A key feature of GDPR was how it echoed concerns from Chief Information Security Officers (CISO’s) around data gathering beyond the need to accomplish a given business task. Big fines and scandals around breaches, and creation of the Data Protection Officer (DPO) role as internal ‘whistleblower’ for nefarious data activities…

If you’re searching for the forefront of innovation in data, and data sharing, there are few places more informative than Helsinki and the annual gathering of the MyData Global community. …

Europe’s competition commissioner Margaret Vestager is in a hurry. At a Brussels event focused on AI and data regulations in mid-April, she responded crisply to comments on the speed of changes the EU is looking to implement. While GDPR took many years to negotiate, today the EU is motoring ahead…

On 2 February the Belgian Data Protection Authority dropped a bomb on the adtech industry. The vast majority of cookie consent popups Europeans face every day are so deeply flawed that not only have they been unlawfully deployed, the data they ‘permitted’ websites to collect must now be deleted. Those…

It’s the end of the (AdTech) world as we know it… With Safari and Firefox already blocking cookies by default, and Google planning to phase out support, the old tools and practices around data are being deprecated and up-ended. The prolonged death of third party cookies is only the latest development in a process that started 10 years ago with laws…

It’s 3 years since I examined similarities between the imminent GDPR and MIFID, or to give its full name Markets In Financial Instruments Directive (II). These sweeping regulations tackle two huge, increasingly convergent industries — financial markets and personal data. What’s been the impact of this ‘double whammy’? The results…

“Minimum Viable Product” “Game-Changer” “Disruptive” “Pivot” A confession: I’ve been using these words for years, without knowing their origin, or what they really mean. There – now that’s out I feel a lot better, and it helps to know I’m not alone in my ignorance, as many memes, blogs and…

“Oh, so you’re doing history, not philosophy” “Privacy is dead. Get used to it. Nothing to think about” These are some gut reactions from friends and colleagues to Carissa Veliz’s choice of privacy for academic study as Associate Professor at Oxford University. …

The window for relying on pen-and-paper guestbooks or digital marketing forms and booking systems is closing fast; for security, data rights and safeguarding, that’s a good thing… The clock is ticking: the UK government recently announced collection of contact details for NHS Test & Trace requirements will be mandatory for…