Data protection and the right to privacy are two given rights enshrined within the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a first attempt to ensure European citizens’ data is handled and processed in line with these fundamental rights. Two proposed regulations [...]
Twenty-five million: the entire population of Australia, the amount of money “Crazy Rich Asians” made at the box office its second week in theatres, and the number of people in the rural United States without access to the internet. That’s right, 25 million rural Americans are part of an underserved [...]
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Supreme Court Justices will hear oral arguments in the ongoing United States v. Microsoft data privacy case. The case explores whether U.S. law enforcement can compel Microsoft, a U.S. company, to provide communications content stored on a server in Ireland. In our interconnected, cloud-enabled word, [...]
In this edition of Member Monday, Betsy Furler highlights her passion for, and the importance of, accessibility in technology. By Betsy Furler, Your App Lady Within the tech community, accessibility can sometimes be a dirty word. In many cases, making technologies accessible is often an afterthought, or it’s a functionality addressed [...]
On May 25, 2018, the European Commission’s primary privacy rules, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), will go into effect. This regulation will have far-reaching implications for every small business, corporation, or individual that handles the data of EU persons. This regulation will impact you. That’s right. Unless you never, [...]