Pd

Viviane Reding has been publicising one of the more poetic planks of the upcoming Data Protection Directive reforms, the so-called “right to forget” or from the French (who dreamt it up), the droit a d’oubli. 

The right to forget is intriguing and seems to…

Another useful discovery — DP Thinker — Pangloss isn’t sure to whom we owe the pleasure though. Of course it’s clearly a matter of privacy :-) but anyone want to own up?

Pangloss is in Estonia where she hopes to blog more tomorrow, but in meanwhile, while desperately trying to catch up post far too much Edin Festival indulgence, was delighted to see this tartan trivia below on Lawrence…

Before HK, Pangloss was in lovely Sydney enjoying the hospitality of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at University of New South Wales at SoGikii, aka the conference on the beach at Coogee :-))

SoGikII was bijoux but very interesting. Graham Greenleaf and Ian Brown swapped multi…

As the final part of Pangloss’s catch up of vital reports on privacy and DP that all seem to have emerged while I was on holiday (sigh), the ICO’s own report on its future strategy on DP enforcement needs read. I refer you in the meantime to cogent comments at Naked Law.

Very…

3 Strikes, semper passim :)

Technollama has a good post on Carphone Warehouse’s opposition (in its guise as ISP TalkTalk) to the idea of “3 strikes and you’re out”, and the BPI’s response of threatening…

My colleague Ian Brown of Blogzilla reports on an interesting post on why Facebook may be violating European privacy law.

The article reveals that creating an “exploit” in FaceBook — ie hacking the privacy of unsuspecting users — is trivially easy. All you have to do is use…