About Consent Receipts With GDPR, the need to have proper personally identifiable data (PII)-managing processes in place became a necessity. Consent from the individual is needed in many cases, when PIIs are processed and consent receipts are a transparent way to record a given consent in a standardized way. Having a consent receipt…

The questions of how to create a more fair, transparent and less intrusive data-based society are becoming increasingly louder. Alternative ideas are springing up and the MyData initiative is devoting a three-day conference in September to finding new answers to one of the hottest issues of our times. As members…

It’s been almost exactly a year since we launched the A Week in Privacy (WIP) project under the umbrella of our Privacy Awareness Campaign. And what a year it has been! Privacy as a topic of public debate has exploded from nigh obscurity to a first-class political topic. Privacy is becoming increasingly important to people If the…

Our late summer break is over and we’re back with another issue of A Week in Privacy. This is what you can look forward to reading: A look into Android 10’s new privacy features Credit card, the little spy in your wallet The good and bad of Google’s new “Privacy…

When we were building Fairdrop we knew from the start that we needed to create a library. At the same time, we knew this would enable other developers to build zero data apps faster and easier. Thus fds.js was born. #DRY With the fds.js library, we aim to build a…

Before we take a short summer break, here’s the latest issue of A Week in Privacy. The next issue will be out on September 2nd: GDPR has a dangerous exploit — others could get your data Facebook has to face a privacy-related class-action lawsuit What you actually sign-up for with…

From whistle-blowers, spies and protesters trying to outmanoeuvre high-tech state surveillance, past week’s news from the data economy reads almost like a novel. Here’s the new WIP: Hong Kong: the fight for anonymity on the barricades ECJ: Have a “Like” button? Get consent. Sentient, the surveilling eye in the sky …

As the sands of time shift and slide, so do the ebbs and flows of the news in the data economy. And they have washed up on the shore a new issue of WIP: Another day, another massive data breach The “Retweet” button creator deeply regrets his invention The U.S…

We hope you’re somewhere nice enjoying your time off. But whether you’re still working or having a good holiday there’s always some good reading to be found in WIP: Developers stalled an Android 6 upgrade just to get more data Kazakhstan forces ISPs to intercept people’s encrypted data Israeli spyware…