The European privacy regulator EDPS is launching two investigations into the use of Amazon’s and Microsoft’s cloud services by EU authorities. The reason is the invalidity of the Privacy Shield treaty between the EU and the United States. The European regulator states that when using the tools and services of major service providers, personal data … Read more
Cyberinsurance giant AXA said that it would no longer be writing policies to cover ransomware payments. Now AXA in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Phillippines have reportedly been hit… by a ransomware attack. The ransomware gang posted on its website over the weekend that it had stolen 3 terabytes worth of data, including: customers’ … Read more
You can not enforce consent by stating the WhatsApp services will otherwise be limited. Consent should be freely given. There is no contractual need for the personal data exchange with Facebook.
Researchers reported on Tuesday that Amazon Web Services System Manager (SSM) misconfigurations led to the potential exposure of more than 5 million documents with personally identifiable information and credit card transactions on more than 3,000 SSM documents.
In Hamburg they go for it! The authority there relies on art 66 GDPR, which in case of urgency ensures that an authority may take action itself without European coordination. The reason is of course the changes in Whatsapp’s privacy policy that would result in data being passed on to Facebook and used there for … Read more
WhatsApp with two billion users around the world. was set to enforce its new data-sharing policy with Facebook on May 15 . Now WhatsApp people will remind and eventually become persistent so that at some point users will “encounter limited functionality on WhatsApp until you accept the updates”, according to WhatsApp. “You won’t be able … Read more
Worldwide Cloud Marketshares in Q3 2020 are 32% by Amazon, 19% Azure and 7% Google Cloud (source: Canalys). Still there is no sound of a real replacement of the Privacy Shield, or a privacy regulation for the transatlantic data exchange, which is is a clear failure of the politicians and can only be remedied by … Read more