Gdpr
Gdpr News
Want access to your personal data? Hand over more please and ensure you smile for requested photo ID
To get your personal data, you may have to give up more personal data. It seems awful at first. Alistair Barr of Bloomberg called it “the new privacy circle of hell.”
Tipping the scale: Weighing Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 against EU's GDPR
The present PDP Bill reflects that it embodies the principles of GDPR for liberalisation of cross-border flow of data and data protection.
Here are top three reasons why data protection is required in every business
Security breaches are costly and have detrimental effects on any organisation and cause a lot of damage.
British Airways is facing a $230 mn fine over data theft involving 5,00,000 customers
The hack involved traffic to the British Airways website being diverted to a fraudulent site.
What does 'Right to be forgotten' mean in the context of the #MeToo campaign
The Delhi HC says that #MeToo campaign cannot turn into an unbridled sullying campaign.
La Liga fined €250,000 by Spanish data protection agency for misusing app
Spain’s top professional football division said in a statement that it has always complied with data protection regulations and denied breaking the law.
BioMethics: understanding bioethics issues and its aspects in biomedical engineering
Incorporate insights on bioethical principles into clinical research is the need of the hour.
GDPR compliance: Ignorance of EU data protection law may cost Indian firms dear
Indian companies have to follow multiple legislation (local and global), increased cost of compliance and loss of business in some cases in the GDPR era.
Data protection law is the need of the hour to protect privacy in the era of AI
There is a dire need of a regulator and legal safety net to protect user’s data
Irish regulator opens first privacy probe into Google over handling of personal data
The probe comes after complaints that Google is playing fast and loose with people's data.
Facebook has been targeting politicians to lobby against data privacy laws: Report
Facebook even threatened to withhold investments until countries promised to support friendly laws.
Facebook's lead regulator in the EU to conclude first of investigation by summer
The other probes relate to complaints by users in relation to how Facebook processes personal data.
Germany’s antitrust watchdog objects to Facebook’s data collection practices
The cartel office objected in particular to how Facebook acquires data on people from third-party apps.
Data protection to scale new heights in 2019 thanks to GDPR-like regulations globally
2019 will see businesses of all sizes streamlining their operations to accommodate the new legislation to avoid, detect and recover from a data breach.
Google faces $57 million fine from France for breaching EU online privacy rules
France says that Google lacks transparency in the way it handles of personal data.
Austrian data privacy activist files EU complaint against Apple, Amazon, Netflix
Data privacy activist allege Apple, Netflix and others to have withheld user’s private data.
Popular third-party apps sending personal user data to Facebook without asking: Study
In response to the report, Facebook said that it users should be aware on when an app sends data.
Poor security, privacy regulations may lead to new vulnerabilities: Report
While countries like Canada, Brazil have already passed their own data protection rules, India is considering its own norms.
MHA notification: Debate on digital surveillance must move beyond privacy and data protection laws
The answer to the never-ending streams of surveillance news lie in alternative ideas of data governance.
Irish regulator investigates Facebook for exposing private photos of 6.8 mn users
The investigation is to determine whether Facebook had complied with strict new EU privacy rules.