Convicted murderer wins ‘right to be forgotten’ case

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 10:42:42 +0000

Google must remove details of a convicted murderer from its search results in Europe following a German court ruling, it emerged last week.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/47Q_Tu6HuIg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Read more

Brave accuses Google of sidestepping GDPR

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:24:53 +0000

A senior executive at private browser company Brave has accused Google of using a workaround that lets it identify users to ad networks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/lKGgZf-nQcM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Read more

GDPR privacy can be defeated using right of access requests

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:07:10 +0000

A British researcher has uncovered an ironic, gaping security hole in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – right of access requests.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/EyJdhSW2bqw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Read more

You can probably be identified from your anonymized data

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:59:13 +0000

The idea of de-identifying data has been around for a while. However, a study published this week asserts that it’s even easier to re-identify information than we first thought.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/K0vDv3n7Irg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Read more