Articles in #Online Privacy

• POPI Act In Effect 1st July

  Just a quick reminder that the provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) go into effect on the 1st July. Technically, it came into effect last year, but it…

• Huge Privacy Fines For Google & Amazon

  In the wake of the collapse of the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement , France's privacy watchdog CNIL (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés) announced last month…

• WhatsApp - Facebook Data Sharing

  A poorly explained and understood announcement by Facebook recently has led to unprecedented growth in the user bases of both Signal and Telegram, rivals to the Facebook-owned…

• Facebook EU Operations In Doubt

  As we all know, online privacy, the security of user data, and the use which that data is put to have become significant issues at this stage of the evolution of our digital…

• POPI Adoption Expected Soon

  Although parts of the POPI (Protection Of Personal Information) Act have technically been in force for some time already, the remaining (and most important) provisions have not…

• Leaked Facebook Emails Reveal Poor Data Practices

  According to internal messages leaked from Facebook earlier this month, top-level employees strategised about how they could leverage the vast quantity of user data Facebook…

• Google Terminates Controversial Chinese Project

  At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month, Karan Bhatia, Google's VP of Public Policy, admitted that the company's controversial plan to re-launch its search…

• Facebook Facing Possible 5 Billion Dollar Fine

  After the relatively recent Cambridge Analytica scandal which saw Facebook user data being harvested and used for political campaign purposes, the Federal Trade Commission in the…

• The Facebook Anti-Suicide Algorithm

  Following on from recent scandals surrounding the live-streaming of suicides on Facebook, the company last year launched an ambitious project to use artificial intelligence to…

• Are You Ready For The POPI Act?

  The Protection Of Personal Information Act (No 4 of 2013) has been hovering in the background for quite some time already. Its intention is to bring the practices governing data…