On March 16, David Carroll, a New York based American professor sued Cambridge Analytica (CA) in the U.K. courts, after the data analytics firm allegedly failed to respond to his request made pursuant to the U.K. Data Protection Act for his file of personal data held by CA, CA’s purpose for processing his data, and
Advanced Weather Data: Vital for the Future of Commercial Drone Operations
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Drones
Back in December 2016, Amazon executed its first customer delivery by drone in the United Kingdom. Now, as Amazon, and other large retailers, aim for widespread deployment of drones for the delivery of goods to consumers, it is increasingly clear that advanced weather data is vital for ensuring that these delivery drones can fly weather-sensitive…
Tesco Bank Cyber-Robbery—Some Implications for U.S. Banks—and their Depositors
By Norman Roos & Scott Baird on
Posted in Cybersecurity
UK-based Tesco Bank froze online transactions on Monday after discovering that cyber-criminals stole money from 20,000 different customer accounts. The exact method used by the perpetrators is still under review, but preliminary analysis suggests the attackers exploited weaknesses in the bank’s online payment system related to the processing of debit card transactions. The Bank has…
Transatlantic Data Transfer: An Update
By Guest Contributor on
Posted in Data Security
The EU-US Privacy Shield, designed to protect EU citizens’ personal data when it is transferred to US organisations, has now been in place for a couple of months. How is it shaping up?
How we arrived at the Privacy Shield…
Under current EU data protection laws, as well as under the forthcoming General Data…
EU-US Privacy Shield for transatlantic data transfers finalized
By Kathleen Porter & Guest Contributor on
Posted in Data Privacy
This article co-authored with guest blogger Peter Wainman, a partner with Mills & Reeve LLP
Transfers of personal data from most European countries to the U.S. have been exposed to legal attack since October 2015, when privacy campaigner Max Schrems successfully sued the Irish authorities over data transfers made by Facebook Ireland. The main objection…
Backdoors to encryption protocols vs. cybersecurity: weighing priorities in the U.S. and abroad
By Kathleen Porter on
Posted in Cybersecurity, Data Security
With the revelations that the Paris and San Bernardino attackers used encrypted communications to recruit, communicate and plan their attacks, the U.S. government is again pushing the tech industry to provide it backdoor access to encryption protocols. Bypassing security mechanisms through a backdoor, law enforcement believes, permits it to more effectively track users and content,…