Dear privacy professionals,

Once again, it’s my pleasure to introduce the Asia-Pacific Dashboard Digest, and once again, there’s much to take note of.  

On the topic of EU privacy, Japan looks to achieve EU adequacy in the very near future, and Angelique Carson looks at EU compliance costs. 

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Outside of the EU and closer to home, we note Newsweek’s report on the debate about strong encryption and backdoor keys for law enforcement. This took a step forward at the Five Eyes ministerial meeting recently in Australia, involving Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The meeting reached a consensus that law enforcement needs a capability to intercept and review encrypted communications. The official statement is available here.

There are mixed, even polarized views on this topic. With neither space nor license to offer my comments, I simply point out that, in other news, we have Threatpost’s report on serious data security breaches affecting Air Canada and the Huazhu Hotel Group. According to the report, personal information harvested by the attackers is freely available for sale on the dark web, their identity protected by (surprise, surprise) cryptography. 

"Crypt" and "graphy" — an interesting derivation. The art of hiding skeletons in the closet.

Kind regards,
David Templeton