As the debate surrounding facial recognition intensified in 2019, you could be forgiven for not being able to make sense of the cacophony. Not only is facial recognition itself a subset of the broader privacy discussion, but it brings to bear a diverse assortment of issues whose relevance depends on [...]
Because good things come in threes, the European Commission (EC) released no fewer than three important documents related to its plans to make Europe “fit for the digital age” on February 19, 2020. These documents include a Communication entitled “Shaping Europe’s Digital Future”, the “European Strategy for Data” and the [...]
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, [...]