Mark Halper reports: Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin has a wake-up call for the world’s digital citizens: Beware of the tech giants lurking behind your screens and keyboards. Falque-Pierrotin—current head of France’s CNIL (National Commission on Informatics and Liberty) and the “Article 29 Working Party,” a group of European Union data-protection advocates—believes we are sleepily handing over personal data in droves without…
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Covington Webinar: The EU General Data Protection Regulation – What’s Next and What It Means For Your Business
From Covington & Burling: As we recently covered on this blog, on June 15, the Council of Ministers of the EU reached a long-awaited ‘common approach’ on a revised text of the proposed General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Covington will be running a webinar on July 1, repeated on July 2 to accommodate attendees from different timezones, at…
If the Empire in Star Wars Had Big Data
Dan Solove wrote this in May, but because I’m not on LinkedIn, I missed it, it seems. . . . the Empire would have won. A search of records would have revealed where Luke Skywalker was living on Tatooine. A more efficient collection and aggregation of Jawa records would have located the droids immediately. Simple…
Mandatory vacation?
Well, I planned to do some news updates while I’m on vacation, but it turns out I couldn’t get a wifi connection at my friend’s home – or an ethernet one. Not sure why my American Apple products are having trouble here and BT support threw up their hands after 49 minutes. So… updating will…