The Global Privacy Enforcement Network has surveyed 1,200 apps to see how up-front they are with users about what they do with personal data, and the results are predictably ugly. Read more »
The consultancy giant has clients who are fretting about compliance with the incoming “right to be forgotten,” and it’s challenging startups to help build a technological fix. Read more »
The Center for Digital Democracy has accused 30 companies, including Adobe, AOL and Salesforce.com, of breaking a U.S.-Europe data protection agreement — and slammed the FTC itself for not properly policing… Read more »
Vienna’s commercial court has decided it’s not the right place to adjudicate a massive and unprecedented class action suit over Facebook(s fb)’s alleged breaking of European privacy law. As Network World… Read more »
An Austrian “class action” suit against the social network is proving very successful in picking up participants — so much so that the suit’s organizers will soon impose a cap so… Read more »
Facebook nemesis Max Schrems is fed up with what he sees as the ineffectiveness of the Irish data protection regulator, so he’s launched a mega-suit in his home country of Austria… Read more »
A House of Lords committee has slammed the “right to be forgotten” ruling of Europe’s top court, as well as the interpretation of the concept that’s in the new Data Protection… Read more »
The logo is designed to make it clear to consumers when the goods they’re carrying contain an RFID smart chip, and to bring retailers and healthcare and banking companies out of… Read more »
The law requires web services operating in Russia to store citizens’ data in local facilities. It’s supposed to protect Russians from overseas hackers, but the censorship potential is clear. Read more »
The Italian data protection regulator is the latest to crack down on Google’s unified privacy policy, giving the company 18 months to institute serious changes to its data-handling methods. Read more »