Privacy
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GDPR – A Quick Q+A
The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation – better known as GDPR – is now in force. Revolutionizing the data privacy landscape not just in Europe but across the world, GDPR gives individuals greater control and transparency over their personal data. For businesses, it means the bar has been significantly raised for achieving lawful processing
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Consumers Concerned Internet Service Providers Monitor, Share and Sell Personal Data
Internet access is now seen by many to be a human right, a necessity rather than a luxury. Our Internet Service Providers (ISP) are one of the things we love to complain about – the cost, the speed, the reliability are all things that concern us. Another concern that is becoming more widespread is privacy
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Blockchain: Whose identity is it anyway?
There is a rapidly growing array of potential use cases for applying blockchain outside of cryptocurrency. In my last blog post I discussed applying blockchain to software development and DevOps, in this post we’ll talk about identity management and finally getting what should rightfully be yours. There are multiple behemoths in the information ecosystem making
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GDPR Driving Cultural Change in Businesses Globally
The risk of losing benefits—including bonuses—for failure to comply with GDPR policies is a real possibility for employees at one in four organizations worldwide according to a new study. A study from Veritas Technologies, a leader in multi-cloud data management, has found that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has the potential to drive major
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Security without Privacy will Inhibit Creativity
The International Council on Global Privacy & Security by Design is asking people to imagine how many potential life-altering innovations may never arise if our creative community is inhibited from thinking freely. That’s what is at stake if we allow increasing intrusions into our privacy – justified by rising concerns over security – to stifle
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Signing Your Life Away – What is in that Privacy Policy You Just Agreed to?
We have updated our privacy policy When you open Twitter, Facebook or some other social media application, and that annoying message comes up “We have updated our privacy policy, continuing to use this site constitutes your acceptance of our policy”, do you ever go and read the policy to see what you are agreeing to?
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