Interview with the Norwegian Data Protection Commissioner
This interview was conducted by SafeGov with Norwegian Data Protection Commissioner Director Bjørn Erik Thon in Oslo in early October 2012. Thon has been the Commissioner for two years. Prior to that...
View ArticleEuropean Data Protection, Cloud Business Models on Collision Course
I attended the recent Europe Data Protection Congress in Brussels hosted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). After three days of attending sessions, listening to some of...
View ArticleA SafeGov Conversation with the Polish DPA
SafeGov recently had the opportunity to speak with the Inspector General of the Polish Data Protection Authority (Ochrony Danych Osobowych), Wojciech Wiewiórowski. Below is an edited transcript of our...
View ArticleCan Europe’s Data Protection Authorities Force a Change in Google’s Business...
Europe’s Data Protection Authorities have made a bold new move in their long-running fight to compel changes in Google’s controversial privacy policy. After repeated warnings that the policy violates...
View ArticleEU Regulatory Action Should Be Paired with Preventative Action
European regulators have decided to pursue joint legal action against Google in the most coordinated effort to date against the Internet services provider by national regulatory authorities. In...
View ArticleEU Privacy and the Cloud: Consent and Jurisdiction Under the Proposed Regulation
Cloud computing allows dramatic flexibility in information processing—and on a global basis. Its technology permits data transmissions that span the globe. Computing activities now shift from...
View ArticleSafeGov.org Survey of European Data Protection Officials
Survey Supports Stronger Privacy Protection for European School Children Today, after months of interviews with Data Protection Authorities and policymakers across Europe, SafeGov.org published the key...
View ArticleWanted: An International Rule of Law for Cloud Data
By SafeGov Contributor, Michael Chertoff. If we don’t figure out a new way of resolving legal conflicts, the universal Web as we know it may soon be Balkanized. Global companies will be subject to...
View ArticleWhy Your Data May Need a Passport
By SafeGov Contributor, David Canellos. The cloud empowers us with the flexibility to access data anytime and anywhere, but it’s where that data actually is processed and resides (think servers) that...
View ArticleThe LEADS Act: A Transatlantic Olive Branch from the U.S. to Europe Over...
By Jeff Gould, SafeGov. A group of American senators from both parties are offering Europe an olive branch in the transatlantic war of words over Internet surveillance. Concretely, they propose to...
View ArticleProtect Electronic Conversation Privacy Today
By SafeGov Contributor, Michael Chertoff. Because they instinctively and practically recognize this similarity, American citizens increasingly want equivalent privacy protections for their own...
View ArticleSurveillance Law in Dire Need of Reform: The Promise of the LEADS Act
By SafeGov Contributor, Professor Daniel J. Solove. The law regulating government surveillance and information gathering in the United States is in dire need of reform. This law, which consists of the...
View ArticleA Message from Parents: Advertising and Education Do Not Mix
By Jeff Gould, SafeGov. A new survey by privacy advocate SafeGov of parents in a large American city confirms what most sensible people already believed: parents want corporate-sponsored advertising...
View ArticleHow the U.S. and EU Can Find a Path Forward After Snowden
By Jeff Gould, SafeGov. The seemingly endless stream of revelations from Edward Snowden about the surveillance activities of U.S. intelligence agencies have put the EU in a bind. Despite the occasional...
View ArticleUpdating Global Cyber Law Enforcement
By SafeGov Contributor, Paul Rosenzweig. The world’s cyber network is growing exponentially. As it grows, criminality and malfeasance have followed. But law enforcement is, unfortunately, still mired...
View ArticleSafeGov.org statement on European Commission action against Google
SafeGov.org Statement: Public and private sector contracts should prohibit profiling and exploitation of user data Today, in response to the European Commission’s actions against Google finding that...
View ArticleIs Android a threat to privacy?
By Jeff Gould, SafeGov. The EC investigation of Android has implications for privacy as well as antitrust This week the European Commission took not one but two momentous actions against Google. The...
View ArticleEU trades privacy reform for surveillance
By SafeGov Contributor, Bryan Cunningham. A strange — and strangely unnoticed — trend is emerging in the evolving global response to massive 2013 leaks about US surveillance activities. While our...
View ArticleConsidering accessibility as part of the public procurement process is an...
By SafeGov Contributor, Tracy Mitrano. Last week the world recognised Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which aims to draw the attention of all communities to digital accessibility. Making technology...
View ArticleHow accessibility in the cloud could redefine European citizenship
By SafeGov Contributor, Tracy Mitrano. Adoption of harmonised requirements for accessibility will also help the European Union on legal access fronts. Harmonised requirements remove barriers and...
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