The European Commission is going after cloud computing, the online data storage business dominated by big American companies. A draft bill seeks to address concerns about dependence on a small group of providers: chiefly Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The bill creates an oversight system designed “to preserving the Union’s … Read more
Last Thursday in the Northern District of California, Brittany Conditi filed a class-action complaint against Instagram and its parent company Facebook for invasion of privacy alleging that Instagram accessed users’ smartphone cameras when not using features that would require camera access, despite the defendants’ representations to the contrary. Specifically, the party who initiated the lawsuit averred … Read more
According to researchers at the American Ponemon Institute, cyber attacks are the leading cause of data leaks, followed by technical defects, configuration errors in the cloud and human error. The “Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020” study conducted by IBM among 3,200 people from 524 organizations shows that the average cost per leaked or … Read more
One month after the cancellation of the data treaty “Privacy Shield” between the EU and the US, privacy activist Max Schrems is taking websites to court that still send data to the US. There are also 8 Belgian and Dutch ones being sued: PostNL, Takeaway, Marktplaats and Lieferando. A month after that ruling, the Schrems … Read more
The European Court of Justice has declared the Privacy Shield Treaty between the EU and the United States invalid. Privacy Shield regulates the exchange of personal data between companies in the European Union and the US. According to the Court, personal data of EU citizens stored in the United States is not sufficiently protected. The … Read more