If you use WhatsApp (and you are one of 2 billion if you do) you will have seen messages inviting you to accept new terms, in which WhatsApp and Facebook can share data. You can skip them for now, but you will need to accept them by 8th February to continue using WhatsApp. However, Facebook […]
Technology
Passwords 101
The Dutch authorities have confirmed that a Dutch ‘ethical hacker’ managed to access President Donald Trump’s Twitter account in October. The security research revealed screenshots of the President’s Twitter account, and he states that it only took 4 attempts to guess the password. For a long time, I have been recommending the use of a […]
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A cornerstone of being able to demonstrate compliance with data protection regulations and best practice, is to know exactly what personal you hold, what it’s used for, who has access to it and how long it should be retained for. Larger organisations have a statutory responsibility to hold a Record of Processing Activities (“RoPA”), but […]
Remember Netscape? The EU does …
The EU-EK Trade and Cooperation agreement, commonly known as the post-Brexit trade deal, is clearly a mammoth document (all 1,276 pages of it) and so parts must have been copied and pasted from earlier documents. However, a number of commentators have expressed surprise that some mistakes slipped through, including references to Netscape and Mozilla Mail […]
UK GDPR – important quick update
Normal service will be resumed with the full range of insight newsletters next week, but I wanted to give you a quick update on where we are: The UK signed the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on 30th December, and this came into effect on 1st January 2021. One piece of this (clause 4 on […]