Tag: Privacy
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John Lewis’s data sharing
Another day, another alarming example of data sharing that unfortunately hasn’t changed much… The Financial Times originally published the article with this insightful map in January 2018 (ahead of GDPR) about John Lewis, a supposedly ethical retailer (to be fair, their privacy policy is well-written) as an example of data capture & sharing – the article is…
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BLOKK: Stop Tracking Me
Did you know that nearly all of your apps are leaking data? At Revoke, we recently launched a new app: BLOKK. Without BLOKK, your phone is leaking data and you have no visibility or control over what is happening! Apple claims to be privacy-centric… Google makes no such claims… many app developers do not inform…
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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).…
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Online Privacy in a Post-COVID World
I recently gave a talk to the PrivSec Global virtual conference about online privacy after Covid. The coronavirus pandemic has had seismic effects across society and business as a whole and the challenges it has brought to data protection are huge. The speed of change required and the unpredictable nature of pandemics had made it…
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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!