According to local media RTE last Saturday, all airlines flying in and out of Ireland will have to provide traveler information to the country’s authorities in advance. Irish Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan, who proposed the new rule, said that the move was consistent with...
According to the 13th Accenture Strategy Global Consumer Pulse Research, almost 41% of Irish consumers are wary of technologies that accurately interpret their needs, while 39% fear that smart services will collect too much information on them and their family. As many as 94% of Irish...
Under the new cybersecurity bill which was passed in the Singaporean Parliament earlier this week, the Commissioner of Cybersecurity will be given powers to demand data or seize computers from owners of critical information infrastructure (CII) and also non-CII systems considered to be essential for...
A new small-scale global survey by Commvault recently showed that only 12% of Canadian businesses may be prepared for the GDPR which will be taking effect in May this year. According to Matt Tyrer, senior manager & solutions marketing for Americas at Commvault in Ottawa, a...
It was revealed earlier this week that a feature which will remove referrer information from URLs has been introduced in Firefox 59’s Private Browsing Mode. Referrer information is data sent by the browser when a user clicks on a link. This data tracks the origin of...
Researchers from Qatar University and Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha were recently able to connect the identities of around 125 users to Bitcoin wallets that have been used in the dark web for suspected illicit activities. Previously thought to be untraceable, the researchers were able...
It was recently reported that Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Craig Latimer and other election experts in Florida are pushing for the enactment of a broad new public records exemption for the latest session. Brevard Supervisor Lori Scott said that there are incidents where “shaming mailers” run...
In a recent interview , chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology Joseph Lorenzo Hall ridiculed the proposal of top Justice Department official Rod Rosenstein on encryption. The deputy attorney general had been advocating for the use of “responsible encryption” as a common...
A recent report by market research company Forrester found that a lot of organizations are still not ready for the EU GDPR which will be coming into force May this year. Forrester says that only a quarter of organizations across the bloc may be ready for...
A report called "The True Cost of Compliance with Data Protection Regulations" by the Ponemon Institute recently established that the costs of compliance is less than non-compliance. It is said that smaller companies with 5000 employees or less will bear the brunt of compliance costs....