Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
TrustPid calls their pseudo-anonymous tokens “a secure and privacy-friendly” however research has shown that the claims may be more than the reality. Remember the internet runs on use of your personal information… when you share it. ‘Supercookies’ Have Privacy Experts Sounding the Alarm | WIRED UK It appears that the …
Sorry but the headlines below all contain the obvious biscuit pun! Knowing, explicitly, what an organisation plans to do with your personal data when you access a web site or sign up for an online service is an essential step in maintaining your privacy. Have a look at this article …
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This post was originally published on 17 May 2022 Update 19 May 2022 The numbers just keep getting bigger! This article in The Register, has the Irish Council on Civil Liberties, stating that our data is shared up to 987 times a day, when the Real Time Bidding (RTB) industry …
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I am sure you, like me, have disabled cookie tracking in all your browsers. However I am always wary of a software solution, as someone will always write code to circumvent the solution and of course that is what unscrupulous websites have done to re-enable third party tracking cookies on …
You must remember that companies such as Alphabet and Meta, apparently give away services for free and so consequently have huge use bases for their apps. However the cost to you is usually some information about your usage, which they can then monetise, because it takes a lot of money …
I have often written about privacy – it is an important concept that we should all understand – especially if you run a business and process personally identifiable information (PII). Here is a useful article for business owners from The Conversation discussing how UK citizen view and manage their personal …
So you think you know what “privacy is. You probably know that the GDPR addresses privacy and have discussed privacy as part of your compliance – but did you know there is no definition for privacy included in the regulations? I have written an article on the Octagon blog looking …
