Department of Justice representative urged judges to use the TOR network to protect their personal information

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
According to this source and hearing transcripts on two motions to withdraw, Ovie Carroll, the director for the Cybercrime Lab at the Department of Justice, urged the federal judges present at a seminar to “use the TOR [sic] network to protect their personal information on their computers, like work or home computers, against data breaches, and the like”. Tor is a privacy-focused website that maintains an anonymity software that can be used by users that want to remain anonymous, for goods Read more [...]

Canadian Government seeks input on new Cloud Adoption Strategy

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On July 27, 2016, the Government of Canada released a Cloud Adoption Strategy for public comments. Canada will leverage a new IT service-delivery model, aiming at maintaining good IT services in a time of growing demand for online services and a timely access to accurate information. The document focuses on: the Right Cloud adoption strategy. The document approaches cloud adoption recognizing that no single cloud model can meet all of the Canadian Government’s requirements; an approach Read more [...]

WP29’s comments on the EU Commission’s Privacy Shield Decision: again not an endorsement

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On July 26, 2016, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) released a statement on the decision of the European Commission on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. The statement refers to the Privacy Shield approved by the European Commission on July 12, 2016 (see here) and addresses the changes brought to the text of the document after the last rounds of negotiations. Particularly, the WP29 highlighted that a number of the concerns the group previously highlighted (see here and here) remain. The WP29’s Read more [...]

Bermuda passes bill to protect personal information

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On July 1, 2016, the Bermuda House of Assembly passed the Personal Information Protection Bill (PIPA). PIPA is a “milestone in the history of human rights in Bermuda”. The Bill provides Bermuda residents with the right to have their personal information protected. It applies to all organizations, businesses and the government that process personal information, both in manual and electronic format. PIPA requires a legitimate purpose for the use of personal information. It also details a Read more [...]