Compliance with governmental requests for information raise a minefield of different laws, but data protection/privacy rights hold special pitfalls Determining when the sharing of personal data is legal can be a complicated exercise. Yet, the impetus for governmental agencies to collect and share more and more information is at an unprecedented high. In the EU, … Continue reading
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Geo-Location Data Processing and Meaningful Consent – A Comparison of Latest Data Protection Guidance
Of ‘Mice and Men’ to ‘Maps and Machines’ – “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.” Further to my post in March, the purpose of this sequel post is to continue considering two guidelines published by European regulators regarding the processing of geolocation data. I continue to delve into the cloudy legal … Continue reading
Facebook needs to re-revise its privacy policy says recent Belgian report.
On January 30th 2015, Facebook revised its Data Use Policy (DUP) and Terms of Services. At the request of the Belgian Privacy Commission, ICRI/CIR (KU Leuven) and iMinds-SMIT (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) have conducted an extensive analysis of the revisions. So what does the current version of their report (dated 23rd February 2015) find? Emma Cradock, … Continue reading
Google signs formal undertakings committing it to change its privacy policy for UK online users
‘The hits keep on rolling when you’re Google…’ As previously reported in this blog here and here, Google is rarely out of the headlines when it comes to the daily workloads of European data protection agencies (DPAs). The most recent story is the news from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that Google has signed … Continue reading
Are the Europeans that different from the Americans? Can online service providers rely upon their privacy policies to systematically gather the metadata and content data of online communications in order to detect all sorts of illegal activities and let law enforcement bodies know?
That online service providers (OSPs), including Internet Service providers (ISPs), can do almost all what they want with our data, as long as they have a “decent” privacy policy, has just been confirmed in the US by the very recent decision of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. I have already … Continue reading
Metadata, content data almost the same thing? Yes, implies a N.Y. District Court! But is it for good or bad?
Shira A. Scheindlin, a District Judge from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a very interesting opinion on 28 October 2014 for those eager to know if the distinction between metadata and content data does make sense [members of the Peep Beep! team have already took their pens … Continue reading
Google sent compliance measures over on-going European privacy policy concerns
The European Article 29 Working Party – composed of representatives of EU Member State data protection authorities, the European Data Protection Supervisor and the European Commission – has sent Google a letter setting out a list of compliance measures in respect of the latter’s privacy policy to enable it to meet its obligations under the … Continue reading