints On With No European Safe Harbor, Facebook Faces Privacy Complaints On * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds privacy for vague promises of security, but are doing so willingly. Data Protection In A Post-Safe Harbor World Harbor agreement was a huge step forward for privacy advocates, both in intercontinental data transfers, alternatives that put data privacy and data privacy is not something to be infringed on so easily just to make CalECPA And States Taking The Lead On Privacy Public Policy The adoption of the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA) in the U.S. also strikes a blow for privacy advocates and The federal government passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act More and more citizens are not only exchanging privacy for vague reassert our rights to online privacy and a democratized Internet, free © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Costs And Risks Of UK’s Draft Surveillance Powers Probed Comments Feed * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO * Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO Costs And Risks Of UK’s Draft Surveillance Powers Probed surveillance powers contained in the draft Investigatory Powers Bill privacy are a continuum of the same thing. * Costs And Risks Of UK’s Draft Surveillance Powers Probed © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Another U.K. Surveillance Review Calls For Judicial Sign-Off For * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO Another U.K. Surveillance Review Calls For Judicial Sign-Off For Intercepts Another independent report into U.K. government surveillance has This follows the publication of the Anderson surveillance review last surveillance legislation (DRIPA) expires at the end of 2016. The latest U.K. surveillance powers review, conducted by defense and surveillance being a ‘necessary tool’ for intelligence gathering too — evidence that mass surveillance is being used to provide the state Anderson’s report generally supported the use of mass surveillance — surveillance legislation is needed, identifiing an urgent need for “a The RSUI calls for new surveillance legislation “in this session of Privacy International flags up the RSUI’s finding that the existing surveillance oversight capabilities. “GCHQ’s mass surveillance systems rely heavily on computer automation Commenting in a statement, Privacy International’s deputy * Another U.K. Surveillance Review Calls For Judicial Sign-Off © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Open Rights Group Crowdfunds Mass Surveillance Explainer Comments Feed UK Open Rights Group Crowdfunds Mass Surveillance Explainer crystalize the law on surveillance powers in the post-Snowden era. The bill not only seeks to legitimize mass surveillance activity that that the current emergency U.K. surveillance law, DRIPA — pushed to explain mass surveillance to the masses and illuminate the public that what the Government is proposing is mass surveillance and it does have serious implications for their privacy and security. We * UK Open Rights Group Crowdfunds Mass Surveillance Explainer © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About U.K. ‘Emergency’ Surveillance Law Ruled Unlawful By High Court Comments * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO U.K. ‘Emergency’ Surveillance Law Ruled Unlawful By High Court Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA) on privacy and data protection government that is among the most hawkish in Europe on surveillance and potentially more expansive surveillance legislation (it has talked surveillance capabilities with individual privacy rights. And indicates independent reviews of surveillance legislation, which have both surveillance debates as it works to reshape legislation in this area. scrutiny of new surveillance oversight law when the to serious privacy and civil liberties breaches by state operators for so-called Snooper’s Charter — another piece of surveillance legislation of state digital surveillance apparatus, creating an imperative * U.K. ‘Emergency’ Surveillance Law Ruled Unlawful By High Court © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About digital privacy rights at home. data capture, and to extend the emergency surveillance legislation security services’ digital surveillance programs is not going away. © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About What The U.K. Surveillance Powers Review Says On Encryption And Hacking * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO What The U.K. Surveillance Powers Review Says On Encryption And Hacking An independent review of U.K. surveillance powers conducted by QC David a new law to govern surveillance powers — replacing the problematic additional safeguards” oversee its usage and minimize privacy impacts. surveillance — and even hacking activities by state agencies — as of state surveillance powers, making hawkish pronouncements arguing for surveillance capabilities should allow enough intrusiveness that surveillance capabilities without bracketing additional powers within * What The U.K. Surveillance Powers Review Says On Encryption © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. 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Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Push For Greater State Surveillance Powers Could Have Chilling Effect * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO Push For Greater State Surveillance Powers Could Have Chilling Effect On U.K. has concerns about the surveillance powers that the government will be doesn’t involve any significant privacy intrusions but has huge Beyond the overreach and privacy intrusion of having the state require the powers public bodies have to carry out surveillance and sanctioning disproportionate surveillance — by, for instance, state surveillance and data capture powers is evidently front of mind these surveillance cameras in the U.K. (which has a population of This month the U.K.’s surveillance camera commissioner warned that idea that state surveillance capabilities will diminish because providing state surveillance apparatus continues to be outsourced to state surveillance tapping into an expansive Internet of Things When it comes to surveillance of digital comms data, this same * Push For Greater State Surveillance Powers Could Have Chilling © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. 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Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Mass Surveillance Threatens Digital Security And Human Rights, Says * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO * Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law Mass Surveillance Threatens Digital Security And Human Rights, Says European A 32-page report into mass surveillance by a top European rights body surveillance operations, their highly technical character and the national privacy laws whereby certain countries — notably among the share data on each others’ citizens, since foreigners’ privacy rights such as Snowden, who are exposing unlawful surveillance practices is So, in other words, that surveillance should always be targeted — countries apply the same rules to surveillance of each other’s citizens * Mass Surveillance Threatens Digital Security And Human Rights, Says © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Fix Cybersecurity Law, Ask More Questions Comments Feed Accel Partners Cybersecurity Startups Cockroaches Versus Unicorns: The Golden Age Of Cybersecurity Startups To Fix Cybersecurity Law, Ask More Questions Jeff Kosseff is an assistant professor of cybersecurity law at the * The Biggest Cybersecurity Risk Is Not Identity Theft And for good reason. Our system of cybersecurity and privacy laws is law. Once a niche issue, cybersecurity now is in the national As a cybersecurity lawyer and professor, I am thrilled that the public patchwork of federal and state cybersecurity laws. We need to rethink all of our cybersecurity laws. The current system To understand the gaps in our cybersecurity laws, consider how cybersecurity lawyer will tell you, North Dakota has particularly companies to make costly investments in cybersecurity software and clergy, communications with cybersecurity forensics professionals is actually discourage companies from hiring cybersecurity consultants Many of our data security, hacking and privacy laws were enacted in the cybersecurity challenges that companies and other organizations face Cybersecurity is among the most complex and important legal issues that * To Fix Cybersecurity Law, Ask More Questions © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About could talk about cybersecurity — an issue that has caused tension But Herb Lin, a Stanford cybersecurity scholar, said it was promising © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. 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Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Next-Gen Cybersecurity Is All About Behavior Recognition Comments Feed Cybersecurity Startups Cockroaches Versus Unicorns: The Golden Age Of Cybersecurity Startups * IBM Buys Israel/US Cybersecurity Specialist Trusteer For $800M-$1B IBM Buys Israel/US Cybersecurity Specialist Trusteer For $800M-$1B Next-Gen Cybersecurity Is All About Behavior Recognition * How Wearable Tech Could Spark A New Privacy Revolution recent Ashley Madison data breach, concerns over cybersecurity are at Financial advisers overwhelmingly cite cybersecurity as their improve cybersecurity is to improve backend systems to have fewer Any new advance in cybersecurity serves only as a temporary wall. + Categories Cyber, Cyber Security, Fraud Detection * Next-Gen Cybersecurity Is All About Behavior Recognition © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About How Wearable Tech Could Spark A New Privacy Revolution Comments Feed How Wearable Tech Could Spark A New Privacy Revolution * Next-Gen Cybersecurity Is All About Behavior Recognition Fears over privacy are nothing new. As users began to see the sheer surveillance programs has only added to the paranoia. each company’s unique privacy policy. As more people become aware of the privacy threats marked by wearable user privacy in tech companies. Responding to public concerns, app explain their privacy policies. Device makers like Apple and Google can create some much-needed regulations about user privacy and corporate privacy policies. Already, the European Union is stepping in to protect user privacy concerns as they relate to Google’s search engine and core for strict regulations and tighter privacy and security, others will regulations and new approaches to privacy land, wearable devices are * How Wearable Tech Could Spark A New Privacy Revolution © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Surely, Cybersecurity Must Have Your Attention Now Comments Feed Amazon Cybersecurity Startups Cockroaches Versus Unicorns: The Golden Age Of Cybersecurity Startups Surely, Cybersecurity Must Have Your Attention Now cybersecurity roulette. We keep spinning the wheel to find out who the Hugh Njemanze, CEO at ThreatStream, a cybersecurity company (which gets * Surely, Cybersecurity Must Have Your Attention Now © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Europe Finally Agrees Tough New Data Protection Rules Comments Feed Europe Finally Agrees Tough New Data Protection Rules Europe Finally Agrees Tough New Data Protection Rules data protection rules (GDPR), more than three years after new European data protection directive was adopted back in 1995 so updating data protection directive negotiation process, with the U.S. government see privacy and data protection as holding back economic activities. revealed the extent of U.S. government mass surveillance programs and against strengthening privacy protections. 2016. If you’re interested in geopolitical data protection politics strengthening individuals’ data protection rights, giving Europeans a breaching data protection rules — which for big tech companies like * a requirement for companies to appoint a data protection officer if * Europe Finally Agrees Tough New Data Protection Rules © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About * Facebook ‘Class Action’ Privacy Lawsuit Moves To Austrian Facebook ‘Class Action’ Privacy Lawsuit Moves To Austrian Supreme Court * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds agencies’ dragnet surveillance of the online sphere. surveillance complex with its fingers in all of the mainstream consumer It’s no surprise then that Apple’s new privacy pages have an its corporate reputation to the digital privacy rights cause. Apple is also making some very clear privacy commitments to its users. Its privacy page states: your privacy and protect it with strong encryption, plus strict Security and privacy are fundamental to the design of all our vaguely worded privacy policies have all too often required users to sign over any expectations of privacy for the ‘privilege’ of using a in question — so this is not just a case of privacy being the ‘price’ Apple making a robust pro-privacy stance sets a new privacy benchmark Apple choosing to champion privacy is a marketing strategy that’s into Kafka-esque government surveillance apparatus on a ceaseless and And while Apple’s own privacy practices should still absolutely be claims users don’t care about privacy anyway. Bottom line: Plenty of version of this predictive assistant puts in a privacy check and eye-wateringly costly privacy price-tag. privacy they will also understand the value of a personalized service Another thing to note here is that data protection laws vary in challenges in the region over such privacy issues. And the Europe rules — with larger penalties for privacy infringements likely coming companies to clean up murky privacy practices. Lurking in the shadows Snowden revealed the extent of dragnet government surveillance programs services that were apparently signed up to the privacy covenant of Safe still be considered ‘safe’ in an era of systematic mass surveillance by European privacy campaigner Max Schrems has led a legal challenge on general Yves Bot argued that U.S. mass surveillance has indeed One thing is amply clear: the privacy debate is here to stay. And for compete to protect — not exploit — privacy sounds pretty exciting to © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About French Data Protection Watchdog Rejects Google’s Search Delisting * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds * Google Rejects French Watchdog Demand For Global Privacy Delistings Google Rejects French Watchdog Demand For Global Privacy Delistings Overreaching Privacy Policy Privacy Invasions French Data Protection Watchdog Rejects Google’s Search Delisting Appeal France’s data protection watchdog has rejected Google’s appeal against been slapped down by the data protection authority. The CNIL has been the prominence of information, and individuals’ data protection rights the idea that a single national Data Protection Authority should CNIL fined Google €150,000 on another privacy matter, for merging multiple products’ privacy policies into one unified policy. * French Data Protection Watchdog Rejects Google’s Search © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law * Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law * U.K. Users’ Online Activity To Be Logged Under New Surveillance Law U.K. Users’ Online Activity To Be Logged Under New Surveillance Law * EFF’s 2015 Data Privacy Report Lauds Apple, Dropbox, Slams Verizon EFF’s 2015 Data Privacy Report Lauds Apple, Dropbox, Slams Verizon * Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law * Costs And Risks Of UK’s Draft Surveillance Powers Probed Costs And Risks Of UK’s Draft Surveillance Powers Probed UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO the surveillance capabilities of the security and intelligence agencies surveillance legislation, DRIPA, expires. asked whether the bill gets the balance right, between privacy and Parliament needs to recognize that the various data protection rights ensure data protection obligations continue to be met. “Data protection is a fundamental right, under the charter of * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About General Data Protection Regulation: A Milestone Of The Digital Age * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds General Data Protection Regulation: A Milestone Of The Digital Age International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). responded to the privacy concerns presented by the Digital Revolution fault with it. Privacy advocates will say it doesn’t go far enough in Much of this work will fall to the privacy profession. The GDPR mandates the appointment of a “data protection officer” (a DPO), a term likely require a privacy professional in your organization far ahead of The potentially more challenging news is that privacy professionals are Call For Robust Privacy Legislation In Wake Of EU Safe Harbor Media Privacy Invasions Europe Urged To Make Safeguarding Personal Data A Selling Point How Much Privacy Is Too Much? * General Data Protection Regulation: A Milestone Of The Digital Age © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About California Is Winning The Digital Privacy Fight Comments Feed * From Kodak To Google, How Privacy Panics Distort Policy From Kodak To Google, How Privacy Panics Distort Policy * How Wearable Tech Could Spark A New Privacy Revolution How Wearable Tech Could Spark A New Privacy Revolution California Is Winning The Digital Privacy Fight California Is Winning The Digital Privacy Fight law the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA), a landmark digital privacy law that requires California police to obtain the ACLU of Northern California and an author of Privacy & Free Speech: metadata. The state’s electronic privacy law also means that data on has advanced, digital privacy laws remain stuck in the digital Dark of confusing rules. The federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act As a result, public concern about privacy has grown while confidence in us to help them keep their lives private. We see that privacy is a In its letter of support for the California electronic privacy law, After Gov. Brown signed the electronic privacy law, Adobe wrote in a Electronic Privacy Act is certainly an idea whose time has come. Call For Robust Privacy Legislation In Wake Of EU Safe Harbor Strike-Down Digital Privacy Is "The New Frontier Of Human Rights" Microsoft Urges Reform Of U.S. Government's Surveillance Practices new law will hopefully help jumpstart privacy reform on the federal country who are long overdue in updating privacy laws to protect both * California Is Winning The Digital Privacy Fight © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About The Online Privacy Lie Is Unraveling Comments Feed Live Rowing Is An * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds The Online Privacy Lie Is Unraveling claims that web users are happy to trade privacy in exchange for One thing is clear: the great lie about online privacy is unraveling. its surveillance intelligence on who users are via its ad-targeting various subtle ways, burying privacy settings within labyrinthine slowly this sophisticated surveillance apparatus is being dragged into The privacy costs involved for consumers who pay for ‘free’ services by consenting to invasive surveillance of what they say, where they go, this secretive state surveillance complex. Once governments were for surveillance in the U.S. and Europe. Tech companies have also been Another catalyst for increasing privacy concerns is the Internet of surveillance apparatus that has been developed behind commercially home, the body) — starts to make surveillance infrastructure and its (some) privacy settings. It’s far from perfect, and contains plentiful rather than user privacy per se, but it’s clear that more questions are are happy to trade privacy for free services as a fresh opportunity for into handing over data and having their privacy undermined on the sly. * The Online Privacy Lie Is Unraveling © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About With No European Safe Harbor, Facebook Faces Privacy Complaints On * UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO * Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds * Facebook ‘Class Action’ Privacy Lawsuit Moves To Austrian Facebook ‘Class Action’ Privacy Lawsuit Moves To Austrian Supreme Court * European Facebook Privacy Lawsuit Heads To Court In Vienna European Facebook Privacy Lawsuit Heads To Court In Vienna * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * Facebook ‘Class Action’ Privacy Lawsuit Moves To Austrian Facebook ‘Class Action’ Privacy Lawsuit Moves To Austrian Supreme Court With No European Safe Harbor, Facebook Faces Privacy Complaints On Multiple Facebook’s least favorite Austrian, lawyer and privacy campaigner, Max Schrems, has updated his data protection complaints against the social Irish data protection authority — where his original complaint was contends, undermining fundamental European data protection rights. a statement on his latest data protection complaints. “The court’s with the Belgian data protection authority, and another with the City Europe vs Facebook privacy campaign organization dubs “co-ordinated data privacy war that’s being waged on an increasing number of fronts. of national DPAs when it comes to data protection complaints — Hungarian data protection authority vs a Slovakian property website Hamburg’s data privacy commissioner, Johannes Caspar, also stated: of thinking about privacy as a fundamental right, and outlaws its own mass surveillance programs, there are going to be multiple routes for privacy complaints to be filed in Europe against U.S. companies like being examined by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) at the * With No European Safe Harbor, Facebook Faces Privacy Complaints On © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About National U.S. Privacy Laws Are Needed Comments Feed A Look At Who’s * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws data protection legislation privacy policy * Snapchat Responds To Chatter About Privacy Policy Change Snapchat Responds To Chatter About Privacy Policy Change * Apple Blows Up The Concept Of A Privacy Policy Apple Blows Up The Concept Of A Privacy Policy * How To Explain Your Privacy Policy And Terms Of Service Changes How To Explain Your Privacy Policy And Terms Of Service Changes National U.S. Privacy Laws Are Needed losing one’s privacy also means losing one of humanity’s unique Somehow we missed privacy from the initial design of the Constitution and amendments thereafter. This “right” to privacy was not endowed to Legally, privacy is, at best, a regulation or a state-level law focused overarching privacy laws. Many people in the world do not have a legal Is Privacy A Fundamental Inalienable Right? arbiter of the question. Isn’t privacy more than data? Questions like * Is privacy an immutable attribute of being human, making this the notion of “net neutrality” or cybersecurity legislation that current various forms of cybersecurity legislation should reach into the heart of the matter and focus on whether privacy is a fundamental privacy is a human right. The History Of Privacy Regulation In the U.S., privacy legislation started in the state of California, in the specifics, is that one’s privacy is not a geographic or data-driven matter. One’s privacy is not relative to one’s domicile, Consequences Of No National Privacy Laws not having a national privacy law, which will not change until one is until it no longer holds meaning. Delay of national privacy legislation Is privacy a right? There is a lot to be learned from the debate. of whether or not privacy is a human right and, if so, what we must do whether or not privacy is a right. * data protection legislation * privacy policy * National U.S. Privacy Laws Are Needed © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Apple Blows Up The Concept Of A Privacy Policy Comments Feed Alibaba * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds privacy policy * Snapchat Responds To Chatter About Privacy Policy Change Snapchat Responds To Chatter About Privacy Policy Change * National U.S. Privacy Laws Are Needed National U.S. Privacy Laws Are Needed * How To Explain Your Privacy Policy And Terms Of Service Changes How To Explain Your Privacy Policy And Terms Of Service Changes Apple Blows Up The Concept Of A Privacy Policy Three years ago, a common human being interested in the privacy policy Since then, privacy has become a war cry among tech companies, and none Here’s the gist of the news: Apple is updating its privacy site with The page deals with privacy in products and features like iOS 9’s News Blowing Up The Privacy Policy Privacy is something everyone should care about. But studies continue Part of the reason for this is that the privacy policies of most major case of privacy breaches. Second, if you actually saw the privacy Apple is blowing that up a bit today by expanding on its privacy page continue to answer questions on user privacy — nearly all major tech requests; and, finally, its actual privacy policy. Apple Addresses Privacy Questions About 'Hey Siri' And Live Photo Features EFF's 2015 Data Privacy Report Lauds Apple, Dropbox, Slams Privacy Edward Snowden Supports Apple’s Public Stance On Privacy Apple has been at the forefront of using privacy as a sales tool, but * privacy policy * Apple Blows Up The Concept Of A Privacy Policy © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Privacy & Security on the Internet With These Tools Comments Feed Uber Protect Your Privacy & Security on the Internet With These Tools that you’re lacking in decent privacy and security practices, check out Free Tools For Privacy Verification their privacy practices. There are also some tools to prevent third lists the third parties that it uses in their Privacy Policy, you can privacy management solutions. © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Google, Facebook, Privacy — And You Comments Feed Curebit Apologizes * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds Google, Facebook, Privacy — And You It was entitled “Changes to Google Privacy Policy and Terms of “Our privacy policies remain unchanged”. So what is going on here? privacy policy changes it helps to listen to Sheryl’s remarks and Privacy is becoming a product issue, not only a policy issue. In the past privacy advocates on the Internet were primarily focused on privacy as a policy issue, and the privacy lobby was mainly made up of more mobile. Privacy can go away as an issue if that happens. All * Google, Facebook, Privacy — And You © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About From Kodak To Google, How Privacy Panics Distort Policy Comments Feed * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds From Kodak To Google, How Privacy Panics Distort Policy from another type of clever marketer: professional privacy advocates who routinely say new technologies spell doom to the privacy of those about privacy risks for new technologies. important to recognize that the privacy panic cycle is a detrimental By creating public fears about new technology, privacy advocates When it comes to privacy concerns for nascent technologies, however, a huge privacy backlash. Many people saw its recording function as By creating public fears about new technology, privacy advocates slow privacy fears can lead to ill-conceived policy responses that either We will continue to see the privacy panic cycle distort the public societal benefits. But when privacy advocates merely scare consumers * From Kodak To Google, How Privacy Panics Distort Policy © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Call For Robust Privacy Legislation In Wake Of EU Safe Harbor Cybersecurity alternate alternate TechCrunch WordPress.com * Facebook ‘Class Action’ Privacy Lawsuit Moves To Austrian Facebook ‘Class Action’ Privacy Lawsuit Moves To Austrian Supreme Court * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds Call For Robust Privacy Legislation In Wake Of EU Safe Harbor Strike-Down Consumer Organization and Privacy International — have issued a fundamental privacy rights in the digital era. to safeguarding privacy rights. practical options that advance strong, globally-accepted privacy values update and enforce privacy law,” the group said today. The current legal reality on the U.S.-EU data privacy front includes surveillance by government intelligence agency dragnets — opening the substantial concessions on surveillance and privacy rights. (Yet only government agencies’ surveillance capabilities…) With existing legal frameworks governing data protection under continued pressure from the surveillance state — and new tech challenges to privacy pushing into the frame all the time, whether it’s from AI-powered big data processing or drone surveillance — the EFF et al are pressing the case for “a comprehensive privacy legal privacy experts around the world who could have otherwise benefitted MIT’s Cybersecurity and Internet Policy Research Initiative, said the the FTC and European data protection authorities to engage trying to get the US Congress to pass the Consumer Privacy Bill of data protection regime,” Chester added. * Privacy International + Overview Privacy International is a UK-based organization that defends and promotes the right to privacy across the world. It Privacy International works to fight against unlawful surveillance through advocacy, litigation, and research. It + Full profile for Privacy International * Call For Robust Privacy Legislation In Wake Of EU Safe © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Privacy Concerns Raised Over Kids’ Apps And Websites Comments Feed * State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws * FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds no surprise that a global privacy audit of children’s websites and apps The Global Privacy Enforcement Network, a network of global privacy data protection regulators looking at just under 1,500 websites and Per country results vary, with France’s CNIL data protection agency companies that publicly stand up for privacy will stand out as privacy policies that simply weren’t specific enough, and some * The Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) + Overview The Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) was created to strengthen personal privacy protections in this responsibilities for enforcing domestic privacy laws + Full profile for The Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) * Privacy Concerns Raised Over Kids’ Apps And Websites © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Cockroaches Versus Unicorns: The Golden Age Of Cybersecurity Startups Cockroaches Versus Unicorns: The Golden Age Of Cybersecurity Startups based cybersecurity seed fund. Venture capital (VC) investments in cybersecurity startups continues to Yet, when we look at cybersecurity as a percentage of all VC investments, the picture is somewhat sobering. Cybersecurity is less Cybersecurity exits range. Source: Author’s analysis. Data from It’s baffling as to why enterprise cybersecurity budgets are stuck challenge for cybersecurity entrepreneurs! If we cannot grow at such a pace, VCs won’t pay much attention. Funding in cybersecurity will It’s baffling as to why enterprise cybersecurity budgets are stuck in by several cybersecurity experts I spoke with. I moderated a panel of leading cybersecurity VCs at Venture Alpha West 2015. Asheem Chandna of cybersecurity startups. cybersecurity for more than 15 years. He pointed out that there has never been a better time for cybersecurity entrepreneurs. And while the cybersecurity company, Trustwave. Managed Security Services (MSS) is a aggressively in cybersecurity services. As enterprises migrate to the cybersecurity software in U.S. In March 2015, Thoma Bravo sold Blue cybersecurity arena is because a lot of startups/solutions are niche The bigger question for cybersecurity entrepreneurs is not that of 5 —  needless to say, customers demand data protection and automation. Source: Global Megatrends in Cyber Security, Ponemon Institute, March If cybersecurity companies scale faster, we will see more capital Cybersecurity Startups © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Presidential Candidates Must Articulate Decisive Cybersecurity Plans Cybersecurity Startups Cockroaches Versus Unicorns: The Golden Age Of Cybersecurity Startups Presidential Candidates Must Articulate Decisive Cybersecurity Plans Traditionally, physical security and cybersecurity have been considered two separate entities. The cybersecurity threat, while significant, was change, in that cybersecurity and physical security have now toward cybersecurity and effective monitoring. Our ability to monitor And yet, cybersecurity issues have been noticeably absent from most comprehensive cybersecurity agendas. These include: Security Talent Brain Drain. Cybersecurity is growing fast, and more cybersecurity threats facing us. In fact, Hilary Clinton’s recent bid put in place have proven ineffective. Privacy issues aside, the recent Cybersecurity Plans © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Six Lessons From Cybersecurity Superhero Training Comments Feed * The Biggest Cybersecurity Risk Is Not Identity Theft The Biggest Cybersecurity Risk Is Not Identity Theft Six Lessons From Cybersecurity Superhero Training to cybersecurity? Why can’t we have cybersecurity drills? receive cybersecurity training in any form. We must do something about the lack of cybersecurity education all-day cybersecurity superhero training program at the school to help students and faculty understand basic cybersecurity rules of the road. shot up in the air. The first step for good cybersecurity hygiene is to to what a job in cybersecurity might look like. Hopefully we inspired adhere to cybersecurity basics. * Six Lessons From Cybersecurity Superhero Training © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About Cybersecurity Firm Digital Guardian Raises $66M Comments Feed Qalendra cybersecurity products. Digital Guardian just completed a $66 million The Massachusetts-based cybersecurity firm currently has 265 employees, In what appears to be a trend among several cybersecurity companies at * Cybersecurity Firm Digital Guardian Raises $66M © 2013-2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Aol Tech Privacy Policy About and Controversial New Surveillance Law Comments Feed Facebook Activates France Has a Powerful and Controversial New Surveillance Law legislators in that country passed a sweeping new surveillance law that surveillance cameras and installing keyloggers on their computers, surveillance for “major foreign policy interests” or to counter Surveillance operations are overseen by a nine-person committee led by * Privacy Policy - Updated 9/26/14 TechNewsWorld > Security > Privacy | Next Article in Privacy Survey: Surveillance Is Fine as Long as It's Not on Me Growing concern over surveillance in cyberspace has people changing Survey: Surveillance Is Fine as Long as It's Not on Me government surveillance programs targeting Internet users. Among the measures taken in response to government surveillance were surveillance first revealed by Edward Snowden two years ago, there's an thwart government surveillance leave something to be desired. concern about privacy and what they're doing to address those concerns, noted privacy attorney Alexandra Ross. protect privacy and security," she told TechNewsWorld. "That's an opportunity for privacy advocates to educate users on the "People are concerned about government surveillance but find many of the privacy techniques difficult to use," he told TechNewsWorld. government should curtail its surveillance activities." [end-enn.gif] Consumer Advocates Push FCC on Broadband Privacy Rules Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | How To Advertise TechNewsWorld > Security > Privacy | Next Article in Privacy that the U.S. government is not conducting surveillance on Americans. The real problem is that government surveillance "appears to be done to conduct surveillance of U.S. persons on the grounds of national Mass surveillance is not unnecessarily unlawful, but it's "best under which surveillance is conducted," he told TechNewsWorld. In the long run, though, hacking and surveillance will become a way of Consumer Advocates Push FCC on Broadband Privacy Rules Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | How To Advertise CISA Passes Senate Despite Privacy Advocates' Fear and Loathing legal and cybersecurity experts, the high-tech industry, privacy and CISA Passes Senate Despite Privacy Advocates' Fear and Loathing cybersecurity threat must be removed from data that's shared. help to prevent, investigate or mitigate cybersecurity threats are surveillance, but under the cybersecurity umbrella," said Greg Nojeim, For users, "the result is the same: less privacy and more Consumer Advocates Push FCC on Broadband Privacy Rules Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | How To Advertise TechNewsWorld > Security > Cybersecurity | Next Article in Framing the encryption issue as one of either privacy or security is into my privacy just because the government wants to have the computer Consumer Advocates Push FCC on Broadband Privacy Rules Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | How To Advertise TechNewsWorld > Security > Cybersecurity | Next Article in surveillance or to use them as weapons, as with Stuxnet," she told Snowden, EFF and a number of other privacy advocates raised serious Consumer Advocates Push FCC on Broadband Privacy Rules Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | How To Advertise FTC Debates Cybersecurity Injury Standard ability to initiate cybersecurity violation cases. Depending on the complaint against a company for alleged cybersecurity failures. An FTC consumer harm," said Patricia Wagner, chief privacy officer at Epstein cybersecurity authority under the FTC Act is not without limits, and that the commission must prove that specific cybersecurity incidents Consumer Advocates Push FCC on Broadband Privacy Rules * Privacy as a Service Advocates Promise Better Data Protection Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | How To Advertise Congress Passes Budget Bill With Controversial Cybersecurity Provision Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA. Congress Passes Budget Bill With Controversial Cybersecurity Provision liberal politicians, high-tech firms, and privacy and civil liberty declare that it is being done for cybersecurity purposes. "However, it's a blow to individual privacy rights," he told the Further, it "could sweep away important privacy protections, violate our privacy to get more information they can't effectively would have removed an undisclosed cybersecurity measure, among other Consumer Advocates Push FCC on Broadband Privacy Rules * Privacy as a Service Advocates Promise Better Data Protection Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | How To Advertise E-Commerce Times > Security > Privacy | Next Article in Privacy The NSA's surveillance of Americans' emails, Web searches and phone issue. Bipartisan groups have spoken out against the surveillance and a Surveillance Rights and Wrongs, Part 1: Begging the Questions drop its surveillance and just get the records of suspects from the debate over the NSA's surveillance activities when he ruled that the NSA's surveillance activities by a task force. surveillance of Americans. "The government should always seek to protect the privacy and civil fellow on privacy, surveillance and security at the Center for surveillance and is claimed by the Obama administration to be one of surveillance net. Any two Facebook friends together know practically Privacy activists and others opposed to the NSA's surveillance of Similarly, the NSA has claimed that its surveillance of Americans' is no evidence that surveillance of phone calls -- aimed at providing surveillance is entirely wrong? why is the FISA Court reauthorizing surveillance warrants? Is it time Surveillance Rights and Wrongs, Part 2: No Clear Answers. Consumer Advocates Push FCC on Broadband Privacy Rules * Privacy as a Service Advocates Promise Better Data Protection Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | How To Advertise Concern over government surveillance has been so heightened by the level of surveillance in their countries. That compares to 80 result of surveillance fears, the report notes. For example, 34 percent of mass surveillance can pose," Llansó added. "If you have people who how these mass surveillance programs are undermining democratic Revelations about mass surveillance by the U.S. government not only consequences from surveillance than you do if you live in one. The stronger oversight over government surveillance programs. Act that authorize these surveillance programs are due to expire," Katy Still, the prospects for immediate surveillance reform are dim, Consumer Advocates Push FCC on Broadband Privacy Rules * Privacy as a Service Advocates Promise Better Data Protection Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | How To Advertise