Greetings from Holland! It has been an interesting week for privacy pros here in the Netherlands. The government launched the test pilot of the Dutch CoronaApp. The app is based on the Google-Apple contact-tracing technology and works pretty much the same as the German and Italian apps. Tech journa...

­­Greetings, fellow privacy professionals. Hope you are safe and well. There has been a lot of news in the last few weeks in the APAC region and a continued focus on application security. There is still a lot of ongoing debate on the effectiveness of COVID-19 applications from their design through...

The Voivodship Administrative Court in Warsaw upheld a ruling by the Polish data protection authority, the Urząd Ochrony Danych Osobowych, in a data-processing case. UODO President Jan Nowak ordered GGK to stop publishing land and mortgage register numbers on the GEOPORTAL2 website. The court ruled ...

Switzerland's Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner released its 27th annual report. The report highlights the current challenges the FDPIC faces and statistics on its activities from April 2019 to March 2020. Other topics covered in the document include the commissioner's work on dea...

Norway's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, adopted a temporary data-processing ban for the Public Health Institute's contact-tracing app. The DPA found the app does not adhere to data minimization principles, nor does it give users an appropriate number of data disclosure choices. Meanwhile, ...