Privacy International

Communications Law Bulletin interview with Commissioner Kind

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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ICO finds the Home Office’s pilot of GPS electronic monitoring of migrants breached UK data protection law

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Saturday, March 9, 2024
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Home Office pilot scheme failed to assess privacy intrusion of GPS monitoring.

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Home Office pilot scheme failed to assess privacy intrusion of GPS monitoring.

Highlights - PEGA: "Spyware used in third countries and implications for EU foreign relations" - Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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PEGA: "Spyware used in third countries and implications for EU foreign relations"

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  • PEGA: "Spyware used in third countries and implications for EU foreign relations"
    This PEGA hearing, organized on 15 December in association with AFET Committee, will look whether the use of the Pegasus or equivalent surveillance spyware, directly or indirectly involving entities linked to the EU, contributed to illegal spying on journalists, politicians, diplomats, lawyers, business people, civil society actors in 3rd countries and whether it led to human rights violations that are of serious concern as regards the objectives of the EUs common foreign and security policy.
  • Programme of the hearings
    09.00 Opening remarks by the Chair of the Committee
    09.05 - 09.35 Panel 1:
    Mr Omer Benjakob, Cyber & Disinformation Reporter for Haaretz
    Ms Ilia Siatitsa, Programme Director and Senior Legal Officer, Privacy International
    Mr Guilhem Giraud, Expert, surveillance technologies
    09.35 - 10.40 Discussion: Q&A session based on the principles of catch-the-eye and ping-pong
    10.40 - 11.00 Panel 2:
    Mr Pedro Vaca Villareal, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
    Ms Marta Hirsch-Ziembinska, Principal Adviser on the Charter of Fundamental Rights, European Ombudsman
    11.00 - 11.50 Discussion: Q&A session based on the principles of catch-the-eye and ping-pong
    11:50 Closing remarks by the Chair of the Committee

Data Privacy Consultancy Securys Expands to Pursue New Market in Ireland

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Thursday, February 25, 2021
Professional services, Data management, Security, Technology, Legal, Consulting, Digital rights, Human rights, Articles, Terms of service, Identity management, Privacy law, Social issues, Internet privacy, Right to privacy, Privacy, Consumer privacy, Privacy International

The largest specialist privacy consultancy in the UK, Securys has earned a reputation for integrating the fundamental human right to privacy into a business proposition that wins client companies a competitive edge.

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  • The largest specialist privacy consultancy in the UK, Securys has earned a reputation for integrating the fundamental human right to privacy into a business proposition that wins client companies a competitive edge.
  • Doing data privacy well does more than merely complying with regulation: it increases customer and staff retention and drives sales growth.
  • Securys is pioneering economic, consumer and employee research to help companies understand the positive impact of data privacy in hard numbers.
  • We deliver a full suite of privacy needs, from strategic consultancy and implementation to managing data flows.

Policy Brief: Location Data Under Existing Privacy Laws

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Articles, Social issues, Digital rights, Human rights, Identity management, Privacy law, Terms of service, Privacy, Internet privacy, Personal data, Privacy International, Privacy Office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

The Future of Privacy Forum released a new policy brief,Location Data Under Existing Privacy Laws.

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  • The Future of Privacy Forum released a new policy brief,Location Data Under Existing Privacy Laws.
  • Defining and regulating location data in a privacy law can be an elusive challenge.
  • Existing legal and self-regulatory regimes in the United States (and globally) approach location data in a variety of ways that may serve as a model for policymakers.
  • Read the policy brief to learn about the challenges associated with defining location data, when location data is considered personal data, and the specific legal protections for location data in the United States and around the world.

Winston & Strawn Launches New Global Privacy & Data Security Practice

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Monday, August 24, 2020
Data security, Data protection, Social issues, Information privacy, Policy, Privacy, Privacy International, National Privacy Commission

"Our international team is poised to advise clients around the world on trade secret protection and investigations, cyber-investigations and data security class action litigation, and international data protection."

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  • "Our international team is poised to advise clients around the world on trade secret protection and investigations, cyber-investigations and data security class action litigation, and international data protection."
  • Sheryl Falk draws on her deep expertise in privacy, data security, and forensic technology, as well as her strong litigation background as a former federal prosecutor, to handle complicated privacy and data protection issues.
  • Sheryl concentrates her practice on privacy and data security counseling and diligence, providing strategic advice to mitigate privacy and data security risk in emerging technology, investigating trade secret theft, leading data security incident response, and handling privacy and trade secret litigation.
  • She focuses her practice in the areas of Regulated Personal Information, privacy and data security counseling, security breach response and regulatory defense, marketing and data ownership issues, corporate advisory services and outsourcing, and large-scale commercial contracting.

Combatting COVID-19 through data: some considerations for privacy

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Friday, April 17, 2020
Social issues, Human rights, Law, Data security, Privacy, Digital rights, Identity management, Internet privacy, Information privacy, Medical privacy, Privacy International

Data protection law was seen as a way to support innovation by assuring people that checks were in place to prevent the build-up of intrusive pictures of their lives.

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  • Data protection law was seen as a way to support innovation by assuring people that checks were in place to prevent the build-up of intrusive pictures of their lives.
  • That feels very relevant today, as we look at how contact tracing projects and location tracking could help us combat the pandemic.
  • But, as with any new technology, the public need to have confidence that it is being used in a fair and proportionate way.
  • This week, the ICO used our position as chair of both the Global Privacy Assembly of privacy regulators and the OECD Working Party on Data Governance and Privacy to bring together more than 250 commissioners, government representatives, privacy professionals and key stakeholders to debate these issues in a virtual meeting.

Is foreign interference a threat to political campaigns?

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Saturday, February 1, 2020
Elections, Privacy International, Political campaign, Democracy, Think tank, United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, World, Articles

Is foreign interference a threat to political campaigns?

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  • Is foreign interference a threat to political campaigns?
  • The Democracy and Digital Technologies Committeewill next week take evidence on transparency and democratic resilience in political campaigns.
  • Witnesses include Paddy McGuiness, former Deputy National Security Advisor as well as campaigning groups and think tanks including Privacy International, the Open Rights Group and the Royal United Services Institute.
  • Tuesday 4 February in Committee Room 2, Palace of Westminster
    Jessica Cecil, Director of the BBC Online Project, BBC
    The evidence session will cover the extent of foreign interference in UK elections including the recent general election, whether foreign interference is aimed at specific goals or generally undermining faith in our institutions, how the role of regulators such as the Electoral Commission can be changed to better protect democracy and how we can better control the microtargeting of voters by political campaigners on social media.

Is foreign interference a threat to political campaigns?

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Saturday, February 1, 2020
Elections, Privacy International, Political campaign, Democracy, Think tank, United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, World, Articles

Is foreign interference a threat to political campaigns?

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  • Is foreign interference a threat to political campaigns?
  • The Democracy and Digital Technologies Committeewill next week take evidence on transparency and democratic resilience in political campaigns.
  • Witnesses include Paddy McGuiness, former Deputy National Security Advisor as well as campaigning groups and think tanks including Privacy International, the Open Rights Group and the Royal United Services Institute.
  • Tuesday 4 February in Committee Room 2, Palace of Westminster
    Jessica Cecil, Director of the BBC Online Project, BBC
    The evidence session will cover the extent of foreign interference in UK elections including the recent general election, whether foreign interference is aimed at specific goals or generally undermining faith in our institutions, how the role of regulators such as the Electoral Commission can be changed to better protect democracy and how we can better control the microtargeting of voters by political campaigners on social media.

Pseudonymisation high on the agenda on day two of the International CPDP Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence Conference

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Friday, January 24, 2020
Data security, Privacy, Social issues, Data protection, Privacy International, National data protection authority, Information privacy

The panel included Giuseppe D'Acquisto, senior technology advisor for the Italian Data Protection Authority, Ailidh Callander, a lawyer at Privacy International, Steffen Weiss, legal counsel for data protection and head of international affairs at the German Society for Data Protection and Data Security; and Magali Feys, a specialist technology lawyer at AContrario.Law.

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  • The panel included Giuseppe D'Acquisto, senior technology advisor for the Italian Data Protection Authority, Ailidh Callander, a lawyer at Privacy International, Steffen Weiss, legal counsel for data protection and head of international affairs at the German Society for Data Protection and Data Security; and Magali Feys, a specialist technology lawyer at AContrario.Law.
  • Anonos has been working in the data protection and enablement space since 2012 enabling lawful data use for numerous companies across the globe.
  • As a world-leading multidisciplinary conference CPDP offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection.
  • This unique multidisciplinary formula has served to make CPDP one of the leading data protection and privacy conferences in Europe and around the world.