My original title was “Data Security vs Data Protection[…]”, but an unfortunate number of people see these as pretty much the same thing, even interchangeable. Then I chose Cybersecurity instead of Data Security but that doesn’t cover all forms/formats of personal data, so I finally had to settle on Information Security.
As for Data Protection, it’s not, in and of itself Privacy, and so on…
Continue reading “Information Security vs Privacy, are the Lines Blurring?”I’ve already written on the subject of privacy several times, and will likely be regurgitating a lot of what I’ve said previously, but an article I read last week really pissed me off; Three Reasons Why the “Nothing to Hide” Argument is Flawed. It’s exactly this kind of absolutist nonsense [from both sides of the privacy ‘debate’] that makes true progress so bloody difficult.
Continue reading “The Right to Privacy: Don’t Tell Me I Have to Care!”You could almost be forgiven in thinking that words/phrases like; ‘pseudonymised’, ‘anonymised’, ‘access control’ or ‘encrypted’ are all that is required when reporting your technical and organisational security measures for Article 30 – Records of Processing Activities.
Almost.
Continue reading “GDPR: Reporting Your “Technical and Organisational Security Measures””Well, here we are, close of business May 25th, and oh look!, the sun is still shining, the world is still spinning, and no one [decent] went out of business.
What we do have however is an indication of who the world’s biggest muppets are. For example:
Continue reading “GDPR: Now We Know Who the Muppets Are”Even as a data protection novice, the GDPR makes sense to me. I get it. I may be partly wrong in some assumptions, but I am comfortable enough in my understanding of the intent of the Recitals and Articles to ask the right people the right questions.
All, that is, with the exception of Recital 80 / Article 27 – Representatives.
Continue reading “GDPR: How Will ‘Representatives’ Work?”