The Wall Street Journal reports justices for the Supreme Court of the United States offered differing perspectives following arguments in a case to clarify provisions of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. MediaPost reports Facebook filed a petition urging the Supreme Court to review a case on whet...

Artificial intelligence, big data and personalization are driving a new era of products and services, but this paradigm shift brings with it a slate of thorny privacy and data protection issues. Ubiquitous data collection, social networks, personalized ads and biometric systems engender massive soci...

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner via the Privacy Commissioner’s Office conducts an Australia-wide survey every three years to gain an understanding of the community’s thoughts and concerns on privacy and the protection of personal information. In this piece for The Privacy Advis...

The Swedish Administrative Court of Stockholm recently confirmed Google violated the EU General Data Protection Regulation over an individual's right to be forgotten and rejected the company's motion that Sweden's data protection authority's, Datainspektionen, decisions repealed due to formal defici...

The European Data Protection Supervisor released its opinion on data protection considerations related to the European Commission's New Pact on Migration and Asylum. While it supports a new management system for migrants and asylum seekers, the EDPS explains data protection is "one of the last lines...