Data transfers to countries outside the European Economic Area are only legal if –in addition to the requirement of a legal basis or the data subject's consent– an adequate level of data protection in that country can be guaranteed. One way this can be [...]
This so happened in Ohio last fall, when a man was convicted of aggravated arson and insurance fraud based on evidence provided by the data from his cardiac pacemaker. A man, whose house had burnt down, was investigated against after traces of fire accelerant [...]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the US regulatory authority that ensures compliance with the principles of net neutrality, which were established by the Commission’s Open Internet Order in February 2015. Net neutrality means that all [...]
On February 13, the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 passed both Houses of Parliament after two previous attempts to establish such notification obligation were unsuccessful. This means that Australians will need to be notified [...]
If it weren’t for the hyphen, one might say – finally! While it remains to be hoped that social media posts stay with the truth, this article discusses so-called fake news – a phenomenon that currently plagues us and is alleged to have influenced the [...]
The decision that the jurisdiction to issue search warrants concerning foreign data centers lies with the local authorities and not with U.S. courts still stands. In July 2016, a U.S. federal appeals court had ruled that Microsoft is not obliged to grant [...]
Apple store employees accused of having accessed and shared female customers’ photos. According to the Australian newspaper, The Courier-Mail, there have been reports of employees in the Apple Store in Carindale near Brisbane, Australia secretly having ta [...]
