Category: Privacy

  • Data Protection Day 2022 – Data Dystopia is here already!

    Data Protection Day 2022 – Data Dystopia is here already!

    Happy Data Protection Day 2022! I was invited by Santander Work Café to give a talk today (thank you for the invitation!) on Data Protection Day. My talk was initially inspired by two main events; 1.      A recent hack and compromise of an account (twice!) despite having 2FA on (also known as two factor, two-step or multi-factor authentication).…

  • Who has your data?

    Who has your data?

    Everything you do online leaves a trace, but that doesn’t make it something to be feared. As ever, knowledge is key, and as scandals such as one involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica break, and then wash over us, we find out a little more about what will become (if it isn’t there already) one of…

  • Data Protection: Risks, Rights & Solutions

    Data Protection: Risks, Rights & Solutions

    I just gave a talk during Data Protection Week here in Jersey as part of our regulator, the Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner’s series of events. Here is a selection of the slides I used; You do have rights and you should exercise them!