A warm hello to my fellow privacy professionals. Recently, my mind got to thinking about how privacy in Asia is like rice — and here's how. It's embedded across the region: Rice is a staple in our region's cuisine. Similarly, privacy has become ingrained in our societies. Even with state laws at...

Luxembourg is one of the smallest member states by size in the EU, yet it hosts one its most influential institutions: the Court of Justice of the European Union. This week was a good illustration, with more to come. The first piece of news that got our attention is that Germany again put forward T...

The concept of "sousveillance" and feelings of inner hypocrisy over joining a mobile tracking app that could monitor her nephew and also being tracked by members of the public while running the Sydney Marathon in September was not lost on Calabash Solutions Director of Privacy Donna-Leigh Jackson, C...

Singapore's Ministry of Health and the Cybersecurity Agency of Singapore issued cybersecurity guidelines for health care providers. The guidelines highlight the importance of properly securing data, updating software and creating a planned response if sensitive data is breached. The Ministry of Heal...

I first stumbled upon the term "sousveillance" a few years back, when my sister sent me a link to an article called "The psychology of privacy in the digital age." Coined by Steve Mann, the neologism "sousveillance" draws upon the French word sous, meaning below, and refers to a member of the public...