I think I am suffering indigestion, but it’s not from the delicious breakfast served at the opening event to mark Privacy Awareness Week this year.  It’s more like mental indigestion, as my brain tries to absorb all the nutrients found in the smorgasbord of news, insights, opinion, legal developments and regulatory guidance dished up to…

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Hollywood heartthrob Bradley Cooper is a bad tipper.  That was the conclusion drawn by media – though denied by his PR rep – when data about 173 million New York taxi trips became public. But I drew a different and more disturbing conclusion, which was how easy it is to get privacy ‘wrong’, when a…

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Search engines are wondrous things. I myself use Google search umpteen times a day. I don’t think I could work or play without it anymore. And yet I am a strong supporter of the contentious “Right to be Forgotten”. The “RTBF” is hotly contested, and I am the first to admit it’s a messy business….

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This week I had the pleasure of attending a seminar on the Risk-Based Approach to Privacy.  The keynote speaker was Richard Thomas, the former UK Data Protection Commissioner – although as he pointed out in his speech, he never liked the European term ‘data protection’, because privacy is about protecting people. Richard elaborated on a…

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Does your organisation have a program to train staff about their privacy obligations?  Have you identified technical or procedural ways to minimise the risk of privacy breaches such as unauthorised access to records? If you can’t point to demonstrable and proactive steps you have taken to prevent privacy breaches, your organisation could be found in…

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