DPOrganizer, a Swedish startup, announced this week a Series A extension round of €3 million, led by US investor Paladin Capital Group. Ex-compliance executive at iZettle Egil Bergenlind said that he co-founded the company after failing to find a product that would help him store and...
Privacy activists are warning that the Chinese government already has access to iCloud data stores in China-based servers, with emails, pictures and text messages of users now being managed by a division of the state-owned firm, China Telecom. Apple initially partnered with Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry...
Uber internally announced this week that it has hired Ruby Zefo as its first ever Chief Privacy Officer who will be responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of privacy standards, procedures, and processes in every market that Uber operates in. Tony West, Uber's chief legal...
Ireland’s Supreme Court is set to decide whether it will hear Facebook’s appeal against a decision by the High Court’s to refer key issues on the validity of data-transfer channels between the European Union and the United States to the European Court of Justice. The US...
Conservative MP Damian Collins said this week that the Facebook data harvested by Cambridge Analytica researcher Aleksandr Kogan had been accessed in Russia and other countries. Collins, who leads a British parliamentary investigation into online disinformation, says that the ICO discovery revealed that "some of the...
The European Union signed an agreement with Japan this week which recognizes each other’s data protection laws, allowing organizations to transmit personal data between the two regimes without the need for any particular authorization. International law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth noted that while such equivalence agreements...
Singapore’s local pipeline for data protection officers is due to get a boost from a recently announced collaboration that will be focusing on providing training for businesses and workers in the sector. The Data Protection Excellence Network, which was formed by the data protection software firm...
It was revealed that around 50 civil liberties and tech groups are pressuring Congress to ensure that the Email Privacy Act is passed as part of a defense spending package. The coalition, which includes the ACLU, the Brennan Center, Center for Democracy & Technology, the EFF,...
It was revealed this week that a group of universities, certification bodies, law firms and data protection experts have agreed to form an industry network that aims to bolster the data protection capabilities of businesses in the Southeast Asian region. The Data Protection Excellence (Dpex) network,...
Spanish telecommunications provider Telefonica admitted this week that it was hit by a breach that exposed the personal and financial information of millions of Spanish users of the firm’s Movistar services. The breach was discovered by a user who reported it FACUA, a Spanish non-profit that...