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Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider

Krebs on Security

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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Belgium: ePrivacy proposal in progress: Council agrees on its position to start off ‘trilogue’ negotiations

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

In its latest version released under the Portuguese Presidency, the draft ePrivacy Regulation (the “Draft”) includes substantive changes : Processing of metadata. The Draft sets forth several modifications regarding metadata processing and subjects this category of data to specific obligations. Direct marketing and SPAM.

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EU Council Agrees on Proposed ePrivacy Regulation

Data Matters

It tackles a number of important issues such as the confidentiality of communications, the processing of traffic and location data, unsolicited communications and direct marketing, and cookie requirements. Metadata : Not only the content of a communication but also the communication metadata (e.g.,

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MY TAKE: ‘Network Detection and Response’ emerges as an Internet of Things security stopgap

The Last Watchdog

Data collected by IoT devices will increasingly get ingested into cloud-centric networks where it will get crunched by virtual servers. Here are the key takeaways: IoT surge According to Fortune Business Insights, the global IoT market will top $1.1 There’s no stopping the Internet of Things now.

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Working Party Adopts Opinion on Proposed ePrivacy Regulation

Hunton Privacy

Moreover, the Working Party favors the clarification that the Proposed ePrivacy Regulation covers machine-to-machine interaction as well as content and associated metadata. In addition, the Working Party approves that the consent requirement for the inclusion of personal data of natural persons in directories is harmonized.

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What is a business glossary?

Collibra

A chief risk officer may view corporate customers as legal entities, while a marketing professional may view that same customer as a collection of individual persons. Data dictionaries, on the other hand, describe specific data elements in a way that databases can understand. Enforce the use of data standards.

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In the World of Legal Tech, Tomorrowland is Here: Observations from ILTACON

eDiscovery Daily

Monica Harris, Product Business Manager at Cellebrite provided stats from her company’s research showing that within the private sector, mobile phone data is now closing in on surpassing data collected from computers. Consider using the newly released EDRM Text Messaging Metadata Primer as a reference model.

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