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GUEST ESSAY: Who do you think impacts privacy, free markets more: Big Government or Big Tech?

The Last Watchdog

Big Business’: According to Fortune 500 data and US BEA statistics , from 2012-2020, Amazon, Google, and Facebook together outgrew USGDP by +1,480% (15x) and outgrew the revenue production of Big Business, the other 497 Fortune 500 companies, by 4,497% (45x). Compare Big Tech’s growth rate to America’s and to U.S.

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In praise of. the Investigatory Powers Act 2016

Data Protector

It was realised that, actually, the Government had a good story to tell about the care it took to respect human rights in the context of exercising powers to obtain communications data. Engagement with stakeholders outside the closed investigative world was something that should not be feared but embraced.

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UK Supreme Court Grants Google Permission to Appeal Class Action Claim in Lloyd vs Google LLC

Data Matters

million iPhone users in a lawsuit alleging that between 2011 and 2012 Google had used its “DoubleClick cookie” technology to track the internet activity of its iPhone users and then collate, use and sell the data to advertisers, in breach of the former Data Protection Act, 1998 (“ DPA ”). Court of Appeal’s decision.

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Ireland & UK: Latest trends in data subject access requests in pending litigation

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

in contemplation of or for the establishment, exercise or defence of, a legal claim, prospective legal claim, legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings whether before a court, statutory tribunal, statutory body or an administrative or out-of-court procedure ”. 1] Dudgeon v Supermacs Ireland Ltd [2020] IEHC 600. [2]

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Hackers, Scrapers & Fakers: What's Really Inside the Latest LinkedIn Dataset

Troy Hunt

Verification that supports the alleged source is usually quite straightforward , but disproving a claim can be a rather time consuming exercise, especially when a dataset contains fragments of truth mixed in with data that is anything but. Which is what we have here today.

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MY TAKE: Michigan’s cybersecurity readiness initiatives provide roadmap others should follow

The Last Watchdog

The first Cyber Range training and testing hub opened at Eastern Michigan University in late 2012. It can host training, such as capture the flag exercises, demonstrate how known hacks play out, test defensive responses and be utilized for software security testing. They answered, yes. Shoring up weak links. College students, U.S.

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UK: Lloyd -v- Google: a good day for claimant lawyers; a bad day for Google and organisations defending privacy group litigation

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The High Court ought to have exercised its discretion to allow this representative action to proceed. He brings his claim on behalf of more than 4 million Apple I-Phone users; allegedly affected by Safari Workaround in the period from 9 April 2011 to February 2012. At first instance, Warby J exercised this discretion.

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