Collaborate Disseminate
The annual cryptographer’s panel took on issues of privacy and how new crypto-technologies apply to it in today’s digital world. Continue reading RSAC 2020: Blockchain is ‘Garbage In’, Voting Needs Paper Ballots
Yes, people have the right to be forgotten, but only if they’re European, the top EU court ruled on Tuesday. Continue reading Google wins landmark case: Right to be forgotten only applies in EU
The European Court of Justice ruled that the EU’s “right to be forgotten” rule cannot be enforced outside of Europe.
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The ‘right to be forgotten’ is a legal concept that is fast evolving in the European Union (EU) that could eventually find its way to the US federal law according to data privacy experts. With the amount of personal information flowing arou… Continue reading Data Erasure & The Right to be Forgotten
If you’re savvy with code, you can employ a script that repeatedly alters your Facebook posts with nonsense, making it more difficult for the social media site to collect user data. Continue reading Don’t Just Delete Facebook, Poison Your Data First
Studying Google’s latest transparency report, it’s clear that demand by Europeans to have URLs removed (or “delisted”) from the search giant’s results has dropped off. Continue reading Right to be Forgotten requests stagnate, Google refuses most anyway
A lot of the discussion around GDPR has focused on individual privacy. Thomas Fischer says that’s not what the law is about. It’s about data protection. And the noise around that point is a big misconception. Fischer spoke with CyberScoop for our new podcast series, Decoding GDPR, in order to get the facts straight when it comes to the European law. “It’s not about protecting the individual’s privacy, it’s protecting personal data,” says Fischer, a global security advocate based in London. “The GDPR actually says that it’s there to re-appropriate the person’s data, so that the person owns it. That’s a complete mind shift. If you think about it, companies collect data and think “OK, I’m collecting this data, I own this data, this is my data.’” That mind shift is something companies will have to embrace if they want to be in tune with the law once it goes […]
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Britain’s data proposals will enshrine GDPR’s right to be forgotten in domestic law – but what’s the situation elsewhere? Continue reading Sorry, who did you say you were? We’ve forgotten about you
Google and other sites will likely respond more quickly to a court order. So why not fabricate a lawsuit to speed the whole thing up. Continue reading Want to Remove a Google Result? File a Trumped-Up Lawsuit
By practicing a sort of reverse search-engine optimization, we can participate in a better, nicer, more ethical internet. Continue reading The Kindness of Letting the Internet Forget