The panel "will deal with search engines in general and scrutinize their activities from a data-protection point of view, because this issue affects an ever-growing number of users," it said in a statement on Thursday.
He cites the NHS as having a particularly poor record on data protection, and points to the large fines the ICO has imposed on health service organisations because they have lost memory sticks, or their contractors have sold NHS hard drives on eBay.
She also sees limitations with GDPR, from a children's data protection perspective — pointing out that, for example, it does not prohibit the profiling of children entirely (stating only that it "should not be the norm").
Leaving data protection advocates to point out the folly of risking the security of all users… So tl dr: get ready for yet another chapter of the crypto wars.
Leaving data protection advocates to point out the folly of risking the security of all users… So tl dr: get ready for yet another chapter of the crypto wars.
"How products store, manage and secure keys and passwords is the most common failure point in assuring data protection," Chester Wisniewski of Sophos points out.
Andrea Jelenik, the leader of the Article 29 Working Party, an organization of E.U. data protection enforcers, specifically pointed Wednesday to Facebook's multibillion dollar stock losses.
Computers have no disk drives; hardly any data are downloaded; mobile phones and cameras are banned.Ironically, MphasiS's boss, Jerry Rao, chairs NASSCOM's security forum, and has campaigned for standards to be raised higher than those prevailing in Britain and America, in order to make data protection a selling-point for India.
And as myriad security experts, tech industry bodies and data protection advocates continue to point out, backdoored encryption inevitably entails security risks for all users — not just for the suspects security agencies want to target.
And as myriad security experts, tech industry bodies and data protection advocates continue to point out, backdoored encryption inevitably entails security risks for all users — not just for the suspects security agencies want to target.
And that's as it should be given the point of data protection legislation is to encourage companies to prioritize security, not overlook it.
