From the Information Commissioner’s Office: We have today launched a new audit framework designed to help organisations assess their own compliance with key requirements under data protection law. The framework empowers organisations to identify necessary steps to improve their data protection practices and create a culture of compliance. It provides them with a starting point to evaluate how…
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Job Opening: Hiring a Dean for Privacy & Technology Law at GW Center for Law and Technology
I don’t usually post job listings on this site, but am making an exception for this message from privacy law scholar Dan Solove: Hiring a Dean for Privacy & Technology Law I’m very excited to report that GW Law is hiring a dean to help run our Privacy & Technology Law Program and our Center…
The UN is moving to fight cybercrime but privacy groups say human rights will be violated
Michael Weissenstein reports: A global deal on the criminal use of computer technology is moving ahead despite worries it will let governments around the world violate human rights by probing electronic communications and bypassing privacy safeguards. Nearly 200 nations approved the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime on Thursday afternoon at a special committee meeting that capped months of complicated…
GPEN Sweep finds majority of websites and mobile apps use deceptive design to influence privacy choices
July 9, 2024 Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta participated in research that led to today’s conclusions A global privacy sweep that examined more than 1,000 websites and mobile applications (apps) has found that nearly all of them employed one or more deceptive design patterns that made it difficult for users to make privacy-protective decisions….