Data Protection Supervisor News Today

A controversial push by European Union lawmakers to legally require messaging platforms to scan citizens' private communications for child sexual abuse A controversial push by European Union lawmakers to put a legal requirement on messaging platforms to scan citizens' private digital communications if they receive an order to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) could lead to millions of false positives per day, hundreds of security and privacy experts are warning in an open lette...

Non-compliant Data Controllers in business organizations are in hot waters as Ghana’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has begun...

Complying with the GDPR often means treading a fine line

On June 22, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a judgment concluding that banks are not exempt from providing information upon request about when and why an...

As we’ve written about before, the question of anonymization can be tricky.  When is something “anonymized” or merely “de-identified” or “pseudonymous” — and when does it matter?  This...

On 2 March 2023 the European Parliament's Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) brought together experts on cybersecurity and data protection during a workshop entitled 'Pegasus affair: the end of privacy and cybersecurity?'.

Businesses are born from the hopes and dreams of their founders. Practical experience, however, has shown that businesses live and die among others by their ability to adapt to changing trends – in the consumer, economic, social, and governmental landscape, etc. A good example is how the outbreak of the…

A new police deal to share data with law enforcement in Europe has been done when Europol is being sued for harvesting screes of data about ordinary citizens.

European consumer groups accused Google on Thursday of violating online privacy by pushing their users to blindly sign-in to a Google account in order for their data to be tracked and exploited for profit. The allegations are being filed under the EU’s GDPR rules, a European data privacy regulation that is designed to ensure that […]

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs